The War Within's Story Explained In 20 Minutes

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I find it interesting that Thrall, Anduin and Alleria are the focus of TWW. The Corrupted Visions of Stormwind and Orgrimmar (from bfa) showed both Thrall and Alleria corrupted, and whatever happened to Stormwind Keep (and probably Anduin) was so bad even Wrathion didn't want to go look.

I think the meta narrative is always pretty good.Its the boring dialogue and characters along with scenes where bad guys show up and leave while the good guys scratch their head and have no idea what's going on that is often disappointing to me.

As someone that got scared off by shadowlands, I'm willing to come back, get caught up on the lore and give Metzen's vision of the future of Warcraft a chance. They are fixing a LOT of the grief i had with this game, so ill try. Shadowlands felt pointless, but if they can right the ship and write a cool and shipshape story using the classic lore that i love, than all the better. FOR AZEROTH!!!

if they give us simple, well narrated epic histories, they will be successfull

I’m really excited but also very sad about the World Soul Saga. I’m really excited because they have a three-expansion plan, which is amazing! The story is compelling, the theme is enticing, and I truly can’t wait to jump into the War Within. I’m sad though because this truly feels like the end of World of Warcraft as we know it. With Illidan and Arthas’ arcs over, the titans and the mysteries surrounding them, Azeroth and Elune were really all that remained from the original WoW world. With this Saga, a lot of mysteries are gonna be answered (which isn’t always a good idea, some things are more interesting when not fully understood), the titans are gonna die, we’ll meet Azeroth in some manner and therefore will probably start to uncover once and for all what Azeroth is.

The massive crystal in harrowfall also VERY MUCH looks like oshu'gun in nagrand imo

I can't wait till the legendary plot twist comes that makes the jailer a good guy in the end

We better not have a return of " The Heart Of Azeroth"

You can see different cosmic forces affecting and infusing the world soul with their power across previous expansions. The titans and arcane throughout the entire game, the void with the old gods, the fel with sargerase's sword, death with the machinery under icecrown, and life with amirdrassil. The only one i cant think of is light, but that may happen in midnight and then the world soul would contain some of each power.

I like the setting of The War Within, always wanted to journey to the center of azeroth. I hope there will be more zones that are even deeper that get added in patches.

What if Xalatath is a future version of Alleria, where the Void has fully taken control over her, and she could exist outside of time (similar to how Alleria and Turalyon fought Demons for 1000 years despite it being only 24 years on Azeroth). Maybe she isn't strong enough to outright conquer Azeroth, but needs to slowly shape a future that allows the Void to eventually win. It's a contrivance, but it's plausible with current WoW lore.

I'm glad they're doing more of a void/light thing, always wanted to see the real battle for azeroth. cant wait to see what is revealed with the upcoming expansions

Many thanks for the story retrospective!

Is this going to be some 'Void was good all along' story line? Despite all the slavery and murder. I hope Chris Metzen gets it back on track to the old lore.

Your lore videos are the best videos

I almost wonder if the voice that they are hearing is actually Xal'atath. Not that Anduin or Thrall would know Azeroth's voice, but I could see it being a subversive element to the trailer. I could see it playing out where Xal'atath has her hands on the core of Azeroth and is trying to somehow trick us into shifting the world soul into a void form or a form that she can then inhabit/control/take over. Just a thought I keep having.

This video will again vector me into the next 20 minutes of Lore

I do hope Locus-Walker makes his return at some point! He and Alleria are linked due to their teacher-student relationship, so it should happen!

I'd like to see how the tie in the archways and arcana. They were to be akin to Azerite, part of Azeroth and under ground. The plot was explored in legion then abandoned.