The (almost) Complete History of World of Warcraft

Have you ever wondered who that raid boss you just killed was, how all those Hordes are different, or why Khadgar can't keep a portal closed? Well wonder no more, because in this episode I'm explaining the entire history of Azeroth!

This is a video I've been planning for over a year and after a month of work I'm incredibly proud of the result. Enjoy!
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CREDITS:
All writing, editing, and recording was done by me.
Cinematics, models, and the artistic depictions of Sargeras and the Burning Legion are made by Blizzard Entertainment.
In game models were isolated using the Narcissus addon or the Wowhead model viewer.

And as always, thanks for watching!

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Ordering of Azeroth
0:40 The Burning Legion
1:09 Fall of Argus
1:46 Zandalari Empire
2:07 Kaldorei Empire
2:20 The War of the Ancients
3:14 The Sundering
3:42 Rise of Humans
4:24 Aegwynn and the Dragon Hunt
4:56 Azeroth Before the First War/Creation of the Horde
6:33 The First War
7:08 The Second War
8:17 Azeroth After The Second War
8:42 Destruction of Draenor
9:29 Creation of the Lich King
9:43 Formation of the Horde (the big one)
10:00 The Scourge of Lordaeron
10:13 The Third War
12:34 The Frozen Throne
13:40 Azeroth Before World of Warcraft
14:14 World of Warcraft
14:54 The Burning Crusade
15:44 Wrath of the Lich King
17:08 The Cataclysm
18:09 Mists of Pandaria
19:02 Warlords of Draenor
20:25 Legion
21:43 Battle for Azeroth
22:42 Buildup to Shadowlands
22:53 Ending

[HiddenAzeroth]

If the audio is too fast, I recommend setting the custom speed to 0.9, it slows me down a bit without making me sound drunk like 0.75 does.
Enjoy!

[strikermodel]

I love how, once World of Warcraft starts, the story just devolves into "guy tries to be evil, champions run him over"

[pathfinder.george]

Meanwhile a quest asks me to kick fish back into the river

[GeeTee]

Played off and on for years but only started really paying close attention to the story during BfA. The fact this man talked for 14 minutes straight then hit us with “this marks the start of the game” is insane to me

[BigFredMachine]

'Alexstrasza tries to save him by setting him on fire with questionable results.'
That line is golden.

[duncmanxxx]

Fun fact, he did this all in one breath!

[frankkennedy]

"Everyone kills themselves in order to beat up the Grim Reaper"

I laughed pretty hard at that. What an ending!😂

[JenniferBuechner]

"We can kill old gods, but the Titan's can't, because reasons" No line has ever been more true, or more confusing LOL

[Terrezio]

"So both factions begin to recruit new soldiers from among their citizens to depopulate the local wildlife." 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[RuiWang-zmue]

I feel that as the franchise progresses, the writers of WoW gradually shifts from high fantasy into the realms of magic mushroom fantasies.

[waffles_]

I love how the players are visualized as an unstoppable wave of destruction

[BootlessDave]

I'm still trying to process the fact that the elves used to be trolls...

[mdeck]

I demand an update of Shadowlands and Dragonflight!

No seriously, this was absolutely amazing and extremely informative while not taking a ton of your time. And I have not done a good job of following the storyline through the last 2 expansions so I need this guy to break it down again xD

[losaface]

There's a lot of, "We killed this guy but someone resurrected them so we have to kill them again." events in this game.

[CyBOXbeatbox]

14+ minutes in: "and that starts the story of world of warcraft."
WHAT

[IvanFazekas]

Definitely need to watch this a couple more times. This was the BEST synopsis of the WarCraft universe!! Thank you!

[luisotavionascimento]

"Illidan promises he's done consuming demonic power to stop the legion"
"Illidan then promptly consumes more demonic power to stop the legion"

That's just gold

[dekaemployee]

"Velen prayed for guidance from a race of sentient chandeliers" I fucking lost it

[ExiliodosInocentes]

Dude Illidan running screaming "I AM MY SCARS" gets me everytime
great vídeo, much fun.

[ZanicaKnight]

15:50 “cause without magic, wizards are just frail nerds.”

There’s jokes for everyone in this epic recap