@@krzysztofczajka6752 He did resurrect Varian as well, during the attack in Stormwind (in the books) which is a testament to his faith and his connection with the light and proves that the light never left him, rather than he pushed it away
except last time we heard exact same music score it was when Anduin ressed a lot ppl at once - trailer for (ha tfu) Battle for Azeroth. In Light We Trust.
can someone pls explain me this scene? It seems I've missed something regarding Khadgar or I don't know crucial info about Khadgar, yes he was sucked in that item, but why did he transform into the bird when it was shattered?
@@mikali1704 Khadgar could always turn into a raven due to the power of his staff Atiesh which once belonged to Medivh. Though I was not aware he could still do it with Atiesh destroyed.
@@mikali1704 Khadgar is the apprentice of Medivh, and former wielder of Atiesh. I imagine he learned how to wildshape either from Medivh directly, via one of his books in Karazhan, or via the staff. The reference OP makes about another 'harbinger of despair' is likely a reference to the Endsinger which is the final villain of the "main" FF14 saga.
I wouldn't be so sure that she didn't. We already saw her masquerade as a member of the Kirin Tor, why do we instantly trust that this is really Khadgar?
Omg Warcraft doesn’t know how to have a single death anywhere. Their team is so bad at raising up new characters they can’t let defeated ones go. Why couldn’t the void resurrect him for a change either, this really killed the idea of “using void for good” and “exposing the light for its greed” in one good/bad simpleton act.
@@riptidepuffle7856void for good ?? Like because its not going with your idea then its bad story....the story is good until it match your head canon 😂 and Whats not death?.many characters already died between legion to bfa. You don't need death in each expansions One piece of advice is to stop taking every theory available on youtube as a real. Light greedy and exposed for What ? looks like you watch a lot of those senseless theory video
or maybe it was just an allusion to Shadowlands cinematic, with sylvannas breaking the helm of domination, severing the "shackles" of Death and ending the cycle (or trying to)
This literally made me cheer outloud for Anduin. When he put his hand on Khadgar I was like "COME ON, ANDUIN! USE THE LIGHT! YOU GOT THIS!" and he did! Oooh man, I'm glad he has found his way back to the light AND saved Khadgar in doing so. THAT'S my King! As mainly an Alliance player, this cinematic has made me a very happy camper. Thank you!
Same. That part when Anduin used the light and it worked, he revived Khadgar and that music played, I got emotional and teared up a little. I love Anduin. ❤
Hell man... as soon as I saw Anduin standing their clenching his fist, I was already yelling "Come on Anduin, you know what you gotta do, do it man!" then that damn theme and the light hit his face and I started getting teary eyed.... all we needed was Turalyon there kneeling over his wife and nods in approval to Anduin.
lame, if character deaths have no meaning then the story has no tension or point. his death was better than his life. would have been nice to see him be updated into shadowlands.
@sodasaintcommentaries4054 True, but I wasn't adding Anduin in that statement. Just making a comment on the broader story that chuckle head up there is confidently ignorant of.
Thank you for uploading! Something I adore about the recent cutscenes is the range of expressions; the little brow twitches when a nerve is hit, to Xal’atath’s angry scream, to Anduin looking to the Light. Beautifully done.
Agreed. Xal'atath is acting too high and mighty considering she knows of everything we have done and beaten. She should be doing what she needs to do and distracting us etc whilst she does it. Standing toe to toe never works out for them lol.
@@Persiangamerxo Iridikron has come across to me as a collector of power who uses ambitious people as pawns to keep his enemies occupied. Xal'atath was so preoccupied with taunting Alleria that she wasn't prepared for Alleria to go after the Dark Heart as opposed to her.
@@mep1455 but she did distract us with the spider invasion ,her plan was great all things considering if it wasnt for Khadgars message to Alleria she would have 100% succeed.
I DIDN'T SEE NO BODY! I KNEW HE WASN'T DEAD! NOT OUR GUARDIAN! I do hope he retires after this though... he's done enough for us. And thank the Light, Manduin Wrynn is making his come back.
@@Mandelbrotmat iirc it was Tirion who thought himself unworthy of the light due to the decision made by the silver hand and his own internal conflict, the light never actually left him. Kinda similar to Mandiun here.
I have a feeling they are holding ARTHAS in the deck of cards and towards the end of the last expansion we will have a “on your left cap, avengers assemble!” Moment and all the old characters and or evil ones turned evil actually show up to defend mortality. That would be dope like even having Sargaras pacified and back in the good side to defend Azeroth!
Nah , that's so stupid. You saying that some eldritch being gets defeated an arrow hiting the ultra powerfull relic of Old Gods that wistoud millenias?
@@thekillingjoke8474 FF14's story telling literally takes a dump on this, like this is the most predictable pile of highschool language arts class writing I have ever seen.
That would make sense for the plot of the *next expansion i.e. Midnight.* And in my understanding, this is not the last of Xal’atath and she’s definitely going to be in Midnight as well because that expansion will be a Light vs. Void type expansion and she’s the Harbinger of the Void. I’m pretty sure Xal’atath is the main villain/antagonist of *The War Within* and *Midnight.* Also, “that trinket” is actually *The Dark Heart,* which is a powerful, ancient magical artifact, infused with ancient dark magic and Xal’atath collected or drained the essences of the Old Gods and has the essence of Galakrond in there as well, which Iridikron drained during *The Dawn Of The Infinite, during the expansion Dragonflight.* It was Irdikron who obtained The Dark Heart during *Dragonflight* and gave it to Xal’atath as well as teamed up with her. That is why Xal’atath is/was so powerful.
@@neoneptune-g Just hope they don't give her the typical Hollywood/bad games plot armor treatment (of players/protagonists) = reducing her to an idiot and she only loses by that.
@@michaelgreenwood3413 He'd probably return if he got ressed. He'd sigh exasperatedly, say a cheesy they need me line as a ghost and pop right back up.
Quest is called, A Light in the Dark This is the cinematic that plays at the end of the scenario Hopefully yt comments can make a google search easier; I spent too much time googling the quest name. hopefully the in-game cinematic will be fixed soon, thanks for having this up so fast. no idea how the wowhead team got it but very glad y'all did.
Yeah, for one second, I thought this expansion was going to have real stakes and real consequences. I'm glad to see that it's just going to be yet another expansion with 0 major character death.
@@manthe3711 This expansion has been going on for several days bro. It was good for Anduin's development and if you are not working for Blizzard then you cant know what will happen in this expansion. Hating for the sake of hating...
@@OotsutsukiShibai Nigga, this game has been out for 20 years, of course I know what will happen this expansion. Or, to be more accurate, what won't happen this expansion: major character deaths.
@@cameronmcewen9666 i dont know to tell you the truth i havent played much of the new expancion. all i know is that Alleria was really pissed off about it. but he is alive now and he is still handsome.
@@michaelgreenwood3413 He’s a character with story i don’t care. Just as i don’t care about any humans in warcraft save Tirion. But when he resurrected Khadgar he did a great job i apreciate
You're amazing for uploading this! My cutscene crashed on me and was so upset, and confused how Khadgar was lying outside the Priory alive Thank you so much!!
Sad that xal'atath just loses because the plot needed her to be stupid for a moment, every confrontation with her she was always 3 steps ahead, she can teleport anywhere in an instant, she can turn into intangible smoke, she can turn alleria's brain off with void whispers, she waves her hand and alleria's bow goes flying away , she dodges and arrow she didn't even see coming, but in the most important and crucial moment, she forgets how to do any of those things and then the VOID artifact that can eat up a giant arcane laser beam is broken by the VOID ENERGY ARROW. But of course the good guys won and got their moment, even khadgar is back. We finally have an interesting villain after like 4 years of boring plastic villains, but sadly xal'atath got the blizzard treatment and she's stupid now, I could even see a bit of sylvanas in her doing the classic signature blizzard villain *screams in frustration, says it's not over yet and teleports away*. It's so sad how you are forced into just cheering for the good guys every time, because its 100% guaranteed that nothing bad will happen to them, the villain will always lose in a stupid way and eveything will be alright in the end, shallow ass black and white narrative. I'm happy for the people who enjoyed this cinematic, but I just can't, the supposedly powerful villain just forgets how to fight and loses so easily, their powerful artifact that is shown time and time again to absorb any kind of energy just gets destroyed by an attack of THE SAME ENERGY IT IS MADE OF and death is officially broken in warcraft narrative, because not only can you physically travel to the afterlife, any character can now get ressurected if the plot wants so, I will never be shocked seeing someone die in this story again. Butt messes me up the most is how FAST things are progressing, its too goddamn fast, anduin gets his light back, khadgar is back, xal'atath plans are ruined AND THE RAID HASN'T EVEN LAUNCHED yet not to mention so many other things like xal'atath being able to empower the Ascended to become insane killing machines, we had trouble dealing with that one dude in a previous quest, imagine what an army of those rabid ascended could do? Oh yeah xal'atath just forgot she could do that too. What about the order of night? I feel like their story was very unfinished and poorly written, wish they expanded more on it. Why doesn't the final campaign quest of this patch ties into the raid? we just beat xal'atath at the priory and thats it, I wish something happened that directed us to the raid, maybe the dark heart being broken creates a portal that sucks us there and we chase Xal'atath into the nerub'ar palace or something, to tie into this too Ansurek barely appears in these quests, and she's the final boss of this tier, I wish the campaing quests or azj kahet quests showed more about xal'atath manipulating Ansurek, the queen appears to be messed up in the head right now but in the start all she wanted was to make their kingdom prosper again, xal'atath twisted that for her own ends. I wanted to see how xal'atath made the ascended and how her dark void alchemy works, how it all started, I'm scared that they will just drop the nerubians now and forget about them I was excited in the beginning of this expansion but blizzard is starting to show signs of chronic blizzard writting illness again, it makes me worried about the future, I like xal'atath, I waited 10 years for a void expansion, I don't want this to be wasted
I'm right there with you. I get that they wanted Alleria to have a moment, that's fine, but the execution just doesn't work. I mean we could of had a story about how Xal'atath can just keep shutting her down because she is stronger with the Void than Alleria is so Alleria has to try something else, learn something else, get a new weapon, or tool, anything but instead we just see Xal'atath dominate Alleria at every turn except for when the plot really need Alleria to win.
I was sure that he wasn't dead, but I didn't expect him to be ''saved'' so soon. I can't wait to troll all the people who argued with me that Khadgar is dead.
Dadghar lives! *STOMP STOMP* In all seriousness, a little concerned that two of the biggest plot-points, the fate of Khadgar and Anduin's relationship with the Light, got resolved so quickly, but I'll take it regardless! Its nice to see some small-scale wins in the face of the overwhelming machinations of the Harbringer, and now we've got a very personal grudge against us on behalf of Xal'atath. First, we nearly killed her using the Black Blade to drain Sargeras's sword before it could kill the World Soul, and now we may have permanently damaged her MacGuffinite. Now, it is personal for both sides of this fight ...
Please don’t make Xal into all the other A4 villains. Feels a little stupid of Xal to not protect her artifact better. Her scene with Khadgar showed off some of her power, and Khadgar had no chance. But Alleria shoots an arrow at Xal’s artifact, breaks it. Xal flips and leaves? Feels super silly 😑
I think Alleria simply damaged the artifact and made it start Leaking the energies she absorbed, including Kadgar itself. She has been going around absorbing all energies, from Dalaran and Kagdar and etc etc, they all used as source of power for her. but the artifact was damaged so she quickly went away to seal/fix it, while some of the energies and Kadgar leaked out.
@@LuckyPed10 That makes sense actually, to absorb and fix the damage done to the artifact, she left. I just find it poorly written that Xal is so careless around the artifact that seems so important to her? Earlier when Alleria shot an arrow at her, she just made it disappear with a flick of her wrist. It’s a different scenario of course, but perhaps multi tasking while absorbing Beledar or whatever funny business she’s up to, is not something Xal is capable of 😂
Feels good to see Blizz telling a good story in this game again. Feels like the main plot of the expansion is largely over, and the coming patches is just tying up loose ends, while setting up Midnight. Which I think is a great way to structure an expansion's story. Instead of making us wait months, and months for more pieces to the main plot.
Anduin is gonna turn out to be one of the most powerful light priests in the history of the game, or hes gonna go full holy paladin and have a Luke Skywalker moment. It's coming
I was panicking when the cutscene just beeped a few times, then I was popped in the middle of the town and Khadgar was on the ground. Best cutscene I have seen so far. This was absolutely EPIC!
She could be. Because when Xal used that black hole thing to destroy Dalaran, Khadgar’s arm literally desintegrated. ( it didn’t feel like a teleportation or like he was being captured) That’s why I was waiting for him to lose his arm at least. Also Xal’atath mentions that Alleria never felt her presence when she was in disguise as the other mage.
I'm sorry but how tf is xal just gonna let her shoot the artifact and not use her super op void magic to like, protect it? It's not like they were fighting and got damaged in the process. She even warned xal she was aiming for it. Come on......
Eh it's partially for the cinematic effect, you can consider her shooting the arrow before "warning" her and without Xal yet realizing Alleria's aim at that point. she also just said not you and not the artifat so few second to process what she mean.
It has been so many years since a story in wow brought me to actual tears. This sure did. People hate a lot on Blizz but this story this time around is actually peak content imho! I'm so proud of my boy manduin T_T
You can hate the cinematic just because everyone hates everything Blizz creates but I have to admit that this one actually gave me chills, I loved that and I was honestly surprised by this twist :)
For one second i was saying, "cant be Alleria so stupid to try attack Xalathat again", but to my surprise, she "destroy" the shadow hearth, but what's now, she brokes it or just damage it? We will see in the final boss of the raid, how this will continued?
It's The same with everything nowadays dude. People either want to hate something before they even give it a chance, or they let nostalgia blind them to liking something simply because it doesn't feel the same as it did when they were 10. And I'm sorry but world of Warcraft is never going to feel the same as it did when you were a 10-year-old kid playing vanilla not knowing what the hell you were doing
kinda clueless arent you? THERE WELL NEVER BE A WARCHIEF AGAIN.. Horde races have finally understood that that was a leftover from the Orcish evil history, and needed to vanish forever.
i'm in tears. watching anduin looking, probably still doubting he can do it but finally built up the courage to try after being scared to reach out for so long. All Faerins talk about hope and how to stay a light in the dark has really inspired anduin to finally try. And watching his sigh of relief when he succeeded is truely well done.
What makes this even better is she said that knowing Xal’atah would freak out and try and move it, which is why she turned the arrow and aimed a bit to the left! She outplayed Xal’atah :)
I will tell you why, cause get got a PTSD arc out of nothing, He got mind controlled for like a week? He didnt killed anyone, nor inocent not people he deeply cared about.
@@fredy2041 My brother in christ, he spent like 90% of Shadowlands getting tortured in his universe's equivalent of literal Hell before being locked into a suit of Lich King armour by the Devil. I think he's allowed to be upset about that lmao.
Is this why they didnt want turalyon to follow her, because Anduin was the one needing to heal khadgar? Because Turalyon could of done it. He is a pally.
@@ZakhadWOW unless they retconned resurrection, it was a heal Resurrection is not supposed to be this easy in the actual lore, but continuity be damned with thes writers i guess
Am I being too negative by feeling like this was too early? I love Khadgar being back/being revived and Anduin getting his Light back, it's sick - but only *two* weeks into the expansion? It doesn't feel earned, like Anduin's been struggling for *years* to get his Light back, and now it's already good to be reviving people? And Khadgar is back already - it feels like it almost cheapens his sacrifice at Dalaran with how little time he was absent. Idk. I *love* the cinematic, and the story, but the timing is strange.
To be fair for Anduin, his issue was never about getting his light back. He was worried that if he reached out for the light it wouldn't be there and what that would mean for him. His capacity never diminished, he just had mental blocks he had to get over. I do mostly agree about the Khadgar part though. This felt inevitable because no one ever really dealt with Khadgar's death in the first place and our boy here would get a more monumental sendoff if he was really gone. As it stands, sort of a nothing exit and a nothing return.
Per some datamined stuff, there's "Khadgar's Wheelchair." So while he's been rezzed, I don't think he's going to be in any shape to do much more than Advise from now on. He's not exactly a young man even *not* counting his curse of old age from Medivh.
@@michaelgreenwood3413 he's actually in the wheelchair in the Foundation Hall in Dornogal! There's a stay a while and listen with him and Alleria where he talks about how he survived being in the Dark Heart and how he's still injured :)
Well, guess the Dark Heart wound up not mattering much in the end, unless Xal somehow fixes it. Also, why does Xalatath keep flinching whenever Alleria shoots at her. She took everything Khadgar had and then dodged Alleria’s arrow at Dalaran. And throughout this expansion she keeps monologuing about how powerful and cunning she is and then dodges like she’s scared of an arrow every time Alleria shoots at her. I’m really getting nervous they’re going to Jailer our girl and I reeeeeeally don’t want that.
The heart is literally the only thing that protects Xal's weak vessel. We know it consumes energy and feed its user, if anything you dont fight her with magic since your spells are going to get eaten (Like Khadgar in Dalaran). As for Alleria's arrows? maybe the heart cant eat those? Anyway i'm with you in the "Villain monologue" part, lets hope this defeat force her to take mortals more serious and realise how vulnerable she is.
@@audine2219 You see, I can buy that. Having the Dark Heart on hand protecting her from magic makes sense since it absorbs magic/energy. Fingers crossed she takes a page from Iridikron's book and actually starts taking us seriously. She's the closest thing to a legacy villain we have left that Blizz hasn't dropped the ball on so I really want them to do her justice.
![Khadgar's Fall Cinematic: Destruction of Dalaran - Anduin, Jaina, Thrall Mourn [WoW: War Within]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/G4N-kOwBCo8/mqdefault.jpg)
In these 21 sec, Khadgar earned the respect of Necrolords, built a new Covenant for himself and the friendship of Arbiter Pelagos.
Shadowlands Speedrun ANY%
had to gtfo as soon as he saw the Ardenweald maw weekly.
Torghast
He jailed the jailer and then set him free.
TIME PASSES DIFFERENT IN SHADOWLANDS
Finally, someone used a healing spell in a cinematic. So tired of seeing people dying when a healer is literally watching over them. lol
Lore wise - resurrection is not that easy and often fails
@@krzysztofczajka6752 and so, for that reason Anduin doesn't even try it on Varok.
Anduin used Power Word: Barrier at the intro cinematic in BFA and a damn awesome one :D
@@krzysztofczajka6752 He did resurrect Varian as well, during the attack in Stormwind (in the books) which is a testament to his faith and his connection with the light and proves that the light never left him, rather than he pushed it away
except last time we heard exact same music score it was when Anduin ressed a lot ppl at once - trailer for (ha tfu) Battle for Azeroth. In Light We Trust.
For half a second I actually thought Xal'atath had turned into a bird, much like a certain other harbringer of despair.
can someone pls explain me this scene? It seems I've missed something regarding Khadgar or I don't know crucial info about Khadgar, yes he was sucked in that item, but why did he transform into the bird when it was shattered?
@@mikali1704khadgar can turn into a crow because he wields Atiesh
@@mikali1704 Khadgar could always turn into a raven due to the power of his staff Atiesh which once belonged to Medivh. Though I was not aware he could still do it with Atiesh destroyed.
@@mikali1704 Khadgar is the apprentice of Medivh, and former wielder of Atiesh. I imagine he learned how to wildshape either from Medivh directly, via one of his books in Karazhan, or via the staff.
The reference OP makes about another 'harbinger of despair' is likely a reference to the Endsinger which is the final villain of the "main" FF14 saga.
I wouldn't be so sure that she didn't. We already saw her masquerade as a member of the Kirin Tor, why do we instantly trust that this is really Khadgar?
Anduin saved my goat...I'm so proud of him
Now anduin does reiky??, And hes not dead?? He dies twice but not, we are gonna have the mos amoing guy back again...
@@pitvader2 dont priests/paladins have ress?
Omg Warcraft doesn’t know how to have a single death anywhere. Their team is so bad at raising up new characters they can’t let defeated ones go. Why couldn’t the void resurrect him for a change either, this really killed the idea of “using void for good” and “exposing the light for its greed” in one good/bad simpleton act.
@@riptidepuffle7856void for good ?? Like because its not going with your idea then its bad story....the story is good until it match your head canon 😂 and Whats not death?.many characters already died between legion to bfa.
You don't need death in each expansions
One piece of advice is to stop taking every theory available on youtube as a real.
Light greedy and exposed for What ? looks like you watch a lot of those senseless theory video
no anduin has alliance bias.
"When the arrow finds it's mark, the last fetter will fall away.."
-N'zoth
O'shiiii
N'zoth knew xal'atath will not succeed.
or maybe it was just an allusion to Shadowlands cinematic, with sylvannas breaking the helm of domination, severing the "shackles" of Death and ending the cycle (or trying to)
i always felt like n´zoth and the other gods were to easy defeated
This literally made me cheer outloud for Anduin. When he put his hand on Khadgar I was like "COME ON, ANDUIN! USE THE LIGHT! YOU GOT THIS!" and he did! Oooh man, I'm glad he has found his way back to the light AND saved Khadgar in doing so. THAT'S my King! As mainly an Alliance player, this cinematic has made me a very happy camper. Thank you!
100% I was cheering the whole time!
That’s pathetic!
And I mostly play Alliance.
@@Jasperline Glad it wasn't just me! 🙂
When khadgar dropped dead, I was like WTF Anduin do something! And I was not disappointed 👼
@@teej143 I’m disappointed by the writing.
I legit yelled, "COME ON, DO IT!" as soon as he looked at the light. Let's go Anduin!
While me just yelled MANDURIN while crying in yelling.
cringe
Sameee!! I said, “cmon Anduin! Now’s your time!! C’MON ANDUIN!!!” 😂😂
Seeing Anduin finally able to reach the light and use it to save Khadgar really got me all teared up.
Same. That part when Anduin used the light and it worked, he revived Khadgar and that music played, I got emotional and teared up a little. I love Anduin. ❤
Mine started when I realized that was Khadgars bird form and not Xalatath turned into one.
Hell man... as soon as I saw Anduin standing their clenching his fist, I was already yelling "Come on Anduin, you know what you gotta do, do it man!" then that damn theme and the light hit his face and I started getting teary eyed.... all we needed was Turalyon there kneeling over his wife and nods in approval to Anduin.
Anduin remembered how to use Revival
Finally spec'd back into it
He lost it in his spell book
Literally me going: anduin use your rez.
*Saurfang disliked the comment*
Unlike our Cloud who forgot to use Phoenix Down on Aerith in Original and the Remake
Damn Blizzard actually did something right for once. Dadghar isn't gone after all. The "no body, not dead" meme can live on.
lame, if character deaths have no meaning then the story has no tension or point. his death was better than his life. would have been nice to see him be updated into shadowlands.
@@Probl3matik
If you pay attention to the details he was never dying. Dalaran was transported somewhere. He was too.
I was going to riot if the xpac ended without him back
@@Probl3matikcant we all just forget shadowlands is a thing
it was already ruined.
Thumbs up for Anduin.
He finally got it up!
I don't think Anduin got Light fully back right Now, its just for small moments it came back 🤔
alliance bias
@@099Nitro lol imagine playing only one faction
@@TheHeartlessFour imagine being a biased and ignorant alliance shill not aware of their story priviliges.
Damn, all the Sons of Lothar not only alive and well. But working together for the first time in literal decades. I love it!!
There are only 2 sons of lothar in this cinematic.
@KarlMerkli so have you not played the expansion? Or did you just ADHD plow through quests?
@@KarlMerkli Anduin is literally named for Lothar.
@sodasaintcommentaries4054 True, but I wasn't adding Anduin in that statement. Just making a comment on the broader story that chuckle head up there is confidently ignorant of.
@@KarlMerkli He didn't say they were all present in the cinematic.
Thank you for uploading!
Something I adore about the recent cutscenes is the range of expressions; the little brow twitches when a nerve is hit, to Xal’atath’s angry scream, to Anduin looking to the Light. Beautifully done.
2:20
Anduin: What am I supposed to do now?
Echo of Varian: What a king must do.
Legion reference at it's finest. 😀
"Start healing these m+"
Thank you for posting this so fast, really saving a lot of people whose cutscene crashed
King Anduin Wrynn is back.
Who cares? We've got ARCHMAGE KHADGAR back!
Lmao
Who?
Baby boy is still crying
@@emetsalt2678 Dunno, only one crying here is you.
@@emetsalt2678 smelly horde detected
@@emetsalt2678 I have to ask where's horde member on these expac ? Like allways Alliance have to do all jobs ... pity horde x)
This further proves that Iridikron is the smartest protagonist yet. Everyone else just assumes they are inevitable and keeps their guard down.
Iridikron is hiding, he's not smarter, he's just a lil bish
Agreed. Xal'atath is acting too high and mighty considering she knows of everything we have done and beaten. She should be doing what she needs to do and distracting us etc whilst she does it. Standing toe to toe never works out for them lol.
can you explain?
@@Persiangamerxo Iridikron has come across to me as a collector of power who uses ambitious people as pawns to keep his enemies occupied. Xal'atath was so preoccupied with taunting Alleria that she wasn't prepared for Alleria to go after the Dark Heart as opposed to her.
@@mep1455 but she did distract us with the spider invasion ,her plan was great all things considering if it wasnt for Khadgars message to Alleria she would have 100% succeed.
I DIDN'T SEE NO BODY! I KNEW HE WASN'T DEAD! NOT OUR GUARDIAN! I do hope he retires after this though... he's done enough for us. And thank the Light, Manduin Wrynn is making his come back.
I think the chances Khadgar retires at the end of saga ie last titan is quiet high. But who knows
"Manduin" ?? 🤨
He should’ve stayed dead. This is the worst writing we’ve seen since Shadowlands.
"Your hunger for violence is insatiable"
I'm a DK, duh
"The Light always returns."
"The Light does not abandon its champions."
Tirion: "so I'm a fuckin joke, now?"
"The Light will forge you a new one." - Xe'ra, thinking of the player's shattered anus, probably...
@@Mandelbrotmat iirc it was Tirion who thought himself unworthy of the light due to the decision made by the silver hand and his own internal conflict, the light never actually left him. Kinda similar to Mandiun here.
Kobolds also always return, as said in a world quest.
Kobolds = The Light.
The Light = Candles.
One of the best cinematics in the game IMO. So much happened, so consequential. Absolutely awesome.
Khadgar is dead...
KHADGAR SURVIVED!!!
Khadgar is dead again...
Khadgar is ali... uh, forget.
Khadgar the Gray is dead, this guy is Khadgar the White.
Three fake out deaths in this expansion.
Schrodingers Khadgar
he was Khadgar the white in TBC imho @@MannyBrum
Nobody said he was dead 😂 It was pure speculation
This is how character development is done. Metzen light be with you.
"Impossible... Doesn't anyone stay dead anymore?" (c) Arthas Menethil (WC3)
Nah shadowlands made death pointless
“Light, son.”
- Uther the Lightbringer
I have a feeling they are holding ARTHAS in the deck of cards and towards the end of the last expansion we will have a “on your left cap, avengers assemble!” Moment and all the old characters and or evil ones turned evil actually show up to defend mortality. That would be dope like even having Sargaras pacified and back in the good side to defend Azeroth!
@@ds698bro 💀
@@ds698 sargeras?
I’m glad Khadgar didn’t click “Release Spirit” 😂
Make sure to do the with Anduin and Thrall. Makes a lot more sense after actually seeing this cutscene.
Regardless of how this expansion feels, this cinematic has to be the best one yet. Broke my expectations.
Nah , that's so stupid. You saying that some eldritch being gets defeated an arrow hiting the ultra powerfull relic of Old Gods that wistoud millenias?
@@okularnik125 you are thinking too much. its fantasy lmao
@@thekillingjoke8474 FF14's story telling literally takes a dump on this, like this is the most predictable pile of highschool language arts class writing I have ever seen.
Sure bro sure @@Elmo914
@@okularnik125 overpowered arrow, fueled by void energy? Sure
A fitting end to an amazing campaign. WoW's back!
There’s nothing amazing here.
@@cameronmcewen9666weird to just come out and dis yourself like that but do you boo
@@LeShawnTho You disgust me!
So that is why Xal'atath will go to Sunwell, in replacement of that trinket, to use as conduit of whatever she is channeling there.
Omg ! You're a cleaver guy ! Hope you're right !
That would make sense for the plot of the *next expansion i.e. Midnight.* And in my understanding, this is not the last of Xal’atath and she’s definitely going to be in Midnight as well because that expansion will be a Light vs. Void type expansion and she’s the Harbinger of the Void. I’m pretty sure Xal’atath is the main villain/antagonist of *The War Within* and *Midnight.* Also, “that trinket” is actually *The Dark Heart,* which is a powerful, ancient magical artifact, infused with ancient dark magic and Xal’atath collected or drained the essences of the Old Gods and has the essence of Galakrond in there as well, which Iridikron drained during *The Dawn Of The Infinite, during the expansion Dragonflight.* It was Irdikron who obtained The Dark Heart during *Dragonflight* and gave it to Xal’atath as well as teamed up with her. That is why Xal’atath is/was so powerful.
If you've watched the recent gamescon interviews, they did mention Xal'atath will be around throughout the whole Saga!
@@neoneptune-g Just hope they don't give her the typical Hollywood/bad games plot armor treatment (of players/protagonists) = reducing her to an idiot and she only loses by that.
Saurfang's ghost: So you could resurrect me?
Anduin: Well... um... I don't know~
I think even if he could, Varok Saurfang the veteran orc wouldn't be happy about it.
Saurfang chose that death. You can only resurrect those willing to return.
@@michaelgreenwood3413 He'd probably return if he got ressed. He'd sigh exasperatedly, say a cheesy they need me line as a ghost and pop right back up.
andi wasn't high enough lvl so didn't have ress then
Quest is called, A Light in the Dark
This is the cinematic that plays at the end of the scenario
Hopefully yt comments can make a google search easier; I spent too much time googling the quest name. hopefully the in-game cinematic will be fixed soon, thanks for having this up so fast.
no idea how the wowhead team got it but very glad y'all did.
The Stormwind theme started and I got chills.
that isnt Stormwind theme, it is ANDUIN'S theme. Going all the way back to Legion, when he went to find the sword.
@@ZakhadWOWwell yes, but Anduin’s theme is a modified version of stormwind because he’s the king. They also used it for Varian before he died.
alliance bias
@@ZakhadWOW thanks for clarifying i knew I was wrong and someone would correct me
@@099Nitro hi do you know me?
I was going to be so mad if Khadgar actually died. Good job, Anduin, you made us proud!
Yeah, for one second, I thought this expansion was going to have real stakes and real consequences. I'm glad to see that it's just going to be yet another expansion with 0 major character death.
Anduin's character development is impressive, from being afraid that he won't answer to having to call the light to save a key player in this war.
@@manthe3711 This expansion has been going on for several days bro. It was good for Anduin's development and if you are not working for Blizzard then you cant know what will happen in this expansion. Hating for the sake of hating...
@@OotsutsukiShibai Nigga, this game has been out for 20 years, of course I know what will happen this expansion. Or, to be more accurate, what won't happen this expansion: major character deaths.
@@OotsutsukiShibai Lmao it's not hating just a facts
Xal'atath kept Khadgar alive for a reason. She fell in love. 😂
he is a hansome Wizard, that blood elf at the start of the Dragon Flight expansion in Ogrimmar said soo.
@@gekkokkidWhat was the blood elf’s reaction to learn Khadgar died?
@@cameronmcewen9666 i dont know to tell you the truth i havent played much of the new expancion.
all i know is that Alleria was really pissed off about it.
but he is alive now and he is still handsome.
@@cameronmcewen9666 iirc she didn't know, she was one of the Dalaran Citizens kidnapped. You save her in Azj-Kahet.
"I'm not aiming at you" and that rage-filled scream were both so brilliantly delivered.
I’m proud of Anduin for the first time.. Starting to like him 👏
He has grown indeed. From his stressful point, to his lowest point he is beginning to climb
Now you know how the Alliance feels. We literally watched him grow from an 8 year old kid into the man he is.
@@michaelgreenwood3413 He’s a character with story i don’t care. Just as i don’t care about any humans in warcraft save Tirion. But when he resurrected Khadgar he did a great job i apreciate
You're amazing for uploading this!
My cutscene crashed on me and was so upset, and confused how Khadgar was lying outside the Priory alive
Thank you so much!!
Finally a character that get saved instead get corrupted and become a raid boss.
Agreed! I was so worried they would make him a monster and some raid boss where we have to face him.. now i'm happy he is saved. :)
Sad that xal'atath just loses because the plot needed her to be stupid for a moment, every confrontation with her she was always 3 steps ahead, she can teleport anywhere in an instant, she can turn into intangible smoke, she can turn alleria's brain off with void whispers, she waves her hand and alleria's bow goes flying away , she dodges and arrow she didn't even see coming, but in the most important and crucial moment, she forgets how to do any of those things and then the VOID artifact that can eat up a giant arcane laser beam is broken by the VOID ENERGY ARROW. But of course the good guys won and got their moment, even khadgar is back. We finally have an interesting villain after like 4 years of boring plastic villains, but sadly xal'atath got the blizzard treatment and she's stupid now, I could even see a bit of sylvanas in her doing the classic signature blizzard villain *screams in frustration, says it's not over yet and teleports away*. It's so sad how you are forced into just cheering for the good guys every time, because its 100% guaranteed that nothing bad will happen to them, the villain will always lose in a stupid way and eveything will be alright in the end, shallow ass black and white narrative.
I'm happy for the people who enjoyed this cinematic, but I just can't, the supposedly powerful villain just forgets how to fight and loses so easily, their powerful artifact that is shown time and time again to absorb any kind of energy just gets destroyed by an attack of THE SAME ENERGY IT IS MADE OF and death is officially broken in warcraft narrative, because not only can you physically travel to the afterlife, any character can now get ressurected if the plot wants so, I will never be shocked seeing someone die in this story again. Butt messes me up the most is how FAST things are progressing, its too goddamn fast, anduin gets his light back, khadgar is back, xal'atath plans are ruined AND THE RAID HASN'T EVEN LAUNCHED yet
not to mention so many other things like xal'atath being able to empower the Ascended to become insane killing machines, we had trouble dealing with that one dude in a previous quest, imagine what an army of those rabid ascended could do? Oh yeah xal'atath just forgot she could do that too. What about the order of night? I feel like their story was very unfinished and poorly written, wish they expanded more on it. Why doesn't the final campaign quest of this patch ties into the raid? we just beat xal'atath at the priory and thats it, I wish something happened that directed us to the raid, maybe the dark heart being broken creates a portal that sucks us there and we chase Xal'atath into the nerub'ar palace or something, to tie into this too Ansurek barely appears in these quests, and she's the final boss of this tier, I wish the campaing quests or azj kahet quests showed more about xal'atath manipulating Ansurek, the queen appears to be messed up in the head right now but in the start all she wanted was to make their kingdom prosper again, xal'atath twisted that for her own ends. I wanted to see how xal'atath made the ascended and how her dark void alchemy works, how it all started, I'm scared that they will just drop the nerubians now and forget about them
I was excited in the beginning of this expansion but blizzard is starting to show signs of chronic blizzard writting illness again, it makes me worried about the future, I like xal'atath, I waited 10 years for a void expansion, I don't want this to be wasted
I'm right there with you. I get that they wanted Alleria to have a moment, that's fine, but the execution just doesn't work. I mean we could of had a story about how Xal'atath can just keep shutting her down because she is stronger with the Void than Alleria is so Alleria has to try something else, learn something else, get a new weapon, or tool, anything but instead we just see Xal'atath dominate Alleria at every turn except for when the plot really need Alleria to win.
Boo hoo wah. It's just a game. Find something you like and do that, otherwise stfu. These long rants are pointless, and you know it. We ALL know it.
Why Xal’atath didn’t instantly get into Alleria’s head like she did in Dalaran?
I think Alleria is stronger here than in Dalaran. Not so easy to manipulate and she got what she wanted.
Perhaps she needs to use the Heart to do it? Khadgar called out to her, so that's why I'm inclined to believe that.
The plot needed her to lose, that's it. She could've also evaded the arrow like she did in the dalaran cinematic, or teleport away, anything really
Can't believe they killed Khadgar twice so far in WW and he still came back.
Khadgar the Deathless
That’s abhorrent writing.
@@cameronmcewen7192 Boo hoo lil bro
@@TheAdmiral117 You must’ve enjoyed Shadowlands.
@@cameronmcewen7192 I hated Shadowlands, what's your point lil bro
That was the cutest rage scream i have ever heard 😂
me too bro
Finally after years a good cinematic with characters focus and hearth. Good work!
I was sure that he wasn't dead, but I didn't expect him to be ''saved'' so soon. I can't wait to troll all the people who argued with me that Khadgar is dead.
I argued to the death with my friend ,now I need to appologize and bribe him to death xD
It’s like you have a death wish.
Even in the depths of despair, Anduin found just enough Light...just enough...to cast a small resurrection spell.
Well done, lad. Well done.
Thank you, it kicked me out and couldnt see it.
Same here man
did the same for me.
One of the best cutscenes released in a long while I think
Anduin wrynn return
The quality of this cinematic is so good
An Anduin reviving a "Son of Lothar"...
Poetic
ty for having it up so quickly
Dadghar lives! *STOMP STOMP*
In all seriousness, a little concerned that two of the biggest plot-points, the fate of Khadgar and Anduin's relationship with the Light, got resolved so quickly, but I'll take it regardless! Its nice to see some small-scale wins in the face of the overwhelming machinations of the Harbringer, and now we've got a very personal grudge against us on behalf of Xal'atath. First, we nearly killed her using the Black Blade to drain Sargeras's sword before it could kill the World Soul, and now we may have permanently damaged her MacGuffinite.
Now, it is personal for both sides of this fight ...
Xal'atath model, voiceover and animation is at the top level.
Please don’t make Xal into all the other A4 villains. Feels a little stupid of Xal to not protect her artifact better. Her scene with Khadgar showed off some of her power, and Khadgar had no chance. But Alleria shoots an arrow at Xal’s artifact, breaks it. Xal flips and leaves? Feels super silly 😑
I think Alleria simply damaged the artifact and made it start Leaking the energies she absorbed, including Kadgar itself.
She has been going around absorbing all energies, from Dalaran and Kagdar and etc etc, they all used as source of power for her.
but the artifact was damaged so she quickly went away to seal/fix it, while some of the energies and Kadgar leaked out.
Almost like Xal is leading Alleria by the nose...
@@LuckyPed10 That makes sense actually, to absorb and fix the damage done to the artifact, she left. I just find it poorly written that Xal is so careless around the artifact that seems so important to her? Earlier when Alleria shot an arrow at her, she just made it disappear with a flick of her wrist. It’s a different scenario of course, but perhaps multi tasking while absorbing Beledar or whatever funny business she’s up to, is not something Xal is capable of 😂
@@Suledian That would be so cool, if this was all part of her plan! 💪🏻 let’s hope so.
@@Fox3032 I hope for that but we also hgave to remember what Blizzard have done to N'zoth - most clever from the Old Gods -_-
Feels good to see Blizz telling a good story in this game again. Feels like the main plot of the expansion is largely over, and the coming patches is just tying up loose ends, while setting up Midnight. Which I think is a great way to structure an expansion's story. Instead of making us wait months, and months for more pieces to the main plot.
NGL, I am freakn' CRYING right now for this because Anduin healed him.
Me too.
same
What’s wrong with you?
Anduin is gonna turn out to be one of the most powerful light priests in the history of the game, or hes gonna go full holy paladin and have a Luke Skywalker moment. It's coming
Anduin is the goat of this expansion
I love how this combines Anduins theme with the Face the Dark Lietmotif heard in the Aegis Wall, I love the little music details in the scenes.
I was panicking when the cutscene just beeped a few times, then I was popped in the middle of the town and Khadgar was on the ground. Best cutscene I have seen so far. This was absolutely EPIC!
No it wasn’t. It was factually abhorrent.
The facial expressions they created in this animation are just epic, so expressive.
glad you guys are quick! cuz the actual game couldnt even show us with sound
Finally Anduin is not out of mana. Hope he is going to be a paladin now, not a priest. He farmed enough skill point for one-Handed/two-handed sword.
I will be pissed if this is Xal'atath in disguise again.
I'm waiting for it.
it's not, don't worry
She could be. Because when Xal used that black hole thing to destroy Dalaran, Khadgar’s arm literally desintegrated. ( it didn’t feel like a teleportation or like he was being captured)
That’s why I was waiting for him to lose his arm at least. Also Xal’atath mentions that Alleria never felt her presence when she was in disguise as the other mage.
@@morvoh so she also died and let use anduin light on her to resurrect at purpose? I don't know man..
It's indeed kinda dumb. Also light + void doesn't get well together. It will cause some reaction
Just the music from Stormwind hitting the background when the crystal fades from void to the light ❤️ The detail!
That was simply awesome!
plot armor in thick in this one.
I'm sorry but how tf is xal just gonna let her shoot the artifact and not use her super op void magic to like, protect it? It's not like they were fighting and got damaged in the process. She even warned xal she was aiming for it. Come on......
It wilö be fixed for sure
She actually hit it before when she jumped down the waterfall.
It is indeed strange Xal didn't protect it better afterwards
@@dande-lion Too busy talking like most women.
Certainly she can't counter her own power, which makes sense.
Eh it's partially for the cinematic effect, you can consider her shooting the arrow before "warning" her and without Xal yet realizing Alleria's aim at that point.
she also just said not you and not the artifat so few second to process what she mean.
Ty, my cutscene went blicko mode. Idk how you guys even managed to capture this rare footage.
THAT'S MY KING, MY KING
At this moment, I start to love Anduin! Thanks for saving Khadgar! ♥
Anduin CR Khadgar !!
That´s my boy 👍
Now why couldn't Anduin's ass do this to revive Saurfang, huh? (I mean, I know Saurfang wanted that warrior's death and all, but still...)
cause the resurrection spell in Lore isn't a 100% chance of success, so even if they tried to, it has a high chance of failing
F*** Yeah! He is Alive. Daddy is back!
It’s disgusting!🤢🤮
ANDUIN THE GOAT SAVED HIM!
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL
1:20 This “nothing” sounds familiar to me. That "Roar" before too.. 🤔
Jailer is behind her plans!
@@krzysztofczajka6752Primus
Sounds like azshara first talking to nzoth
The moment Anduin look up and you hear the song; this is an amazing cutscene. It hits just like that Valen sacrifice scene in WOD.
Wow, they really give Khadgar a yo-yo treatment with the fake out deaths 😅😂
It has been so many years since a story in wow brought me to actual tears. This sure did. People hate a lot on Blizz but this story this time around is actually peak content imho! I'm so proud of my boy manduin T_T
The dark heart is so fragile 😂😂😂
Thanks for putting this up on YT. My cutscene crashed and I couldn´t watch it. Sadface @blizzard.
You can hate the cinematic just because everyone hates everything Blizz creates but I have to admit that this one actually gave me chills, I loved that and I was honestly surprised by this twist :)
For one second i was saying, "cant be Alleria so stupid to try attack Xalathat again", but to my surprise, she "destroy" the shadow hearth, but what's now, she brokes it or just damage it? We will see in the final boss of the raid, how this will continued?
It's The same with everything nowadays dude. People either want to hate something before they even give it a chance, or they let nostalgia blind them to liking something simply because it doesn't feel the same as it did when they were 10.
And I'm sorry but world of Warcraft is never going to feel the same as it did when you were a 10-year-old kid playing vanilla not knowing what the hell you were doing
@@mundowarcraft1460i think its only damaged it be to stupid to just distroy it here and now at any rate we will find out in the raid ending cinematic
@@mundowarcraft1460 I think it damaged the artifact so some of the void energy she has been absorbing, including Kadgar, got leaked out.
You cannot love this. It’s the product of Danuser’s writing.
Bro Xalatath voice actor is amazing
You know it’s weird , that only HORDE characters die . And still we don’t get our true Warchief
kinda clueless arent you? THERE WELL NEVER BE A WARCHIEF AGAIN.. Horde races have finally understood that that was a leftover from the Orcish evil history, and needed to vanish forever.
The only warchief that may be is a Panda.
i'm in tears. watching anduin looking, probably still doubting he can do it but finally built up the courage to try after being scared to reach out for so long. All Faerins talk about hope and how to stay a light in the dark has really inspired anduin to finally try. And watching his sigh of relief when he succeeded is truely well done.
Darn, Blizz, you did it again. I'm a blubbering mess... Well done.
That was EPIC
11/10 cutscene, wish it actually played in-game though, Xal'atath my queen
omfg amazing!!!!!!!!!
my game glitched and didnt let me watch this. thank you for uploading!
“I’m not aiming at you” was pretty bad ass
What makes this even better is she said that knowing Xal’atah would freak out and try and move it, which is why she turned the arrow and aimed a bit to the left!
She outplayed Xal’atah :)
I think Anduin finding his way back to the light wasnt epic enough
Faith doesnt need to be epic, he had a long road to this point in the expac just learning to essentially be religious again
I never understood Anduin hate and i will not tolerate it anymore. He is so goated and such an incredible character.
They lean a bit too hard on his weaknesses without showing his strengths and he whines a lot.
I will tell you why, cause get got a PTSD arc out of nothing, He got mind controlled for like a week? He didnt killed anyone, nor inocent not people he deeply cared about.
@@fredy2041 My brother in christ, he spent like 90% of Shadowlands getting tortured in his universe's equivalent of literal Hell before being locked into a suit of Lich King armour by the Devil. I think he's allowed to be upset about that lmao.
@@mrmac2340 Just a couple days and he didnt injure anyone innocent or that he cares. Dude. seriously, grow up. Trigered much?
@@fredy2041 Well now I know you're just being silly.
thank you for posting this, i got a great 0.2 seconds of watching this with beeping audio and ran right to youtube LOL
Is this why they didnt want turalyon to follow her, because Anduin was the one needing to heal khadgar? Because Turalyon could of done it. He is a pally.
Ally and horde were pushing nerubians trulyon is the current alliance leader. And leader of the military campaign hence he couldn't leave the field.
Turalyon could have done it, but Anduin's story in TWW has been about rediscovering his connection to the Light which he did now.
it wasnt a heal, genius. It was Resurrection, and Turalyon isnt the one needing to believe in the Light. I mean he's a full on Lightforged after all.
@@DominionSorcerer it only took 5 mins kekw, what a sham of story this is
@@ZakhadWOW unless they retconned resurrection, it was a heal
Resurrection is not supposed to be this easy in the actual lore, but continuity be damned with thes writers i guess
I needed this today. I am so happy about this!
Am I being too negative by feeling like this was too early? I love Khadgar being back/being revived and Anduin getting his Light back, it's sick - but only *two* weeks into the expansion?
It doesn't feel earned, like Anduin's been struggling for *years* to get his Light back, and now it's already good to be reviving people? And Khadgar is back already - it feels like it almost cheapens his sacrifice at Dalaran with how little time he was absent.
Idk. I *love* the cinematic, and the story, but the timing is strange.
To be fair for Anduin, his issue was never about getting his light back. He was worried that if he reached out for the light it wouldn't be there and what that would mean for him. His capacity never diminished, he just had mental blocks he had to get over. I do mostly agree about the Khadgar part though. This felt inevitable because no one ever really dealt with Khadgar's death in the first place and our boy here would get a more monumental sendoff if he was really gone. As it stands, sort of a nothing exit and a nothing return.
Per some datamined stuff, there's "Khadgar's Wheelchair." So while he's been rezzed, I don't think he's going to be in any shape to do much more than Advise from now on. He's not exactly a young man even *not* counting his curse of old age from Medivh.
@@michaelgreenwood3413 he's actually in the wheelchair in the Foundation Hall in Dornogal! There's a stay a while and listen with him and Alleria where he talks about how he survived being in the Dark Heart and how he's still injured :)
Bugged in my run, ty for uploading!
Well, guess the Dark Heart wound up not mattering much in the end, unless Xal somehow fixes it.
Also, why does Xalatath keep flinching whenever Alleria shoots at her. She took everything Khadgar had and then dodged Alleria’s arrow at Dalaran. And throughout this expansion she keeps monologuing about how powerful and cunning she is and then dodges like she’s scared of an arrow every time Alleria shoots at her. I’m really getting nervous they’re going to Jailer our girl and I reeeeeeally don’t want that.
The heart is literally the only thing that protects Xal's weak vessel. We know it consumes energy and feed its user, if anything you dont fight her with magic since your spells are going to get eaten (Like Khadgar in Dalaran). As for Alleria's arrows? maybe the heart cant eat those? Anyway i'm with you in the "Villain monologue" part, lets hope this defeat force her to take mortals more serious and realise how vulnerable she is.
@@audine2219 You see, I can buy that. Having the Dark Heart on hand protecting her from magic makes sense since it absorbs magic/energy. Fingers crossed she takes a page from Iridikron's book and actually starts taking us seriously. She's the closest thing to a legacy villain we have left that Blizz hasn't dropped the ball on so I really want them to do her justice.