Origin Story of Arthas Menethil a.k.a. The Lich King!

Origin Story of Arthas Menethil a.k.a. The Lich King

How did the Lich get his King back? Wait that’s not how it goes...If you’ve ever played a recent Warcraft property, chances are you’ve heard of a certain Prince turned Death Knight turned Lich King, but do you know the whole story? Welcome to MojoPlays and today we’re taking a look at the Origins of Arthas!

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[DakotaScott]

Always felt like Arthas Menethil was a medieval fantasy version of Anakin Skywalker, but with much better writing.

[smorgasbord]

Finally defeating Arthas at the end of the Icecrown raid together with a guild of friends and watching that cinematic has to be one of the greatest and cathartic moments I've ever had in gaming

[ColonelFrontline]

He was the Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader of Azeroth.

[MonkeyDLuffy-cmfm]

Wrath Of The Lich King Cinematic always gives me goosebumps it's so powerful!!!

[HaloFikus]

Good video but you kinda dropped the ball a bit after the halfway mark, you skipped alot of important events

For examples - Arthas marching on Dalaran, the great kingdom of mages and former home of kel'thuzad, where he stole the book of medivh to summon archimonde, and killed jaina's mentor archmage antonidas the leader of the kirin tor. That resulted in the destruction of most of dalaran.

The first time arthas and Illidan met, the found themselves evenly matched in a duel but arthas was on kalimdor for a different reason, to persuade Illidan to claim the skull of gul'dan for himself so he would be powerful enough to kill tichondrious - marking the first step of the lich king's/arthas' plan to betray the legion.

Arthas stopping Illidan from fulfilling his promise to the legion which was to kill the lich king /nerzhul. But Arthas managed to defeat Illidan in a close duel.

And this one is after you cut off in the video but I find it interesting - The lich king intentionally let the horde and the alliance gather their forces and attack the scourge on northrend so he could find out who azeroth's greatest heroes were to turn them and use them to destroy their own kingdoms - mirroring arthas' own story and downfall.

[urskinaattori]

Woah you did your home work on this one

[PistolPete]

The imagery was very confusing, you showed the horse as a death thing while explaining it was alive broken its legs. and using the evil version of the guy while explaining his origin story....

[hanmingyi]

his story's like anakin skywalker

[thinhvo]

Woah, a mojo video with accurate information? Wow.

[evelinecarolinelienhuaming]

I like to Play Warcraft Frozen Throne but I don't like to Play Dota because it hasn't a Storyline 😎✋😀

[minimumoftwo]

Great video! would love to see more story driven ones for games like Dark souls, OW, Diablo, The Witcher series :)

[lowella]

"This entire Watchmojo must be purged"

[alexliu]

what is the movie that in the very beginning🆒🆒

[GyroEater]

Looks like Arthas is...past Redemption!

[ethancullen]

Can you do origin stories of ninja gaiden's ryu hyabussa

[mohdimansaifullizan]

I wish Jaina meet Arthas again shadowoands😢💔...

[AdvanceWarrior]

I’m only here because of Hearthstone. Love the use of the Hero Portraits

[dustyshirley]

Good video, but you gotta watch the whole story. Nobbel87

[FMJAAT]

Good idea of a video but it was way too short and simplified to the point that the character lost his interesting sides of the stories

[arthasmennethil]

This entire comment section must be purged!