Tales from Beyond the Veil: Kel'thuzad - Mage, Necromancer and Arch-Lich | Short Lore: Animation
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2021
- With our Covenant Recaps finished, we've turned to a new mini-series focusing on the many iconic Azerothian characters that now dwell in the Shadowlands!
First up is the notorious Necromancer and Arch-Lich, Kel'thuzad, as we showcase his life during the Third War, the events leading up to all three of his deaths and fate that awaited him when he crossed through the veil of Death!
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Visual design, Editing and Audio mixing by Jeffrey Cuiper
Written, Directed and Narrated by Jesse O’Connor
Thumbnail base by John ‘Sage’ Matthews
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Special thanks to Sir Thompshire for his wonderful Kel'thuzad models - both Mage form and Necromancer form- and his Arthas models (Paladin Arthas and Death Knight Arthas!) More of his fantastic work can be found on his UA-cam page!
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Such a great character. Still cant believe he is gone forever.
Grimoire really helped me appreciate his Shadowlands story arc a little better with some further explanation. Still reference to his serving the Lich King, while the Jailer played the puppet-master unknowingly in the background!
@@TheLostCodex I still don't know when his phylactery was broken, it wasn't even found the second time.
One of my favorite characters and they didn't do him justice in shadowlands, may he remain gone forever away from the modern wow story.
Man, I remember seeing your videos back in 2016 and the quality has stayed consistently great. Seriously one of the most underrated WoW content channels on UA-cam. Keep killing it!
We seem to perpetually be in that category; forever underrated and constantly being discovered!
We’re trying a new type of project with these recaps to keep us on the faster production cycle, instead of our older 10-12 min long videos but now we’re trying the short 3-4 min type video for more frequent content! We’ll see how it pays off!
I can not stop being amazed by the quality you put out there! :O
Having been subbed since the black empire video, you guys have come such a long way. These videos are awesome.
Nice to see your videos man, keep up the work!
Great Video as always.That friendly ''goatheaded-wise old man'' model of Kel before he turned into a lich was great.The fact that model of the Primus is actualy identical with the ''in life version of Kel'' is so badass.
I loved the parallels! Thompshire used his old Iconic WC3 look to spin his own imagining of Necromancer Kel and it turned out so well!
Great content, as usual!
great video!
Btw, I know it must be a ton of work, but are you planning on doing another Tactical Overview like Antorus again in the future? That was imo one of your best videos, great mix between lore and raid introduction.
"Well... it's almost too unbearable to imagine."
The tactical overview we did for Legion raids were among our favourites. Nighthold assault, Tomb of Sargeras incursion and operation Antorus!
I’ll admit and say that none of the raids in BFA gave me much of a drive to do the same - not in the same way as a neutral narrator from Legion and I was almost tempted to do a Nathria one but plans fell through.
If we get big Antorus vibes for the next raid, I may just plan ahead for that. Glad you enjoyed them as much as we did!
@@TheLostCodex I can get that. The raids could've been garbage, and the vibe was still amazing.
Let's cross fingers for more inspiration for you guys from Blizzard :)
I dig the character deep dive!
I loved the world lore and history videos, but the more personal version is just as good.
We appreciate the feedback! we were wondering how this more personal approach would be received- the larger lore chapters took much longer but we may try to keep on this path of shorter recaps and more focused storytelling instead of the 8-9 min videos!
Your intro is such fire
Kel'Thuzad didn't exactly join the Lich King willingly. He tried to back out when he saw the atrocities that were being commited in Naxxramas, but as he was running away, a handful of Shades and Nerubians surrounded him, he was basically given the choice to serve in life. or he would be killed and made to serve in death.
Yeah our original script was worded as “After witnessing the terrible power in the North, his will only faltered once…” but by the third iteration we changed the wording to work with the pacing. We showed Anubarak in the beginning roaring with the line “Witnessed the terrible power of an unknown presence” to replace the line.
Lots of minor details we had to cut but in the end, even with KT trying to flee, he willingly gave himself over since as you sand he would’ve just been killed and raised
@@TheLostCodex Ah, that makes sense. As long as you were still trying to get the same point across. True he did give himself to the Lich King either way.
my man KT went from a cunning insidious mastermind to a comedic saturday cartoon villain
I dunno, I actually quite liked his shadowlands plot. Grimoire talks about how KT manipulated all of Maldraxxus behind that scenes using illegal anima smuggled from his Denathrius-loyal allies. His quote in the raid may have been cheesy but his actions beyond the Veil & everything he built to was kinda badass and manipulative. Just had a poor execution with that opening raid quote.
@@TheLostCodex actually it doesnt matter if he made cheesy quotes or not, what matters is that we need his old voice from back in WC3
Michael McConnohie is credited as his voice from WC3 and also his Shadowlands actor. The only time they changed actor was in WotLk because he also voiced the LK and producers didn’t want people to confuse the LK and KT with a similar voice. He returned in SL!
He’s also the consistent voice of Uther too!
if this was an RTS campaign I would play the heck out of it good job!
The true question is... Where is Mister Bigglesworth?
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The betrayer of humanity.
Also Happy birthday?
While this is very informative, especially with the potential that Kel’thuzard’s Phalactry might have been King Terranasis’s urn ⚱️, he wasn’t killed (had his Phalactry destroyed) during the WOTLK raid, and I doubt the arbiter would have sent him to Maldruxxus, would it be more logical to say that during his second fall in Naxxramus, that he slipped into the shadows and infiltrated the Shadowlands
I’m glad someone brought this up!
The news of his phylactery being destroyed in wrath and the arbiter sending him to Maldraxxus is brand new lore from
grimoire of the shadowlands.
Original script had us vaguely mentioning Kel’thuzads death in Wrath and him going to the shadowlands since that’s what chronicle describes his death as (no mention of phylactery) but Grimoire mentions his spirit being prepared for Lich-hood after Arthas kills him and then him going to the afterlife in Wrath! There’s suggestion that there was wonky business with his judgement via Arbiter but if she sends Vashj to Maldraxxus, then a literal accomplished Master Necromancer has a lot more value in the House of Rituals instead of atoning in Revendreth.
All new lore clarifications
@@TheLostCodex it still raises the question of when his phylactery was destroyed, and by whom, because we never found it, it wasn’t on him when he died the second time. Looking forward to seeing if and when they’ll explain that 😁. I hope they do a short story or something.
Wait....didnt we destroy his phylactery in the raid of 9.1?
We did! His Lich form in Maldraxxus and his Lich form in the Mortal Plane are likely 2 different forms.
Grimoire mentions his Phylactery being destroyed in Naxx 2.0 so after he proved himself to Rituals House, he got a new body and a phylactery!
@@TheLostCodex thx
@@cristisebu3476 To my knowlegde his Phylactery wasn't found after his 2nd defeat... Need to read the Grimoire then. Furthermore his Dialoges sugest, that he already served the jailer in the 3rd war.
Grimoire covers his phylactery being destroyed. His dialogue mentions his true allegiance but Grimoire solidifies his loyalty to the Lich King as the source of his necromancer powers. There’s suggestion Zovaal saw potential in KT but nothing that says they outright aligned in WC3.
Quite possible KT’s raid quotes are being lavishing his own story since he did get his ass handed to him twice in the same castle.
Praying that Warcraft will be over soon so you can be convinced to give another lore universe this sort of attention. Used to love your videos a couple of years ago when the lore was still exciting 🔥
Warcraft isn’t going anywhere any time soon. Too much of a money maker and one of the most iconic franchise around.
Our love is for this world. If WoW suddenly ended, we wouldn’t pack up and just go elsewhere. The Lost Codex would die with Azeroth.
I know you meant the comment as a compliment but it didn’t come off as that. You can still enjoy our videos and the exciting lore (because to many, it still is, exciting is subjective)
It wouldn't be so difficult for you to find channels who are already making lore videos about those other universes, since UA-cam got videos about pretty much every single topic in the world. To hope one channels switching is extremely selfish, taking account that most of the commentators are positive and enjoying their time. Even if the majority dont like the story of WoW, it wont make it juctified to say its not exciting as a universal fact. Some people see things different way. Im more into making stories around my own characters, so whatever happens to the games story i can still find ways to make it good for me.
can't watch blizz, soz.
Good thing we're not Blizz!
Can hate the climate and things Blizzard hasn't or has done while still supporting content creators
Just boycott every company that has bad apples, see how far you get.