"But can't we quarantine people and only kill the people who turn? Not everybody should have eaten the grain yet, most of it is still grain! Not even bread, burn the grain and quarantine the city? What do you say my lord?"
The purge of Stratholme happened not because of the plague, but because it was the second largest city in Azeroth and was getting too close to the elves of Quel'thelas. Don't believe the paladins lies.
I recall from one of the books that the Gnome made a fully automatic crossbow that could shoot a ridiculous amount of arrows of minute in every direction. The only problems were that they couldn't stop it when it started and it went in EVERY direction.
@@thecryptkeeper5 Yes I do, knowing that you felt so bent out of shape that you had to post that reply just for a simple correction, a simple correction that was six months ago. You coulda been like other dude just make a joke out of it, but instead you decided to say that. Do you feel better about yourself for it?
Easy, stop with the world ending threats and make the World of Warcraft a fully realized setting, not an overarching story, but a world of possibilities and interesting dynamics. (with yes a sense of history but also new history to be made) No seriously, having everyone and everything hogtied to a bigger narrative only serves to make the setting less interesting and in turn ruins the gaming experience.
@@navilluscire2567 exactly I would love to have a expansion simply focused on the races and the world in general but not in the way BFA did it more like Cata just continue the story of the zones and chang it a bit as your progress, how doesn't want to play in azeroth again.
@@navilluscire2567 Every time I mention this a bunch of shills come out of thin air, downvote the hell out of me and demand that these shadowlands style world-ending threats are the only thing holding the game together, and that the storytelling is shit. Thing is, the storytelling has never been amazing, I don't want to speak for everyone, but I don't love the stories because they're thought provoking, genius and incredible, contrarily I like them because they're simple fun. Arthas and Garrosh are arguably the two best written characters in universe, and I like them because they're fun, I wouldn't say they're amazingly deep at all. I want to go on a quest to kill some troggs, I want to do a dungeon to take out some pirates, without the overarching feeling I'm wasting time waiting for an old god to show up. When leveling and playing classic, those huge threats are looming, but they're barely on your mind, they're an inevitability but everything between the murlocs and demon jesus don't feel like time wasters, because they aren't.
0:46 the music of Warcraft 3 and early World of Warcraft was so epic it was like a rush of epicness and lore, just made the world feel so epic and ancient.
The music now has to have soaring strings and vocals which is terribly annoying after 3 seconds. The music director has a lot to learn from vanilla wow music.
I think in Cata they started going more orchestral. At this time i thought it's a cool change, but they kept doing it over and over and we pretty much don't have any ambient soundtracks nowadays
@@jamesgoogle4841 you should listen to all of them tbh, 70%-80% of the music is gold. even Warcraft 3's music is gold in a different way, because it's more focused on the feel of different Races rather than focusing on the feel of the Zones.
"Gnomish Culture is about forward thinking, but this is just a fancy way of saying the Gnomes don't really have any backstories." Still a better backstory than the playable Mecha-Gnomes.
Still better than goblins, goblins were one of my favorite races of azeroth, i thought they were smart and adaptable to every enviroment since they had markets everywhere. But know i watched their story and they are basically crack addicts that get dumber everyday
Can you imagine if Platinum ends making story telling of anything in his style? Man, I would learn the "Lore" of the Rome Empire better if Platinum was the one teaching me. Just using WoW models as representation. Make Julius Caesar be a troll model, then surrounded and murderized by 10 murlocs.
I feel like gnomes havent gotten much love from WOW since it started. Several expansions and world ending bosses later, the gnomes still hasnt retaken Gnomeragan. The devs should at least give them an expansion to make up for it!
Hell, at this point they could've started building a bee city for themselves if they can't take Gnomeregon back, I'm sure their dwarf bros and even human allies could help them to construct another one.
6:24 This is easily the funniest part of Chronicle. It cuts from Arthas Menethil killing his own father in cold blood and unleashing the Scourge onto the kingdom he swore to protect to, "Meanwhile the gnomes are dealing with a Trogg infestation"
I was blown away by the sections in Chronicle that detail the Trogg Invasion/ Thermaplugg Betrayal. I had the same reaction as you upon finding out that 80% of Gnomanity was wiped out. Another interesting part for me was how Mekkatorque refused to ask Stormwind/Ironforge for help, or even tell them about the trogg problem. He recognized that humans/dwarves were also in a pretty desperate position fighting the Horde in the Second War. With this act, Mekkatorque puts the honor, humility, pride and arrogance of Gnomanity on full display. His outright refusal to be perceived as a burden to the newly formed Alliance causes a previously obscured duality in his character to emerge. On one hand, this strong sense of conviction results in tragedy. When faced with several options, Mekkatorque’s dogmatic adherence to his principles leads to a decision wherein he chooses his own personal values, goals and vision over gnomish lives. Who knows … maybe the Alliance could have made a real difference - or perhaps, already stretched too thin by the war with the Horde, and more still, distracted by new whispers of a mysterious plague of undeath, the Alliance would have proved incapable of turning the tide in favor of the gnomes. We typically observe the use of similar kinds of thought experiments, or "what if …" discussions, in educational contexts. For example, let's say a history teacher assigns a persuasive essay assignment. In order to receive a high grade, students are tasked with applying their existing content knowledge to an entirely new hypothetical scenario. The prompt is deliberately designed to reinforce students' understanding of the actual history itself, but in addition, give them an opportunity to engage with history in a creative and meaningful way. This form of assessment is a compelling alternative to the traditional approach. In that model, there usually is a heavy emphasis on the memorization and regurgitation - not the application - of information. But I digress, as many WoW adversaries would say when they get to 10% HP … "ENOUGH!" I simply bring this up with the pure intention of showing how insightful or resourceful these sorts of mental exercises can be. However, in this particular instance, they're completely worthless and your prediction of how the Invasion of Gnomergan would have played out is entirely irrelevant! The crossroads of destiny were thrust upon Mekkatorque, and without the option to quick-save or go to Thottbot, he didn't have the luxury of knowing how both scenarios would end. Ultimately, he chose to forgo the exercise entirely - not only just refusing to ask the Alliance for reinforcements, food, medical supplies or anything else that could have saved gnomish lives - Mekkatorque doesn't even notify them of what is happening. Other Alliance leaders don't truly know the full extent of the Trogg Invasion/Thermaplugg Betrayal (Platinum is absolutely right - can it still even be considered a betrayal coming from a guy named Sicco?) till many years later. Highlighting the fruitlessness of applying this specific hypothetical experiment during this time/place in the High Tinkerer's life can be useful when attempting to defend his actions, as most would assume that a leader such as Gelbin shouldn't act in service of interests that lead to more civilian lives lost. Alas, the first side of Mekkatorque's duality is thus revealed. In a manner eerily reminiscent of a certain young Prince of Lordaeron, Mekkatorque places the survival of Gnomanity square on his shoulders. The weight of the dead - heavy, unmoving and cannibalizing - feast off his own troubled conscious and prey upon his doubts, fears, guilts and insecurities. Pride and arrogance, in combination with an unbreakable sense of purpose and responsibility to save his people, inevitably lead Mekkatorque to brazenly and deliberately ignore a potential solution to the crisis and further increase the chances that the gnomes become just another statistic. The latest culture to fall victim to the Azerothian Common Cold - also known as genocide. To learn more about this growing epidemic, please see night elves, blood elves, draenei, etc. for more information. Yet, in spite of the above analysis, when you look at Mekkatorque’s behavior through the lens of his motivations and intent, rather than through the consequences of his actions, the story suddenly becomes less about a callous leader, and more about an inspiring one. Mekkatorque offers a vision - a sense of direction and hope - that restores a semblance of confidence and optimism to his people. While gnomes are naturally blessed with a preponderance of jovial tendencies, Mekkatorque’s ability to inspire and lead are still pretty impressive here. Considering the onslaught of violence, death and betrayal the gnomes had just recently suffered, this turn back towards their trademark enthusiasm and positivity lends credence to Mekkatorque’s competencies as High Tinkerer. In addition, Mekkatorque’s stalwart rejection of pervasive stereotypes - namely the assumptions that gnomes are weak, cowardly or just simply too ridiculous to be taken seriously - highlights his desire to secure the future well-being, reputation, power and position of gnomish society in a world soon to be dominated by the necessity of having strong allies in the face of rampant factionalism and of course … Warcraft. Like Frodo, Mekkatorque makes us believe that anyone is capable of heroism. His unrivaled genius, creativity and determination make his lack of physical strength, as well as the glaringly obvious vertical limitations, complete non-factors. You might think twice about messing with a gnome if you witnessed Mekkatorque and his famous mech-suit on the battlefield! Gelbin’s inventions were so far beyond what any contemporary was doing at the time that many mistook his science for magic. Through tinkering, Mekkatorque challenged the very nature of reality itself and forced people to expand their previous conceptions of what science and technology were capable of. Lastly, I would be remiss to not mention the context underlying the construction of the Deeprun Tram. Mekkatorque somehow manages to build and complete this thing at the same time Gnomergan is being overrun by irradiated troggs and a genocidal maniac. So, Mekkatorque and the gnomes gift dwarves/humans an incredibly advanced public/military transportation system that becomes a vital component of the Alliance war effort in the Second War. Further, we all know how to enjoy the benefits of the Deeprun Tram today. Considering this background information, did Mekkatorque think he was owed anything in return for this fantastic favor? Also, keep in mind why the troggs suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the first place - I suppose they should have known that dwarves love to delve too greedily and too deep. The answer to the question? Of course not, the guy didn't demand anything nor did he assume a return on investment once the Alliance had recovered from the Second War. Free of charge, pro-bono, just another example of Gelbin being Gelbin! The completion of the Deeprun Tram was downright inspirational in light of this context/circumstances. Time and again, Mekkatorque was proving that even in Gnomanity’s darkest hour, the rays of its brightest son could still pierce through the veil of depravity and suffering that had suffocated gnomish existence for far too long. With eyes ever forward, Mekkatorque boldly forges a new path forward for his people. P.S. Wow, suppose I get why they say the tale often grows in the telling … Jesus Christ … P.S.S. For the reasons enumerated above, Mekkatorque is an all-time Warcraft character for me. I’ve observed that Gnomes sort of have a mixed perception in the community , it seems like people either love them or they hate them. I think if everyone knew the story provided above, they’d come to appreciate gnomes at least a little bit more. P.S.S.S. Love the channel, always get excited when a new vid comes out. #Gnomergan4LYF3 #MekkaGOAT
I was not expecting to find a detailed character analysis of Mekkatorque in the comments section, but I am so glad I did. This was a wonderful, touching read.
The Gnomes and Dwarves of Warcraft having one of the tightest *"bromances"* (do in part because of a mutual love of "booty"..) in the setting is just so wholesome and great. It is a shame that side of the lore (gnome and dwarves relations) gets woefully neglected in favor of some *'new' (ha!),* repainted apocalyptic threats trying to doom everything to destruction and or eternal torment!
That news report bit got me crying from laughter. I couldn't stop laughing when Arthas just flashed on the screen and shouted "PURGE!". Thank you for the laughs, your sense of comedic timing is golden and I love your WoW videos so much!
Gnomes, that race who if they were alone at a Dwemer City known as the Halls of the Colossus at elsweyr, they would delete themselves trying to recreate the Numidium.
@@jaspergregorio9774 Who knows maybe they make an artificial power as powerful as it then proceed to delete themselves. Or maybe if we want to add a little shock value, also delete a large part of the land leaving nothing but a crater.
"Pretend this is Azeroth" haha that got me so good. Your vids is allways so well made and super edited. that such a lazy/unfortunate mistake just seams like an obvious joke. Atleast to me
Gnomes just focusing on the future and ignoring the past makes Chromie choosing a gnome appearance kind of ironic now. Also I never played gnome but I think they are adorable and, as a fellow shorty (149 cm), I would never EVER punt them. A nice perfect good AWESOME video as always. Love from Argentina, Plat 🇦🇷
"But they're so aerodynamic! Strap them with dynamite and give them a throw, at least!" - Your Friendly Neighborhood Goblin Typing this actually kinda makes me wonder how Gelbin feels about Renzik "the Shiv", the goblin second-in-command at SI:7.
They really should expand more on Gnomish history and lore, as well as enrich some of it's more lacking existing parts. Though admittedly, Blizzard and the dev team behind WoW have much bigger problems to deal with right now than the lackluster gnomish lore and history.
I don't want them to do anything to the game anymore. From changing blacklist to blocklist, to changing the concubines and paintings in karazhan, to removing 'offensive' emotes etc. etc. you can guarantee any additional lore will be more of the same god awfull politically correct garbage.
There is one important lore missed here. It is actual a female gnome that can be considered the "mother" of the dwarves. Ulduman use to house the Earthen(who were affected by the curse of flesh and was put in statics with the hope of being cured later). Mechagnomes took care of them(who all ended up dead/broken due to age) only one female mechagnome(affected by the curse) survived. When she got old she decided to release the Earthen as oppose to letting then up with no one to care for them/end up dead. Thus the first dwarves came into Azeroth.
The memories I got when the camera pans over dun morogh at 0:55 lmao. I use to exclusively make gnomes and dwarves on my old trial account just because i loved questing through there so much
Would it be possible for you to do a video about the ancient Arakkoan 'Apexis' civilisation of Outland (Draenor)? Would love for people to see the story of their old empire, it's culture, history and brilliance in the awesome format that you always do your lore videos in! The Anhar, the Skalax and the downfall of the empire, post Breakers vs. Primals war. Awesome vid, as always, Plat! Keep up the awesome work!
For anyone confused as to why Thermaplugg points at his legs and says "My legs are in that half", he's supposed to be in a big mech and Mekkatorque cuts him in two with (what I assume to be) a high-speed spring.
Every video you make surpasses the previous one. I especially love all the history and lore. Thanks for all the work and love you put into these. It shows, and makes each video a treasure.
With the end of Wow content from folks like MadseasonShow & Carbot, I'm glad to see Platinum going strong. Not much interest in WoW these days, but your content always rekindles an interest in a universe I once called home!
So players kill Thermaplugg once, gets retconned. Players try again in a big event, it fails. Then an NPC kills him in some random short story nobody read. Sounds like WoW storytelling alright.
I mean that NPC is literally the most significant gnome character in their lore so it's not like some rando did the deed.Still I would've liked to experience this in game instead of yet another book.
Only started getting into WoW lore now and from what I'm hearing the Trolls and the Gnomes have the exact same backstory of their leader's friend going insane and driving them from their lands just so classic Blizzard could justify giving them the same start zone as another race.
I am a troll who learns goblin engineering but I still find the tech and the lore of the gnomes interesting. I remember the first time when me and my family completed Gnomeregan, it was weird how every gnome here had leprosy and mechanical limbs.
Gnomes are one of those races that seem like they have chances for story, but we never get any cuz blizzard themselves seem to be unable to take short people seriously. (which i think is a very harmful stereotype.) Oh and because Why do things with gnomes when we can do Orc story no. 287?
My toppets race to play, have one of them in every class. Even Blizzard know they’re the best. Literally any time they arrive on the scene, they just win. From their arrival in the Siege of Orgrimmar where a mere 11 of them incapacitated a legion of Kor’kron without a single casualty on either side, to Mekkatorque fighting alongside Varian on the Broken Shore with his mech suit letting him multitask calling in a gunship while simultaneously shooting a demon in the face and laughing about it, to the raid on the Undercity where the Horde forces were ready to hold the line before Void Elves just summoned in a bunch of Gnomes and their artillery which was the absolute turning point of the battle that forced the Horde into a full retreat. They knew Gnomes were so overpowered that they had to cripple them mentally by making Mekkatorque a boss in the Siege of Dazar’alor that didn’t even kill him, just took him out of action for a long while. Suddenly collective Gnomes are too demoralised to take part in major events afterwards. I can’t wait for Yrel’s Lightforged to make an appearance and force submission to the light on people with all that Lightforged weaponry and technology they apparently have. Then the Gnomes can whip out superior Gnomish technology and win. Or bullshit can happen to just not have them on the scene, despite technical superiority.
Seeing this pop up in my feed a couple weeks after I cancelled my 13 year sub made me cry. Probably the best content creator out there in my opinion, but I'm wondering if he'll get to cover everything fast enough before Blizzard starts completely retconning major conflict points in lore with the weird decisions they've been making lately. I'm hoping it won't get that bad, but I've already been proven wrong on other fronts. As a writer, it's terrifying to see. As a player, I just want my boy Ursoc back.
so you're a writer? because i put together my own story as like a way if blizzard want's to end shadowlands early: so you know everytime the jailer is shown there is this big focus on his nipples. this was all just foreshadowing for what's to come! we follow the jailer and right as we reach him he's going up a stairway. we get around the corner and challenge him but he didn't noticed us so he gets scared and because of this slips on the stairs falls down and dies. (this way we can end the jailer and with this shadowlands as fast as possible). so to conclude the story to the next expac...you know what i said about the focus on his nipples? right the camera zooms in on his dead body right onto his left nipple and it begins to glow! and oh whats this? it takes on the shape of moon. oh my good all this time the jailer himself was actually dominated by elune and now all her power gets shot out of his nips like it's some crazy milk and it grabs the heroes of azeroth and brings them to the realm of elune where we in 10.X now need to gather so we can defeat elune who actually was behind all jailer realated things that happened! now on a scale from 0 to 10 could you please rate: 1.) the genius of my story. 2.) how much it would fit to blizz-storywriting at the moment.
I can easily see the battle for Gnomeregan being like that outpost attack in Starship Troopers. Knowing the gnomes, they even had the Klendathu Drop music blaring from heavily armed loudspeakers.
Mekkatorque's voice is a brillint artistic decision.
fantastic.
My god, it's amazing.
Master chief is mekkatorque
I was happy when he died
@@razoulrath_3068 he's not dead he's missing in action
My head canon is now that Gnomes and Dwarves forged perhaps the strongest bond on Azeroth because of a mutual love of big badonk-a-donk.
Engineers all agree, booty is key.
Aww you beat me to it!
Yup. Best friends for life. My gnomes agree :)
badonk-a-donk?
Don't let blizzard find out or they'll replace the gnome joke into a conversation about a bowl of fruit.
“Here’s a statement from arthas menethil on the matter”
“P U R G E”
"But can't we quarantine people and only kill the people who turn? Not everybody should have eaten the grain yet, most of it is still grain! Not even bread, burn the grain and quarantine the city? What do you say my lord?"
@@Finish303 "T R E A S O N"
couldn't of said it better myself.
The purge of Stratholme happened not because of the plague, but because it was the second largest city in Azeroth and was getting too close to the elves of Quel'thelas.
Don't believe the paladins lies.
Arthas sings Let Purge the city Purge the the town Purge the scourge
When Mekkatorque spoke in the true chad voice, I just laughed at how good it was
gigachad mekkatorque vs incel thermoplugg
Bro. Chaddest gnome ALIVE! Must have expansion with Tinker class now!
@@berchelio9737 Gigachad actually fucking sounds like a Gnome name
He was preparing that line and voice ever since his best pal betrayed him.
@@notarmchairhistorian7779 That would be so much fun!
Reminder we beat Sargeras before we dealt with the troggs in Gnomeregan.
Huh? Last I checked he’s still alive and well.
@@ChinnuWoW he said beat, not kill!
@@commanderblackheart5856 Well we never beat him yet anyway. We only fought his demons.
@@ChinnuWoW ... no Sagaras was beaten ^^
@@natanoj16 Who the fuck is "Sagaras"?
I recall from one of the books that the Gnome made a fully automatic crossbow that could shoot a ridiculous amount of arrows of minute in every direction. The only problems were that they couldn't stop it when it started and it went in EVERY direction.
That's how Engineering works. Powerful and fascinating, but prone to major malfunctions.
Crossbows fire bolts, not arrows.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 see this is why it was better than other crossbows - it didn't need special ammo :P
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 feel better about yourself?
@@thecryptkeeper5 Yes I do, knowing that you felt so bent out of shape that you had to post that reply just for a simple correction, a simple correction that was six months ago. You coulda been like other dude just make a joke out of it, but instead you decided to say that. Do you feel better about yourself for it?
8:13 That goblin with gnomish mask had me dying.
It's a Spy!
Omg YES I love that detail!
And he was still more competent and trustworthy than Sicco ever was.
@@maksymilianziele28
All he probably did was steal inventions, the gnome city being destroyed would ruin that.
@@beastwarsFTW Not much for the "business" when city becomes a rubble plagued by savages and infected green gnomes.
Ha. The shortstory sure made it look way more badass.
Gnomes after they have enough shit and evolve and become chad
For real, the lines from Mekkatorque were cold as fuck and it was perfect considering everything
The lore I didn't know I needed
Gnome rp speedrun when?
So true
Agreed.
The more lore I see on the history of many races etc Im saying my usual "What wasted potential... if only somebody took the time to flesh this out"
It's literally the usual "quick bolt a backstory so they buy the latest DLC" Blizzard crap, what do you expect?
@@Amfortas "flesh this out" ...."FLESH"
1:08
They did flesh the gnomes out
I have to admit. Most the time the lore is improved with your retellings. WoW really needs a shakeup from the direction it went with shadowlands.
Reject Shadowlands
Return to Tides of Darkness
Easy, stop with the world ending threats and make the World of Warcraft a fully realized setting, not an overarching story, but a world of possibilities and interesting dynamics. (with yes a sense of history but also new history to be made)
No seriously, having everyone and everything hogtied to a bigger narrative only serves to make the setting less interesting and in turn ruins the gaming experience.
@@navilluscire2567 exactly I would love to have a expansion simply focused on the races and the world in general but not in the way BFA did it more like Cata just continue the story of the zones and chang it a bit as your progress, how doesn't want to play in azeroth again.
@@navilluscire2567 Every time I mention this a bunch of shills come out of thin air, downvote the hell out of me and demand that these shadowlands style world-ending threats are the only thing holding the game together, and that the storytelling is shit.
Thing is, the storytelling has never been amazing, I don't want to speak for everyone, but I don't love the stories because they're thought provoking, genius and incredible, contrarily I like them because they're simple fun. Arthas and Garrosh are arguably the two best written characters in universe, and I like them because they're fun, I wouldn't say they're amazingly deep at all. I want to go on a quest to kill some troggs, I want to do a dungeon to take out some pirates, without the overarching feeling I'm wasting time waiting for an old god to show up. When leveling and playing classic, those huge threats are looming, but they're barely on your mind, they're an inevitability but everything between the murlocs and demon jesus don't feel like time wasters, because they aren't.
@@navilluscire2567 Like Vanilla? Different settings with all kinds of different enemies, rather than a dominant theme overall.
0:46 the music of Warcraft 3 and early World of Warcraft was so epic
it was like a rush of epicness and lore, just made the world feel so epic and ancient.
The music now has to have soaring strings and vocals which is terribly annoying after 3 seconds. The music director has a lot to learn from vanilla wow music.
I think in Cata they started going more orchestral. At this time i thought it's a cool change, but they kept doing it over and over and we pretty much don't have any ambient soundtracks nowadays
What is the name of the song ?
@@jamesgoogle4841 Jason Hayes - Dun Morogh
@@jamesgoogle4841 you should listen to all of them tbh, 70%-80% of the music is gold.
even Warcraft 3's music is gold in a different way, because it's more focused on the feel of different Races rather than focusing on the feel of the Zones.
"Gnomish Culture is about forward thinking, but this is just a fancy way of saying the Gnomes don't really have any backstories."
Still a better backstory than the playable Mecha-Gnomes.
I don’t need a backstory to enjoy punching people in the dick with clamp hands!
@@IBrowneeI Give em THE CLAMPS!
Still better than goblins, goblins were one of my favorite races of azeroth, i thought they were smart and adaptable to every enviroment since they had markets everywhere. But know i watched their story and they are basically crack addicts that get dumber everyday
@@desertranger82 they control the banks and media
@@desertranger82 that's actually the greatest shit about them, they're absolutely nuts and don't give a crap about it.
That voice acting was actually super good wtf
5:43 Not sure, if this scene is a tribute to MadSeasonShow, but it is much appreciated.^^
All hail the king.
came to check for this before I commented myself
13:37 that's so brutal, I didn't know that Thermaplugg was cutted in half
2:30 *Perfect BROMANCE Doesn't Exi---- !*
5:42 I KNOW THAT SULFURAS-WEILDING WARRIOR !!
Can you imagine if Platinum ends making story telling of anything in his style?
Man, I would learn the "Lore" of the Rome Empire better if Platinum was the one teaching me.
Just using WoW models as representation.
Make Julius Caesar be a troll model, then surrounded and murderized by 10 murlocs.
lmao
Sen’jin be like
you think big.
one day you gonna raise humanity to the next level.
The Emu war? Just a ton of plainstriders demolishing human farmers and them pissed off shooting them with broomsticks.
Et tu Brutus?
-Mwglarglaglaaa
3:09 this frame is the best thing you have ever made
I feel like gnomes havent gotten much love from WOW since it started. Several expansions and world ending bosses later, the gnomes still hasnt retaken Gnomeragan. The devs should at least give them an expansion to make up for it!
Hell, at this point they could've started building a bee city for themselves if they can't take Gnomeregon back, I'm sure their dwarf bros and even human allies could help them to construct another one.
That keyboard turn to the second camera at 6:28 cracks me up. It's not even reasonable how funny that is
I don't even play wow, and still went "god fucking dammit" when it cut to the maw. I don't even know why.
I started playing retail again, doing all the zones and reading all the quests, just listening to the music. Its a really good singleplayer game.
6:24 This is easily the funniest part of Chronicle. It cuts from Arthas Menethil killing his own father in cold blood and unleashing the Scourge onto the kingdom he swore to protect to, "Meanwhile the gnomes are dealing with a Trogg infestation"
LOTR dwarves awakened an ancient and terrifying demon from long forgotten, ancient times.
Warcraft dwarves awakened... a plague of Fred Flintstones?
"Enjoy your remaining time in jail, my friend. Your sentence is almost over." Wow, I didn't know the Blizzard team could still write good dialogue.
The most savage line in wow history... and it's frigging Mekkatorque :D
It's from 2011. Almost 12 years ago.
@@adreak9868 I know, that's what surprised me.
I was blown away by the sections in Chronicle that detail the Trogg Invasion/ Thermaplugg Betrayal. I had the same reaction as you upon finding out that 80% of Gnomanity was wiped out.
Another interesting part for me was how Mekkatorque refused to ask Stormwind/Ironforge for help, or even tell them about the trogg problem. He recognized that humans/dwarves were also in a pretty desperate position fighting the Horde in the Second War.
With this act, Mekkatorque puts the honor, humility, pride and arrogance of Gnomanity on full display. His outright refusal to be perceived as a burden to the newly formed Alliance causes a previously obscured duality in his character to emerge.
On one hand, this strong sense of conviction results in tragedy. When faced with several options, Mekkatorque’s dogmatic adherence to his principles leads to a decision wherein he chooses his own personal values, goals and vision over gnomish lives. Who knows … maybe the Alliance could have made a real difference - or perhaps, already stretched too thin by the war with the Horde, and more still, distracted by new whispers of a mysterious plague of undeath, the Alliance would have proved incapable of turning the tide in favor of the gnomes.
We typically observe the use of similar kinds of thought experiments, or "what if …" discussions, in educational contexts. For example, let's say a history teacher assigns a persuasive essay assignment. In order to receive a high grade, students are tasked with applying their existing content knowledge to an entirely new hypothetical scenario. The prompt is deliberately designed to reinforce students' understanding of the actual history itself, but in addition, give them an opportunity to engage with history in a creative and meaningful way. This form of assessment is a compelling alternative to the traditional approach. In that model, there usually is a heavy emphasis on the memorization and regurgitation - not the application - of information. But I digress, as many WoW adversaries would say when they get to 10% HP … "ENOUGH!"
I simply bring this up with the pure intention of showing how insightful or resourceful these sorts of mental exercises can be. However, in this particular instance, they're completely worthless and your prediction of how the Invasion of Gnomergan would have played out is entirely irrelevant! The crossroads of destiny were thrust upon Mekkatorque, and without the option to quick-save or go to Thottbot, he didn't have the luxury of knowing how both scenarios would end. Ultimately, he chose to forgo the exercise entirely - not only just refusing to ask the Alliance for reinforcements, food, medical supplies or anything else that could have saved gnomish lives - Mekkatorque doesn't even notify them of what is happening. Other Alliance leaders don't truly know the full extent of the Trogg Invasion/Thermaplugg Betrayal (Platinum is absolutely right - can it still even be considered a betrayal coming from a guy named Sicco?) till many years later. Highlighting the fruitlessness of applying this specific hypothetical experiment during this time/place in the High Tinkerer's life can be useful when attempting to defend his actions, as most would assume that a leader such as Gelbin shouldn't act in service of interests that lead to more civilian lives lost.
Alas, the first side of Mekkatorque's duality is thus revealed. In a manner eerily reminiscent of a certain young Prince of Lordaeron, Mekkatorque places the survival of Gnomanity square on his shoulders. The weight of the dead - heavy, unmoving and cannibalizing - feast off his own troubled conscious and prey upon his doubts, fears, guilts and insecurities. Pride and arrogance, in combination with an unbreakable sense of purpose and responsibility to save his people, inevitably lead Mekkatorque to brazenly and deliberately ignore a potential solution to the crisis and further increase the chances that the gnomes become just another statistic. The latest culture to fall victim to the Azerothian Common Cold - also known as genocide. To learn more about this growing epidemic, please see night elves, blood elves, draenei, etc. for more information.
Yet, in spite of the above analysis, when you look at Mekkatorque’s behavior through the lens of his motivations and intent, rather than through the consequences of his actions, the story suddenly becomes less about a callous leader, and more about an inspiring one.
Mekkatorque offers a vision - a sense of direction and hope - that restores a semblance of confidence and optimism to his people. While gnomes are naturally blessed with a preponderance of jovial tendencies, Mekkatorque’s ability to inspire and lead are still pretty impressive here. Considering the onslaught of violence, death and betrayal the gnomes had just recently suffered, this turn back towards their trademark enthusiasm and positivity lends credence to Mekkatorque’s competencies as High Tinkerer.
In addition, Mekkatorque’s stalwart rejection of pervasive stereotypes - namely the assumptions that gnomes are weak, cowardly or just simply too ridiculous to be taken seriously - highlights his desire to secure the future well-being, reputation, power and position of gnomish society in a world soon to be dominated by the necessity of having strong allies in the face of rampant factionalism and of course … Warcraft.
Like Frodo, Mekkatorque makes us believe that anyone is capable of heroism. His unrivaled genius, creativity and determination make his lack of physical strength, as well as the glaringly obvious vertical limitations, complete non-factors. You might think twice about messing with a gnome if you witnessed Mekkatorque and his famous mech-suit on the battlefield!
Gelbin’s inventions were so far beyond what any contemporary was doing at the time that many mistook his science for magic. Through tinkering, Mekkatorque challenged the very nature of reality itself and forced people to expand their previous conceptions of what science and technology were capable of.
Lastly, I would be remiss to not mention the context underlying the construction of the Deeprun Tram. Mekkatorque somehow manages to build and complete this thing at the same time Gnomergan is being overrun by irradiated troggs and a genocidal maniac. So, Mekkatorque and the gnomes gift dwarves/humans an incredibly advanced public/military transportation system that becomes a vital component of the Alliance war effort in the Second War. Further, we all know how to enjoy the benefits of the Deeprun Tram today. Considering this background information, did Mekkatorque think he was owed anything in return for this fantastic favor? Also, keep in mind why the troggs suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the first place - I suppose they should have known that dwarves love to delve too greedily and too deep. The answer to the question? Of course not, the guy didn't demand anything nor did he assume a return on investment once the Alliance had recovered from the Second War. Free of charge, pro-bono, just another example of Gelbin being Gelbin! The completion of the Deeprun Tram was downright inspirational in light of this context/circumstances.
Time and again, Mekkatorque was proving that even in Gnomanity’s darkest hour, the rays of its brightest son could still pierce through the veil of depravity and suffering that had suffocated gnomish existence for far too long. With eyes ever forward, Mekkatorque boldly forges a new path forward for his people.
P.S. Wow, suppose I get why they say the tale often grows in the telling … Jesus Christ …
P.S.S. For the reasons enumerated above, Mekkatorque is an all-time Warcraft character for me. I’ve observed that Gnomes sort of have a mixed perception in the community , it seems like people either love them or they hate them. I think if everyone knew the story provided above, they’d come to appreciate gnomes at least a little bit more.
P.S.S.S. Love the channel, always get excited when a new vid comes out. #Gnomergan4LYF3 #MekkaGOAT
I was not expecting to find a detailed character analysis of Mekkatorque in the comments section, but I am so glad I did. This was a wonderful, touching read.
should have been 100%
Would the gnomes have won if one of them invented a shotgun, or any other weapon that was good in close range?
I was just about to say this exact thing
@@-Nine9- yeah me too. Me too. I love posting these walls of information as well.
The Gnomes and Dwarves of Warcraft having one of the tightest *"bromances"* (do in part because of a mutual love of "booty"..) in the setting is just so wholesome and great. It is a shame that side of the lore (gnome and dwarves relations) gets woefully neglected in favor of some *'new' (ha!),* repainted apocalyptic threats trying to doom everything to destruction and or eternal torment!
Literally can't describe how excited I get when I see you upload. Quit WoW for the state it's in but still love the lore, this account keeps it going!
same!
That news report bit got me crying from laughter. I couldn't stop laughing when Arthas just flashed on the screen and shouted "PURGE!". Thank you for the laughs, your sense of comedic timing is golden and I love your WoW videos so much!
Gnomes, that race who if they were alone at a Dwemer City known as the Halls of the Colossus at elsweyr, they would delete themselves trying to recreate the Numidium.
Imagine them getting their hands on the Heart of Lorkhan
@@jaspergregorio9774 Who knows maybe they make an artificial power as powerful as it then proceed to delete themselves. Or maybe if we want to add a little shock value, also delete a large part of the land leaving nothing but a crater.
"Pretend this is Azeroth" haha that got me so good. Your vids is allways so well made and super edited. that such a lazy/unfortunate mistake just seams like an obvious joke. Atleast to me
Gnomes just focusing on the future and ignoring the past makes Chromie choosing a gnome appearance kind of ironic now.
Also I never played gnome but I think they are adorable and, as a fellow shorty (149 cm), I would never EVER punt them.
A nice perfect good AWESOME video as always. Love from Argentina, Plat 🇦🇷
"But they're so aerodynamic! Strap them with dynamite and give them a throw, at least!" - Your Friendly Neighborhood Goblin
Typing this actually kinda makes me wonder how Gelbin feels about Renzik "the Shiv", the goblin second-in-command at SI:7.
Wow you are short
Dude...that Mekkatorque line is fucking cold...
Why don't we get more writing like that?
Because the rainbow people at blizzard are incapable of creating good stories. Only fucking up existing ones.
PURGE!
I love how the orcs were massacring humans across the world but then they get absolutely rekked by the gnomes
Except for when mekkatorque had to beg for tourylon to kill the rats
A fine addition to my platinum WoW video collection
They really should expand more on Gnomish history and lore, as well as enrich some of it's more lacking existing parts. Though admittedly, Blizzard and the dev team behind WoW have much bigger problems to deal with right now than the lackluster gnomish lore and history.
I don't want them to do anything to the game anymore. From changing blacklist to blocklist, to changing the concubines and paintings in karazhan, to removing 'offensive' emotes etc. etc. you can guarantee any additional lore will be more of the same god awfull politically correct garbage.
You mean like Blizzard getting dissolved as a company and the game is becoming WOKE driving away players?
There is one important lore missed here. It is actual a female gnome that can be considered the "mother" of the dwarves. Ulduman use to house the Earthen(who were affected by the curse of flesh and was put in statics with the hope of being cured later). Mechagnomes took care of them(who all ended up dead/broken due to age) only one female mechagnome(affected by the curse) survived. When she got old she decided to release the Earthen as oppose to letting then up with no one to care for them/end up dead. Thus the first dwarves came into Azeroth.
13:46 Sigma Rule #673: Leave your arch nemesis to suffer in eternal torment
Love how you’ve been making lore videos for each of the races. Keep up the good work man!
5:42 Is that... Is that MadSeason?
Can't be. He quit wow.
The Tauren and the Gnomes are my two favorite races in WoW. Getting to watch their lore videos back to back has been a joy
The memories I got when the camera pans over dun morogh at 0:55 lmao. I use to exclusively make gnomes and dwarves on my old trial account just because i loved questing through there so much
12:55 Fun fact: Sicco is one "c" extra from "Sico", which is a condoms brand in certain countries in the world.
Much love indeed.
K thanks
Now blizzard will have to remove it from the game as it is a sexual reference
Lepper Gnomes = Forsaken's Mini-Me
And the Alliance haven't helped the poor gnomes in reclaiming their city yet after all these years.
Mekkatorque's voice literally killed me. 11/10 top shelf kek
love you plat, thanks for another video. got a 5 hour swim meet later today so this will help me relax before it.
Good luck on your swim meet, your gonna do great! :D
@@PlatinumWoW thanks! i did really well, unlike the gnomes....
Everytime I see a gnome I just picture Moocluck and Nixxiom sending it flying through the air in some kind of best gnome kicking tournament xD
I quit playing WoW, but I still love your content, keep doing great work. Love the history of the gnomes!
dude i FRICKING love your videos, keep the excellent work!
0:46 Bellular flashbacks
Also WillE
I've been looking forward to this.
Your videos get me through so much in life. Thank you for all that you do! Keep going champion!
8:16 Hey, that’s a green gnome!
I thought that guy was a Sus, but It turns out Sicco was.
You should totally do one of these style videos for the real humans of earth
But have you ever played a gnome monk? Hilarious and super fun. This coming from a horde player
Remember Vanilla WoW Gnome Rogues? Bonus points if you take that Noggenfogger elixir that reduced your size XD
I had a gnomonk, called it Kneeslayer
that was my first build in the MoP ptr.
I have a windwalker monk gnome... Kenshino The Defender of the Bronken World is his name
@@daniideca8780 Bronken tf
Those animations were all so goddamn excellent. A pleasure to watch and great story-telling! Keep it up!
I love the way you edit your videos to make it so entertaining to learn more about the lore in the game. Keep it up Platinum! :)
Would it be possible for you to do a video about the ancient Arakkoan 'Apexis' civilisation of Outland (Draenor)? Would love for people to see the story of their old empire, it's culture, history and brilliance in the awesome format that you always do your lore videos in! The Anhar, the Skalax and the downfall of the empire, post Breakers vs. Primals war. Awesome vid, as always, Plat! Keep up the awesome work!
For anyone confused as to why Thermaplugg points at his legs and says "My legs are in that half", he's supposed to be in a big mech and Mekkatorque cuts him in two with (what I assume to be) a high-speed spring.
11:10 and everybody cheered together
im watching all your lore vids, and i really like the way you present them, its entertaining!
What a curs- I mean, *blessed* thumbnail.
This actually makes me want to play a gnome
I find it funny that one of the advisors, was a goblin with a gnome mask in the video.
Every video you make surpasses the previous one. I especially love all the history and lore. Thanks for all the work and love you put into these. It shows, and makes each video a treasure.
I would have liked to know who Omegaplugg is. You know, the hidden boss when you press the little button after killing Thermaplugg
With the end of Wow content from folks like MadseasonShow & Carbot, I'm glad to see Platinum going strong. Not much interest in WoW these days, but your content always rekindles an interest in a universe I once called home!
Man, I love the way you do these videos. They're always informative and hilarious! Keep it up mate!
I am so happy I stumbled on these videos. Great storytelling.
So players kill Thermaplugg once, gets retconned. Players try again in a big event, it fails. Then an NPC kills him in some random short story nobody read.
Sounds like WoW storytelling alright.
It's still early, I think they can cram in a couple more retcons into it given time.
It not a blizzard game if the lore wasn’t retconned into being confusing and stupid.
I mean that NPC is literally the most significant gnome character in their lore so it's not like some rando did the deed.Still I would've liked to experience this in game instead of yet another book.
Didn't he say in cata we killed him for the final time, which also means that in that version of the instance we fought half a gnome
You are the best wow youtuber out there right now, hands down. Nobbel, I'm sorry but no king rules forever my son
Ok i lost it at the gnomes firing the automatic machine guns to the horde great video man
These are always just so good. So much respect for the time put in.
The production effort put into your videos, is honest truth, the highest I have witnessed, great job!
definetly better than shadowlands
The Goofy scream is just timeless! 😆
Brilliant video! Please make some more! :D
What an amazing video! The quality keeps going up!
2:21 That rhymed.
You've been gnomed
Hoo hoo hoo ha ha ha ha!
200k subs?! Wow, well deserved, been following you since classic was announced! Congratulations!
Loved the sequence with the series of opening doors, well-done transition.
I dont know why but I laughed for a solid hour from that Arthus bit.
Only started getting into WoW lore now and from what I'm hearing the Trolls and the Gnomes have the exact same backstory of their leader's friend going insane and driving them from their lands just so classic Blizzard could justify giving them the same start zone as another race.
These visuals are incredible! Your storytelling ability is so captivating
this video, great visuals and editing. brilliant.
Another Masterpiece. Keep it up,man. The spirit of Warcraft is well kept in your vids. A spirit thats been missing ingame for over a decade
*until Legion came out.
I am a troll who learns goblin engineering but I still find the tech and the lore of the gnomes interesting. I remember the first time when me and my family completed Gnomeregan, it was weird how every gnome here had leprosy and mechanical limbs.
"Heres a statement from Prince Arthas on the matter."
"PURGE!"
I died XD
Goblin on the council! I repeat, goblin on the council! Get em outta here!
This was hilarious. People never get why I play gnomes-this is it. Their lore is so intriguing.
What little their is...but yes, they are.
Gnomes are one of those races that seem like they have chances for story, but we never get any cuz blizzard themselves seem to be unable to take short people seriously. (which i think is a very harmful stereotype.)
Oh and because Why do things with gnomes when we can do Orc story no. 287?
always a pleasure to see a Plat video
thx for this man, ive never focused on lore bc its too much but this is an easy way to follow it
My toppets race to play, have one of them in every class.
Even Blizzard know they’re the best. Literally any time they arrive on the scene, they just win. From their arrival in the Siege of Orgrimmar where a mere 11 of them incapacitated a legion of Kor’kron without a single casualty on either side, to Mekkatorque fighting alongside Varian on the Broken Shore with his mech suit letting him multitask calling in a gunship while simultaneously shooting a demon in the face and laughing about it, to the raid on the Undercity where the Horde forces were ready to hold the line before Void Elves just summoned in a bunch of Gnomes and their artillery which was the absolute turning point of the battle that forced the Horde into a full retreat.
They knew Gnomes were so overpowered that they had to cripple them mentally by making Mekkatorque a boss in the Siege of Dazar’alor that didn’t even kill him, just took him out of action for a long while. Suddenly collective Gnomes are too demoralised to take part in major events afterwards.
I can’t wait for Yrel’s Lightforged to make an appearance and force submission to the light on people with all that Lightforged weaponry and technology they apparently have. Then the Gnomes can whip out superior Gnomish technology and win.
Or bullshit can happen to just not have them on the scene, despite technical superiority.
Seeing this pop up in my feed a couple weeks after I cancelled my 13 year sub made me cry. Probably the best content creator out there in my opinion, but I'm wondering if he'll get to cover everything fast enough before Blizzard starts completely retconning major conflict points in lore with the weird decisions they've been making lately. I'm hoping it won't get that bad, but I've already been proven wrong on other fronts. As a writer, it's terrifying to see. As a player, I just want my boy Ursoc back.
so you're a writer?
because i put together my own story as like a way if blizzard want's to end shadowlands early:
so you know everytime the jailer is shown there is this big focus on his nipples.
this was all just foreshadowing for what's to come!
we follow the jailer and right as we reach him he's going up a stairway.
we get around the corner and challenge him but he didn't noticed us so he gets scared and because of this slips on the stairs falls down and dies.
(this way we can end the jailer and with this shadowlands as fast as possible).
so to conclude the story to the next expac...you know what i said about the focus on his nipples?
right the camera zooms in on his dead body right onto his left nipple and it begins to glow!
and oh whats this?
it takes on the shape of moon.
oh my good all this time the jailer himself was actually dominated by elune and now all her power gets shot out of his nips like it's some crazy milk and it grabs the heroes of azeroth and brings them to the realm of elune where we in 10.X now need to gather so we can defeat elune who actually was behind all jailer realated things that happened!
now on a scale from 0 to 10 could you please rate:
1.) the genius of my story.
2.) how much it would fit to blizz-storywriting at the moment.
Brilliant as always thank you so much for making this content
I can easily see the battle for Gnomeregan being like that outpost attack in Starship Troopers. Knowing the gnomes, they even had the Klendathu Drop music blaring from heavily armed loudspeakers.