Humans, similarly to night elves, lost a lot of personality in the transition from W3 to WoW. A huge collection of diverse kingdoms, now forced to rebuild civilization in the foreign land of Kalimdor! But then Stormwind was magically rebuilt overnight and they became "USA but with castles". Sad.

Reminder that Cataclysm brought rumors of an 8th human kingdom, in the region that is now called the Burning Steppes. When the Dark Iron dwarves summoned Ragnaros, the area was utterly destroyed. The humans of Stormwind had to migrate from the Badlands through the Redridge mountains. This is where they encountered lions, which are represented in Stormwind's heraldry.

Love these videos where these interesting lore bits that are more subtlely woven into the game come across

6:35 if tauren are specifically earth elemental descendants that would explain Xalathat's line about them, that they are rather resilient to corruption despite their origins. Would also explain why there were so many tauren in the Twilight Hammer's cult, and also would explain why so many powerful shamans are tauren specifically (like Kurog or Magatha)

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I think the dragonflayer became dragonflayer after the meet-up with the djaradin. They met up the fire giants, King Ymiron survived, got home alone but with dragon eggs and new teachings, and started the whole dragonflayer thing.

I'm interested in the overlooked Drogbar from Legion and how they kind of seem related to primordial trolls. And just trolls in general as their genesis into the many subspecies we see today is fascinating. They're one of the few truly home-grown species Azeroth bore, seemingly not having been created or shaped by higher powers from jump, and yet are as highly malleable as the dragons.

The Uldaman Tome specifically shows Odyn telling his Keepers to keep the ‘advances of the Black Empire’ out of common knowledge. Now the Old Gods are responsible for the Curse of Flesh which afflicted the Titanborn, but it stands to reason that the Curse likewise could’ve afflicted the Elementals. We know that Protodrakes are evolved from the Firehawks, and now the hints are Tauren evolved from Earth Elementals or some other kind of Elemental. Void/Old Gods have been the source of literally ‘fleshy’ evolution for nearly all the Alliance core races. It might be tempering the Curse of Flesh with Order magic = regular people

Absolutely enjoy your story telling, thanks from your fellow Mini Vrykul!

with the amount of vrykul armor being added to the players it wouldn't surprise me Vrykuls would be playable race in the future. If they do become playable hopefully a rework of their player model.

I really loved the 7 kingdoms. I hope they bring them back. So much more interesting than just Stormwind.

I definitely want different theming to signify the different kinds of humans, I was ecstatic when Kultirans became playable for that reason, and from an RP aspect that would be amazing. I'd also like to see some more Vrykul themed human customisations / equipment.

That’s something WoW has always done pretty well. Racial Origin stories. Out of all of the playable races, the only origin story that we are missing (to my knowledge) is that of the Eredar. Draenei is just a name that means uncorrupted and Exodar obviously means Exodus, or exiled. But all of the other races have some sort of origin story. Subjects of evolution from elemental entities, curse of flesh titanforged, literally created by the titan keepers to populate and cultivate the world, etc. But Draenei are as much just Russian space goats as they are anything else. We know very little about how the Eredar came to be. My personal theory is that they are similar to the orcs or trolls, since there was no old gods on their planet and their home world was also a titan.

I really REALLY love these lore videos. Thanks to all the team for making this possible.

I got plenty of human characters, and one of them is my Alliance main. It will be interesting to see Blizzard expand on the human lore, fill in the blanks between the cursed Vrykul and the rise of Arathor. I'm also curious if there's another connection with the Djaradin, beyond that Vrykul king who joined them.

Imagine them putting races in the game where they actually make wire frames for armor so they don't look terrible like the dracthyr

clicked on this video as soon as i saw it. i’m someone who plays only worgen and forsaken because they’re just more interesting humans in my mind. i’d love for a reason to actually play a human!

One of the main things making humans less interesting is how they became bland good guys over time, along with the rest of the Alliance. Early on in Warcraft and through to the early years of WoW, there was lots of background of scheming nobles, peasant revolts, and different factions scraping against each other. As time went on, though, anyone morally dubious in the Alliance got scraped out and never got replaced. Not for lack of opportunity! The Alliance still has a secret police and is run largely by hereditary nobles, a wonderful combination. Nobody ever challenged the Kul Tirans about where they'd been while the Scourge or the Legion were invading. The social, political and economic consequences of the setting's constant wars and disasters are as glossed over as anyone - the only way the setting makes sense is if most people who die get resurrected, and then barely. I'm not asking for the Alliance to suddenly be full of cackling edgy villains, but it really has seemed like Blizzard has repeatedly, deliberately backed away from any opportunity for the Alliance to have any flaws and the potential interesting stories that would come with it, except occasionally when an entire city gets destroyed and then maybe one Alliance character gets to be a bit angry for an expansion or two. Yeah that's really some verisimilitude there, guys. Humans being the main characters of the Alliance most of the time, they get it the worst. I have hope they improve things, but not a lot of it.

I’ve been playing a human warrior since vanilla, and it’s awesome to have a series like this coming out. All of the human leveling zones are just stories of the towns or people of stormwind/ lordaeron/ scholomance / etc. The lore of wow is so rich !

I wish they would fix the crooked-legged human female… err body-type-two… running animations.

Humans could use an animation/graphics boost. My options are short wolverine or short karen. Lets make em a little taller and not so blocky.

Re-inventing the past rarely ever works well for any franchise.

Thank you Bellular and crew for the amazing content, you can tell how much you care about this just by the effort of creating your own story and putting things using real world and warcraft world together in comparison. Amazing work :)

Wonder if they gonna tie this in to the old Azotha lore? Primordial/barbarian like humans who settled in Arathi fighting jungle trolls especially as hinted that primordial trolls was gonna be a part of dragonflight eventually also?

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Out of all the lore videos that mention galakrond, it seems like none of them mention one of the biggest hints found in gathering professions related to the story. As an herbalist you can get elemental reagents for crafting: air, frost, order…and decay. Decay is only found in one area, and to me it clearly points to Tyr’s failed experiment with galakrond. Decay is the offset of Order. It’s small but it fits.

So I've had this theory bouncing around in my head since Kul'Tirans entered WoW in BfA that they are more closely related to their Vykrul ancestors than other humans. Not only are they of larger build in both girth and height than most humans, but their affinity for seafaring and shamanistic beliefs through the Tidesages is more akin to Vykrul ways than Human. That is today that instead of evolving from those original Human clans, that Kul'Tirans are their own settlement of those cursed Dragonflayers that settled entirely separately from the core group in what is now Arathi and Tirsfal. Granted this is all based on real world migration theory which has little to no bearings on a fantasy setting, but it makes you wonder...

this lore is badass and its kind of awesome that its hidden and the player has to sort of discover the lore in game by happen chance.

I wish there was faction of humans that joined the horde, humans killing eachother is the most human thing there is

I would love to know more about the Humans other than the bits and pieces and obvious things. My OG character, Human Priest, she's 19 years old now! And I barely know who she is.

Imagine if they pull out Avalaron and it turns out to be a full scarlet crusade dominated sanctuary with a capital and all...

This is the most interested I've been in WOW lore in years, I have been a human paladin as far back as I can remember so this is really fascinating to me. Thank you for making this video.

Once again making me more interested in the lore than Blizzard does. Thanks for more lore content can't wait to see the rest of this series!

It's too bad the human heritage armor is so lackluster.

Love these type of videos mate, I vaguely knew about Tyr and human stuff... but when you put it like that, that was surprisingly detailed even though somewhat summarized. all n' all that was awesome!

The production value of this video is great!!

They need to make the races semnificative again. Gotta miss when i was in races specific areas. Felt so special.

Genuinely impressed you could identify "the markings of the dragonflayer clan", I totally forgot the vrykul had clans

Nice job! This makes sense, and could set up humans to be Shamans…?

Just hearing the background music put me in a special place. I wish they never broke WC3...

Fantastic video. New Avalon being derived from Avaloren just as Tirisfall was from Tyr's Fall makes alot of sense.

I'd rather they didn't, everyone else deserves love more than them.

I don't want lore. I wanna be a girl who woke up one day and decided to kill an old God because she was bored.

Really loving these lore video's, can't wait for the other parts! You've got me hooked....

I always thought many of the races, at least dwarves, gnomes, and I thought humans, were the result of the curse of flesh on beings made by the keepers.

Still wondering why the Tauren mythology so specifically mentions "the sun and the moon", especially since the new Tuskarr stories mention the same. But, there are two moons in Azeroth, aren't there? There definitely is canonically two moons, yet for many years we only had one in game. Is all of that just a series of mistakes? or could it be hinting at something?

Nice lore speculation video as always.

seems like they are leading into a light themed xpac :D

Lol the "uh-MAN- eye" no bro... Ah-Mah-Nee

alliance itself is going out of the game , now who cares about humans

Please make an awareness video for Turkey. Two earthquakes (7.7 and 7.6) hit the southern region of Turkey and 13 million people are effected. Please Michael.

It was good to hear a bit about the Tauren mythos, can you make a video elaborating on that ? Tauren and Trolls are tied a lot to the beginning of the world, but the lore and the worldbuilding they have now does not do justice to it

These are my favourite of your videos. I've also mained a human warrior and DK for years. I love the classic knight in fantasy and I've always loved the fact that humans weren't the strongest race in the world but were able to survive nonetheless. I'd love to see more human lore!

Love vids like this! Always wanted to get into the lore but it's sooooo thick that I never have. Easy to digest bits like this are awesome

Shouldnt it be ‘Blizzard IS fixing that’?

I've wanted vrykul as a playable race since wotlk, just hope its alliance only and they don't shrink them. Time to smash moocows!

Humans had incredible potential they just never did anything with them, their history literally up until end of WC3 was pretty damn good.

Man this video is just beautiful, thanks a lot for the good work and I can't wait to see the rest. LOR in WoW is so deep, vast and exploded everywhere that it's nearly impossible for someone like me who was not there 10 years ago to get it. Nevertheless it's fascinating and everytime I check a Lor video I learn a bit more and I love that. Today your video is participating to my WoW culture, big thanks for that ! :D Rascarkapac

Amazing video as always. So relaxing, will watch it again tonight to help me sleep

Undeads should get a lordaeron heritage armor set

The Human perk used to be one of the best but now it works against NOTHING but PVE mobs. My main is a Human since the game began and will always be that.

But I do care🙁

More importantly, why can't we just go visit ancient beings like neptulon and therazane and.... ask them?

Crendor said it best more than a decade ago: Male human "I'm boring!" Female human "Me too!"

When they made orcs into green humans who are just misunderstood then humans lost their rp roles.

Pfft - almost all my toons are humans and I'm happy.

this vid is awesome love how the lore is turning :D

I'm guessing Avaloren is the backside of the Azeroth map you can't sail to.

I just wanna know how they dont spill the lava when they fight

new races Vyrkul and Ogre.

Is it that accurate to say that the last Vrykul died then? Like the Drust and stuff were around well after this, weren't they? Re: New Avalon - could easily be that Avalon was one of the cities destroyed in the troll wars. New Avalon is in an Amani controlled area.

Stromgarde is all one requires

Human peasant is what i need

actually after hearing your theory/video about avalon and there possibly being a whole new Human badass kingdom on the other side of azeroth, and there being far more to it than just Humans being fleshy titanoids, when I saw the yaradeen I just kept thinking about that, and how these Yaradeen look so Human even though they are lava people xD and the whole "titans are bad" from the primalists, + your description of Odyn and his expedition to a rebel faction + that pirate guy who went and came back xD It makes you think, and it makes you fantasize about the potential true badass lineage of the Humans

I mean the vrykul lore in howling fjord was pretty great

I don't really want to dumb it all down to skin colour but do you guys remember the small storm with darker skin colours for Blood Elves? When combined with the excitement for different clan customizations for orcs and dwarves it really showed how insulated Blizzard and some western parts of the community really are and how shallow their understanding of cultures and ethnicities is. Fun is cool and everything but all those differences don't need to be seen through this singular paradigm sucked out of US. Humans were hit by this avatarization the most. Other races can play with these differences and make them fun with lots of cultural curiosities, both positive and negative. Humans on the other hand (and to some degree also blood elves) are so close to this melting pot they know, that everything melts together into this one mass of grey goo. There is a beauty in interactions with more insulated cultures, ethnicities, groups, styles. When everyone is and can be everything then everything cannot be anything but uninteresting.

Please for the love of god make Vrykul a race to play on wow.

15:35 you may have just triggered 50% Americans who don't believe York is a place... the other 50% knew I was real and that the Scotts invaded it, just like on Braveheart 🤣🤣

Amazing work as ever... love it!

Its a fantasy game, why tf would people want to play a character that looks like people you see all the time.

Until there's a decent way to drop combat when you're stuck in it for no fucking reason, Night Elf is the only alliance race.

I care about humans, I like their lore , their animations, everything about them , for the Alliance!

why is blizzard hinting at the real coverup of humanities origins IN REAL LIFE 12000 years?!?! gobeklei tepei anyone? dude wtf

It's too perfect having an Irishman narrate the cool lore and history of humans in WoW

I am pretty sure that Azeroth is elemental in nature and titans just pumped arcane magic to her to make her a titan

We need the human kingdoms back, not just Gilneas but Alterac and Lordaeron as well.

Wow so even BELL forgot about the azerothi? Hahaha

I'm a human irl, I don't want to be a human in a video game too. Humans are the most boring WoW race imo.

If they finally add the last tabards for the remaining human kingdoms, I'm going to be very happy indeed. (Lordaeron, Alterac and Stromgarde)

Blizzard is fixing that* there I fixed it for you

One of the main problems with the Humans in WoW is they lost everything that made them interesting. Right out of the gate at the start of WoW they were kneecapped by making Stormwind their starter zone. Stormwind had zero on screen role in WC3. The WC3 story largely followed Lordaeronian characters and was centered on that kingdom. It was also centered on its survivors who Jaina led west to establish Theramore. Which in WoW was nothing but a small pretty much irrelevant settlement. Lordaeron was now a Horde race's city and outside of the Defias/Onxyia storyline of Vanilla, Blizzard made no effort to give Stormwind an interesting story. The CATA Revamp made half of their zones pop culture references and childish poop jokes. On top of that the human Paladin theme was given to the neutral Argent Crusade and the human magi of Dalaran were turned neutral as well. Basically all of the interesting human themes were stripped from them and given to neutral factions or the Forsaken.

Tyr's Fall => Tirisfal? Pull on that thread a bit... would be interesting if that's more than ac coincidence

Me as a forsaken huh interesting I’m still dead though

This is the most interesting lore video in a while. I love the worldbuilding.

Always wanted vrykul to be playable. I choose human (when I play alliance) only because of how much I dislike the other races. Gnomes, nelves, velves, draenai, are all at the top of the shitlist, followed by pandas. The new dragon race things look really dumb to me too. On Horde, I only hate vulpera and belves.

Is the human origin story really that underdeveloped? I mean, it's identical to dwarves and gnomes, and they haven't gotten much more in their distant history either. I mean, we've had so much vrykul stuff, but very little earthen and trogg stuff, and gnomes have even less going for them, because they only got minor (true) mecha-gnome stuff. And leper gnomes are recent history.

No one cares about Blizzard, Humans are laughing about that.

Avaloren = hyperborea I want more of this, sounds very interesting

The humans possible connection and lineage from Vrykul and Djaridin could be a great story angle for them lore wise to justify giving humans shaman class.

i dont even have a human character amongst all my characters lol. and i need one for the special transmog set