The Burdens of Shaohao

[Dhomeli]

"Revealed! The first of a new series of short movies retell the story of Emperor Shaohao. Watch Prelude: The Vision"
https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/363661247650082816

Prelude:


Part One:


Part Two:


Part Three:


Part Four:


Part Five (Finale):

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Actually this is nice.
The Jinyu guy looks cool too.

[randomnamegenerator16]

Nice. I love this art style & music, can't wait to see more.

[Auxis]

The animation and video was awesome, but the narrator's voice... just didn't seem right. I'm not sure if he was meant to be Lorewalker Cho or Chen, but he didn't sound right to me. I dunno.

[rcshaggy]

This is really awesome.
Kinda reminds me of the painting and brushing that the people do for paper and its really good to see even details in the pictures to.

[Noqr]

I actually can't wait for the next part.

[Arbs]

It's really cool, A Lore nut like me gets all tingly inside from it.

All Dem Feelz !!

[wych]

The animation and video was awesome, but the narrator's voice... just didn't seem right. I'm not sure if he was meant to be Lorewalker Cho or Chen, but he didn't sound right to me. I dunno.

Think it was meant to be Cho

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Holysweetgooglymoogly!!!
That's awesome! 8D

Can't wait for next episode.

[Boxtroll55]

that was awesome I cant wait for part 2

[slime]

Whoa... so before the Deathwing sundering there was a Shoahao sundering! very nice vid keepem coming... maybe because I only leveled 1 character through pandaria, but I luved all of the loremaster stories - excellent voice acting and just the right amount of animation to keep some of the imagery to my imagination making it more personal.

[Bluesftw]

its all nice and artistic , but i cannot stop wondering how jinyu menaged to get that tight shirt on with fins and spikes on his forearms...

[Floopa]

I love the art style.

[wych]

Whoa... so before the Deathwing sundering there was a Shoahao sundering! very nice vid keepem coming... maybe because I only leveled 1 character through pandaria, but I luved all of the loremaster stories - excellent voice acting and just the right amount of animation to keep some of the imagery to my imagination making it more personal.

I think it's referring to the war of the ancients and this is set just before Azshara summoned the legion through the well of eternity, and will follow Shaohao preparing Pandaria for the inevitable sundering.

[Arbs]

Whoa... so before the Deathwing sundering there was a Shoahao sundering! very nice vid keepem coming... maybe because I only leveled 1 character through pandaria, but I luved all of the loremaster stories - excellent voice acting and just the right amount of animation to keep some of the imagery to my imagination making it more personal.

No no good sir, this is the story on how Emperor Shao Hao divest himself of his burdens, to purify his spirit, and to become one with the land. In which engulfed Pandaria in a mysterious Mist that would keep it hidden from the world until Deathwing started the Cataclysm.

The Great Waterspeaker saw into the future that armies of the Burning Legion were gunna attack Azeroth (War of the Anicients / The Sundering), So to save the Pandaren Empire, Shao Hao set out to save the land, but in the end he would give up his mortal exisitence to watch over the land & protect it if from dangers of the Burning Legion. But in the process the sha were created by Y'shaarj as his essence taints Pandaria & thats what the Sha manifests from.

When Pandaria seperated from the rest of the World & Azeroth became what we know it is as of today.

More info here: http://wowpedia.org/Emperor_Shaohao

[Adoxe]

That's pretty awesome! Looking forward to the rest of the videos.

[Wildmoon]

The artists at Blizzard are so talented.. The emperor looks incredibly badass at the end.

[Strafer]

Shaohao is such a terrible name.

[Ypo]

Pathetic.

"The burdens of Cao Cao"

This is not Warcraft. This is hilarious.

*Logs back to TBC server to play Warcraft*

EDIT: Infracted. Off-topic, pointless and overtly hostile. [ML]

[lawow74]

Pretty nifty, I'm looking forward to more. Also, inb4 someone cries about their sub dollars being wasted on it.