Hello everyone and happy 2020!
Hope you all had a fantastic new year, me personally, i’ve taken december to relax
and play some other games then wow for a change.
Finally finished hollowknight, amazing game.
Tried out witcher 3 and it really wasn’t for me and also nier automata...interesting
game.
Would recommend to check out.
For those that might have missed it, i also visited the uk for bit of my birthday, bit
of an early christmas party.
Hung out with mike and emma and the family which was an amazing time and we also did
a saturday stream with drinks.
Maybe a bit too many drinks but ya know, all good fun!
So 2020 is here and while it should have actually released last year, warcraft reforged should
be going live this month.
You can expect a playthrough of that.
I also need to bother fury to sit down with me and level our pandas again.
We got the monthly diablo series with neviriah.
Hopefully plenty of hearthstone videos and of course shadowlands beta which should be
somewhere in this year.
All good stuff to look forward too, but this little update is not why you’re here.
Januari launches patch 8.3 and I imagine that more people out there took a little break
and enjoyed the holidays so a good time to refresh our memories and talk about the story
of battle for azeroth so far going into patch 8.3
It all began with the end of legion in which we defeated sargeras and the burning legion
but the dark titan being a sour loser stabbed azeroth anyways.
Magni bronzebeard, the speaker, rallies us to focus on healing the world.
If not, we might not have an azeroth left to fight over.
Gifted with the heart of azeroth we gather this new substance, azerite, from different
locations.
Islands expeditions, warfronts, mythic plus, raiding, world quests... all around us azerite
is gathered to heal the world and empower ourselves with azerite armor.
But this powerful new resource can be used for more then just healing.
We now know that Warchief Sylvanas Windrunner came in touch with a being of the shadowlands,
one of that goes by the name of the jailer.
The details are unclear, will be revealed in the next expansion, but the banshee queen
wants to conquer death.
Wants to stay out of hell or perhaps rule it too which she wants to send plenty of souls
there.
War is required in this world of warcraft of ours, but she was smart enough to realise
that the horde would not just blindly follow her.
They needed a symbol, a person of honor that they trusted to lead the charge and she managed
to convice Saurfang to stand with her.
Sure enough, they might be able to get a peace going with King Anduin Wrynn leading the alliance.
Seeds of that peace were attempted to be planted in the novel before the storm in which Forsaken
and Humans reunited, but that meeting ended in disaster.
The forsaken present were having such a good time that they did not want the day to ever
end.
They asked Calia Menethil, sister to Arthas Menethil to stand with them....and she did.
Some of them tried to abandon the horde, abandon their banshee queen and run to the alliance
while others would not dream of forsakening sylvanas.
All of them, deserters and those that tried to go back were shot down by the warchief.
Even Calia lay dead on the field, but no war was started this day...not quite yet.
Sylvanas was smart enough to only kill her own and Calia did not belong to the alliance.
An attempt at peace that ended in disaster, but not the end of calia’s story.
She’s brought back to the priest order hall and resurrected in the Light with the aid
of Anduin, Alonsos and the naaru.
So with Anduin the Horde might be able to get some peace going, but how long would that
peace last.
Time breaks all bonds and history shows us that we’re really good at holding on to
hold hatreds and fighting eachother, so saurfang agrees with his warchief that it would be
better to take care of their enemy once and for all.
Plans are made t occupy teldrassil and strike out at the leaders of the night elves.
By holding the tree and its citizens, the alliance would be unable to retaliate.
Not to mention, how would gilneas react if their king would go out to free teldrassil
before gilneas.
Infighting, enough for them to pick them off one by one.
Shatter their precious alliance and win the war.
The best laid plans can still go wrong.
Despite having malfurion exactly where she wanted him, sylvanas decided to hand over
the kill to saurfang.
He couldn’t take it though.
The blow he had struck had been dishonorable.
Empty handed he returned to his warchief who then decided to inflict the wound the death
of their leader was supposed to caus in a different way.
“Burn it.”
The tree and those still stuck inside goes up in flames.
Even nathanos was suprised at the order given and the night elves feel like their goddess
elune has abandon them.
Not exactly the way they invisioned to win the war.
The alliance was now free to retaliate with burning vengeance in their hearts.
Soon enough lordaeron falls under siege and the warchief shows that she’s not afraid
of using what ever it takes to secure victory.
Unleashing their plague on friend and foe, resurrecting the fallen in undeath, blowing
up the city if they have too, anything to take out the alliance.
Saurfang can’t believe it.
This dishonorable way, disregard for the lives of their people, it’s not what he signed
up for.
The burning of teldrassil had pushed him to almost abandon the horde to fight on his own
before the siege even began.
These tactics pushed him even further, staying behind to find his honorable death in battle
at the hands of the Alliance.
That would not be his fate though.
Anduin has heard many tales about the honorful saurfang and decides to imprison him instead.
With the addition of Jaina Proudmoore returning to the alliance, they confront the warchief
in the throne room...a meeting ending up in explosions kicking off the Battle for Azeroth.
War means we can use as many fighters as we can.
The alliance heads on over to kul tiras, homelands of Miss Jaina Proudmoore but relations between
them and the alliance have been rocky to say the least ever since the daughter of the sea
stepped to the side and had her father killed.
Some are smart enough to see that kul tiras needs the alliance as well especially since
they’re dealing with quite a bit of darkness brewing beneath the surface.
In Tirigarde we expose priscilla ashvane for actively working against house proudmoore.
In Drustvar we expose the ancient evil of the Drust that has taken over their house
and ultimately defeat Gorak Tul in his domain.
In Stormsong valley we expose the corruption that seeped into their organisation of tidesages,
their connection to the seas exposing them to azshara and n’zoth.
With helping them out, Katherine proudmoore eventually welcomes her daughter and the alliance
back adding the forces of kul tiras to their ranks.
The Horde meets up with Princess Talanji, daughter of king rastakhan of the zandalari.
With her travels prophet zul which you might remember for being behind the troll events
we saw during Mists of Pandaria.
They’ve been captured by the alliance while trying to travel to Orgrimmar so a rescue
mission is in order, one that puts stormwind to the torch and has them sail to Zandalar.
There they meet up with the king and help them out with their troubles as well.
The lands of nazmir face a corruption seeping out of Uldir.
An artifically created old god going by the name of G’huun is causing trouble for the
land with Zul and his forces actively working on releasing it.
That’s right, like Priscilla, zul isn’t loyal, actually working against Rastakhan.
They want to break the seals keeping G’huun locked away aided by a powerful force long
forgotten in the sands of voldun.
Ultimately they succeed in their mission, it helps when you’re a prophet and can see
the future.
King Rastakhan sees no other option but to ally himself to the Bwonsamdi and not just
himself, but his entire bloodline will serve the loa in life and in death.
A heavy price to pay, but one that does grant him the power to save their city.
Zul is struck down only to return in Uldir where heroes ventured to take care of G’huun.
All the same, the zandalari are allied to the horde and eventually even became playable.
We saw a few allied races added in legion while with battle for azeroth we got the Mag’har
orcs and zandalari for the horde while the alliance got Dark Iron dwarves and Kul Tirans.
Two more are coming in the next patch, I’m all over the one added to the horde but for
now...the alliance and the horde pursue their own war campaigns to claim the ultimate victory.
Outposts are established in enemy territory where as the horde goes on the mission of
securing a power artifact called the Abyssal scepter.
Along the way they resurrect a few of the fallen to add to their ranks or to gain information.
Priscilla Ashvane is broken out of prison as she can provide valuable information to
the warchief.
They even stumble upon the body of Derek Proudmoore, brother to jaina who died quite a while ago
at the hands of orcs and dragons.
A corpse to be brought back to life and serve the banshee queen.
Meanwhile the alliance deals with the sanlayn, uncover that the Horde has stolen the scepter
and steal it back.
They make ready to siege the capital of the Zandalari by placing bombs and gathering forces
until the time was right to attack the city.
Perhaps they’d be able to convince the king of the zandalari to surrender but of course
Rastakhan was not about to give up to these invaders of his home.
Calling upon Bwonsamdi to aid him, the king took on the alliance head on but ultimately
lost his life for the trouble.
No matter to Bwonsamdi, the king’s bloodline would continue to serve.
He’s passed on to Princess Talanji who’s not exactly happy about the death of her father.
The alliance retreats in which Gelbin Meckatorque holds the line, takes on the Horde nearly
losing his life.
He’s now trapped in his escape pod and none have been able to save him.
Some might call this a victory for the alliance, but at what cost.
So many lives were lost, King Anduin fears that the death of Rastakhan will ignite a
fire in the hearts of the Zandalari.
Not to mention that Sylvanas hasn’t played all her cards quite yet.
By resurrecting Derek she plans to use him as a weapon.
Take over his mind, send him back to the alliance to hurt them from within, but not just Saurfang
thinks SYlvanas is taking things to far.
More voices amongst the Horde are rising up, amongst them baine bloodhoof.
He decides to take action and behind his warchief back send Derek back to his sister.
This betrayel is uncovered, a great show for all to see what the warchief does with betrayers.
Bloodhoof is placed in chains awaiting his punishment.
Meanwhile over in Darkshore the night elves have decided to take some sweet vegeance with
Tyrande Whisperwind invoking an ancient, dangerous ritual, demanding elune to grant her the power
she needs.
The night warrior walks the lands of Azeroth again while the moon turns dark.
Nathanos and the Horde have no idea what they’re in for.
The leaders of the night elves are ready to take back their lands and while not directly
shown ingame, they have confirmed during last blizzcon that both the warfront at darkshore
and the one in stromgarde are won by the alliance.
Tyrande’s thirst for vengeance is not sated though.
Sylvanas still leads the horde, still walks the land.
She will not be satisfied until the warchief has been made to pay while more and more are
opening their eyes on the real threat amongst them.
We see this go down in Nazjatar, capital of the Naga.
Horde members have brought their warchief an artifact called blade of the empire and
through it a connection is established between Sylvanas, N’zoth and Azshara.
Long ago the queen of the naga was a night elf that tried to bring the legion into the
world, but her plans did not succeed.
Instead she and those with her nearly drowned in the dark waters of azeroth was it not for
the old god n’zoth that offered her a deal.
She would serve him as a queen, bring about the glorious black empire and he would save
her life, turn her and those that accepted the bargain as well into the naga.
For over 10.000 years they’ve been scheming and plotting, building up their empire and
forces.
All with an eye on releasing N’zoth and rule the world... or atleast that’s what
Azshara would like us all to believe.
All the same, one of the final pieces of the puzzle to break the chains of the old god
is our very own heart of azeroth brimming with azerite and power.
As the alliance chases the Horde at high seas, just as Sylvanas had planned, azshara splits
the sea and drags all their forces into her kingdom.
Only Nathanos seemed to be aware of what his beloved Banshee queen was planning.
The rest of the Horde not so much and while they fight against Azshara and her minions,
they also open up to the idea of uniting with the alliance once more to take care of their
warchief.
Ultimately, Azshara succeeded in getting us exactly where she wanted us to go.
She loses her life in battle, but our power is turned against us and N’zoth is set free.
He brings her back to life, apperantly he isn’t quite done with her yet and for the
first time since the days of the titans, an old god is on the lose to do what it desires.
Ow yeah and lets not forget our trip to mechagon where we joined the rustbolt resistance in
taking down their tyranical leader.
Over the ages these gnomes have upgraded their bodies which was always a personal choice,
but now their king wants to enforce that upon all something his son is not down with.
After gathering many, many scraps and powerful upgrades, even witnessed a future in which
we failed, the king is dethroned securing a future for the mechagnomes as well as for
ourselves.
Bit of a detour for the overall story, but will be continued in patch 8.3.
Of course N’zoth is going to show us what he’s got, they didn’t call it visions
of n’zoth without a reason, the effects of an old god being out there.
That’s coming in januari, for the story we still had sylvanas to deal with.
As I mentioned earlier, Anduin decided not to take Saurfang’s life knowing the honor
of the orc and knowing that on the battlefield saurfang could have struck him down...but
he didn’t.
This is no longer his horde, saurfang hopes that Anduin and the alliance would be able
to take care of Sylvanas, but they can’t do it alone.
He’s set free and placed on a journey to do something.
Orcs like him, orcs like former warchief thrall, they don’t get to hide.
After recruiting thrall back from outland and saving baine out of orgrimmar together
with the alliance, they make ready for another siege.
Both sides prepare their troops, their defenses, but ultimately there would be no siege.
Simply a mak’gorah, a one on one duel between Saurfang and Sylvanas, a battle he knew he
could not win.
And while its true, he was unable to overpower sylvanas and we now know that has to do with
her deal with the jailer, he was able to expose her to the rest of the Horde.
“You are all nothing.”
As the warchief is blasting off again leaving behind the horde she no longer needs, we gather
to say good bye to saurfang who laid down his life for his beloved horde.
The old soldier found his honorable death.
The horde is going to need some new leadership, but tensions between the factions are no longer
at a peak.
Of course there will always be voices of discontent.
Tyrande and Greymane for example, they’re not satisfied with the outcome at all.
I can’t imagine Princess Talanji forgetting about the death of her father.
In the streets of Orgrimmar sylvanas loyalists whisper to eachother, to always be there for
the dark lady while others, especially amongst the forsaken truly feel forsaken.
They’re in need of new leadership as well as we take the battle into the next patch,
Visions of N’zoth, the old god awaits while the storyline with Sylvanas is saved for the
next expansion.
I’ve covered that part of the story in greater detail so if you want to know what we know
so far, information from blizzcon and what not, i’ll link a video on screen and in
the description down below.
For next week I’m thinking about covering the story of the vulpera and the mechagnomes
seeing how they’re the next allied race.
After that of course the events of 8.3 including the new raid.
Beyond that...who knows what the future might bring.
I really want to cover Rhonin, more people should know about his raptor army, and I think
it’s about time that we cover Thrall as well.
We’ll see, plenty of time between 8.3 and shadowlands beta but for now thank you very
much for watching everyone!
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