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Warlords of Draenor In-Game Cinematics
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Warning: Here be spoilers!* Go no further! Turn back now before it’s too late! You have been warned!

The distant echoes of the Iron Horde’s war machine have already begun to reach the ears of Azeroth’s heroes. Soon, the journey into Draenor will begin in earnest—a journey filled with drama, tension, and momentous events that will shape the fate of this world.

To tell this tale, we’ve created more high-quality in-game cinematic footage for Warlords of Draenor than ever before—and as your story unfolds, these cinematics will illustrate some of the key moments of your adventure.

While we generally like to keep story beats like these a surprise, we know some players enjoy seeking out spoilers, and there are always plenty of people who find these files in the beta or on the PTR and share them. To help mitigate the potential for unsuspecting players to accidentally come across these and spoil their own adventure ahead of time, we’ve decided to go ahead and upload them ourselves—and provide plenty of caution and safeguards against watching them accidentally.

Of course, it goes without saying that we recommend you wait and watch these videos in-game as they were meant to be encountered—but if you choose to watch them here below, we hope you enjoy them, and only ask that you allow others to experience the story as they choose. Thank you for your continued excitement and passion for World of Warcraft, and we’ll see you in Draenor!

*What follows are the in-game cinematics that will play at various points during the Warlords of Draenor campaign. We encourage you to play the game and experience them in-context as you progress through Draenor—but if you decide to watch them now, don’t say you haven’t been warned!







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  1. lunchbox2042's Avatar
    Why is Thrall nearly bald?
  1. Buffbringer's Avatar
    I don't understand people saying "Thrall Shaman Shenanigans mimimi"
    Just remember that not everyone can be a shaman, and being able to call the elements makes you a powerful person already.
    Besides, if you think Thrall is weak physically, you never read Lord of the Clans... he endured a lot on Blackmoore's Arena, and even won a 1v1 duel against Orgrim. Yes, Orgrim was already "old", but he was always described as being a huge and very strong orc, with great spirit (the humans couldn't prevent his escape from LORDAERON'S CAPITAL CITY, right under Terenas' nose, when they thought he was demoralized). I'm honestly surprised with Thrall being beaten so badly by QQrrosh, who, on the other hand, was just another QQ orc in Nagrand, and suddenly he is a super bad ass, powerful HELLSCREAM.

    Even Cairne was having the upper hand in his duel against Garrosh, he won only because of a coward's poison... and Cairne's "bones were aching" due to old age hehe.
    Garrosh is just a crying baby, Thrall united the orcs when they were just dogs in the human encampments, taught them the old shamanistic ways, and is a natural leader, being respected even by the dragon aspects. A pity blizzard overused him.
    All that being said, Thrall is not my favorite lore character, but you have to consider the facts and admit that Garrosh is trash compared to Thrall.
  1. Throren's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Buffbringer View Post
    I don't understand people saying "Thrall Shaman Shenanigans mimimi"
    Just remember that not everyone can be a shaman, and being able to call the elements makes you a powerful person already.
    Besides, if you think Thrall is weak physically, you never read Lord of the Clans... he endured a lot on Blackmoore's Arena, and even won a 1v1 duel against Orgrim. Yes, Orgrim was already "old", but he was always described as being a huge and very strong orc, with great spirit (the humans couldn't prevent his escape from LORDAERON'S CAPITAL CITY, right under Terenas' nose, when they thought he was demoralized). I'm honestly surprised with Thrall being beaten so badly by QQrrosh, who, on the other hand, was just another QQ orc in Nagrand, and suddenly he is a super bad ass, powerful HELLSCREAM.

    Even Cairne was having the upper hand in his duel against Garrosh, he won only because of a coward's poison... and Cairne's "bones were aching" due to old age hehe.
    Garrosh is just a crying baby, Thrall united the orcs when they were just dogs in the human encampments, taught them the old shamanistic ways, and is a natural leader, being respected even by the dragon aspects. A pity blizzard overused him.
    All that being said, Thrall is not my favorite lore character, but you have to consider the facts and admit that Garrosh is trash compared to Thrall.
    Well said, well said indeed

  1. JCFD90's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by lunchbox2042 View Post
    Why is Thrall nearly bald?
    It seems like a design choice to make him feel less of a 'shamanistic elder / leader' and more of a warrior again. I think it's very appropriate and fits his new role in the Horde well.
  1. Tyrgannus's Avatar
    Ok, a felt a little bit of hype with these cinema tics.
  1. Merpish's Avatar
    We are no longer nameless champions, but generals of our respective factions...FINALLY!
  1. Mementomori1993's Avatar
    These were fucking amazing. I remember the wrath gate and all the others and these are just incredible. The Nagrand and Dark Portal Out in specific were my favorites. Seeing the Warlord's like that is pretty neat and gives me hope that Blizz has found a good balance of when the baddies show up, a lot like the Lich King.

    Nagrand was amazing as well, I could change a few minor things, but overall it was very well done. It is a fitting end to an arc that needed a good ending, and I am happy with it.

    all things considered these all get a 9/10. Well done Blizzard.

    Edit: The more I watch that Nagrand cutscene the more feels I feel. So sad. It makes me really understand Garrosh's character a lot more and really actually like him. Just a little late though.
  1. Buffbringer's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Wildberry View Post
    That's funny considering the Horde came into existence without the Darkspear Trolls and Tauren. That's also funny considering that the Orcs saved the Darkspear and Tauren from certain death. That's really funny considering the Orcs were surviving just fine without them.
    They were NEVER by themselves. You may not remember, but they allied with the OGRES (which, later, provided them with some Ogre-Magi) and with Zul'Jin and the forest trolls. They even got pumped with demon's blood. And had dragons.

    This is a new era. Without the other races of the horde, they would've already been crushed by the alliance.
    Did you play Warcraft III:The Frozen Throne? When Admiral Daelin Proudmoore and his Kul Tiras were leading an assault against Thrall and the orcs during the founding of Durotar, he had to turn to Cairne for his wisdom and assistance. With the tauren's help (and Rexxar's and Jaina's), they pushed the humans back. Who knows what would have happened if the taurens weren't there...

    The Horde came into existence without the other races, and that didn't achieve much.

    BTW, my faction is The Horde...
  1. Stormykitten's Avatar
    Shed a tear again with SMV one :'(
  1. Gelannerai's Avatar
    Dat Talador finale. "Just you."
  1. Elbruho's Avatar
    These short videos were srsly awesome I truly think WoD will be either the best or second best expansion blizz has made so far i'm really excited for it:P
  1. mmoc8b3023a1c1's Avatar
    *Sigh* Thrall, it kinda was your fault. Yeah, Garrosh was a dickwad, but we knew that before you made him Warchief. And you still did it.

    It's sad that in that particular cinematic... I have to agree with Garrosh. Not all the way, and he does sound like he's making excuses, but damn... he was thrust into a position he wasn't ready for. I love the voice acting, when he just breaks down while accusing Thrall of leaving him to pick up the pieces.

    The rest of the cinematics I thought were really neat (Blackhand running from an explosion obviously means he's an action hero now), but that one just gives me mixed feelings. On the one hand, it's quite a satisfying end and it finally brought to light the monumental scale of Thrall's mistake. On the other... there is some remorse, but I would at least have liked Thrall to appologise to Garrosh before the end. Something more than him being a self-righteous arse. :/
  1. conmanW's Avatar
    .....The nagrand cinematic.....changed everything about what I thought of Garrosh.....how he came to be the monster he did.....
    He was lost. A lost child, stuck without his father. without his guidance. without help, left to care for the home he was left behind.....He was lost. He snapped.
    Cairne did have some respect for Garrosh as a warrior, but thought him a brute and unable to lead, despite the mercy he showed to alliance crew members after attacking a ship of theirs, by letting them go with but a warning:stay away from Horde trade routes. He asked for help, and he was denied.
    ....Cairne's death changed him....The last one left by Thrall, the true father figure of his life, was Vol'jin, who spat in his face and left him behind....
    ..He gained guidance in Stonetalon, but only for a short time. His only other mentor was still stuck in Northrend, to pick up the scraps.
    After the assault on the Highlands, he lost his last advisor to the Cult.
    He was lost. He didn't know what to do....He looked to all he had left to for instruction on how to lead: the Past.
    He looked to Grom, the one who's shadow he tried to escape. He always wondered "Would my father be proud?"
    Thrall..his true father figure....already had told Garrosh how he felt:
    "You dissapoint me, Garrosh."
    He looked to the past because he did not know how Grommash would feel about his actions. He had no fellow leaders to stop him from his path as he began down it, but it was to late to stop him when they tried. The immediate spoils were to tempting, to fertile to not see this path of destruction as the correct one. The leaders who had lived through to see the consequences of the Horde's past conquests were all long dead. Those who had lead before him denied him when they needed him most. Vol'jin. Cairne. Thrall.
    "You made me what i am!"
    He went down the path himself....but giving someone the ultimate power and not telling them what to do with a whole nation hurting from war, is like giving your small son the whole house, telling him you are leaving forever. It is now his.
    He won't know what to do...and then....
    The tears will run.
    Destruction will come.
    And all will blame the one left without guidance, the one with the ultimate power, the one who they left behind to figure out all himself. Without recognizing that they led him down this very path by not giving him the help he needs.
    Garrosh denied his crimes not because he was proud of them....but because he thought he did what was right. He followed the footsteps laid before him.
    If Garrosh had been guided by Thrall, Cairne or even Vol'jin, he could have been great....the Greatest even....instead he became a tyrant lost to despair without the guidance he needed from the one he saw as a father, who has now killed him to rectify the mistake he made, not of making him warchief, but the one of leaving him behind....

    I'm sorry for my long post if it at all seems rambally (?)...but it just...caused an emotional response from me i never saw coming. I'm truly sad that Garrosh will not get a redemption story....I truly am.....He could have great....if he was redeemed, he could finally receive the guidance he needed, nay deserved, as he finally confronted the father that left him behind to pick up the scraps of a great people, not as the sick young boy in Nagrand....but the one who found him there, and left him behind as Warchief
  1. bmjclark's Avatar
    I think Thrall's doomhammer is defective. He hit garrosh like 4 times with it and garrosh literally didn't even give a shit.
  1. nonameelf's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by bmjclark View Post
    I think Thrall's doomhammer is defective. He hit garrosh like 4 times with it and garrosh literally didn't even give a shit.
    Blackhand survived a bomb to the face, a hammer to the back of the head, an axe in the shoulder, and a mace to his spine and he didn't give a shit either.
  1. Leare315's Avatar
    ...why would they do this?
  1. mmoc56c829a066's Avatar
    Hohohoho and once again, for the last time we can see how more Badass Garrosh is compared to asswipe Thrall! <3 Rescpect, best Horde Warchief!
  1. ThatsOurEric's Avatar
    That Nagrand cinematic was easily on par with Wrathgate. Plenty of excitement and emotion all around.

    I'll agree with what some posters have said, Thrall DOES share in some of the blame. Keep in mind though
    that he has stated in the past that it was a mistake to have made Garrosh Warchief and IIRC, during the
    Siege of Orgrimmar raid, when he does confront Garrosh he tells him so.

    But Thrall is right, he didn't make Garrosh what he was. Garrosh could have worked with his allies. Could
    have led with honor. His whole attitude during Pandaria had nothing to do with Thrall : He acted like a
    war-mongering bastard all on his own, and he was also his own hypocrite by using dark magics to bolster
    his armies when he himself condemned them.
  1. mmoc4359933d3d's Avatar
    Thrall sucks. Literally anybody would be more interesting than Metzen's self-insert super-power jesus character.
  1. mmoc8b3023a1c1's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ThatsOurEric View Post
    But Thrall is right, he didn't make Garrosh what he was.
    If anything, Thrall knows exactly that he (among other people) made Garrosh what he was. At least if the echoed sentiment from the ending of Lord of the Clans rubbed off on him. There, Blackmoore says he is proud to have made Thrall what he was. Thrall later speaks with Drek'thar who tells him everyone he ever met shaped him.

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