Archimonde was so fucking badass in Warcraft 3, crushing entire armies and cities like they were nothing. His opening line, "Tremble mortals, and despair. Doom has come to this world!" still gives me chills to this day. The line and the delivery, so awesome. And it felt so good to see Arthas actually afraid, after rampaging through Lordaeran and Silvermoon with smug arrogance. Then in WoD, they turned him into a cheesy "raaaarghhh! I kill you!" boss who comes out of nowhere and gets his ass handed to him by 20 random adventurers. No trump card or anything like the wisp army in WC3. We literally beat him to death. Zero character development, zero feeling of "threat" or "fear", he just comes and goes like some random boss in some random raid.
Well technically I think blizzard's intentions are that our PC are far above just a random adventurer at this point. And also, lorewise we'd been gathering power from all over draenor the whole expansion for the soul purpose of fighting gul'dan and the legion and putting it into our rings, which at this point had been bless by the elementals/naaru, and imbued with primodial power from the heart of draenor, so I think 20 people wielding weapons like that could substitute for the wisps.
0:10 Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world. 0:30 From this seal shall arise the doom of men, who, in their arrogance, sought to wield our fire as their own. 0:42 Blindly they build their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit. 0:51 Now they shall be consumed by the very flame they sought to control. 1:51 Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair.
JamoKin97 The french kings were cursed by the last grandmaster of the templar order while he was burning. Funny fact, many french kings ( and all their family occasionally ) died in weird circonstances centurys after his death..
The Ascendent Archimonde (one of the commanders of the Burning Legion and the Master of Eredars, a race with powerful magic powers increased by Sargeras) destroying a poor human city (humans who learnt the arcane magic from the high elves some years, and the high elves learnt it from a well...) it seems pretty logic...
_"Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world, From this seal shall arise the doom of men, Who, in their arrogance, sought to wield our fire as their own. Blindly they build their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit. Now they shall be consumed by the very flame they sought to control. Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair."_
Who the fuck deleted the original speech? "Azhir uval nutarus" - "Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world" "Azhir mudas ethanul" - "From this seal, shall arise the doom of Men" "Dalektharu il dask daku" - "Who, in their arrogance, sought to wield our fire as their own" "Riftuuz ethara samanar utamus" - "Blindly, they build their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit" "Elas umanes azarathan rakas ibna" - "Now, they shall be consumed by the very flame they sought to control" "Belanora mordanos nenaar ila mornu farlos kada" - "Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair"
+Simon Schroder "Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair" WoD Archimonde says this (in English) on aggro.
Cristian Martinez no, he is an Eredar lord, from a race of powerful magic abilities, but his rank in WC3 was BlackMage, using especialy dark magic (as a Fel and Necromancy).... But he can use some of arcane, shadow and void magic as well...
As we know at this point, he forgot to draw in the Dalaran fountain into his sandcastle, so the fountain survived just fine. He even threw in a golden coin, wishing upon it to know how it didn't break.
What gets me about this is the subtlety of this...I was expecting fire raining from the skies, screaming crowds slaughtered by unholy creatures, that sort of thing. Instead, he just...crushes it. With his bare hands, and no fanfare at all.
That's what makes it so good and VERY uniquely fantastic and amazing! Sometimes less and more as the subtly of the magic sand spell WAS fantastic it was done from it's subtly.
Yeaaah....he wasn't as scary in Warlords of Draenor... Shame, really.Maybe we should have gave him a bucket of sand to play with so he could crush the raid team.
I agree, he should have a bucket of sand and a comically small plastic shovel, so he can build sand castles while he waits for the raid party. Fuck it! Start the battle with him sittin on his ass, playing in the sand, and then gets embarrassed and enraged that he was interrupted. Make [Archimond's Bucket] a unique trophy item, that has the character sit down and build a miniature, sand-replica of Dalaran, upon use.
Blizzard devs should work on creating full glossaries with Azerothian (and other) dialects. Darnassian and Eredun are such insane languages! (so is Thelassian and Orcish)
Osef Enfait That ain't no wizard language, that's Eredun, original language of the Draenei and current acting common language of the Burning Legion. Anything you hear Draenei say, they are basically speaking in a dialect of Eredun.
Archimonde: "Dalaran is destroyed!." Kel'thuzad: "My Lord if I may..." Archimonde: "SILENCE!!! Why do you interrupt me in my moment of triumph!!" Kel'thuzad: "Your greatness, um...Dalaran is THAT way." :::points behind Archimonde to unscratched Dalaran:::: Archimonde: "Then what did I just destroy?" :::picks up sign "Lordaeron Senior Citizen Nursing Home (Tomorrow- Thursday Bingo):::: Archimonde: "Ummmm......ooops"
The eredar, a race of highly intelligent beings with a natural affinity for magic in all its myriad forms. From the ranks of these mighty creatures, Sargeras picked two champions to command his demonic army of destruction. Kil'jaeden the Deceiver was chosen to seek out the darkest races in the universe and recruit them into Sargeras' ranks. The second champion, Archimonde the Defiler, was chosen to lead Sargeras' vast armies into battle against any who might resist the Titans will
Dalaran was rebuilt and protected by a magic dome after Archimonde destroyed it. It was then moved to Northrend to fight to Lich King. The crater of Dalaran is what remains after the city was moved by Rhonin and other mages of the Kirin Tor. =)
@WishNiggaWould This scene happened 5 or so years before the beginning of WotLK. In the mean time, the surviving mages cast a purple bubble around the ruins of Dalaran and re-built it (which you used to be able to see in WoW). They'd just finished construction when Malygos started his war on magic, inspiring them to move the new city center to the skies over Northrend where it floats now.
Well, I don't think anyone had the power to stop Archimonde from destroying Dalaran. Although, I always did wonder where were the armies of Scourge and Dalaran during Archimonde's "ritual". Maybe they all took a collective fear shit and ran away at the sight of Archimonde?
My head cannon is the scourge was heading to the coast to construct undead ships for the invasion of kalimdor, while the high command of the burning legion were figuring out how to kill cenarius
If you turn on subtitles in the game, you can hear what he's actually saying. It's something like: "Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world. In their arrogance, they sought to use our flame as their own. Blindly, they built their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit. Now, they will be destroyed by the very flame they sought to control. Let the cries of doom echo upon the winds, and let all who live hear it and despair."
Archimonde didn't had wings, but take a look at his size...and he also had claws. As vycka1234 said, there are no registers of great mutations due to exposion to holy magic. But there are dozens of examples of mutations caused by dark energy, like the Satyr.
@@inept7455 yeah I too like eating shitty lore about ultra super strong sylvanas, that is just like: sylvanas SMASSSSHHHH!!!!!! , come on go eat the shit...
@@inept7455 as opposed to the now undiscovered afterlife, insignificance of the legion and their sudden knowledge of said afterlife, horde furry races, and other of many asspulls
Kel Thuzad: "WAIT WAIT!! Hold on.... you can down a whole city full of fricking hardcore mages, but you needed me to summon your ass into the mortal plane?" Archimonde: "I don't like flying economy class, ok?"
If you explore the Eastern Kingdoms, I believe between Hillsbrad and Undercity, you should find an area that has Dalaran labeled in it's title. Dalaran used to be a much larger ground city. Archimonde destroyed most of it, except a piece of Dalaran was lifted from the ground to escape. I would assume that's the jist of it, but if you really wanted to get deep into the lore, you could probably find websites that explain it in thorough detail.
Because the world tree was not built on Eredar magic. Dalaran was largely constructed on the magic that the Eredar gave to the high elves when they were consorting at the Well of Eternity. This is the very same magic mages, and warlocks use... The same base. Whereas, Druid and Shaman magic has it's base from Azeroth itself... and since the World Tree was essentially an embodiment of the night elves and their longevity, it was rich in Druidic magic.
The final shot of just the empty circle with his handprint and the scattered dust while you hear the entire city crumbling down in the background is actual cinema. They could've made it really flashy with infernals falling from the sky or something else, but I think they did the right call in doing it like this.
Shadowriver Yeah but an announcment trailer is with much lower quallity then an expension trailer,you can't compare an expension trailer or WC3 cinmetic to an announcment trailer.
Name Again, trailer is a trailer, whatever amount of work you put in to it that different matter. "Announcement trailer" only means it's a trailer made for announcement.... that it
So it all takes Dalaran to be destroyed without using any army or siege weapons but a couple of Voodoo magic spells, a Sand Castle and a big hug from Archimonde.
They put up the bubble a while AFTER the city was destroyed, so that they could rebuild it uninterrupted. It was probably the whole of Kirin Tor that put up the bubble.
"Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world. From this seal shall arise the doom of men, who in their arrogance thought to weild out fire as their own. Blindly they built their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit. Now they shall be consumed by very flame they thought to control." Archimonde then stops to destroy Dalaran but continues afterwards; "Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair."
@@preds43 And now nearly a year later more. I remember watching this videos for the first time and being blown apart. I can not understand how did 15 years go so fast. Still playing but even 1/4 as much, sadly.
What's interesting about this is that Archimode is using what's called *"sympathetic magic"* or; "like affects like". By creating a representation or model of the things he wanted to manipulate and destroy in this case the mage city of Dalaran with the ensorceled sands and there by establishing a sympathetic link to its targets whatever he did to the scale representations would resonant with the real things. This kind of reciprocation spell allowed for the remote control of the doomed city and bringing about its destruction.
Before the big hole there was a large dome of arcane energy. Basically an experiment gone wrong from the ingame lore. After the rebuild for a second time they take off and go to northrend leaving a crater.
When Archimonde and Kil'Jaeden took Sargeras's offer of power and knowledge** The Naaru helped them escape to Azeroth. Velen didn't know where to go and his hope was all lost and the Naaru guided him and told him what to do. My source is World of Warcraft: Chronicles of War( Rise of the Horde)
Er, this *is* the lore. Archimonde destroyed Dalaran, you can see him doing it right above, official Blizzard cutscene and everything. The scourge invaded it beforehand (the mission before this cutscene in fact), grabbed the bits needed to summon Archimonde, summoned him and then he destroyed the city.
I love this bullshit. It's best when people complain about Mists of Pandaria that way. "LOL cartoon pandas, how pathetic". Yeah, there's background lore of soulcrushing brutality, slavery, genocide, and the whole place has a Lovecraftian undertone. Sha are clearly shoggoth, mantid are very likely Mi-go, and Y'Shaarj is a Great Old One. Even in the current time when you're there, a sentient race is purposely sending their own children to be slaughtered to "weed out the weaklings". But hey, cartoon pandas, so it's so kiddie right?
That was sort of stupid. A sand castle? I was hoping to see him blow Dalaran the fuck up with epic magic. An "Overlord of the Burning Legion" shouldn't be using sandcastles to destroy things >.>
I think it shows his intelligence better to do it this way. Instead of expending ridiculous amounts of traditional arcane energy to destroy it directly, he uses what is essentially a demonic voodoo doll to do the job for him, directing the energies where he wants them. This way, he doesn't need to risk his own life. This is what makes him one of the leaders, rather than one of the minions. He is smarter than your average demon.
***** now World Tree is different thing, he wanted to siphon the energies of the well of eternity through the world tree, he can't do it from distance, otherwise he could do it from Dalaran if it was possible. You can't compare a city with well that was created by titans and later illidan.
LanstussWoW Actualy, why he didint flated defender's camps to ground with voodoo and then just marched to the tree instead of waiting like a idiot for minions to finish weakening camps ._.
soldiersPL I believe he thought they won't be much of a threat since scourge sweapt through humans and elves easly. He 1-shotted Night Elf base because he fought them before during war of the ancients and knew they're way more dangerous than orcs and humans.
+forsmanos You want to fire the man that created the "great lore" instead of the jackass game developers (Cory Stockton) that actually implemented "pet battles and bought mounts" Classic internet logic. Quit talking out your ass, oh wait this is youtube comments, that's all anyone does #Stfu
Also, Velen (originally an Eredar) turned on Archimonde and Kil'Jaeden because of his visions of Eredar becoming demons. He became the Prophet of the Naaru. He is as close as current Draenai get to the Eredar race.
"Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world... From this seal shall arise the doom of men... who, in their arrogance thought to wield our fire as their own... Blindly they built their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit... Now they shall be consumed by very flame they thought to control..." Archimonde takes a handful of sand and spills some of it, it rises into the shape of Dalaran city." "Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair."
Totally agree, nobody owns anything, everyone borrows from everyone and they make it nice in their own way, make us see similar things through different points of view.
@MrGorxx Actually 25 lvl 70 players couldn't kill him. Lorewise- all of the azeroth's armies(25 players) stood their ground and tried to distract archimonde until Malfurion's trap was ready. When they held him at bay long enough, they summoned all the wisps and spirits of azeroth to sacrifice themselves and kill archimonde. This also resulted in the world tree being destroyed and Night elves losing their immortality
Actually, they are all Eredar. The ones that followed Kil'jaeden and Archimonde became twisted demons called "man'ari". However, with the help of the Naaru, Velen (another eredar leader) and the non-corrupted eredar fled into exile aboard the Exodar (yes, the capital city) and took the name "draenei" (which translates into exiled ones). On a side-note, the naaru were also the ones that gave draenei the power to connect with the Holy Light esentially allowing them to become paladins.
The description is wrong btw people, while yes, Archimonde is demonic. He is not a demon, he is from the Draenei home world Argus, and is a Eredar. Just thought I'd clear that up.
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I just love 0:23, his face is like: Now... what was that word that I need here... If only I payed attention to those magic classes...
lel
Lol
This is like chaos magic that was a sigil
:D
Archimonde was so fucking badass in Warcraft 3, crushing entire armies and cities like they were nothing. His opening line, "Tremble mortals, and despair. Doom has come to this world!" still gives me chills to this day. The line and the delivery, so awesome. And it felt so good to see Arthas actually afraid, after rampaging through Lordaeran and Silvermoon with smug arrogance. Then in WoD, they turned him into a cheesy "raaaarghhh! I kill you!" boss who comes out of nowhere and gets his ass handed to him by 20 random adventurers. No trump card or anything like the wisp army in WC3. We literally beat him to death. Zero character development, zero feeling of "threat" or "fear", he just comes and goes like some random boss in some random raid.
Outland Archimonde has the same death as in W3 right?
Well technically I think blizzard's intentions are that our PC are far above just a random adventurer at this point. And also, lorewise we'd been gathering power from all over draenor the whole expansion for the soul purpose of fighting gul'dan and the legion and putting it into our rings, which at this point had been bless by the elementals/naaru, and imbued with primodial power from the heart of draenor, so I think 20 people wielding weapons like that could substitute for the wisps.
Wow in a nutshell
Well they did form up and hit him till he died
This is exactly why Warcraft
RTS > MMO
They butchered the story for money
Lmfao, if you turn on captions the first thing he says is "I'm here with our new towels"
While the rest of the captions didn't make sense and weren't half as funny, I'm glad you pointed this out so I noticed. Very funny xD
Lol
I think too he saying it
Is archimonde giving towels to here?
No wonder why Anakin didn't like sand.
Specifically, POCKET SAND!!! ...Which tends to catch even the most astute of Templars' off guard.
Kil'jaeden couldn't do it with a highly advanced demon army, but archimonde did it with sand.
Even though it’s coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
Meanwhile Kil'jaeden fails to destroy Dalaran with endless legion flagships
"How did Archimonde get it look so easy!?"
@InoshiKenshi I thought KJ was supposed to be a mastermind, with how he managed to deceive the orcs into slaughtering the draeni
Good guys plot armor too strong
To be fair Dalaran wasn't prepared for Archimonde's attack, while it was turned into a battle station going into Wotlk and subsequently Legion.
Legion Dalaran would've just shot a giant laser at Archimonde or something
And thus dies the purple Human faction....
lol
WC-83 NAH they all just move to Minnesota
Ciprian Hosu Minnesota is in Northrend? Mind = blown
0:10 Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world.
0:30 From this seal shall arise the doom of men, who, in their arrogance, sought to wield our fire as their own.
0:42 Blindly they build their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit.
0:51 Now they shall be consumed by the very flame they sought to control.
1:51 Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair.
Where'd you learn Demonese?
An entire city ruled by mages, destroyed by magic. Talk about irony.
The Ascendent Talk about Templars my friend.
JamoKin97
The french kings were cursed by the last grandmaster of the templar order while he was burning.
Funny fact, many french kings ( and all their family occasionally ) died in weird circonstances centurys after his death..
The Ascendent Archimonde (one of the commanders of the Burning Legion and the Master of Eredars, a race with powerful magic powers increased by Sargeras) destroying a poor human city (humans who learnt the arcane magic from the high elves some years, and the high elves learnt it from a well...) it seems pretty logic...
Talk about power
That irony is the main point.
_"Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world, From this seal shall arise the doom of men, Who, in their arrogance, sought to wield our fire as their own. Blindly they build their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit. Now they shall be consumed by the very flame they sought to control. Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair."_
how did you knew that?! are you by any chance, a draenei?
@@whatshashtag9821 The ingame subs actually show them off if you turn them on iirc
Actual footage of Activision-Blizzard destroying my faith in them.
Actual footage of Microsoft fixing reforged
Tremble mortals, and despair. Doom has come to your world!
Who the fuck deleted the original speech?
"Azhir uval nutarus" - "Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world"
"Azhir mudas ethanul" - "From this seal, shall arise the doom of Men"
"Dalektharu il dask daku" - "Who, in their arrogance, sought to wield our fire as their own"
"Riftuuz ethara samanar utamus" - "Blindly, they build their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit"
"Elas umanes azarathan rakas ibna" - "Now, they shall be consumed by the very flame they sought to control"
"Belanora mordanos nenaar ila mornu farlos kada" - "Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair"
Wow you can speak the language of the Eradars? Teach me, it sounds better than learning French at school
+Darion Williams lol silly
TheNDreed lol
+Simon Schroder "Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair"
WoD Archimonde says this (in English) on aggro.
@Simon Schroder...Damn dude, you rock! Where did you learn that? Is that Eredar or demonic? ^_^
Imagine Archimonde playing in the sand pit with Velen and Kil'Jaden back on Argus...
I bet Archimonde was the most talented of the three at sand sculpting
extra extra, read all about it. warlock one shots city of mages
Well, his hero class in Warcraft 3 is the ridiculously mundane "Warlock". Not "Legion Commander" or something like that. Just "Warlock".
Cristian Martinez no, he is an Eredar lord, from a race of powerful magic abilities, but his rank in WC3 was BlackMage, using especialy dark magic (as a Fel and Necromancy).... But he can use some of arcane, shadow and void magic as well...
My point being that he was just classified as "Warlock" in Warcraft 3. As if all warlocks were incredibly powerful eredar lords.
As we know at this point, he forgot to draw in the Dalaran fountain into his sandcastle, so the fountain survived just fine. He even threw in a golden coin, wishing upon it to know how it didn't break.
These cinematics should be made into a one, long movie :)
a wow movie will come out in 2015, so i hear !!
Bogdan Milen but it will be about WC1 story, not WC3
Solaxe S
give it time !! If that movie does well, they might make more :))
What disappointed me was that it will be a film with actors, not full Blizzard cinematics :/ but we'll see
@@bogdanmilen300 aaaaaaaaand it sucked ass
What gets me about this is the subtlety of this...I was expecting fire raining from the skies, screaming crowds slaughtered by unholy creatures, that sort of thing. Instead, he just...crushes it. With his bare hands, and no fanfare at all.
That's what makes it so good and VERY uniquely fantastic and amazing! Sometimes less and more as the subtly of the magic sand spell WAS fantastic it was done from it's subtly.
It was originally supposed to have infernals raining down on the city
Yeaaah....he wasn't as scary in Warlords of Draenor... Shame, really.Maybe we should have gave him a bucket of sand to play with so he could crush the raid team.
I agree, he should have a bucket of sand and a comically small plastic shovel, so he can build sand castles while he waits for the raid party.
Fuck it! Start the battle with him sittin on his ass, playing in the sand, and then gets embarrassed and enraged that he was interrupted. Make [Archimond's Bucket] a unique trophy item, that has the character sit down and build a miniature, sand-replica of Dalaran, upon use.
+Havic1137 wod not canon
+Nilithic thats just plain wrong.
thkingslayer sorry, but no.
Nilithic it is literally canon
Nobody ever suspect the dragonfly...
You're right, the dragonfly is really a general in the burning legion
This is Warcraft Lore at its finest. Watching Archimonde rip apart Dalaran is simply something to behold.
Blizzard devs should work on creating full glossaries with Azerothian (and other) dialects. Darnassian and Eredun are such insane languages! (so is Thelassian and Orcish)
0:30 That wizard language tought.. can't agree more with you, this sounds so epic
Osef Enfait That ain't no wizard language, that's Eredun, original language of the Draenei and current acting common language of the Burning Legion. Anything you hear Draenei say, they are basically speaking in a dialect of Eredun.
Allow me to remove Darnassian, and replace with Draconic :)
Iakov Kurekhin Thalassian
THIS IS THE REAL ARCHIMONDE>>>NOT THE FUCKING DRAENEI FROM 6.2
wiiee lolstar
Agree
We would never of thought that ._.
wiiee lolstar Yeah, WoW is cool and all, but the lore is somewhat meh by now, Warcraft III Reign of Chaos was truly epic and intense
wiiee lolstar But ... eredars are a draenei :D
Mile Rastovac no you got it backwards.
for those of you who don't know, Archimonde is no longer a Draenei...he is a demon,transformed by Sargeras
Is he speaking the demon language in this video though? Or is he speaking Eredar in this clip?
@@forryko9504Eredun (Demonic) is the original Eredar language and Draenic is like a dialect
Archimonde: "Dalaran is destroyed!."
Kel'thuzad: "My Lord if I may..."
Archimonde: "SILENCE!!! Why do you interrupt me in my moment of triumph!!"
Kel'thuzad: "Your greatness, um...Dalaran is THAT way." :::points behind Archimonde to unscratched Dalaran::::
Archimonde: "Then what did I just destroy?" :::picks up sign "Lordaeron Senior Citizen Nursing Home (Tomorrow- Thursday Bingo)::::
Archimonde: "Ummmm......ooops"
"Let's destroy one of the most powerful cities in the world by drawing pictures in the dirt!"
Bless him, he only wanted to give his sandcastle a hug, he didn't realise it was connected to the actual city of Dalaran :D
97 citizens if Dalaran disliked this video
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lol
lol, good thing those speeches were years apart! ;)
so its canon that archimonde can make voodoo doll sand castles. sweet!
Archimonde Destroying a big wizard city with just some sands and his hands, LIKE A BOSS
"Azhir uval nutarus. Azhir mudas ethanul. Dalektharu il dask daku. Riftuuz e thara samanar utamus. Elas umanes azarathan rakas ibna. Belanora mordanos nenaar ila mornu farlos kada."
with the insane amount of plot and lore in the game im suprised they didn't make a movie or something yet
The eredar, a race of highly intelligent beings with a natural affinity for magic in all its myriad forms. From the ranks of these mighty creatures, Sargeras picked two champions to command his demonic army of destruction. Kil'jaeden the Deceiver was chosen to seek out the darkest races in the universe and recruit them into Sargeras' ranks. The second champion, Archimonde the Defiler, was chosen to lead Sargeras' vast armies into battle against any who might resist the Titans will
Dalaran was rebuilt and protected by a magic dome after Archimonde destroyed it.
It was then moved to Northrend to fight to Lich King. The crater of Dalaran is what remains after the city was moved by Rhonin and other mages of the Kirin Tor. =)
@WishNiggaWould This scene happened 5 or so years before the beginning of WotLK. In the mean time, the surviving mages cast a purple bubble around the ruins of Dalaran and re-built it (which you used to be able to see in WoW). They'd just finished construction when Malygos started his war on magic, inspiring them to move the new city center to the skies over Northrend where it floats now.
Well, I don't think anyone had the power to stop Archimonde from destroying Dalaran. Although, I always did wonder where were the armies of Scourge and Dalaran during Archimonde's "ritual". Maybe they all took a collective fear shit and ran away at the sight of Archimonde?
My head cannon is the scourge was heading to the coast to construct undead ships for the invasion of kalimdor, while the high command of the burning legion were figuring out how to kill cenarius
If you turn on subtitles in the game, you can hear what he's actually saying. It's something like:
"Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world. In their arrogance, they sought to use our flame as their own. Blindly, they built their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit. Now, they will be destroyed by the very flame they sought to control. Let the cries of doom echo upon the winds, and let all who live hear it and despair."
Achimonde pick's up the pieces and makes an idol, might even raise a little sand. Cuz he's a voodoo child. Yeah Naaru knows he's a voodoo child.
He made a voodoo sand castle then destroyed it which in turn destroyed Dalaran.
... There is a Crator of Dalaran in Hillsbrad because that's where the old Dalaran was that Archimonde destroyed. They rebuilt it.
Wait, that's how he did it?
Goddamn, why haven't I played Warcraft 3?
Well, you should
Well, it is also an unwritten rule in every fantasy story. The more powerful the spell the longer it takes to cast.
too bad blizzard made a joke out of archimonde he was probably the most powerful force to step foot upon the azeroth after sargeras.
And Kil'jaeden.
Kill Jaden didn't step foot on Azeroth so he dosen't count he was fighting out of the portal we haven't seen yet his true power.
Naer True. Maybe we will at some point in Legion
OcularCentaur42 You're right Tomb of Sargeras raid
And the old gods
Archimonde didn't had wings, but take a look at his size...and he also had claws. As vycka1234 said, there are no registers of great mutations due to exposion to holy magic. But there are dozens of examples of mutations caused by dark energy, like the Satyr.
*Just little Archimonde playing in the sands. Don’t mind the kid.*
"I'm here with our new towels" Subtitles did old Archimonde dirty hahaha
Archimonde was technically invincible in WC3,and they should have made the TBC fight a bit more like that :D
i miss this warcraft. this stuck in my memory forever. now wow lore is so over the top cheesy. it cant be taken seriously at all
Yeah... No shit. Sadly.
“Wow lore is so cheesy and over the top now, I just wish I could have the giant demon destroying magical cities using sandcastle replicas days back!”
@@inept7455 yeah I too like eating shitty lore about ultra super strong sylvanas, that is just like: sylvanas SMASSSSHHHH!!!!!! , come on go eat the shit...
@@inept7455 as opposed to the now undiscovered afterlife, insignificance of the legion and their sudden knowledge of said afterlife, horde furry races, and other of many asspulls
Azhir uval nutarus. Azhir mudas ethanul. Dalektharu il dask daku. Riftuuz e thara samanar utamus. Elas umanes azarathan rakas ibna, Belanora mordanos nenaar ila mornu farlos kada
Thank you
Orc gasmo it's time to destroy the entire city and show the who the real ruler is
This is a diabolic mantra this is used On chaos magic
I wish to know how you survived my wrath, little fountain.
Kel Thuzad:
"WAIT WAIT!! Hold on.... you can down a whole city full of fricking hardcore mages, but you needed me to summon your ass into the mortal plane?"
Archimonde: "I don't like flying economy class, ok?"
If you explore the Eastern Kingdoms, I believe between Hillsbrad and Undercity, you should find an area that has Dalaran labeled in it's title. Dalaran used to be a much larger ground city. Archimonde destroyed most of it, except a piece of Dalaran was lifted from the ground to escape. I would assume that's the jist of it, but if you really wanted to get deep into the lore, you could probably find websites that explain it in thorough detail.
here we go again
I wish HFC's Archimonde had a voice as here...
Because the world tree was not built on Eredar magic. Dalaran was largely constructed on the magic that the Eredar gave to the high elves when they were consorting at the Well of Eternity. This is the very same magic mages, and warlocks use... The same base. Whereas, Druid and Shaman magic has it's base from Azeroth itself... and since the World Tree was essentially an embodiment of the night elves and their longevity, it was rich in Druidic magic.
The final shot of just the empty circle with his handprint and the scattered dust while you hear the entire city crumbling down in the background is actual cinema. They could've made it really flashy with infernals falling from the sky or something else, but I think they did the right call in doing it like this.
This makes me angry!
Ill make a sand castle of your Theramore! Then... oh wait.. it already got destroyed hahaha!
Funny -.-
Muhahahaha
Chillout, Jaina. You don't even know what will happen in the future.
Sylvanas Windrunner Ill make a sand castle of her maybe.
this is much better quality than the warlords of draenor
Warlord of draenor hasn't got a cinematic yet you dumbass
It was an announcment trailer not a real trailer.
Name trailer is a trailer
Shadowriver Yeah but an announcment trailer is with much lower quallity then an expension trailer,you can't compare an expension trailer or WC3 cinmetic to an announcment trailer.
Name Again, trailer is a trailer, whatever amount of work you put in to it that different matter.
"Announcement trailer" only means it's a trailer made for announcement.... that it
Guys, I think Archimonde is playing SimCity.
So it all takes Dalaran to be destroyed without using any army or siege weapons but a couple of Voodoo magic spells, a Sand Castle and a big hug from Archimonde.
Destroys a whole city while building a sand castle,but gets his ass kicked by wisps.
in wow is there any mark or drawing in sand near dalaran's old location? the mark that archimonde used to destroy it?
And it happens again...
They put up the bubble a while AFTER the city was destroyed, so that they could rebuild it uninterrupted.
It was probably the whole of Kirin Tor that put up the bubble.
"Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world. From this seal shall arise the doom of men, who in their arrogance thought to weild out fire as their own. Blindly they built their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit. Now they shall be consumed by very flame they thought to control." Archimonde then stops to destroy Dalaran but continues afterwards; "Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair."
Im here with our new towels
World of Warcraft: Return of the Burning Legion
+UnlimitedChannel Looks like you got your wish.
And now we’re 2 expansions past that! Fuckin’ time man...
@@preds43 And now nearly a year later more. I remember watching this videos for the first time and being blown apart. I can not understand how did 15 years go so fast. Still playing but even 1/4 as much, sadly.
What's interesting about this is that Archimode is using what's called *"sympathetic magic"* or; "like affects like". By creating a representation or model of the things he wanted to manipulate and destroy in this case the mage city of Dalaran with the ensorceled sands and there by establishing a sympathetic link to its targets whatever he did to the scale representations would resonant with the real things. This kind of reciprocation spell allowed for the remote control of the doomed city and bringing about its destruction.
i wish that blizzard bring him back,he's my favorite character
He is a fucking badass i hope they do also :D
cool that u love him too,i hope,lord of burning legion.
Can't wait to see Kil'Jaeden return!
L3ndzo83 Fake,in Warlords of Draenor,they will bring back Grom,Guldan,and more.
thefiremaster112 not fake,it's possible that kil'Jaeden be in Warlords of Draenor
Before the big hole there was a large dome of arcane energy. Basically an experiment gone wrong from the ingame lore. After the rebuild for a second time they take off and go to northrend leaving a crater.
When Archimonde and Kil'Jaeden took Sargeras's offer of power and knowledge**
The Naaru helped them escape to Azeroth. Velen didn't know where to go and his hope was all lost and the Naaru guided him and told him what to do.
My source is World of Warcraft: Chronicles of War( Rise of the Horde)
Great leader of the dark side.. very similiar to myself
Except you don't have divine armor
Doon Guards and Infernos over SS any day :p
Or maybe he had Divine armor but the pistol dealt Chaos damage.
You? Leader of the dark side? WEISSES FLEISCH
Why didn't he do this to our bases?
He is a lord of the Burning Legion, couldn't he just make a patch of dirt and use that!
It's actually stated that he could have destroy the entire base with a single hit but he decided to stay at his base for gameplay reason.
@@adamnesico In WoW, that spell he used to destroy the Night Elf base after timer ends is called "Hand of Death"
OP
If you ever feel bad at destroying your Sand Castle, remember this guy destroyed a Sand Castle with a real arcane Kingdom
You could guess what I was thinking while building sand
Castles.
From what i understand, according to the lore, Arthas destroyed Dalaran during his assault - not Archimonde.
Er, this *is* the lore. Archimonde destroyed Dalaran, you can see him doing it right above, official Blizzard cutscene and everything. The scourge invaded it beforehand (the mission before this cutscene in fact), grabbed the bits needed to summon Archimonde, summoned him and then he destroyed the city.
Arthas began the siege, Archimonde finished it.
Maybe you should play Warcraft 3 before you try to chime in buddy.
Dreez76 Play Warcraft 1+2+3, instead of just reading books and playing WoW ;)
From what I understand, you shouldn't listen to Kermit the Frog
Fucking Warcraft was a lot more dark before and had that great magic. Now its fucking catered to kids from elementary school.
I love this bullshit. It's best when people complain about Mists of Pandaria that way. "LOL cartoon pandas, how pathetic". Yeah, there's background lore of soulcrushing brutality, slavery, genocide, and the whole place has a Lovecraftian undertone. Sha are clearly shoggoth, mantid are very likely Mi-go, and Y'Shaarj is a Great Old One. Even in the current time when you're there, a sentient race is purposely sending their own children to be slaughtered to "weed out the weaklings".
But hey, cartoon pandas, so it's so kiddie right?
lol one shot get rekt
"I'm here with our new towels..." Guys, never press that "cc" button on the bottom right while watching this lol
I don't know about you guys, but I would personally love to see like an animated movie of the Warcraft 3 story. That would be freaking epic.
That was sort of stupid. A sand castle? I was hoping to see him blow Dalaran the fuck up with epic magic. An "Overlord of the Burning Legion" shouldn't be using sandcastles to destroy things >.>
I think it shows his intelligence better to do it this way. Instead of expending ridiculous amounts of traditional arcane energy to destroy it directly, he uses what is essentially a demonic voodoo doll to do the job for him, directing the energies where he wants them. This way, he doesn't need to risk his own life. This is what makes him one of the leaders, rather than one of the minions. He is smarter than your average demon.
***** now World Tree is different thing, he wanted to siphon the energies of the well of eternity through the world tree, he can't do it from distance, otherwise he could do it from Dalaran if it was possible. You can't compare a city with well that was created by titans and later illidan.
He used a sandcastle to destroy a city. I'd say that IS epic magic.
LanstussWoW Actualy, why he didint flated defender's camps to ground with voodoo and then just marched to the tree instead of waiting like a idiot for minions to finish weakening camps ._.
soldiersPL I believe he thought they won't be much of a threat since scourge sweapt through humans and elves easly. He 1-shotted Night Elf base because he fought them before during war of the ancients and knew they're way more dangerous than orcs and humans.
It's funny how blizzard went from great lore to pet battles and bought mounts. #Firemetzen2016
+forsmanos You want to fire the man that created the "great lore" instead of the jackass game developers (Cory Stockton) that actually implemented "pet battles and bought mounts" Classic internet logic. Quit talking out your ass, oh wait this is youtube comments, that's all anyone does #Stfu
Metzen is the one who brought us this great lore dipshit.
WoW has great lore (all the different races, factions, lands etc) but absolutely terrible storytelling and written dialogue.
Who else is here because of 7.2 Cinematic?
Also, Velen (originally an Eredar) turned on Archimonde and Kil'Jaeden because of his visions of Eredar becoming demons. He became the Prophet of the Naaru. He is as close as current Draenai get to the Eredar race.
"Let this scar signify the first blow against the mortal world... From this seal shall arise the doom of men... who, in their arrogance thought to wield our fire as their own... Blindly they built their kingdoms upon stolen knowledge and conceit... Now they shall be consumed by very flame they thought to control..."
Archimonde takes a handful of sand and spills some of it, it rises into the shape of Dalaran city."
"Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair."
Because he didn't want to destroy the tree, he wanted to absorb its power.
The title should be "Archimonde plays with his sandcastles"
Totally agree, nobody owns anything, everyone borrows from everyone and they make it nice in their own way, make us see similar things through different points of view.
No, it's Dalaran. This is its' original location. It was rebuilt later, and if memory serves me, it was moved to Northrend by some spell.
I love the perspective of Archimonde standing over Dalaran, a giant looming over it
@MrGorxx Actually 25 lvl 70 players couldn't kill him. Lorewise- all of the azeroth's armies(25 players) stood their ground and tried to distract archimonde until Malfurion's trap was ready. When they held him at bay long enough, they summoned all the wisps and spirits of azeroth to sacrifice themselves and kill archimonde. This also resulted in the world tree being destroyed and Night elves losing their immortality
Actually, they are all Eredar. The ones that followed Kil'jaeden and Archimonde became twisted demons called "man'ari". However, with the help of the Naaru, Velen (another eredar leader) and the non-corrupted eredar fled into exile aboard the Exodar (yes, the capital city) and took the name "draenei" (which translates into exiled ones).
On a side-note, the naaru were also the ones that gave draenei the power to connect with the Holy Light esentially allowing them to become paladins.
That moment when the record skips and everyone hears you make a fool of yourself...
It was south of Undercity when this happened. You can still see the magic crater thing, it's a giant forcefield.
The description is wrong btw people, while yes, Archimonde is demonic. He is not a demon, he is from the Draenei home world Argus, and is a Eredar. Just thought I'd clear that up.
It would be so cool if we could see the sand trail in Hillsbrad in-game
"I'm here with your new towels".
I can just imagine a mage looking out his window and it like, "hey guys! Is that Archimonde building a sand castle on the hill over there?"
if all of you want this video subtulated, download the game, this is not a lore video, its a cinematic of the warcraft 3 game
Archimonde just wanted to give Dalaran a hug, that's all.