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You missed one big story when he was learning under Prophet velen, velen saw vision of Anduin leading army of light against Void 😮

I was a teenager when MoP came out, so you can argue I grew up alongside Anduin. His empathy and his borderline stubborn desires for peace have always been something I've admired about him. Anduin is genuinely one of my favorite characters in this franchise, maybe in fiction overall, and I'll die in the trenches for my boy. He's got a heart of gold and wears his intentions on his sleeve, and even though he's hurting and confused and feels lost, I'm really excited to be with him on his journey of healing and self-redemption.

I hope they are done torturing my man... And especially I hope they don't kill him off in the world soul saga ! METZEN! DON'T!

already watched the 25 mins and I can already tell you its a Bellular Banger

Excellent video my friend! I'm loving how the World Soul saga is bringing Lore back to the forefront of Warcraft!

as a returning player who has always felt behind and unsure how to sift through heaps of lore, i’ve been loving these videos. Would love to see in exactly like this about Sylvanas (hoping for a reception arc), and Thrall.

I’ve never been a fan of the Alliance but I always had a soft spot for Anduin. I quit after MoP and it broke my heart to see the tortured man Anduin had become in the War Within cinematic.

My man Bellular straight rolling out of bed to bring us great content!

That’s a dramatic and tragic origin for skillshare

Anduin is a GIGACHAD, man he is so young yet he had to endure things bearable only by experienced veterans he is the character with the BEST evolution

I've been saying this since I saw Katrina Praestor standing next to my boy... "Protect Anduin at all cost". He is so pure and awesome. Dude has been through so much. He kinda reminds me of Gohan in how kind yet strong he is.

This was fantastic! Can you do this for other key characters, as well?

What a banger of a video. THANK YOU so much for making this! I saw the new cinematic and it was obvious that I had some catching up to do. This was perfect for that. Thank you!

Fantastic video. Would love to see more of these single character spotlights like this. There's a bunch of characters who bounce in and out of focus that have been around for a long time that I feel would be interesting to get the synopsis of. I feel like I learned a lot about the surrounding characters through this video on Anduin as well. Really well done.

I really love these lore videos, super important for a player like me who just couldnt stand shadowlands and BFA.

Bellular, thank you! Please make more of these. I'm a family man now and cannot devote hours a day to an MMO. But these lore chunks from the perspective of different major characters is a great summary of the WoW story and would help keep me updated even though I can no longer play. Top of my list for next videos would be Arthas and Thrall.

Man oh man the way you told the story was absolutely amazing! Dont have good enough words to describe your amazing work! LOVED THIS!!!! ❤😍

This was great! A much appreciated summary of his story before the next expansion; more of this for more chars please!

Thank you so much for putting this together!!

even as a long time player this was a amazing video. and i hope you continue to do more

Great video, sometimes I get lost in the lore after all these years and its great to have it all together like this

This is quality narration and content. Well done man! More of that please ❤️

The one true, sad boi King. Look forward to his arc in TWW. Great vid 🤘🏻

Great video, thank you, a great refresher after all these years.

I hope you do more of these!

Trauma for days but one hell of a glow up

Very well put together. Thank you!!

These are the types of videos I like to watch on your channel!

Thank you, that was wonderful. Anduin's been my favorite since I started playing in BC. Every time we saw him, interacted with him, he fascinated me. The growth he's gone through has been amazing. And yes, the domination was horrible, My brother's a former Marine who saw some real bad stuff when he was in (1980s). I could see what was going on with Anduin was going to hurt more than ever and I knew it was going to be bad. But even with that, what we saw in the new announcement broke my heart. I've seen that very reaction with my brother and I know the PTSD. I am wanting to see where Anduin goes from here and how he works through being with his "friends" and his kingdom again. A fear there's going to be some fight with Turalyon about who is going to hold the throne of Stormwind.

This was great! What a complex set up for simply the development of the character - I hope we see something incredible come from it.

Great vid! I’m excited to see what happens with Anduin’s story, I just hope they don’t kill him.

Thank you so much for making this video! :)

An amazing video, though I feel like you passed up on the Gathering / Arathi Highlands Massacre (it would have been good to mention how he tried to make peace with Sylvanas after Legion, and why he set down the path for BfA) and also his relationship with Genn Greymane, who is essentially his pseudo-father and their relationship is honestly pretty important since Varian's death.

So beautifully told. Thank you to everyone involved.

Thanks for this. I don't even have an active sub, but I played since Beta. It's the story that keeps me coming back, at this point. As you noted, the lore of the Stormwind court was integral from the start. Anduin's fate is tied up with everything.

Really appreciated this video. Great work.

Good job on this, Bell!

This was well made and very informative!

Love these type of videos, would love to see some on my favorite characters like Illidan, or Thrall, very well done ❤

Wow, this is such an amazing content, great story and great job!

Excellent vid matey!!!❤

Thank you for this video. ❤

Nice job, I love what you're doing.

Great vid, Bellular! Thank you for the missing pieces.

We need more of these. At least for me, playing for so long, I’ve forgotten how in depth some of the lore is.

Being trans I identify so such with Anduin. He found who he was in the Light and had to fight hard to be recognized and accepted by his father for who he was. I never got that recognition and acceptance from my dad, he passed when I was still fighting with him about it, but it was therapeutic to see Anduin got that acceptance

Amazing job! Video is perfect!

16:32 Point of contention: Varian and Sylvanas didn't make a suicidal attempt to stop the legion. That suggests they just went in guns a-blazing to sacrifice themselves to the greater good. They thought they had made a researched and well thought out plan that ultimately turned out to be part of a trap.

Love the video and storytelling!

what a great Video, I simply love it.!!

My dude, you have a voice for videos like this. Thank you for creating a rabbit hole ill be sure to fall deep into over the next few hours of downtime. I wanted to see what age Anduin is in TWW, instead I learned everything lmfao. From a player whos played since vanilla but never read the books/shorts except for recent, thank you!

Bellular actually making the story (during Shadowlands) actually sound good - something Blizzard struggled to do. I think Anduins story has been pretty consistent to be fair.

You sounded a bit sick? Get better ^^ good vid love the lore!

Very nice video m8! I love the WoW lore!

That was awesome. Thanks.

Yessir, this made my week! More lore more characters, good Warcraft is escapism at its finest.

Great video!

Sweet new video and sweet new glasses 👍👍

I actually have that comic about Varian! Glad I bought it when i saw it in the bookstore

great video bro thank you

Amazing writing Michael! ❤❤

Love your lore videos! :)

Awesome video - thank you! :-)

Maybe in this expansion's mini series we'll see Anduin in one of the episodes and how he dealt with all this trauma, where he was and what he thought.

great video !!

Pog video. Thank you!

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Friggin' love this!

Awesome video.

Well done video

Wow you are an amazing story teller ...I had no clue about these specific details about the sword, BRD, Becoming Velen's Pupil ..i wish this was Implemented in the game therefore we the viewers and players would've been drawn to the entire story more.. even in shadowlands.. only if they would have followed this method the story would've been awesome

I was welling up all the way. Well narrated mate. I have always had love of Anduin's character and story arc and you bought that to life right now and made my day. Cheers :-)

Good explanation, thankyou

Great Video :)

awsome ty lov these vids

Great summary. I didn't play Shadowlands, so I needed to know what happened to him and why. Now I understand the trailer for the War Within much better!

Wow this story is absolutely incredible

Guys, this is awesome.❤

05:45 Thought the car alarm in the back was outside my house. Otherwise a brilliant video!

I love these videos

Poor Anduin.. having a bugged childhood next to a fricking huge dragon 😂

Hey bellular is there a video of the explanation of what happened after mists of pandaria to like legion or BOA I was a veteran back in TBC all the way to Cataclysm but I stopped playing rate after only to come back at the very end of shadowlands and have been hard into DF so far but I’m confused on the whole lore part? Please and thank you very much your vids are awesome can understand everything you say with meaning behind it all. Definitely appreciate it

This made me wonder if its posible to make a video on the full story of Stormwind and/or ogrimar? Not the peopel in focus but a story about the full story about the capitol cities? Maby not just alliance and horde.

awesome vid

I can relate to so much of this story. Tell me more!

Amazing resume man, you did a great job, blizzard should do stuff like this and add a tab for lore description, and a bestiary, i think is not a bad idea, they just have to wrrite and put some images, and new players that defeat new monsters can read the descriptions.

One of the only proper storyline that has continued from vanilla until now! ❤

Happy new year, but what's next? Are we going to see more "life stories" vids on the channel, because I don't recall seeing one for Thrall, whose life is arguably far more tragic than Anduin's.

Bellular what are the comics-like artwork you are showing does WoW have a comics line?

I can never return to Azeroth but I plan to binge your content bc I have been wondering what’s up with the story. Thank you.

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Hey im new here. But do you have life of Sylvanas like this one as well? im invested and liked it very much!

Man this video even made Shadowlands good! Why can't they make us feel that while we play...? Players would be immerse in the game even more. Good job!

that was so goooood

I think an important thing that was left out, the mention of Varian having a Aggressive mentality from that Loh'gosh stuff only really lasted until cataclysm when he met Genn and the Worgen. Canonically the Worgen we see are the ones who have gone through a ritual to reclaim control of themselves and temper the beastly anger. So like yeah MoP was pure Faction war, but Varian was a lot more tempered then than people might remember. Reality is that Varian was ripped away from Anduin when they were just starting to get along again...

good job

I'm confused, but aren't WE (the players) the ones who unmasked Onyxia/Prestor ? (and the varian/logosh story being told off screen) ?

I once heard and read from some old lore that in WoW every being has a single "soul" within itself which allows it to "will" itself in the realm. The soul in itself is naturally at a certain balance between Light and Shadow where persistent moods and thoughts arise and go. Take a look at the Lightforged questline where a Draenei goes through the trials to become a Lightforged. Or more recently, a spirit latching on to Shandris as Lilian Voss helps her in the Emerald Dream overcome her grief. I think that with Shadowlands we had alot of thoughts about the "machinations" behind souls. Soul-Forges, Soulbinding, Soul Destruction etc. War Within will probably be about what exactly a soul is to begin with, and how the cosmic forces are constantly attempting to latch onto or tear apart souls. This is a theme that was always present in WoW since the very beginning, but never something that was explored in-depth. And I strongly believe that "memories" and shared emotions are something in WoW that can temeporarly bring back entities that were long gone as the individual struggles with similar issues. We saw that in Anduin's Shalamayne moment where you hear the soft voice "My son" rather sound like King Menethil as he has the hand placed on his shoulder, and the ghastly effects of the short moment in the clip shows the blue light of his soul being drawn towards (probably) Shalamayne itself. I believe that Anduin is "possessed" in that way, by Arthas' spirit and legacy, as he is going through similar emotions and a similar story as Arthas did, with the only twist that he faults himself for something he actually wasn't responsible for. So if you see the Light and Shadow as two extremes of a slidebar for the human soul and condition, Anduin right now is leaning towards the Shadow, and is therefore unable to find his Light back. Since the Emerald Dream received a gift from the Shadowlands which enabled it to spawn a World Tree into Existence, I believe that this is partly due to the fact that the Veil was broken, and at the same time, what was in the Maw in Shadowlands, is now born into Reality, into Azeroth itself, and I believe that we are witnessing the birth of a New Old God we were responsible for and that we will get alot of stuff about the void / shadow, and definitely some bugs to kill.

And people shit on anduin wyrnn when he is a gigachad like gohan.