Timestamps for mobile users: 00:00 Intro 01:37 Origins and History 04:34 Organizational Structure 05:55 Religious Beliefs 07:25 Military Doctrine 09:50 Prelude - First Tiberium War 11:12 First Tiberium War 13:08 First Reunification War 14:21 Second Tiberium War 15:56 Firestorm Crisis 17:16 Second Reunification War 19:29 Third Tiberium War 23:05 Kane's Wrath
Is Kane a moron, the method of that orb attract the fking scrin and he is still acting like a smart ass. If I were the commander I will personally roast him with a tiberium thrower so he won't revive again.
@M.Z. Absolutely. If EA actually takes some responsibility for once in their pathetic lives and admit it then try to fix their mistakes, then I'll be willing to give a chance. But it is EA, the odds of it happening is like experiencing a meteor shower. Possible, but highly unlikely.
So you’re not a fan of a game because you refuse to talk about all of the lore relating to a game all because it derails your head cannon, but leaving information out of a literal video titled the history of Nod does? Interesting I guess me flying halfway across the world to go to a convention years ago to get a signed autograph from Kucan does not make me a fan then.
I think Tib Sun had the best worldbuilding in the series, particularly with Nod's motivation. The Tiberium series, at it's core, is about humanity's reaction to having their planet essentially xenoformed by an alien substance. GDI and Nod represent two conflicting responses (reclamation vs adaptation). PS; I'm starting to understand why the Scrin are hated by a certain faction of the fandom. C&C 3 made them the focal point of the whole franchise, rather than Tiberium. This is especially evident in the Brotherhood shifting it's motivation from adapting humanity to Tiberium to the nebulous goal of "ascension" that just so happens to revolve around the shiny new faction.
Shoooot… idk about that one chief. Tiberium Sun is a great game and was iconic due to it being the first game of what ended up being many, where the military technology used is futuristic. As a result it really took the series to the next level as futuristic tech captured the imagination and attention of a lot of new players and the veteran players a like. However, I’d argue that C&C Red Alert is still the backbone of the franchise. That’s the game that most C&C players fell in love with first. For it’s time, with the only exceptions being Age of Empires and StarCraft, it was way ahead of every other game like it. Even with just modern military technology being used it was a freakin blast to play and honestly still is even today.
I mostly like the idea that Kane's Brotherhood rose to power through Stalin's victory in Red Alert. While it is possible that Kane could still rise after the Allies victory over the Soviets, I find his involvement in the Soviet campaign to be the moment the Brotherhood of Nod truly came out of the shadows. And that Kane took whatever Soviet secrets he could and salvaged what remained of the Allies tech for his own secret army.
@@Amp661 Not exactly the idea are dropped, that's what the fans think. In the actual story of Red Alert aka prequel to Tiberian Dawn, the Allies won the war not just lead the Red Alert 2 but lead to Tiberian Dawn. The idea wasn't scrapped, my thought from the cancelled C&C 3 Incursion by Westwood where Yuri was the one who screw up the timeline. Separate universe timeline sucks for me, can't change the future man. "While it is possible that Kane could still rise after the Allies victory over the Soviets." That's true, if the Allies won the war. Then Kane is going to wage revenge not until the time has come.
@@stahl1624 I cant really tell if u are sarcastic or not. Most who played and enjoyed the C&C franchise choose not to incorperate C&C4 because it just doesn't make any sense lore-wise (or gameplay wise for that matter).
String has inaccurate information like saying the mark of kane are former cabal cyborgs when those are different branch and he had to make remastered edition for his tiberium video because it was full of false informations + he is trannies lover.
@@Pancombine18 I'm a lot more worried about the former than the ladder, What the UA-camrs I watch do in their free time outside of when I'm watching them is literally none of my business 💁 so I'm not sure how that's relevant.
You can deny it all you want but Tiberium Twilight DID happen. It DID finish the story. May not have been the game people expected or story people wanted, yet it's the canon ending for the Tiberium saga.
Looking back I wish we had missions in the campaign where you had to avoid conflict with other nations, work to assist those other nations and even have to defeat them in a strategic move or whatnot.
I just discovered you but your channel is amazing. It's rare to see someone take the time to make such well-edited videos on Command & Conquer lore, and you didn't forget Renegade! I hope in the future you branch out to the Red Alert universe!
"... claimed to have discovered it [Tiberian]." Claimed? They were waiting for it.. Tratos "Helped" translate The Tacitus. But it has ALWAYS belonged to Kane.
The mutants stole it from Kane's temple in Sarajevo. Kane had the tacitus even before the first tiberian war. There's a Nod mission in tiberian sun where you assault the GDI base in Sarajevo then find mutants who stole the tacitus.
Other than ICBM standing for Intercontinetnal Ballistic missile (making an ICBM Missile kind of redundant), this is great. I've been looking for more deets on Nod for ever.
ICBM is an official designation and "missile" being an additional description. Like nothing wrong with it. People also refering to DC as DC comics, despite the anagram already including the word, as DC stands for Detective Comics. So yea. It may be redundant, but it's not completely wrong. It's additional description of the anagram. Like refering to someone by their full name (name + surname), sure it may be weird, but it's not completely wrong (in either case).
Kane was Cain all along. He was made immortal by God, as punishment. He survived the Flood using his craftiness and shrewdness. The grave of Abel was also controlled by him. After you defeated the last Scrin on Earth, he took the chance to hijack the Tiberium control facility to "ascend", that is, going wherever he wanted.
I love this channel! Thank you so much for filling in a role which seemingly no one else has filled. I hope CnC gets revived. Nod are the only true faction. One vision. One purpose.
A gaming faction from my childhood that always stuck with me. Like some sort of big bad Soviets at their technological peak, but never went away. Or at least How I perceived them as a kid lol. Great video bro!
As a lifelong C&C fan, and a NOD fanatic, I'm blown away at the detail and accuracy of all of your videos. Secondly, I just have to know where you've found some of those amazing still photos. Keep up the great work!!!!!
Most of the still images that I use in the videos are official concept art from the various CnC games. The rest of them I typically get from a website called ArtStation which has all kinds of various artwork.
Ok… So GDI like to brute force their way through problems and NOD like to swarm their foes… Where’s the group where being smart with unit choice results in victory?
@@warchipmunk0599 Apparently Scrin dominate the air space. They have the strongest air units in the game. Turns out it's actually a Sub faction of GDI that fits into the category I'm looking for. Steel Talons.
Thank you so much for this. I love the c&c tiberium games. This is the best fanwork of this kind I've seen so far concerning the NOD universe. PEACE THROUGH POWER!
In Serbian culture it is not difficult to know that the actual spelling ought to have been Slavić, meaning that in fact the final part would actually be pronounced with the ending -itch rather than -ik, literally "son of [the] great [people]."
I always thought that Westwood named him after the ethic/linguistic group, which I thought was an odd decision. Around that time Americans were still fascinated with the recently collapsed Soviet Union, and NATO involvement in the Balkans brought up those regions in every day conversations. Westwood using/mispronouncing a foreign sounding name makes more sense. I wouldn't be surprised if some entertainment industry folks in 1999 California got it right, the actor/director mispronounced Slavić, and they just ran with it for budget/time reasons. It's reasonable to have very low expectations for the entertainment industry, especially a B list studio working on a video game in 1999.
Great presentation. On top of the detailed information, you managed to utilize the best c&c soundtrack (IMO) for atmosphere, without drowning out the main point. As a fan of the series, except for ea’s blasphemy, I tip my hat to you.
Awesome video amazing work. Love this and the blackhand one. For those that are questioning the timeline of who won RA1 to lead to TD, it makes more sense for the allies to win since the formation of GDI involved the UN and G7 nations. I think the soviet ending was more of a way they could show how far back kane reached. That or stalin died and the soviets collapsed and led to the same near modern day as today which seems silly.
In the CNC universe its the soviets winning World War 2 that is the divergence point between our universe and theirs. Also the first Tiberium War takes place between 2017 and 2020. See the manual for Renegade which happens in the final weeks of the first tib war for confirmation on that (it has a memo dated March 2020) and Killian in 3 states that Nod exposed GDI as terrorists in 2019 likely referring to the Bialostok massacre. Other than that great video and you deserve way more subs.
Once again, I find myself having to correct so called fans of this game who refuse to do any research on the lore. Both Tiberium and the continuation of Red Alert both come from the Allies winning WWII. The Soviet ending is non cannon to both sides. Allies winning allows the events of Red Alert 2 to unfold. Tiberium Dawn hints completely to the Allies victory, there is no Soviet Union, Russia is a founding member of GDI hence why GDI has the Mammoth Tank. Several smaller members of the former Soviet Union are pro-Nod. And I don't give a fuck what you saw in the ending the Soviet Campaign. Westwood and EA both agreed the Allies are the canon ending.
@@Seriona1 actully, soviet is assulting america inn red alert 2, wich kinda makes sense with 1 thing. Soviet ending could happen, sinch Stalin tok europe, not Amerika. Idunno, I feel like sinch Kane is inn the soviet ending as well, it could very much happen, that withojt Kanes help, Allies does a comback and takes soviet occupied lands back and eventuly gets the pawn leader inn place. How GDI would obtain the mamoth tank, that could be by scavenging and researching destroyed mammoth tanks or stolen blueprints 🤷♀️
@@trueredpanda1538 No, once again, so called fans failing to do research. Both universes are coming from Red Alert Allies victory. The reason for Red Alert 2 opening was because Westwood intended the entire series to roll within one story but EA changed that idea when they bought the series and thus locked in two different universe but from one canon ending. Even Red Alert 2's lore is explained by this. The Allies defeated USSR, USSR current Premier was a US elected leader. USSR completely lacks a modern air force due to a treaty put in place by the Allies. Europe is not Soviet secured even remotely.
I've not played the games in years but it's like the scrin conquered planets, seeded them with tiberium, the tiberium spread wreaking havoc on the planet which they landed. The scrin landed after a few years of infestation and used the tiberium to further fuel their conquest while it simultaneously did most of the work for them.
What is Nod's plan for surviving in the Red Zones? There was some arc where they tried to work out how the Forgotten survived in there, and they keep trying cyborg warriors. But most of them are still basic humans who don't have much chance in there.
I heard there was gonna a series after Kane's Wrath called Tiberium Eclipse but apparently it was replaced with a title based on that vampire love story or something? I dunno, I seem to unable to find it.
Agreed but maybe the cheesy C&C skits were a fun change from their normal gigs - variety is the spice of life and all that. Still not sure how they managed to afford James Earl Jones for Tiberium Sun though 😅
Just stumbled onto these vids. I grew up playing C&C on floppy disks. I loved the whole series and was sick to my stomach when I saw what EA did in the last game. I'm hoping somehow the series will continue with the forth being omitted. I was hoping GDI was going to use the alien tech from TW3 to move into almost a starcraft like time line. Moving to new world's to fight or something.
If you don't want to hunt down your own friends during a multiplayer, then I would be confused, I see my friend inn any type off game and how I can get on the opposite team then him, because I wanna show him how it's done! One vision, one purpose!!
Nope tiberian twilight is not a command and conquer series Come on....what with population limit and split a faction to different function like defensive and offensive, that is not C&C I know from my childhood
The funny thing is I saw this in my recommendations and it made me rebuy C&C 3 I already planned on getting Tiberian Sun and Firestorm and Kane’s Wrath now too thanks to these
C&C Tiberium Dawn was perhaps a sci-fi, but its depiction of the early 2000s asymetric warfare with a militarized organization of religious fanatics based in the Third World was almost "prophetic". Tiberium and sci-fi elements aside, the Tiberium Dawn is like the war with ISIS or al-Qaeda. I think that the developers realized this "prophetic" element and decided to use it further in C&C generals.
I checked as much as i could, but i am certain i haven't heard this before: What's the song at 1:10 ? It's not on any of Klepacki's stuff, but it sure as hell sounds like it. Anyone help me out here?
There is a logical mistake here that a whole storyline and the studio oversight it for sure, which is Kane was not killed by ion shot at his own temple in Savjevo back in the first Tiberium War, later GDI once again fired the same weapon at the same location for killing the same person during the third Tiberium war event. How could the top GDI officials have not learned anything on record of terminating Kane?
The time between the first and third Tiberium Wars was 40-50 years. So most senior commanders in GDI would either be dead or retired. The other thing to consider is that most of the GDI top brass was killed when the GDSS Philadelphia was nuked, leaving Redmond Boyle, the Secretary of the Treasury, as the leader of GDI. So an incompetent leader and half a century between these two events along with Kane seemingly to be to reappear out of nowhere makes the Ion Cannon attack in TW3 have some plausibility.
Excellent, but you forgot about one thing, originally Soviets won Red Alert 1 which is shown in Mammoth tanks (and other soviet units) used by GDI and allied equipment used by NOD, yet for some reason it was changed/retconed later.
I strongly believe Kane is THEE Kane, who slew his brother Abel. God cursed Kane with immortality, cursed to forever roam the earth and witness the horrors we inflict on each other. Unable to die himself. Now ask yourself this, how many times has Kane been killed? Or at least how many times have people attempted to kill him? End of the first war, GDI drops a damn Ion Cannon on Kane's head and all he got was a facial scar he healed completely. If rat doesn't say that he is the very same Kane cursed by God with immortality, I don't k ow what is
You've got that part from the Bible wrong. Cain was cursed by God, but not with a literal immortality. God gave him a mark, Cain could still be killed by anyone, but that mark tells people who encounters him, that he's the first murderer and that he's marked by God for what he's done. Anyone, who would bring harm to Cain would also suffer harm from God himself. It's not like he couldn't be killed, it's more like people thought twice about killing him, since they would suffer consequences from God himself.
we need series" on netflix or something called "the Brotherhood" and "The Global Defense Initiative" which follow Nod/GDI in the early days. Then a spin off show called "Tiberium Wars" which shows the three wars and the finale is the final battle vs Scrin, with the final shot of the first series being the Scrin leader saying a full invasion force is on it's way...
So that they could cast a black lesbian woman as Kane, completely ignore the plot of the games, and generally piss all over the source material? Yeah, no thanks.
According to religious scholars based on how the Garden of Eden is described in the Bible that the Land of Nod would be located somewhere in Iran if real life location matters but Nod has no ties to the Middle East beyond religious terminology.
I get that intelligence means something different in a military context but when he said the Brotherhood did not have the intelligence to defeat the rogue A.I alone it still cracked me up. Even though it makes sense.
@@jdanger_sanders The Foreman is the Scrin equivalent of a general, not AI. The Scrin AI is refered to as Mothership. I guess it could be the actual Mothership's AI, aiding the Foreman in their quest.
i say the (entirely theoretical hypothetical) scenario of utilizing this treshold tower to facilitate the ascension as planned, probably by drawing on the immense energy stored in tiberium, could in a certain point of view confirm the messiah brand, because if i remember the translation correctly it is savior/deliverer and on a planet being actively devoured... i'm just saying it would theoretically be worth exploring but one should NEVER RUSH those things.
one thing to think about is this. Brotherhood of nod Named the crystal. Eavryone just whent along with it. But the real question how on earth did they do that? So just to do that the Brotherhood must have had alot of sway in the science cummunity and in the political. But that also implies when the crystal came the brotherhood made sure to take credit for it. Wich is again alot of sway in various societies. I dare not to think about the implications of that.
@@WallNutBreaker524 than the implications of that is this. How big was the brother hood of nods influence prior to the crystal. Not EU or continent wise but glodally. Also how come nod almost looses its wars... there is something that does not add up here.
Yet another "nod" to the bible is that Cain was exiled to the "Land of Nod" after killing his brother Abel, hinting to the connection of Kane and Cain as well.
Timestamps for mobile users:
00:00 Intro
01:37 Origins and History
04:34 Organizational Structure
05:55 Religious Beliefs
07:25 Military Doctrine
09:50 Prelude - First Tiberium War
11:12 First Tiberium War
13:08 First Reunification War
14:21 Second Tiberium War
15:56 Firestorm Crisis
17:16 Second Reunification War
19:29 Third Tiberium War
23:05 Kane's Wrath
Thanks
@@noname_758 Thanks for the heads up. It's pinned now.
I wouldn't be surprised that Kane has the Brotherhood of Nod moved to a new planet for a homeworld after C&C 3.
No C&C 4? That's still canon.
Is Kane a moron, the method of that orb attract the fking scrin and he is still acting like a smart ass. If I were the commander I will personally roast him with a tiberium thrower so he won't revive again.
I like how you ended at Kane's Wrath for there is no such game as C&C4 and nothing happened after Kane's Wrath.
Yep I do that for all my C&C videos.
@M.Z. Added to that the story in C&C4 makes no sence since there is clear information that a full SCRIN invasion force was ready to go =/
There is no C&C4.
CASE CLOSED
@@Fercurix Instead of a Scrin invasion, you get an annoying wife character. Yaaaaay.
@M.Z. Absolutely. If EA actually takes some responsibility for once in their pathetic lives and admit it then try to fix their mistakes, then I'll be willing to give a chance. But it is EA, the odds of it happening is like experiencing a meteor shower. Possible, but highly unlikely.
Love how the fourth game doesn't exist. As it should be
What do yoy mean Gourth game?
There no such thing!
Fourth game? What do you mean?
what is trhis guy on?
I want that shit
C&C4 is like GTA 6. It’s a myth
@@nikobellic6719and any valve game
You know this guy's a true fan because he didn't include Tiberium Twilight
So you’re not a fan of a game because you refuse to talk about all of the lore relating to a game all because it derails your head cannon, but leaving information out of a literal video titled the history of Nod does?
Interesting
I guess me flying halfway across the world to go to a convention years ago to get a signed autograph from Kucan does not make me a fan then.
@@stahl1624 stop malding, his point was that its a shit game, no need to get offended over liking something
Also, flying halfway across the world for a signature from someone who doesn't even know who you are just makes you a dork.
@@MyMinininjas It just means you are dedicated.
@@stahl1624 I mean, Kucan himself despises that game lmao
Peace through Power!
I always liked the Command and Conquer's plot. Looking forward to hear more.
I agree it's the right amount of campy, serious and cool that makes it so fun exactly nod.
Really fun series of lore.
Tiberian sun was the first C&C game I played.
It's really the backbone of the franchise.
Agreed.
I think Tib Sun had the best worldbuilding in the series, particularly with Nod's motivation. The Tiberium series, at it's core, is about humanity's reaction to having their planet essentially xenoformed by an alien substance. GDI and Nod represent two conflicting responses (reclamation vs adaptation).
PS; I'm starting to understand why the Scrin are hated by a certain faction of the fandom. C&C 3 made them the focal point of the whole franchise, rather than Tiberium. This is especially evident in the Brotherhood shifting it's motivation from adapting humanity to Tiberium to the nebulous goal of "ascension" that just so happens to revolve around the shiny new faction.
Shoooot… idk about that one chief. Tiberium Sun is a great game and was iconic due to it being the first game of what ended up being many, where the military technology used is futuristic. As a result it really took the series to the next level as futuristic tech captured the imagination and attention of a lot of new players and the veteran players a like. However, I’d argue that C&C Red Alert is still the backbone of the franchise. That’s the game that most C&C players fell in love with first. For it’s time, with the only exceptions being Age of Empires and StarCraft, it was way ahead of every other game like it. Even with just modern military technology being used it was a freakin blast to play and honestly still is even today.
@@smithsanity2727 Tiberian Sun was the third game of a series. Red Alert was second, and it was more like a reskin for original cnc.
@@MalfunctioningAndroid Red Alert is the official prequel to Tiberian Dawn.
It’s amazing how Kane never ages 😂
Tiberium is the next evolution of humanity member? Lol
Kane is as old as humanity
Cause he's our prophet ❤️😍
MrBravi yes brother
You can't kill the messiah
Not even age can
Great lore summary, I’m replaying Kane’s wrath so was a good reminder of the details and overall plot. Keep it up!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video.
I mostly like the idea that Kane's Brotherhood rose to power through Stalin's victory in Red Alert. While it is possible that Kane could still rise after the Allies victory over the Soviets, I find his involvement in the Soviet campaign to be the moment the Brotherhood of Nod truly came out of the shadows. And that Kane took whatever Soviet secrets he could and salvaged what remained of the Allies tech for his own secret army.
The idea was dropped after RA1. Honestly it's better to have two separate universe's that are the same game wise, yet different era's and stories.
@@Amp661 Not exactly the idea are dropped, that's what the fans think. In the actual story of Red Alert aka prequel to Tiberian Dawn, the Allies won the war not just lead the Red Alert 2 but lead to Tiberian Dawn. The idea wasn't scrapped, my thought from the cancelled C&C 3 Incursion by Westwood where Yuri was the one who screw up the timeline. Separate universe timeline sucks for me, can't change the future man.
"While it is possible that Kane could still rise after the Allies victory over the Soviets." That's true, if the Allies won the war. Then Kane is going to wage revenge not until the time has come.
That's my preferred story too--RA & the Allies win & we get RA 2 whereas RA & the Soviets win & we get Tiberian Dawn.
It's not the soviet's that created the Brotherhood. It's more the Brotherhood created the Soviets.
Extremely detailed lore video, loved it.
Not really because the creator is butthurt about C&C 4 and pretends reality does not exsist.
Grade A journalism lmfao
@@stahl1624 I cant really tell if u are sarcastic or not. Most who played and enjoyed the C&C franchise choose not to incorperate C&C4 because it just doesn't make any sense lore-wise (or gameplay wise for that matter).
One People, One Vision, One Purpose, One Future. Peace through Power.
Kane lives!
Heck when reading it i almost heard it in Joe Kucan's voice saying it xD like in 14:27
Nod was my favorite faction
So true
Dude you and no strings PRD should do a collaboration, y'all would be great and terribly powerful together.
That’d be cool.
Great idea.
Already did
String has inaccurate information like saying the mark of kane are former cabal cyborgs when those are different branch and he had to make remastered edition for his tiberium video because it was full of false informations + he is trannies lover.
@@Pancombine18 I'm a lot more worried about the former than the ladder, What the UA-camrs I watch do in their free time outside of when I'm watching them is literally none of my business 💁 so I'm not sure how that's relevant.
How to survive an Ion Cannon beam:
Step 1) T-pose to establish dominance
Step 2) ????
Step 3) Profit
Now he got crushed by rocks.
lmao
You forget the part where you have to be the messiah for this to work
@@Rat_Fบcker I guess thats step 2 then
Step 1:T pose to reflec beam
Step 2:be in the right position to use your bald/mirror head
Step 3:profit
it's such a shame they never finished the story, yes, never finished it
The invasion would have been so cool, but it ended sadly :(
Yes it did
I'd say the story ended in Tiberium Wars. Tiberium Twilight doesnt exist.
You can deny it all you want but Tiberium Twilight DID happen. It DID finish the story. May not have been the game people expected or story people wanted, yet it's the canon ending for the Tiberium saga.
@@ghostthough7874 nah, that's just your mad fever dream, your sick, go back to bed
Looking back I wish we had missions in the campaign where you had to avoid conflict with other nations, work to assist those other nations and even have to defeat them in a strategic move or whatnot.
I just discovered you but your channel is amazing. It's rare to see someone take the time to make such well-edited videos on Command & Conquer lore, and you didn't forget Renegade! I hope in the future you branch out to the Red Alert universe!
Actully, he have done that to 😂
He says he’ll get to RA one day.
"... claimed to have discovered it [Tiberian]." Claimed? They were waiting for it..
Tratos "Helped" translate The Tacitus. But it has ALWAYS belonged to Kane.
The mutants stole it from Kane's temple in Sarajevo. Kane had the tacitus even before the first tiberian war. There's a Nod mission in tiberian sun where you assault the GDI base in Sarajevo then find mutants who stole the tacitus.
Other than ICBM standing for Intercontinetnal Ballistic missile (making an ICBM Missile kind of redundant), this is great. I've been looking for more deets on Nod for ever.
Unless... You account for the fact that some uses a missile to launch the icbm. Making it a icbm missile
@@bigriverraiders9243 Just cause it's multi-stage rocket doesn't mean it's gonna be a multi-stage name.
@@isaacsorrels4077 then we can rename is intercontinental ballistic catapult missile. It's basically what an icbm is anyhow
ICBM is an official designation and "missile" being an additional description. Like nothing wrong with it. People also refering to DC as DC comics, despite the anagram already including the word, as DC stands for Detective Comics. So yea. It may be redundant, but it's not completely wrong. It's additional description of the anagram. Like refering to someone by their full name (name + surname), sure it may be weird, but it's not completely wrong (in either case).
Great video; I love that you used the vids from the C&C remaster. For the technology of peace!
Kane was Cain all along. He was made immortal by God, as punishment. He survived the Flood using his craftiness and shrewdness.
The grave of Abel was also controlled by him.
After you defeated the last Scrin on Earth, he took the chance to hijack the Tiberium control facility to "ascend", that is, going wherever he wanted.
I love this channel! Thank you so much for filling in a role which seemingly no one else has filled. I hope CnC gets revived. Nod are the only true faction. One vision. One purpose.
A gaming faction from my childhood that always stuck with me. Like some sort of big bad Soviets at their technological peak, but never went away. Or at least How I perceived them as a kid lol. Great video bro!
As a lifelong C&C fan, and a NOD fanatic, I'm blown away at the detail and accuracy of all of your videos. Secondly, I just have to know where you've found some of those amazing still photos.
Keep up the great work!!!!!
Most of the still images that I use in the videos are official concept art from the various CnC games. The rest of them I typically get from a website called ArtStation which has all kinds of various artwork.
@@Jethild freaking awesome man. Love your work.
Ok… So GDI like to brute force their way through problems and NOD like to swarm their foes… Where’s the group where being smart with unit choice results in victory?
@@ninja6245-real This makes me wonder where Scrin would fall into this.
@@warchipmunk0599 Apparently Scrin dominate the air space. They have the strongest air units in the game. Turns out it's actually a Sub faction of GDI that fits into the category I'm looking for. Steel Talons.
Thank you so much for this. I love the c&c tiberium games. This is the best fanwork of this kind I've seen so far concerning the NOD universe. PEACE THROUGH POWER!
Kane Lives, in our hearts and minds! He Lives!
Keep up the good work!
How I loved the Nod missions and videos, this is a franchise that really deserves a reboot! Thanks @Jethild for making these videos!
I love the lore of C&C trilogy, you got urself a new sub
👍🏻
In Serbian culture it is not difficult to know that the actual spelling ought to have been Slavić, meaning that in fact the final part would actually be pronounced with the ending -itch rather than -ik, literally "son of [the] great [people]."
I always thought that Westwood named him after the ethic/linguistic group, which I thought was an odd decision. Around that time Americans were still fascinated with the recently collapsed Soviet Union, and NATO involvement in the Balkans brought up those regions in every day conversations. Westwood using/mispronouncing a foreign sounding name makes more sense.
I wouldn't be surprised if some entertainment industry folks in 1999 California got it right, the actor/director mispronounced Slavić, and they just ran with it for budget/time reasons. It's reasonable to have very low expectations for the entertainment industry, especially a B list studio working on a video game in 1999.
Glad you left out CnC4, but Gideon would have been great potential as a Nod splinter faction leader who doubts Kane. He would fit perfectly in TW.
Great presentation. On top of the detailed information, you managed to utilize the best c&c soundtrack (IMO) for atmosphere, without drowning out the main point. As a fan of the series, except for ea’s blasphemy, I tip my hat to you.
Awesome video amazing work. Love this and the blackhand one.
For those that are questioning the timeline of who won RA1 to lead to TD, it makes more sense for the allies to win since the formation of GDI involved the UN and G7 nations. I think the soviet ending was more of a way they could show how far back kane reached. That or stalin died and the soviets collapsed and led to the same near modern day as today which seems silly.
In the CNC universe its the soviets winning World War 2 that is the divergence point between our universe and theirs.
Also the first Tiberium War takes place between 2017 and 2020. See the manual for Renegade which happens in the final weeks of the first tib war for confirmation on that (it has a memo dated March 2020) and Killian in 3 states that Nod exposed GDI as terrorists in 2019 likely referring to the Bialostok massacre.
Other than that great video and you deserve way more subs.
See also ua-cam.com/video/wVnJbMbRid8/v-deo.html
The Soviets were on the winning side of WW2 in rl tho.
Once again, I find myself having to correct so called fans of this game who refuse to do any research on the lore. Both Tiberium and the continuation of Red Alert both come from the Allies winning WWII. The Soviet ending is non cannon to both sides. Allies winning allows the events of Red Alert 2 to unfold. Tiberium Dawn hints completely to the Allies victory, there is no Soviet Union, Russia is a founding member of GDI hence why GDI has the Mammoth Tank. Several smaller members of the former Soviet Union are pro-Nod. And I don't give a fuck what you saw in the ending the Soviet Campaign. Westwood and EA both agreed the Allies are the canon ending.
@@Seriona1 actully, soviet is assulting america inn red alert 2, wich kinda makes sense with 1 thing. Soviet ending could happen, sinch Stalin tok europe, not Amerika. Idunno, I feel like sinch Kane is inn the soviet ending as well, it could very much happen, that withojt Kanes help, Allies does a comback and takes soviet occupied lands back and eventuly gets the pawn leader inn place. How GDI would obtain the mamoth tank, that could be by scavenging and researching destroyed mammoth tanks or stolen blueprints 🤷♀️
@@trueredpanda1538 No, once again, so called fans failing to do research. Both universes are coming from Red Alert Allies victory. The reason for Red Alert 2 opening was because Westwood intended the entire series to roll within one story but EA changed that idea when they bought the series and thus locked in two different universe but from one canon ending. Even Red Alert 2's lore is explained by this. The Allies defeated USSR, USSR current Premier was a US elected leader. USSR completely lacks a modern air force due to a treaty put in place by the Allies. Europe is not Soviet secured even remotely.
I've not played the games in years but it's like the scrin conquered planets, seeded them with tiberium, the tiberium spread wreaking havoc on the planet which they landed. The scrin landed after a few years of infestation and used the tiberium to further fuel their conquest while it simultaneously did most of the work for them.
just wanted to comment that I love your channel bro, much love
Another epic Video.
This epic Master-Piece of Work goes directly in my Video-Content Collection.
Rock ˋn Roll!
I’ve been binge watching these more videos after downloading C&C 2 Tiberium Sun
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Fantastic Video
Thank you
What is Nod's plan for surviving in the Red Zones? There was some arc where they tried to work out how the Forgotten survived in there, and they keep trying cyborg warriors. But most of them are still basic humans who don't have much chance in there.
Kane's divination process.
They live UNDER it.
Man these videos are great for helping me flesh out a tiberian d20 modern game I'm running
16:27 some bad-ass cinematography right here.
Had to go back & check out your time cite & you’re right.
Thanks for leading us down this rabbit hole!
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I heard there was gonna a series after Kane's Wrath called Tiberium Eclipse but apparently it was replaced with a title based on that vampire love story or something? I dunno, I seem to unable to find it.
Okay I get the joke you're making but you do know that Eclipse was also the name of a Twilight book right
imagine my surprise that after watching all your C&C videos, i find you did bf2 analysis vids. Cant wait to see what you grow this channel into
I watched the BF2 vids too. I really liked them
I've been binging these videos for the last few days and I love how Tiberium Twilight is completely ignored. As it should be.
You know what would have been interesting? A C&C Havok style game where you played the NOD assassin who killed Slavik
still amazes me how many high profile actors the got for the cut scenes. these are all boomer actors that dont even understand video games
Agreed but maybe the cheesy C&C skits were a fun change from their normal gigs - variety is the spice of life and all that.
Still not sure how they managed to afford James Earl Jones for Tiberium Sun though 😅
One vision one purpose peace through power!!!!
Good God, this video takes me back... I loved this game! And I usually played the Black and Red of the BoN.
Man i'm still waiting on them to finish the story with a 4th game
Thank pou so very much for all the lore vids for this epic game series! :-D
Just stumbled onto these vids. I grew up playing C&C on floppy disks. I loved the whole series and was sick to my stomach when I saw what EA did in the last game. I'm hoping somehow the series will continue with the forth being omitted. I was hoping GDI was going to use the alien tech from TW3 to move into almost a starcraft like time line. Moving to new world's to fight or something.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who remembers games on floppy disks!
@@RC-qv9in also had ultimate doom on 10 floppy disks. My kindergarten had the HUGE floppy disks for a few games.... I feel old
bout the only thing that comes close is Stellaris with mods
Kane just used everyone for his homecoming.
PEACE THROUGH POWER
ONE VISION, ONE PURPOSE
TECHNOLOGY OF PEACE
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I killed my friends so much back then that many of them stopped playing games ... lol , good times.
*FOR NOD! FOR KANE! PEACE THROUGH POWER!*
If you don't want to hunt down your own friends during a multiplayer, then I would be confused, I see my friend inn any type off game and how I can get on the opposite team then him, because I wanna show him how it's done! One vision, one purpose!!
The world only believes what the media tells them to believe. - Kane.
Damn, fictional characters dropping quotes that age VERY well now adays.
"The World only believes what the Media tells them to believe, and I tell the media what to believe, it's really quite simple".
Scary when you discover that the Brotherhood of Nod is basically the good guys.
MFW GDI stops a plan that would literally end any problem Tiberium creates just because it would make Nod look good.
Love it.
Peace through power !!!
Nobody acknowledges the existence of tiberian twilgiht lmao
good keep it that way
The existence of what ... (confused staring)?
The existence of what?
Tiberium twillight? Is dat a movie or something?
Nope tiberian twilight is not a command and conquer series
Come on....what with population limit and split a faction to different function like defensive and offensive, that is not C&C I know from my childhood
One day I’ll form a massive cult like the brotherhood of nod except we’ll just listen to the C&C soundtracks and play the old games.
Came back to watch this again and notice what was off in this video the whole time. You didn't use "No Mercy" as for Nod's theme!!
The funny thing is I saw this in my recommendations and it made me rebuy C&C 3 I already planned on getting Tiberian Sun and Firestorm and Kane’s Wrath now too thanks to these
Being Kane's second-in-command never ends well
The brotherhood of nod or the black hand are from Serbia. Grettings and like, 😁👍.
C&C Tiberium Dawn was perhaps a sci-fi, but its depiction of the early 2000s asymetric warfare with a militarized organization of religious fanatics based in the Third World was almost "prophetic". Tiberium and sci-fi elements aside, the Tiberium Dawn is like the war with ISIS or al-Qaeda. I think that the developers realized this "prophetic" element and decided to use it further in C&C generals.
One Vision, One Purpose..
I checked as much as i could, but i am certain i haven't heard this before: What's the song at 1:10 ? It's not on any of Klepacki's stuff, but it sure as hell sounds like it. Anyone help me out here?
It's called Killing Machine and it is done by Frank Klepacki. It's from the Firestorm expansion to Tiberian Sun.
Cybran are basically Nod, there’s so many similarities: red, cyborgs, stealth technology, spikey insectoid designs, ect.
Jethild awesome job you belong to the brotherhood
From God to Kane to Seth.... well not so much Seth anymore. 😬 🤯
Poor Seth.
He will never be the 'head' of NOD anymore.
The irony is that Seth in the Bible was the third son of Adam and Eve.
How did you get renegade to look so crisp?
The only thing I might have had to do was set the resolution of the game to 1920x1080 to match my monitor. Other than that, nothing else.
What an amazing thumbnail
Ahh nod the noble and selfless rebels who fight for the future of humankind. So poetic.
You cannot kill the Messiah!
There is a logical mistake here that a whole storyline and the studio oversight it for sure, which is Kane was not killed by ion shot at his own temple in Savjevo back in the first Tiberium War, later GDI once again fired the same weapon at the same location for killing the same person during the third Tiberium war event. How could the top GDI officials have not learned anything on record of terminating Kane?
The time between the first and third Tiberium Wars was 40-50 years. So most senior commanders in GDI would either be dead or retired. The other thing to consider is that most of the GDI top brass was killed when the GDSS Philadelphia was nuked, leaving Redmond Boyle, the Secretary of the Treasury, as the leader of GDI. So an incompetent leader and half a century between these two events along with Kane seemingly to be to reappear out of nowhere makes the Ion Cannon attack in TW3 have some plausibility.
Excellent, but you forgot about one thing, originally Soviets won Red Alert 1 which is shown in Mammoth tanks (and other soviet units) used by GDI and allied equipment used by NOD, yet for some reason it was changed/retconed later.
It wasn't.
Soviet Union was part of GSI.
I strongly believe Kane is THEE Kane, who slew his brother Abel.
God cursed Kane with immortality, cursed to forever roam the earth and witness the horrors we inflict on each other. Unable to die himself.
Now ask yourself this, how many times has Kane been killed? Or at least how many times have people attempted to kill him?
End of the first war, GDI drops a damn Ion Cannon on Kane's head and all he got was a facial scar he healed completely.
If rat doesn't say that he is the very same Kane cursed by God with immortality, I don't k ow what is
You've got that part from the Bible wrong. Cain was cursed by God, but not with a literal immortality. God gave him a mark, Cain could still be killed by anyone, but that mark tells people who encounters him, that he's the first murderer and that he's marked by God for what he's done. Anyone, who would bring harm to Cain would also suffer harm from God himself. It's not like he couldn't be killed, it's more like people thought twice about killing him, since they would suffer consequences from God himself.
"Kane LIVES!!"
Slovenia! Finally someone mentions us :D
Greatest exporters of FemBoys
12:10 You pronounced it perfectly as someone with no slavic accent. :D
Peace Though Power
My favorite characters were Kane, Slavic and Oxana, too bad Slavic is not in the newer games
Somehow i want a Brotherhood of Nod FPS game
they really did my boy Slavic dirty
if he had been in the third war he would have wiped the floor with GDI
9:23 Are we sure the Brotherhood of Nod doesn't exist in this universe?
My thoughts exactly when I saw that lol I was like ohhhh shiiiiit!!! Hahaha
PEACE THROUGH POWER!
we need series" on netflix or something called "the Brotherhood" and "The Global Defense Initiative" which follow Nod/GDI in the early days.
Then a spin off show called "Tiberium Wars" which shows the three wars and the finale is the final battle vs Scrin, with the final shot of the first series being the Scrin leader saying a full invasion force is on it's way...
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So that they could cast a black lesbian woman as Kane, completely ignore the plot of the games, and generally piss all over the source material? Yeah, no thanks.
Where does the name Nod come from? Does it stand for something?
In the Bible Cain is exiled to the land of Nod after he killed Abel. That’s the only reference to it and Nod translates from Hebrew as exile.
@@rufinator ohhh, that’s epic thanks
According to religious scholars based on how the Garden of Eden is described in the Bible that the Land of Nod would be located somewhere in Iran if real life location matters but Nod has no ties to the Middle East beyond religious terminology.
@@sonarbuge7958 New Order Diplomacy (NOD), that was Westwood intentions
I get that intelligence means something different in a military context but when he said the Brotherhood did not have the intelligence to defeat the rogue A.I alone it still cracked me up. Even though it makes sense.
That pun was very much intended 😁
Same joke was later made in the film Team America
Jane was the secret organisation within secret organisations.
if A.I GDI called Eva, NOD Legion then what name of the Scrin A.I ?
In the Scrin campaign they refer to the player commander as foreman if that counts?
The scrin called their A.I Mothership
After it's snub of the Overlord and Supervisor, it's called nothing. Because it's probably reformatted or dead.
@@jdanger_sanders The Foreman is the Scrin equivalent of a general, not AI. The Scrin AI is refered to as Mothership. I guess it could be the actual Mothership's AI, aiding the Foreman in their quest.
i say the (entirely theoretical hypothetical) scenario of utilizing this treshold tower to facilitate the ascension as planned, probably by drawing on the immense energy stored in tiberium, could in a certain point of view confirm the messiah brand, because if i remember the translation correctly it is savior/deliverer and on a planet being actively devoured...
i'm just saying it would theoretically be worth exploring but one should NEVER RUSH those things.
one thing to think about is this. Brotherhood of nod Named the crystal. Eavryone just whent along with it. But the real question how on earth did they do that? So just to do that the Brotherhood must have had alot of sway in the science cummunity and in the political. But that also implies when the crystal came the brotherhood made sure to take credit for it. Wich is again alot of sway in various societies. I dare not to think about the implications of that.
"The World only believes what the Media tells them to believe. And i tell the Media what to believe, it's really quite simple".
@@WallNutBreaker524 than the implications of that is this. How big was the brother hood of nods influence prior to the crystal. Not EU or continent wise but glodally. Also how come nod almost looses its wars... there is something that does not add up here.
ONE VISION. ONE PURPOSE.
10:43 the what trade centre now?
....goosebumps
It was bombed in 1993
For some weird reason I'd love the idea that Kane stands behind Putin in 2022 as a puppetmaster
Yet another "nod" to the bible is that Cain was exiled to the "Land of Nod" after killing his brother Abel, hinting to the connection of Kane and Cain as well.
Our lives for Kane
Command and conquer would make a great sci-fi war tv series if done right