World of Warcraft: Dragonflight - Cinematic Leak

[Kathranis]

The 4chan leak, while I don't trust it, sounds exactly like the kind of thing Blizzard would make. Vignettes for worldbuilding with an emphasis on visual storytelling, sparse and evocative narration, with dialogue very much in Blizzard's style.

OP's leak, on the other hand, is super fake. They don't really do opening cinematics that are in the style of a dialogue-heavy cutscene. This is a bunch of characters mostly talking, about obscure lore stuff that the average player might not know about, and doesn't even focus on the marquee character of the expansion -- Alexstrasza.

[Aydinx2]

I think this one is fake as Galakrond wouldn't work for final boss.

Why not? He's a big dragon that summons undead. It's literally Deathwing + Lich King. If those two worked there is no reason why Galakrond wouldn't work.
And before you say "he was defeated by pre-empowered aspects in the past", in WoW that isn't a good way to measure power. Especially when characters can easily be empowered (like Deathwing was).

[Veldehar]

What bugs me most about these is how photographic a memory these people have of seeing the cinematic. I can't even, as a Vanilla vet, do a word for word on any of the expansion trailers minus TBC and WotLK.. and I've seen those hundreds of times.

[GothamCity]

No orc talking about honor. Don't believe it.

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What bugs me most about these is how photographic a memory these people have of seeing the cinematic. I can't even, as a Vanilla vet, do a word for word on any of the expansion trailers minus TBC and WotLK.. and I've seen those hundreds of times.

The day you were born, the very forests of Lordaeron whispered the name... Arthas.

That's burned into my skull. Other than that I am with you. I could give the gist of a cinematic, but surely not anything close to word for word.

[Guttamasta]

this is not the cinematic transcript leak from the speculation forum from 4chan but i like this one better!
although i think it is too wordy.
hype!!!

I like it very much

[Mace]

World of Warcraft: Dragonflight - Cinematic Leak

So, cats out of the bag now i guess.

Cinematic starts with the camera flying through clouds at night as Nozdormu voice-over monologues. Music is mysterious with choir singing.

“For all of living memory… the Void has corrupted our world.”

The camera opens onto a large group of floating landmasses and islands under a starry sky. The dragon isles. The camera flies to a small floating building that looks just like the temple of storms with no roof. Flashes of color are seen coming from inside.

“And the monsters of their design unendingly escaped annihilation.”

From above we see Wrathion, Alexstrasza, Kalecgos, and Nozdormu channeling their power at the Blade of the Black Empire which is floating in the center of the room. The eye is now red and orange like N’Zoth’s. A remnant of N’Zoth survived in the blade. Camera cuts to a close up of the dagger.

“Subdued… Imprisoned… The destruction of N’Zoth, finally within our grasp”

They channel more power at the blade. The blade’s eye winces in pain and makes a horrible sound like screams combined with shattering glass.

“Just a bit more!” Wrathion yells above the noise.

The music turns more ominous.

Close up of the Blade. We see it begin to crack. The multicolored energy swirls around it in a howl. The blade breaks and explodes, tendrils of shadow fly out of the core. Just as it splinters time freezes for everyone but Nozdormu. The just-exploded dagger floats in mid-air, the shadowy tentacles frozen. Nozdormu realizes that time has stopped. We hear a disembodied voice.

“Oh to witness, as i have many times, the moment of our awakening…”

Murozond appears. Not dragon form, looks exactly like Nozdormu mortal form but his eyes, skin, and armor look infinite infused.

“Murozond….” Says Nozdormu.

“He is free…” Murozond interrupts.

Nozdormu stares at the blade in anguish, knowing the gravity of their failure.

Murozond walks around the blade, looking at it as he speaks.

“Such arrogance of ours, to think this was the way.”

“Leave this place!” Says Nozdormu.

“You have doomed us all… Their armies will run rampant. Their corruption will devour this world…but there is another way”

“What do you want from me…” says Nozdormu, defeated

Snow begins to quickly materialize out of thin air and swirl around Nozdormu and Murozond until they are are swallowed in a blizzard.

“Countless lifetimes ive sought an end to this darkness, but the titan’s plan was laid before us all along.”

Just as quickly, the snow reduces to a steady calm pace.

The camera flys over their shoulders and tilts down to reveal they are standing above Galakrond’s Rest. The bones of Galakrond are enormous.

“We must bring him back, it is the only way” says Murozond.

“Are you mad? He would kill us all!” Shouts Nozdormu.

“He will kill…” Murozond Interrupts “…Them! It was his created purpose, a being capable of consuming this darkness! You know it to be true.”

Nozdormu stares at the bones in disbelief of the position he is in, defeated.

Murond looks at him frustrated.

“What use is this power if we cannot correct the mistakes of the past! It was his destiny... This is our destiny!”

Nozdormu looks at Murozond sullenly. Murozond stares back. Nozdormu turns towards Galakrond’s bones and channels a beam of bronze magic into the air above.

Murozond’s face lightens up, determined as he does the same. The two begin to open a portal above Galakrond’s rest that continues to grow in size. The portal warps and swirls between bronze energy and infinite energy, eventually reaching the size of Galakrond’s Fall.

With a climactic booming roar, Galakrond flies out of the portal which then instantly shatters. Nozdormu looks at his hands in horror as his body begins to warp with infinite magic.

Murozond teleports, vanishing into infinite particles. Nozdormu falls to his knees as he continues to change. Galakrond flies over his head.

Galakrond looks like other proto dragons but is enormous, very stocky and is covered in spikes. He has scary looking black eyes with a pale white iris.

The camera follows Galakrond as he flies up and lands on top of a snowy mountain and lets out a bellowing roar. He then flies at the camera. Cut to Dragonflight logo.

Obvious fake because Ebon Tauren dragon isn’t there and no green is present.

Also nothing for the twilight, chromatic and nether flights. No rare dragons.

Also it’s easily derived based in knowledge fans know rather than something previously not done - so it is obviously fan contrived.

Sorry, FAKE!!

[qwerty123456]

The 4chan "cinematic transcript" tells us NOTHING.

It tells you that the expansion would be a filler expansion if it was true.

[deviantcultist]

It tells you that the expansion would be a filler expansion if it was true.

A filler under the buzzword of "rEnEwaL".

[scrappybristol]

I prefer the 4chan leak.

Sure there is no conflict given but that's fine, I don't want another cosmic big bad threatening Azeroth or for the horde/alliance to be at it again.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

I prefer the 4chan leak.

Sure there is no conflict given but that's fine, I don't want another cosmic big bad threatening Azeroth or for the horde/alliance to be at it again.

I doubt the Alliance and Horde will fight for awhile, thankfully nor do I wish for more inner conflict in any of them.

[rhorle]

I prefer the 4chan leak. Sure there is no conflict given but that's fine, I don't want another cosmic big bad threatening Azeroth or for the horde/alliance to be at it again.

I am just worried that it will feel to disconnected from each other if there isn't a over all bad thing to fight. Shadowlands without the Jailer would have felt weird but maybe they can get it all connected just enough to feel like a whole story rather just a bunch of short novellas.

[Soulwind]

Someone should rewatch previous cinematics and realize that Blizzard doesn't go too hard on name drops or, well, dialog. That way they are easily marketable to people who know nothing about their products.

[THEORACLE64]

The 4chan version.

Make your own conclusions.

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I think this one is fake as Galakrond wouldn't work for final boss.

Would genuinely wet myself if this is real.

[scrappybristol]

I am just worried that it will feel to disconnected from each other if there isn't a over all bad thing to fight. Shadowlands without the Jailer would have felt weird but maybe they can get it all connected just enough to feel like a whole story rather just a bunch of short novellas.

Feeling disconnected shouldn't be an issue as long as previous expansions aren't ignored and the overall theme Dragonflight being to help heal Azeroth from all the bad shit that has happened since Legion.

[Greyvax]

how could galakrond be alive and kickin, unless we go back to that AU nonsense.

i guess we have to revive old lore names, because original characters (i.e. jailer) failed miserably

[Aeluron Lightsong]

how could galakrond be alive and kickin, unless we go back to that AU nonsense.

i guess we have to revive old lore names, because original characters (i.e. jailer) failed miserably

Find something to revive it with. Its a Fantasy world and most people don't care that the Jailer is new its different(I disagree with those reasons but I acknowledge it).

[zhorteye]

Another N'zoth expansion? Murozond back from the dead? Random mention of the void? Yeah sounds terrible.

Murozond (Nozdormu) was never killed on our timeline.. we used the hourglass in the caverns of time to kill him on a different timeline.. so meeting him on our timeline isnt out of the realm of possibilities.

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how could galakrond be alive and kickin, unless we go back to that AU nonsense.

i guess we have to revive old lore names, because original characters (i.e. jailer) failed miserably

necromancers under the scourge faction was trying to revive galakrond back in Wrath of the lich king at The Fall of Galakrond (galakrond's fall?) .. its not a far fetch that they would've actually managed to pump enough necromantic energy into the skeleton, and that the opening of the rift over Northrend with Shadowlands, then could've finished off the actual "ressurection"? Afterall we saw the scourge (including necromancers) getting active again in the prepatch.. Wouldnt surprise me if they try to use this to spin an eventual return of Galakrond?
-He is also the last known "Great Evil of Azeroth" That we as players havent seen/battled/defeated ourselves..

[Orrik]

If I had to guess, I think the one from 4chan would be the trailer for the expansion while this one would be an in game cutscene at some point in the campaign.

[scrappybristol]

how could galakrond be alive and kickin, unless we go back to that AU nonsense.

Azerite and Maw magic.

[Nebron]

Cinematics usually resolve around a single point of plot - a simple action taken from a bigger event:

- arriving at Broken Shore,
- an attack on Lordaeron,
- fight of Sylvanas and the Lich King.

Here we have absolutely everything mixed up for no reason - dagger, Aspects, Wrathion, Murozond, N'zoth, Galakrond. Nope, this would not work for a marketing / cinematic.
You'd also need to work on dialogs a bit as these are absolutely lame and drama is on the edge of being cringey.