Whats funny is that I counted myself as a relatively deeply established fan of the universe and I didn't even realize that Blizzard advanced the lore of the expansions outside of the game in books until Legion or so. 😆 They should have really made remarks of many more characters *ingame.*
@@LawfulBasedone of the biggest crimes about not mentioning things from the books is just Carine dying. I read the the Shattering as Cata was coming out. But unless you went to Thunder bluff at all during cataclysm, you just assume he’s alive until 4.3. Otherwise there is 0 mention of a Character from W3 AND A FACTION LEADER dying.
Who get their shit beaten by the most unlikely of foes... Brox gets his ass handed to him by a bunch of goblin sappers... While varok got one shotted by an undead corpse who had already died 3 times in the past
@@Geraldo_Rivian the same brox who stood on a mountain of demon corpses he killed before getting the attention of a god, sacrificing himself to prevent him entering the portal? The same Varok who lead the war of the scarab, who never let go of his honour and died fighting for the faction he believed in revealing sylvanas' corruption, forcing her to cheat because cheap bitches be like that.
Well, it’s in the book. If you read it, he goes back and he basically gives the titan a sliver on the hoof and then gets killed immediately by him however, those few seconds were all that was needed for the portal to close. He did his job but Sargaras literally was stopped, because of the hilarity and all that as he stopped to laugh
@@aboutblank2270 I think back in the original writing of those books, Fel magic wasn't established as "Green fire and liquid lol". And Felblood was just red colored blood but demonic and sinister.
Fun Fact: Blizzard was originally going to put the Axe of Cenarius as the artifact weapon for Arms Warriors in Legion, but didn’t because the developers thought “a wooden nature-themed axe didn’t fit the class” …even though the only people to ever use the axe in both the lore and game were those of the warrior class, so that isn’t even an excuse
This is the same blizzard that intentionally switched frost death knight to dual wield 1H so that they wouldn't have to give them Frostmourne. I know people are gonna be like "but frostmourne is too iconic" but we literally got to use ashbringer so that's a moot point.
@@Awesomeman204 lol, no. The reason why frost got dual wield is because frost was always supposed to be the dual wield class. They have done better with dual wield because the mechanics work better for it.
@@alexis1156What are you talking about? Frost death knights always benefited more from 2H weapons with Obliterate criticals, while Unholy was focused on celerity and dual wield.
That's because blizzard wanted to go more norse warrior for Legion warrior artifacts and couldn't fit in the Axe of Cenarius for some reason. I guess they had to choose between that axe and the arcanite reaper.
Blizzard's excuse for why the Axe of Cenarius didn't become the arms warrior artifact was because "the axe was too druidic in nature to match the class fantasy of the warrior class they were going for in Legion." Which honestly I don't think anyone would have cared, I bet warriors would have much rather had the Axe of Cenarius rather than the three underwhelming artifacts with no pre-established lore they did end up getting.
As a warrior main, every single wep we got was a disappointment. Shamans get doomhammer with new, shoe horned lore to make it make sense, and I got neltharion's dandruff. If we got broxigars axe I would have switched to arms in a second.
@@MrJustinArt it's a good thing then that we already got Gorehowl in game haha. Though you are right, there's a number of weapons of legends that deserved to be Arms or Fury.
Yeah, because of how hilarious it was, he gave Sargaras a sliver and then he died instantly lol! The only good thing that became of it was he literally stalled those few seconds he needed for the portal to close
@@StereoDreams385 Guess you are right, the influence of Mannoroth at least is no longer on them (we agree on that), i say if orcs still a bit stronger since Broxigar drinks the blood with the rest of the old horde, that sure makes a difference from a "normal" orc (more like Thrall, whose parents didn't nor he drink the blood).
There is secret powers for the Orcs... well, a secret heritage due to them sharing a similar background to that of the Humans: originally a Titanforged Race, only for the local power that was affecting their world to slowly corrupt and infect the servitor creations and cause them to become flesh-and-blood instead over the slow course of generations. In the case of the Orcs: they were a degenerate race several generations removed from Grond: a mighty creation of the Titan Aggramar which was born to cleanse the highly-aggressive plantlife of Draenor in order to keep it from devouring the planets' Biosphere entirely. The Evergrowth seeped it's roots into the living mountain to break it apart: only for those fragments to become The Colossals; while they were slightly weaker than Grond they were also more intelligent and Aggramar tasked the Colossals with continuing with the work for the Titan even after he was called away. The Colossals would do battle with the Evergrowth and it's subsequent lesser selves known as the Sporemounds; with the Colossals giving rise to the Magnaron, the Gronn, the Ogron, the Ogres, and finally the Orcs. The fact that the Orcs were a degenerate race designed initially by Aggramar as little more than a walking talking herbicide: only for them to become a powerful fighting force that was hired by the Burning Legion as the Old Horde; only for them to break away from their pact and fight back against them and eventually taking the fight to Argus and defeating the Legion and saving Aggramar is a power-move worthy of the ages.
Broxigar _was_ empowered, in the book it said "how Broxigar's strength made the axe more powerful, and the axe's power made Broxigar stronger" which created an almost endless feedback loop of empowerment making him likely the strongest mortal warrior that ever lived.
"Endless feedback loop" Even if its endless it doesn't keep on scaling his power endlessly in a meaningful way. The feedback has diminishing returns. 1+0.9+0.81+0.729+etc. is an endless increase of 90%, but after a number of repetitions you won't see much growth per repetition. And since the empowerment likely takes some amount of time it means that Broxigar's power is practically capped off.
@@Yzerbruh You're right it does have diminishing returns, but he was still empowered and much stronger than a normal orc or most if not all mortal warriors at the time.
What I like about Brox is that going by the books, he had great respect before the Night Elves which goes back to their very first encounter. Even Grom Hellscream was impressed by their ferocity.
I never did understand why the night elves and orcs ended up on opposite sides. They liked and respected the other's moxie of being badass warrior cultures. Especially after sargeras
@ That I can still somewhat understand. Night Elves sure know how to hold a grudge, and Grom murdered their god with demonic magic. It kinda ruins any diplomatic exchange.
And even then. Sargeras wasnt the force behind the orcs corruption. It was Kil'Jaeden and Talgath who changed orcish power dynamics and corrupted them through Gul'Dan. Sargeras only was like "Kil'jaeden will recruit people, Archimonde will command them as army".
You know what makes the fact we didn't get the axe of cenarius in legion sting more? Saurfang was directly involved with the arms secret weapon skin, Giving us HIS axe. Imagine the impact it would have had if we did have the AoC at the time. Varok possibly reminiscing about fighting along side his brother one last time, even if just in spirit.
For those interrested, "Flying Buttress" is currently making an animated version of the book of this. He works slow but its good (other books on tehre also)
If you like WoW lore and haven't read the war of the ancients trilogy, you are missing out big time. Rhonin, Krasus and Brox has such amazing stories. If they ever make a film or a series out of it, it will break records for sure.
And there's certain individuals that insist that Warriors aren't powerful compared to mages. Exhibit A: This absolute Mad Lad. I was hoping he'd get his own video one day. Brox is easily one of my favourite characters in the lore, and a fine showcase of my favourite class at their potential peak. He is pretty much the reason I've mained Warrior exclusively when I was still playing, and I am not ashamed to admit that. After all, magic is fickle. But good steel? That, you can trust. I disagree on this having to be made an artifact though. It would've been awesome to wield, but knowing the ending of that expansion, it deserves much better than just being effectively disenchanted and rendered useless.
It probably is still useless but still useful enough in the hands of his half niece. Its not broken at least or made into the harbinger of the void gods such as the shadow priests artifact weapon.
Yep, warriors are powerful as hell..... as long as they can get within swinging range of an enemy..... any Mage worth a damn would freeze him solid before he got close enough to see what the Mage was wearing.
@@captainspaulding5963 Those are straight facts, you can literally see what Medivh did to Lothar when he tried to stop him, if it wasn't for Khadgar and Medivh himself (he was in an inner fight with Sargeras) he would be dead, enough with this warrior bs (and i am a melee enjoyer).
This and the Moira Thaurissan shows how the bar was so fricking high on wow's story telling side from books and comics hooooolly smokes, but yet the games don't even make justice in some regards. This have been such amazing stories, thank you so much platinum, always loving your content.
As a WoW Lore lover who just finished reading the "War of the Ancients" trilogy novel, I'm so happy that this video came up on my feed. I'm so happy that now more people know who he is, and why he is so important in the lore. I remember a friend doing the orc heritage armour quest and being so confused as to who he was, and why he was there in the first place, and there isn't really any mention of him much in the game. Great video, and great cinematics!!
1:07 Not the first time Blizzard have reworked a story from their novels. The Emerald Nightmare stuff in Legion is extremely similar to the events of Stormrage, which are barely mentioned in the game.
Blizzard stopped caring about the stories in novels since they created that awful warcraft film which just took a huge dump on the existing lore without any reason.
@@vaskopoh9512they shouldng be writing everything into novels and nothing into game, theres a reason most people dont see the novels as canon because it never matters what happens there until it does, novels should be used to expand upon not be the primary source for lore when its a game first and fore most
I literally cried when I read the trilogy and came to the point where Broxigar faces Sargeras, wounds him and dies like a true champion. Such an overwhelming, epic moment in the lore of Warcraft.
Absolutely not. Cenarius when giving him the ax said that only brox could make use of it and that it can be useful only if the bearer is capable. @@BeyondDaX
Fun fact: Broxigar time-travelled to before Orcs as a race existed, making him chronologically the first Orc in history. The summarized story is that Orcs as a race are roughly, I think, a thousand years old or so (correct me if I'm wrong). Giant elemental named Grond corrects the balance of Draenor but dies in the process before finishing the job. Stone giants rose from his corpse and finished the job. The stone giants that survived devolved into the Magnaron, then the Gronn, then the Ogron, the Ogres and finally the Orcs.
Thats some dragonball gokus dad first super saiyan and technically saiyan shenanigans Also they did ogre lore dirty, that lore has been retconned the most and it has suffered greatly, though really all draenor lore has suffered since burning crusade and its just compounded the damage done
Think Broxigar wounding Sargeras just before died was a direct metaphor to the story of Fingolfin from Tolkien's Legendarium. Fingolfin fought Morgoth, THE evil of Legendarium, in a 1v1 battle, died at the end but stabbed Morgoth in the foot/kneecaps so hard that Morgoth got a permanent limp.
Orcs and time travel, go hand-in-hand surprisingly well. I remember hearing how in Warhammer 40K there was an ork warlord who traveled back in time to kill his past self just so he can have two versions of his favorite gun.
His name is Grizgutz. Nah my favorite one still is Tuska Daemon Killa. The dude literally went into the warp to wage a waaagh against the daemons, ended up in Khorne's realm, and literally did the nut twister on a Bloothrister with a Powa Klaw and c*strated the b*stard. Khorne was so amused he gave the Orks infinite respawns just to keep watching their shenanigans. And it's said to this day Tuska is still there having the time of his life.
@@ZergS4uc3 There's also speculation that Tuska and his boyz are getting bigger and smarter with each respawn. If you know anything about Ork history in 40k, that's a worrying precedent because that means the Orks are going back to what they originally were. Orks used to be bigger and tons smarter. Which is scary because currently and Ork is about as big as a Space Marine, and about as strong too, imagine if they were bigger. They were called Krorks at that time and they put Space Marines to shame with how effective they were as Shock and Storm troopers.
Finally somebody making a dedicated video for this legend and my inspiration for maining warrior for years!. Also incredible timing as I just finished my revisit to the WotA trilogy. Just a small detail so read this in a nerdy voice: Achthually it wasn't the wound that Brox inflicted that caused the distraction, but as the only vulnarable place for Malfurion and Crasus to cast spells (which distracted etc. etc. etc.)
Nice to see Blizz actually creating a character in Brox' niece that could get more spotlight in the Worldsoul Saga. And that his axe (or ax) is still with us!
I did always like this story especially Rhonin and Korialstrasz. I started playing during long after they were already dead in the story. Very disappointing to not see any of these characters in shadow lands.
I've been waiting for this video for so long. Anyone could have made a proper Broxigar video but it had to be Platinum WoW. This is by-far my favorite Warcraft character.
Rumors says, that Thrall still until today don't understand why Alliance is fixiated on swords. But on serious note, when to think about it yeah... I don't get why Broxigar Axe wasn't even an artifact apperance for arms warriors tbh.
1:43 "What the two found made the 2 orcs stop in their tracks." And made them act like chickens apparently. And if you ask me in regards to Thura. I honestly feel like she could have been used in Varok's arc in BFA. Maybe Thura hears of her uncle's "betrayal" and seeks him out. Ending up accompanying him on his journey to find Thrall and later begin the rebellion against Sylvanas. Perhaps Thura could have even lended Varok the axe of Cenarius for his Mak'gora. It would have been a bit poetic. An axe imbued with life to be used against an agent of death.
Broxigars story is what got me interested in the orcs lore as more than just humanities enemy. It is damn near criminal that Brox wasnt a big part of the Warrior order hall and his axe wasnt a skin option for a warrior artifact
With how awesome his lore is, it's amazing that Blizz hasn't put in more with him. I only recall seeing him once for a Legion quest line. Even his legendary axe would have been perfect for Arms warriors.
I don't care what blizzard thought, that axe should have been the arms artifact weapon. Yes it is more druidic in nature but 1 it has a bad ass story many warriors would quickly come around to, 2 the druid look would just be the default because you know they were have alternate looks, and 3 we were fighting the legion and this was the one weapon even rumored to have hurt sargares so yeah that should have been the first weapon they went to find. I thought that the reason it wasn't the artifact was because it was lost but no it somehow got back to azeroth so again it should have been the artifact weapon. Imagine if instead it was lost but then thura found it when she joined the space faring expedition because she wanted to finish what her uncle started. Or have demon hunters find it and then give it to the horde as a peace offering. What I am saying is the axe of cenarius should have been apart of legion in some way.
I loved the novel about Broxigar. What a badass orc to personally stop Sargeras from coming through. Tough bit of irony that he made such an impression regarding the potential of Orcs to the Legion.
Broxigar is truly the baddest of badasses in WoW lore, being such an effective portal cock block that Sargeras himself decided to kill him is the ultimate blaze of glory for death.
My early obsession with Varok stemmed from having read those books as a kid and realizing they were related. Broxigar was such an awesome character, and while his death was sad it was also the sort of death every other orc dreams of. Outside of demigods and magical beings it may be the most BA last stand in the Warcraft universe. Up until shadowlands ruined afterlives for everyone I always hoped for Varok to one day achieve a similar death and be met by his son, brother, and father. That would have been a much more impactful death imo, but their new nonsensical mythos wouldn’t allow for such a reunion 🤦♂️ I just wish one of his kids was still alive, but it appears the saurfang line has sadly come to an end.
BRUH!!! Broxigar is my favorite character in all of the lore and I find it to be a crying shame that he hadn't gotten more attention in game during the Legion expansion.
Saurfang family shares the same genetic of being a group of fcking badasses.
There is only one left in the saurfang line now, his niece, Thura, and blizzards done nothing with her aside from cameo appearances
Whats funny is that I counted myself as a relatively deeply established fan of the universe and I didn't even realize that Blizzard advanced the lore of the expansions outside of the game in books until Legion or so. 😆 They should have really made remarks of many more characters *ingame.*
@@LawfulBasedone of the biggest crimes about not mentioning things from the books is just Carine dying. I read the the Shattering as Cata was coming out. But unless you went to Thunder bluff at all during cataclysm, you just assume he’s alive until 4.3. Otherwise there is 0 mention of a Character from W3 AND A FACTION LEADER dying.
Who get their shit beaten by the most unlikely of foes...
Brox gets his ass handed to him by a bunch of goblin sappers...
While varok got one shotted by an undead corpse who had already died 3 times in the past
@@Geraldo_Rivian the same brox who stood on a mountain of demon corpses he killed before getting the attention of a god, sacrificing himself to prevent him entering the portal?
The same Varok who lead the war of the scarab, who never let go of his honour and died fighting for the faction he believed in revealing sylvanas' corruption, forcing her to cheat because cheap bitches be like that.
Telleports 10000 years in the past
Kills hudrends possibly thousands of demons
Dies by Sargeras himself
Refuses to elaborate
Except for when he kinda does in the heritage quests, sort of.
Gets the shit beaten out of him by Goblins xD
Absolute Chad
Well, it’s in the book. If you read it, he goes back and he basically gives the titan a sliver on the hoof and then gets killed immediately by him however, those few seconds were all that was needed for the portal to close. He did his job but Sargaras literally was stopped, because of the hilarity and all that as he stopped to laugh
@@timar6868 yeah, not to be that guy but people tend to overrate what Broxigar did to Sargeras.
Demons: Why do they call you "the red"? you look green to me
Broxigar: Wait for it...
pretty sure fel blood is still green ^^
He'll just skin eredar then.
*doom music starts rumbling in the background*
@@aboutblank2270 I think back in the original writing of those books, Fel magic wasn't established as "Green fire and liquid lol". And Felblood was just red colored blood but demonic and sinister.
@@aboutblank2270 Fel wasn't green until WoW came out, in WC3 (and the books) the water turns red with Mannoroth's blood.
Fun Fact: Blizzard was originally going to put the Axe of Cenarius as the artifact weapon for Arms Warriors in Legion, but didn’t because the developers thought “a wooden nature-themed axe didn’t fit the class” …even though the only people to ever use the axe in both the lore and game were those of the warrior class, so that isn’t even an excuse
This is the same blizzard that intentionally switched frost death knight to dual wield 1H so that they wouldn't have to give them Frostmourne. I know people are gonna be like "but frostmourne is too iconic" but we literally got to use ashbringer so that's a moot point.
@@Awesomeman204 And shamans got the Doomhammer, so it's even more moot
@@MrJustinArt And Warlocks got the Scepter of Sargeras to make it even more moot
@@Awesomeman204 lol, no.
The reason why frost got dual wield is because frost was always supposed to be the dual wield class.
They have done better with dual wield because the mechanics work better for it.
@@alexis1156What are you talking about? Frost death knights always benefited more from 2H weapons with Obliterate criticals, while Unholy was focused on celerity and dual wield.
Sargeras: Nothing can harm me
Broxigar: Treebranch go scratch
Baldr with mistletoe sticking out of his chest: "Been there."
Brox is THE warrior in my opinion.
How his axe wasn't an artifact weapon for warriors (or at least an appearance) boggles the mind.
Well, technically it was a druidic axe, but yeah
@@Sanguiris druids can't use axes
That's because blizzard wanted to go more norse warrior for Legion warrior artifacts and couldn't fit in the Axe of Cenarius for some reason. I guess they had to choose between that axe and the arcanite reaper.
@@W33DL33in lore they can. just not in game.
They can just use the Norse weapon for fury and protection and axe of cenarius for arms.
Blizzard's excuse for why the Axe of Cenarius didn't become the arms warrior artifact was because "the axe was too druidic in nature to match the class fantasy of the warrior class they were going for in Legion." Which honestly I don't think anyone would have cared, I bet warriors would have much rather had the Axe of Cenarius rather than the three underwhelming artifacts with no pre-established lore they did end up getting.
it would be epic if the axe of cenarius returned in the emerald dream patch and the player could use it as a counter against fyrakk axe
Sounds like an excuse by writers who didn't read the lore. Almost all of us warrior mains were hoping for that axe.
As a warrior main, every single wep we got was a disappointment. Shamans get doomhammer with new, shoe horned lore to make it make sense, and I got neltharion's dandruff. If we got broxigars axe I would have switched to arms in a second.
I would rather have had Gorehowl for Arms, honestly. Would still happily take Axe of Cenarius over Strom'kar, though
@@MrJustinArt it's a good thing then that we already got Gorehowl in game haha. Though you are right, there's a number of weapons of legends that deserved to be Arms or Fury.
What I'm hearing is that if those 3 goblins had been at the portal, Sargeras might've never made it to Azeroth
Broxigar is literally why I play an Orc Warrior.
Broxigar standing before Sargeras is an image etched in history.
I woulnd not be suprised if it was inspired by Fingolfin vs Morgoth.
Yeah, because of how hilarious it was, he gave Sargaras a sliver and then he died instantly lol! The only good thing that became of it was he literally stalled those few seconds he needed for the portal to close
@@timar6868 you say like it isnt an accomplishment no mortal or god has ever since accomplished
sargeras was never wounded again
@@timar6868his fellow Titans failed to wound him, yet an orc grunt did it..
What more do you want?
@@Geraldo_Rivian The thing is Sargeras actually wanted to fight the Titans, against broxigar he was like "Brox who?".
the fact that he's just an orc makes the story that much better. no secret hidden powers, no, just simply a badass.
Remember kids:
Knowing is half the battle
The other half, is a gratuitous application of violence
Blood of Mannoroth is still inside him.
@@DavidPachón8591orcs were cleansed, all he had was rage and an enchanted axe.
@@StereoDreams385 Guess you are right, the influence of Mannoroth at least is no longer on them (we agree on that), i say if orcs still a bit stronger since Broxigar drinks the blood with the rest of the old horde, that sure makes a difference from a "normal" orc (more like Thrall, whose parents didn't nor he drink the blood).
There is secret powers for the Orcs... well, a secret heritage due to them sharing a similar background to that of the Humans: originally a Titanforged Race, only for the local power that was affecting their world to slowly corrupt and infect the servitor creations and cause them to become flesh-and-blood instead over the slow course of generations. In the case of the Orcs: they were a degenerate race several generations removed from Grond: a mighty creation of the Titan Aggramar which was born to cleanse the highly-aggressive plantlife of Draenor in order to keep it from devouring the planets' Biosphere entirely. The Evergrowth seeped it's roots into the living mountain to break it apart: only for those fragments to become The Colossals; while they were slightly weaker than Grond they were also more intelligent and Aggramar tasked the Colossals with continuing with the work for the Titan even after he was called away. The Colossals would do battle with the Evergrowth and it's subsequent lesser selves known as the Sporemounds; with the Colossals giving rise to the Magnaron, the Gronn, the Ogron, the Ogres, and finally the Orcs.
The fact that the Orcs were a degenerate race designed initially by Aggramar as little more than a walking talking herbicide: only for them to become a powerful fighting force that was hired by the Burning Legion as the Old Horde; only for them to break away from their pact and fight back against them and eventually taking the fight to Argus and defeating the Legion and saving Aggramar is a power-move worthy of the ages.
Broxigar _was_ empowered, in the book it said "how Broxigar's strength made the axe more powerful, and the axe's power made Broxigar stronger" which created an almost endless feedback loop of empowerment making him likely the strongest mortal warrior that ever lived.
broxigar was built different
I like that explanation. The feedback loop of PAWAH.
"Endless feedback loop"
Even if its endless it doesn't keep on scaling his power endlessly in a meaningful way. The feedback has diminishing returns. 1+0.9+0.81+0.729+etc. is an endless increase of 90%, but after a number of repetitions you won't see much growth per repetition.
And since the empowerment likely takes some amount of time it means that Broxigar's power is practically capped off.
I think that's a placebo thing
@@Yzerbruh You're right it does have diminishing returns, but he was still empowered and much stronger than a normal orc or most if not all mortal warriors at the time.
you know its like rock paper scissor, Demons
lmaoo
That’s amazing
Time is money friend....
Brox: I have no time for this...
*Gets beaten up
Exactly my idea and I just searched for "rock" to see if it was mentioned already :D
Box of Cigars is my favorite WoW character 🔥🔥🔥
What I like about Brox is that going by the books, he had great respect before the Night Elves which goes back to their very first encounter. Even Grom Hellscream was impressed by their ferocity.
Mogor: Elves sir!
Grom: Those were not elves, they were way to large and....fierce.
I never did understand why the night elves and orcs ended up on opposite sides. They liked and respected the other's moxie of being badass warrior cultures. Especially after sargeras
@ That I can still somewhat understand. Night Elves sure know how to hold a grudge, and Grom murdered their god with demonic magic. It kinda ruins any diplomatic exchange.
Sargeras: i should hire goblins just in case
you know its gonna be a good day when PlatinumWoW posts.
Spitting facts
agree 👍
The most bad ass moment in all of Warcraft.
This and Gromash vs Manoroth (both times) are peak fantasy.
Don't forget about Garad! His final scene is pure goosebumps.
@@monkeyswithshoes308 he will remain forgotten by being in one of the worst storylines ever
"In order to do this scene justice, I am going to quote the book directly." *immediately misspells pity*
could Brox's show of strength given Sargeras the idea to recruit the orcs into the legion? I wonder....
Nah, Sargeras just wanted a disposable army and they just happen to be a convenient resource.
And even then. Sargeras wasnt the force behind the orcs corruption. It was Kil'Jaeden and Talgath who changed orcish power dynamics and corrupted them through Gul'Dan.
Sargeras only was like "Kil'jaeden will recruit people, Archimonde will command them as army".
it was kiljaeden’s idea because he planned for the orcs to kill velen and the draenei i’m sure sargeras was chill with it though when he found out
Also mannoroth.@@operationmisanthropia5831
Everybody got that kind of moments where they get beat up by goblins, maybe even their own. There is no shame in that.
You know what makes the fact we didn't get the axe of cenarius in legion sting more?
Saurfang was directly involved with the arms secret weapon skin, Giving us HIS axe.
Imagine the impact it would have had if we did have the AoC at the time. Varok possibly reminiscing about fighting along side his brother one last time, even if just in spirit.
For those interrested, "Flying Buttress" is currently making an animated version of the book of this. He works slow but its good (other books on tehre also)
Was going to post this too! ❤
Ofcourse it will be slow.... animating 5 minute cinematics takes Blizzard team 6 months
swl
The axe is as sharp as the wielders will to use it. The fact Broxigar was so brave and determined is why he was able to cause such great damage.
Broxigar the legend
God I fucking love Broxigar. Thank you platinum for spreading the word of this legendary sacrifice of the best warrior of the Horde!
At least give his brother, Varok Saurfang some credit
If you like WoW lore and haven't read the war of the ancients trilogy, you are missing out big time. Rhonin, Krasus and Brox has such amazing stories. If they ever make a film or a series out of it, it will break records for sure.
And there's certain individuals that insist that Warriors aren't powerful compared to mages. Exhibit A: This absolute Mad Lad.
I was hoping he'd get his own video one day. Brox is easily one of my favourite characters in the lore, and a fine showcase of my favourite class at their potential peak. He is pretty much the reason I've mained Warrior exclusively when I was still playing, and I am not ashamed to admit that. After all, magic is fickle. But good steel? That, you can trust.
I disagree on this having to be made an artifact though. It would've been awesome to wield, but knowing the ending of that expansion, it deserves much better than just being effectively disenchanted and rendered useless.
It probably is still useless but still useful enough in the hands of his half niece. Its not broken at least or made into the harbinger of the void gods such as the shadow priests artifact weapon.
Yep, warriors are powerful as hell..... as long as they can get within swinging range of an enemy..... any Mage worth a damn would freeze him solid before he got close enough to see what the Mage was wearing.
@@captainspaulding5963 Those are straight facts, you can literally see what Medivh did to Lothar when he tried to stop him, if it wasn't for Khadgar and Medivh himself (he was in an inner fight with Sargeras) he would be dead, enough with this warrior bs (and i am a melee enjoyer).
This and the Moira Thaurissan shows how the bar was so fricking high on wow's story telling side from books and comics hooooolly smokes, but yet the games don't even make justice in some regards. This have been such amazing stories, thank you so much platinum, always loving your content.
As a WoW Lore lover who just finished reading the "War of the Ancients" trilogy novel, I'm so happy that this video came up on my feed. I'm so happy that now more people know who he is, and why he is so important in the lore. I remember a friend doing the orc heritage armour quest and being so confused as to who he was, and why he was there in the first place, and there isn't really any mention of him much in the game. Great video, and great cinematics!!
hahaha omg i lost it at 6:54 "hey you mortal *******, no fighting in my glade" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
1:07 Not the first time Blizzard have reworked a story from their novels. The Emerald Nightmare stuff in Legion is extremely similar to the events of Stormrage, which are barely mentioned in the game.
Blizzard stopped caring about the stories in novels since they created that awful warcraft film which just took a huge dump on the existing lore without any reason.
@@CarKiller92 That movie is not part of the canon and Blizz still writes books for every expansion and other stuff.
@@vaskopoh9512they shouldng be writing everything into novels and nothing into game, theres a reason most people dont see the novels as canon because it never matters what happens there until it does, novels should be used to expand upon not be the primary source for lore when its a game first and fore most
Would've been hilarious if the "10,000 years ago" segment was done with vanilla models
When I saw the thumbnail, I was hyped because Broxigar deserves to get some love!
I literally cried when I read the trilogy and came to the point where Broxigar faces Sargeras, wounds him and dies like a true champion. Such an overwhelming, epic moment in the lore of Warcraft.
Broxigar the Red. The only mortal to wound Sargeras. LOK’TAR OGAR! (We don’t talk about the goblins)
Broxigar is just WoW's Doom Slayer, change my mind!
To be fair, half of his success did come from the axe itself. That axe is nothing short of legendary
Absolutely not. Cenarius when giving him the ax said that only brox could make use of it and that it can be useful only if the bearer is capable. @@BeyondDaX
It's inspired by Tolkien, when the elven King Fingolfin fought Morgoth before the gates of Angband.
Title for Broxigar's Lore: *I Teleport 10,000 years in the Past and now I'm the only Orc in Azeroth.*
I remember playing that Illidan scenario for the DH class hall quest and seeing the Orc there and I was like WAIT A MINUTE
Fun fact: Broxigar time-travelled to before Orcs as a race existed, making him chronologically the first Orc in history.
The summarized story is that Orcs as a race are roughly, I think, a thousand years old or so (correct me if I'm wrong). Giant elemental named Grond corrects the balance of Draenor but dies in the process before finishing the job. Stone giants rose from his corpse and finished the job. The stone giants that survived devolved into the Magnaron, then the Gronn, then the Ogron, the Ogres and finally the Orcs.
Thats some dragonball gokus dad first super saiyan and technically saiyan shenanigans
Also they did ogre lore dirty, that lore has been retconned the most and it has suffered greatly, though really all draenor lore has suffered since burning crusade and its just compounded the damage done
Broxiga became the Doom guy of the Warcraft universe
Think Broxigar wounding Sargeras just before died was a direct metaphor to the story of Fingolfin from Tolkien's Legendarium.
Fingolfin fought Morgoth, THE evil of Legendarium, in a 1v1 battle, died at the end but stabbed Morgoth in the foot/kneecaps so hard that Morgoth got a permanent limp.
I still remember reading his last stand in the book almost 15 years ago and it is one of my favorite book scenes Of all time
Orcs and time travel, go hand-in-hand surprisingly well. I remember hearing how in Warhammer 40K there was an ork warlord who traveled back in time to kill his past self just so he can have two versions of his favorite gun.
His name is Grizgutz.
Nah my favorite one still is Tuska Daemon Killa. The dude literally went into the warp to wage a waaagh against the daemons, ended up in Khorne's realm, and literally did the nut twister on a Bloothrister with a Powa Klaw and c*strated the b*stard. Khorne was so amused he gave the Orks infinite respawns just to keep watching their shenanigans. And it's said to this day Tuska is still there having the time of his life.
@@stankobarabata2406not only is tuska still there, hes getting closer to the throne every respawn
@@ZergS4uc3 There's also speculation that Tuska and his boyz are getting bigger and smarter with each respawn. If you know anything about Ork history in 40k, that's a worrying precedent because that means the Orks are going back to what they originally were. Orks used to be bigger and tons smarter. Which is scary because currently and Ork is about as big as a Space Marine, and about as strong too, imagine if they were bigger. They were called Krorks at that time and they put Space Marines to shame with how effective they were as Shock and Storm troopers.
For a totally casual player like myself, had no idea. Great lore and in game, I shall sing a song for this legendary warrior
That +3 axe skill made him OP!
God I loved those books, I realized who this was about and was smiling the whole time, brox is the goat and we NEED that weapon in game
Your story telling is as legendary as Brox. Thank you sir. Brought me right back to reading the old novels
Finally somebody making a dedicated video for this legend and my inspiration for maining warrior for years!. Also incredible timing as I just finished my revisit to the WotA trilogy.
Just a small detail so read this in a nerdy voice:
Achthually it wasn't the wound that Brox inflicted that caused the distraction, but as the only vulnarable place for Malfurion and Crasus to cast spells (which distracted etc. etc. etc.)
Borxigar still the greatest orc warrior ever
Finally a long in-depth dive into the most badass character to ever live
Thank you sir, never stop making these fantastic videos!
Brox the red axe ❤❤❤❤
Such an amazing warrior
That was actually a p obscure character... For people like me that haven't touched the books, very nice vid lad
Nice to see Blizz actually creating a character in Brox' niece that could get more spotlight in the Worldsoul Saga.
And that his axe (or ax) is still with us!
Thanks for the lore! After the Orc heritage questline, I wondered who Brox was. What a legend!
I did always like this story especially Rhonin and Korialstrasz. I started playing during long after they were already dead in the story. Very disappointing to not see any of these characters in shadow lands.
Thank you for creating this video to one of best characters of all time.
Brox was always my all time favourite. He was just trying to die honorably.
ah the old orish orgrimmar. just love it. such beautiful place.
I've been waiting for this video for so long. Anyone could have made a proper Broxigar video but it had to be Platinum WoW. This is by-far my favorite Warcraft character.
Moral of the story, don't get in between a goblin and his/her gold. Gotcha.
the animation in this is top tier, wholesome content my man!!
I am so glad that you've released a video of my favourite character in all of WoW's lore!
HELL YEAH THAT'S THE GREATEST WARRIOR TO EVER LIVE RIGHT FUCKING THERE
My favorite character in wow. When I first read the books, I was into the franchise immediately
I forgot about Broxxigar. I read those books a long time ago. Loved that orc and this video was amazing. Love the animation!
Awesome video man, you never under deliver content :D
You could say this was blizzards first attempt at an "orcsekai anime battle shonen manga"
Damn such stories makes me come back to wow time to time on private server (still dont want to give blizzard any money lol)
Read this back when the books were good, and it was a awesome recap. Thanks again for this great content.
thanks bud have a good sunday
loved to see it, what a piece of history to learn!
Rumors says, that Thrall still until today don't understand why Alliance is fixiated on swords. But on serious note, when to think about it yeah... I don't get why Broxigar Axe wasn't even an artifact apperance for arms warriors tbh.
7:21 In case you want to spam Cenarius exclaiming "Demons!" for your own amusement.
Nice work again with the videos🔥
This is my favorite character in Warcraft lore, thank you.
Thanks for doing justice to the story!
Hated how blizz made him inconsistent af in regards to being friendly to Illidan
Broxigar is so badass I've been using Broxar as a nickname for my orc warrior for the past 10 years.
The legacy lives on!
Brox's story just goes to show you how important Loot is. One axe can make you in to a god
1:43 "What the two found made the 2 orcs stop in their tracks."
And made them act like chickens apparently.
And if you ask me in regards to Thura. I honestly feel like she could have been used in Varok's arc in BFA. Maybe Thura hears of her uncle's "betrayal" and seeks him out. Ending up accompanying him on his journey to find Thrall and later begin the rebellion against Sylvanas. Perhaps Thura could have even lended Varok the axe of Cenarius for his Mak'gora. It would have been a bit poetic. An axe imbued with life to be used against an agent of death.
So cool to have you back, Platinum!
Broxigars story is what got me interested in the orcs lore as more than just humanities enemy. It is damn near criminal that Brox wasnt a big part of the Warrior order hall and his axe wasnt a skin option for a warrior artifact
With how awesome his lore is, it's amazing that Blizz hasn't put in more with him. I only recall seeing him once for a Legion quest line. Even his legendary axe would have been perfect for Arms warriors.
About the goblins, hey, everyone has bad days.
Incredibly epic story :D
I love how they showed us the War of the Ancients
Love your videos, would love to see a Nathrezim lore video
One of my favourite characters that I would like to see in the cinematics ripping through everyone and everything
I don't care what blizzard thought, that axe should have been the arms artifact weapon. Yes it is more druidic in nature but 1 it has a bad ass story many warriors would quickly come around to, 2 the druid look would just be the default because you know they were have alternate looks, and 3 we were fighting the legion and this was the one weapon even rumored to have hurt sargares so yeah that should have been the first weapon they went to find. I thought that the reason it wasn't the artifact was because it was lost but no it somehow got back to azeroth so again it should have been the artifact weapon. Imagine if instead it was lost but then thura found it when she joined the space faring expedition because she wanted to finish what her uncle started. Or have demon hunters find it and then give it to the horde as a peace offering. What I am saying is the axe of cenarius should have been apart of legion in some way.
It has been some time since I read those books. Brox was the character I liked most in them.
Dude your videos are truly amazing, love this
I loved the novel about Broxigar. What a badass orc to personally stop Sargeras from coming through. Tough bit of irony that he made such an impression regarding the potential of Orcs to the Legion.
we need more story’s like this!
EPIC lore! Even if only 1 Orc exists, that Orc will be heard. Bless you Platinum! Please never change!
Broxigar is truly the baddest of badasses in WoW lore, being such an effective portal cock block that Sargeras himself decided to kill him is the ultimate blaze of glory for death.
My early obsession with Varok stemmed from having read those books as a kid and realizing they were related. Broxigar was such an awesome character, and while his death was sad it was also the sort of death every other orc dreams of. Outside of demigods and magical beings it may be the most BA last stand in the Warcraft universe.
Up until shadowlands ruined afterlives for everyone I always hoped for Varok to one day achieve a similar death and be met by his son, brother, and father. That would have been a much more impactful death imo, but their new nonsensical mythos wouldn’t allow for such a reunion 🤦♂️
I just wish one of his kids was still alive, but it appears the saurfang line has sadly come to an end.
BRUH!!! Broxigar is my favorite character in all of the lore and I find it to be a crying shame that he hadn't gotten more attention in game during the Legion expansion.
thank you for remembering the legacy of Brox
I'll never forget this book series. Movie asap!!!
Always the best Warcraft content!
I dont even know what to say.
Great work as always!