Hello everyone!
This year we’re celebrating World of Warcraft’s 15th anniversary....it’s been 15 years can
you freaking believe it?!?!?!? and to celebrate, we’re joining chromie on some of the greatest
hits of warcrafts past.
We got to tango with bosses defeated before, what before then to sit down and do a quick
overview of their story.
What lead to them to becoming such major threats that heroes had to rise to take care of them.
Lets hold hands with chromie and jump into this adventure...
“Our journey through time is just about to begin!”
“Which memory were we revisiting again?”
21 years after the dark portal opened up we saw the world being invaded by the Burning
Legion, the events of warcraft 3.
Although defeated in the past, like during the war of the ancients over 10.000 years
ago, Sargeras and his legion forces still wanted to claim this world.
Many schemes and plots played out, like sending the Lich King over, having Arthas walk the
path of the damned, dalaran fell as Archimonde was summoned into the world.
He remembered clearly the time the night elves had rissen up and done the near impossible.
Defeat the legion and send them back to where they came from so his sight was immediately
drawn to their ancient enemy...The kaldorei and their world tree nordrassil.
“Some demons just want to see the world tree burn.”
In order to defeat the legion during the war of the ancient, the night elf resistance had
to use their magical fount of power, their well of eternity to reverse the portal and
send them back.
Although succesfull, all this messing up made the well incredibly unstable.
The land of kalimdor split apart into what we know it as today with the maelstrom in
the middle.
This would not be the for magical founts of power though.
Illidan Stormrage had filled some vials with water from the original well and he used some
of them to create a new one.
Having just fought this war, having just lost countless lives to the legion, the rest of
his people were not too happy about this.
He thought them to be fools.
The legion had only had their first taste of Azeroth.
He had seen that they would be back and when that time came, they would need all the power
they could get, they had to be prepared.
Regardless, Illidan was branded a traitor and thrown into prison.
This new well though, it was a bit of a problem.
The elves feared that the Legion might use it to invade the world again, a fear shared
with their allies, the ancient dragon aspects.
Alestrazsa, ysera and nozdormu had learned of this new fount and they were determined
to protect it.
An enchant seed was planted at the second well of eternity which sprouted into a colossal
world tree called nordrassil.
The tree acted as a cap over the fount and prevented anyone from abusing its power.
The night elves would be its guardian and to help them with task, the dragons placed
blessings, enchantments upon the tree.
Immortality, easy access into the emeral dream, immunity from disease.
That’s why the night elves have been around for so many millenia and now archimonde has
set his eyes on their tree.
“Heroes like you ascended mount hiyal to defend nordrassil against the burning legion
for DOOM had come to this world.”
The world of Azeroth is not without its defenders though.
Tyrande wakes up her husband Malfurion and sets Illidan free from his prison.
The betrayer had been right and would be a powerful weapon against the Legion.
The guardian Medivh also sensed what the Legion was up too so he worked hard on uniting allies
like Thrall and Jaina, send them over to the night elves to stand with them against Archimonde.
So it was that Malfurion came up with a dangerous plan.
The world tree was imbued with powerful enchantments, enchamtnets that granted them their immortality.
He believed that he and his fellow druids could ignite these magics, causing an explosion
that would annihilate Archimonde and the Legion invaders.
But doing so would also destroy the enchantments, leaving the night elves vulnerable to aging
and sickness for the first time in over ten thousand years.
The impact on night elven society would be devastasting, but...
“if pride gives us pause my love, perhaps we’ve lived long enough already.”
Thousands of defenders died that day, but they did not give their lives in vain.
By the time archimonde reached Nordrassil, Malfurion and his druids had completed their
work.
Countless incorporeal spirits known as wisps emerged from the forests around Hyjal.
They closed in around Archimonde, channeled their energies into the world tree and ignited
the enchantments within.
A shockwave of blinding energy erupted from Nordrassil, shaking Kalimdor to its roots.
Archimonde was instantly destroyed.
So were most of his undead and demons.
The legion’s hopes of seizing the second well of eternity...were shattered.
And that’s the moment we relive in game.
A raid to play through this warcraft 3 campaign.
See it in this crazy world of warcraft of ours.
Back then i wasn’t a massive raider but I do remember hating soloing this place as
it took oh so very long.
It did make its way into the top hits of boss fights apperantly so who knows.
Maybe you burning crusade raiders out there can tell me what you thought of this raid
back then.
So Illidan was set free to help fight against the demons, but once again his methods didn’t
sit well with Malfurion and Tyrande so they banished him out of their lands.
Despite accomplishing what they wanted, he had also absorbed an artifact called the skull
of gul’dan which greatly enhanced his powers but also made him look much more like their
enemy, much more like a demon.
With the skull also came the memories of gul’dan, an orc warlock who had dealt with the legion
and sargeras before.
Despite being kicked out, Illidan had no intention of letting go of his dream to defeat the legion
and this knowledge of gul’dan was a great help.
But just one man alone in this world can’t accomplish much.
He needed allies, creatures linked to his past...the naga
“sometimes the hand of fate, must be forced!”
When the original well blew up, queen Azshara and those around her were dragged to the bottem
of the sea, a cold wet death waiting for all of them.
From the depths the old god N’zoth offered them a deal.
Work with him to bring about the glory of his empire and they’d be transformed into
the naga.
Lady Vasjh and her forces showed up at Illidan’s call, joined him on his mission of taking
out the Lich King in order of Kil’jaeden.
Don’t worry, Illidan was still very much against the demons but for now he played along.
Keep your friends close kinda deal and Vasjh wouldn’t be the only one to find her way
to his side.
Kael’thas sunstrider did as well.
He’s the leader of the blood elves at this point, formerly high elves who renamed themselves
after Arthas sack their city and used their Sunwell to resurrect Kel’thuzad.
Broken and shattered, they quickly discovered that feeding on their sunwell for so many
years had build up quite an addiction to it.
The resurrection had corrupted it, left them with no other choice but to destroy it which
meant that they were not only dealing with their lands being invaded, so many of their
people dead, they also had a need for magic.
At first they tried to work with the remnants of the Alliance lead by Garithos, but the
man had no love for the elves and put their prince on near impossible tasks.
He had no choice but to ally with Lady Vasjh to accomplish them.
Plenty of reason for Garithos to put him in jail, put him up for execution.
That would not be our prince’s fate as Lady Vasjh showed up to liberate him.
Her ally Illidan knew all too well about magical founts of power.
The need for that delicious fix.
A new ally in their mission, one that ultimately failed as Illidan was unable to prevent Arthas
from mergin with Ner’zhul.
Ahwell, atleast they held control over Outland and Kil’jaeden wasn’t mad enough to instantly
smite them.
Illidan kept working on his plans of defeating the Legion until the dark portal re-opened
and we partied on outland during the Burning Crusade.
“Deep within serpentshrine cavern, lady vasjh and her coilfang minions planned to
steal all of outlands water but brave adventurers like you werent about to let that happen.”
I remember that there was a time where we speculated quite a bit about this water scheme.
Why exctly did the naga go after it.
Was Illidan perhaps planning to use the water and make another well of eternity?
Fun to speculate, but these days we know that that was not the case.
Instead claiming all this water just caused a whole bunch of trouble for the zangermarsh.
Their efforts to drain its water has upset the region’s delicate ecosystem.
Nature was in upheavel and heroes had to rise up to take care of them.
“Ho that was certainly a toxic invironment.”
With her death, coilfang reservoir was no longer a threat.
Though it would take time, balance would return to the land.
Now over to our beloved Prince Kael’thas Sunstrider.
His dealings with Illidan didn’t exactly work out the way he had hoped.
Sure enough, they had mastered the ability of draining magic out of objects or beings.
The prince himself took a hit of fel every now and then, but it wasn’t the salvation
he’d been looking for.
As time went on he started to doubt following this betrayer and you wouldn’t know it,
Kil’jaeden also didn’t trust Illidan.
That is why he had the dark portal opened up to have the forces of azeroth come do his
dirty work.
That is why he kept an eye on Kael’thas as he needed the prince and the elves their
sunwell.
The next invasion from the legion would come under the leadership of Kil’jaeden but to
get there he would need a portal.
The sunwell, at that point in time was destroyed, but he had ways of repairing it and use it
for his schemes.
Getting kael’thas to his side though was not going to be so easy.
Don’t forget that they were the ones that send The lich king down, caused the devestation
at the hands of arthas, so the demon lord was patient and waited for just the right
moment.
It came soon enough as Illidan started to lose territory to us.
Some of the blood elves decided to ally with the forces in shattrath and kael’thas just
kept on feeding on that delicious fel magic.
Kil’jaeden made contact.
Put little whispers in his mind about how Illidan was holding out on him.
How HE could show him the true power of fel magic.
in exchange he simply wanted the prince to abandon illidan’s side.
At first he refused, but but kil jaeden continued pushing.
In the days to come, his words would fester in kaels adled mind and erode his trust in
illidan stormage completely.
News soon spread amongst the blood elves about how their prince had pledged himself to the
legion.
Some did not believe those stories, not at first, but when they ventured into the netherstorm...they
saw the truth with their own eyes.
Kael had indeed embraced fel magic and become the legion’s pawn.
He was their prince no more.
“In the crystaline halls of tempest keep, azeroths heroes confronted kael’thas sunstrider,
lord of the blood elves and also his four advisors and his seven legendary weapons...you
know lets just get to the fight.”
I really wonder what it was like to do this fight while it was current.
Swapping out your weapons and take those of your enemy instead.
What a concept!
I’ve only really experienced this fight while farming for Ashes of Alar so can’t
wait to see it in a timewalking format!
The horde made war on kaelthas and his followers.
The battle spread into tempest keep and engulfed every corner of the dimensional fortress.
It was there where the prince made his final stand.
It was there where some of his own loyal subjects spilled his blood and ended his reign.
Yet unbeknownst to the horde, kaelthas did not die.
Kil’jaeden had planned for this moment, brought him back as a loyal servant who would
do whatever his master asked of him.
Merely a set back as they tried to use the sunwell and bring kil’jaeden into the world.
Another plan prevented by heroes, another set back for Kael’thas...
“If i remember correctly.
He suffered quite a setback after that.”
And according to blizzcon, the story of kael’thas isn’t over quite yet.
So here’s me from the future after actually witnissing the aniversary event and turns
out that it wasn’t exactly the moltencore or blacktemple timewalking that they did in
the past.
Instead there’s a massive party going on in the caverns of time.
We have our anniversary experience and reputation buff of course.
Dance areas, performances, balloons and fireworks all over the place.
Leeroy is selling some his chicken, so good it’s worth dying for.
Historians hanging out asking you lore questions which reward timewarped badges.
People are throwing beach balls around, you can check out old cinematics, buy some toys
and stuff with timewarped badges.
Echo of algalon is hanginging out in the coner, observing these multiple temporal anomalies.
ENtities appear to each be from discrete timelines.
No hostile intentions detcted.
Additional analysis is required.
A more hostile invorment is old school alterac valley where you can spend hours upon hours
trying to earn timewarped badges.
Fill up your bar and be rewarded with either an alterac ram for the alliance or a frostwofl
snarler for the Horde.
The battle in alterac between the stormpike expedition and the frostwolf clan.
I’ve done a full detailed video on this back when they added the map in heroes of
the storm if youre curious And indeed we do join chromie through some of the greatest
hits that warcraft has to offer.
We don’t see the full fights though which was a little bit disapointing, but all the
same, we had a lot of laughs with our guild team going through the fights.
If you wipe on the end boss you’ll have to start all over again, but I’m happy to
say we all got our obsidian warbreakers in the pocket.
Definatly an upgrade compared to previous events.
They even brought in the quest to go out and seek great terrors that walked the lands in
the past.
Lord Kazzsak, responsible for re-opening the dark portal in order of kil’jaeden.
The blue dragon Azuregos mostly known for getting into a relationship with a spirithealer,
part of the scepter of the shifting sands questline.
That quest allowed the realm to open up the gates of ahn’qiraj and also ring the scarab
gong, something available for everyone in the caverns.
THere’s also the dragons of nightmare.
Corrupted green dragons that fell under the sway of the corruption that plagued the emerald
dream.
You might remember fighting them in Legion during the emerald nightmare raid.
Even back in classic they were a threat to the world and for the anviersary we get to
revisit them.
All in all I quite enjoyed this event and I hope you enjoyed this little trip down memory
lane, a quick overview of some of the bosses from this time period.
Next week we’ll dive into the wrath of the lich king and cataclysm time periods but for
now thank you very much for watching everyone!
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Seee yaaaa.