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The deal with that Sword: The "master forger" is Orn a demi-god who forges legendary weapons. He hasn't forged one in thousands of years. The fact that he is forging one now means something big is coming onto the world (a big evil) and he is preparing for it.

I'm surprised you didn't ramp about the massive details of the hand in 3:45. The visible work of the muscles and tendons under the skin, the folding skin and moving blood beneth vessels, when he pushing himself up, even the slight decolorisation under his nails when he put presure on his fingertips, the amount of biological details is just mindblowing when you watch it frame by frame.

So here is a light lore breakdown. The Smith is Ornn, The All-builder, a god of craft who has promised a god-promise never to build a weapon again unless the world is in catastrophic danger. We catch him forging a sword. The Spartan looking guy is Pantheon, he used to be the body for the god of war, but that god was killed and now he has declared war on gods and devils altogether. The woman riding a boar is Seshuani (I definitely spelled her name wrong), she runs a Viking* tribe whose main food source was stolen by the bear looking guys who worship a bear god, The Volibear (Ornn's brother) he makes a guest appearance in the clouds when his servant summons some lightning. The two in the desert, I'm not even going to try with their names (leave that to some other guy), travelled to this world's Egypt in order to stop another dimension from leaking through, because enough things are trying to ruin the world without those monsters running around. The purple hue on her outfit is on purpose, as her armor is actually a creature from the same dimension as the monsters they are fighting. She has tried for year's to escape that dimension, and is now flying back into it to lure the creature away. So that her friend can close the hole

The coolest part is Pantheon's (Spartan Guy) hand when he's climbing in the very beginning. Take a closer look at it.

"The heavens do not fear me because I am a god. They fear me because I am a man!" - Atreus, the once avatar of the Aspect of War.

"Don't leave me hanging." Cinematic team, "Mission accomplished."

Something that I feel deserves to be mentioned, is the fact that they are masters at sound editing. I feel like is not only that the song is amazingly epic and the lyrics Perfectly narrate some key moments in the story, is also the TIMING. It’s impecable. See how Pantheon plunges his apear into the floor and at the exact same time the beat hits. Couple seconds later you know the beat is coming again, and a monster emerges out of the floor. What I’m trying to say is: this gives certain scenes SO much more impact and power. These cinematics are a craft worthy to analize like you do. Thank you for the amazing content.

Kaisa is the girl with purple abilities, she was lost in the void most of her life and her abilities come from the special void suit she is wearing, it's actually a void predator that she's wearing. Anyhow love the stuff, keep it up!

Purple chick in desert is Kai'sa, she gets her powers from a parasite monster that is slowly killing her and originates from the same place(void) as the giant monster they were fighting.

As always, loving the League of Legends reactions man!

The overarching plot going on here is entirely related to the purple (Void) monsters, albeit in indirect ways for two of them; Pantheon is climbing Mount Targon to fight the gods that reside in "Targon", the realm of the Celestials. Celestials have been taking over the bodies of mortals to use their power in Runeterra, and Pantheon was the Celestial of War, until the man managed to win back control after a clash with a demon. The link with the Void monsters here is that Targon holds the leash of a star-creating dragon, who *does* have the kind of firepower the world needs to counter the all-consuming Void. Pantheon doesn't know about this, but it'll come in play regardless. Sejuani is one of three descendants of three sisters who fought a war for and against the "Watchers" who are, as far as we can tell, a cold acclimated of the same Void. While she currently is merely seeking a way to feed her people with the Cauldron of Ornn (one of the great gods of the region, the ram), she will need to clash with the forces of Volibear (another one of the great gods of the region, the bear). While we don't know how this clash will end, it will certainly put Sejuani in a place where she learns of the Watcher's imminent return that was highlighted in other lore stories and the threat they represent. Taliyah is simply searching for a safe haven for her nomadic people in a Void-infested desert. Kai'sa has been fighting and learning about the Void since she was a child and fell in the tunnels below the sands. They teamed up for a while to investigate the increase in Void presence near a desert city. They are the ones who are actively in trouble from the Void and feature it's immediate danger. However, while Kai'sa is going back to her fight, this is all new to Taliyah, who has the power and will to spread this information to the big regional players; the Ascended demigods, who fought the Void a millenia ago. As for Ornn, the ram god of the forge, whether he is preparing to fight Volibear here (as they are ancient enemies), or he knows of the Void/Watchers coming back is unknown. It does assuredly show that he knows *something* catastrophic is about to happen, because he swore never to make another weapon unless the world needed it.

cap looks really cool on you, just wanted to say that lol

The sword that ornn forges in the video is not a big deal itself. The important part is that ornn didnt make any weapon for centuries if not millenias, so him forging a sword now means he prepares for a really big war. (worldwar level of war)

Point of notice: When Leona strikes, you see the same coronal ejections you see from a star. They didn't have to add it, but it fits the impact perfectly.

The girl in purple is Kai’sa and she spent a decade in the realm where that creature came from called the Void. This gave her some abilities and she uses them to fight off the Voidborn as they are called. The giant creature that attacked her is Rek’sai, a sort of mother to at least some of the other voidborn.

There has never been an episode that I've been looking forward! Thanks you Chris :D

Man i love you so much for that, i've been waiting patiently for this react!!!

As always,u explained and taught us interesting parts about the cinematic,and as always ur amazing, anyways That spartan guy and Valkyrie lady,their actually god's(well not literally god's,just semi god's,somethin like that) The Spartan guy is pantheon(I totally forgot pantheons deisgn was inspired by the Spartan hahahha) His the aspect of war...well the real aspect is inside of him...it's hard to explain And the armoured lady is Leona The aspect of sun,and those guys u saw fighting pantheon are solarian warriors,which serve the aspect of the sun Again thanks for reacting and teaching us about the way these cinematics work.

Aah, seeing you upload always makes me so excited!

She and the monster are purple because they came from the same world under the desert. The Void! It is in the lore of the game. Her name is Kaisa and the monster is Rek'sai.

Bro, Chris deserves so much more attention and acknowledgement . He's still one of -if not the best small filmmaker I've seen on KZfaq💯💯

20:45 Kai'sa is sort of like a Venom character, she has a symbiotic void thing that makes up her suit that she bonded and adapted to as a child. That creature, Rek'sai I think most likely, unless it is just a generic void creature is from the same place she got lost in as a child. The Void is a weird place, sort of like an enemy dimension trying to break in and take over, they tend to be more alien like creatures though. Riot does like to use color to define regions though, purple is typically void related, blue is Demacia, red Noxus, Zaun is green typically but then you have Jinx who doesn't really follow that, so it isn't always true, but typically the larger groups/regions do have a common theme going on.

Already know this is gonna be a banger reaction

Took him so long I've been checking weekly for this video reaction but nevertheless it's good to have your review.

You definitely start to respect the scale of things when these gods, demigods and other monstrous creatures start to appear though. LoL's lore makes for some amazing story to be made into a cinematic. Riot's art team just killed it again, this is just top quality. So aside of being basically a music company at this point, they are also on the top when it comes to animations too haha!

Yes, in kung fu movies, they fight exactly as you called it "video game fights". its weird at first but its really cool to show off great moves

Never thought I would hear someone call Pantheon the magical spartan a sci-fi character?

15:20 ehat youre talking about is 'uncanny valley.' meaning smth that looks so perfect and human like that it doesnt feel human anymore.

Finally broooooo i wait this reaction. Greettins from Perú

Yay! I'm so glad that you finally had a chance to review this. It is such an amazing piece and I knew you would just love it.

I've been waiting for this

love the Chris Connor arcane arc, even the filler episodes are fire

Atreus invoking the powers of the dead god that once lived within his body to fly up and kick the star dragons ass is my favorite thing.

Using Xoolani the Healer's statue to bury the Monster back in its hole is her fighting the Void even from beyond the grave.

This cinematic so epic!!

this is a great parody vid

“Sci-Fi spartan” “Thundaga” yep

Ever since I mentioned in your arcane episode 1 which had notably less cinematographic explanation after the reaction, I've come to enjoy your deconstructions even more. Love your efforts into these. It also helps that the cinematic itself is pure emotion for me, though.

Let's go for some explanation. First of all english isn't my first language so excuse if I lack a bit of vocabulary. Icy land : The women on the board, Sejuani, is one of the 3 war chief of the land and her clan is dying for starvation. So she is looking for "cornucopia" of food own by one the old game who create this part of the world (Ornn the smith and Volibear the electric bear are the 2 other). But the philosophy of Volibear is "you must struggle to survive" so he try to stop her and send some of his creatures. Btw the viking man is another champion of LOL named Olaf. Desert : The place has a complicated history, but basically a war append long time ago not that far and one of the belligerents summoned the Void. It's a place full of monsters who are all purple and try to destroy the world. Kayssa (the purple girl) was trapped in the Void when she was a kid and merged with one of the monsters. She managed to escape in Shurima (the desert) and crossed the road with Tallya who can control earth. The Big monster is Reksai, another champion. And last but not least : The Spartan is pantheon he was possessed by the god of war and escaped. Now he is trying to kill all the gods who live on top of the mount targon (which we can the in the portal). While he is trying to climb, leona who is possessed by the god of the sun try to stop him. But Aurelion sol (he just is a cosmic dragon who has created the universe) tries to kill him because he had a bad encounter with an old war god possessed. Thanks for your annalyse, was very fun to watch!

he finally did it. tysm for the reaction ☺️

Pantheon is such a fucking MAN. His real name is Atreus and he had the aspect of war inside him(pantheon). Long story short he was stabbed (see huge chest scar) and the aspect died but the man survived (again what a beast). In the video he is fighting an aspect with nothing but his muscles and weapon, no powers, nothing. Even though the aspect of war is dead he somehow manages to reawaken the power of the Pantheon in this video after seeing all the fallen people that tried to reach Mount Targon. One of them was also his best friend. This scene is thd most epic thing I've ever watched honestly. What a CHAD!

Fighting scenes with pauses. Any Jackie Chan movies. Ever. And they are all perfect.

20:40 that's because kai'sa and rek'sai (the beast) are both from the void

All the characters: Pantheon (spartan), sejuani (boar rider), olaf (viking with two axes), Kai'Sa (purple armor girl), Taliyah (earth-bender), Rek'Sai (big monster), Leona (valkyrie), Ornn (smith), Volibear (big bear in the sky), and it's maybe aurelion sol that shoots pantheon with the beam Edit: and the boar is called Bristle:)

"this is ban kai" best crossover ever

Damn i love it so much how much you realise, even if you dont always get what it means…👌👍🏻

My man Pantheon is GIGACHAD himself.

I love Rek'Sai she is my favorite void creature.

The girl that the spartan looking guy, is Leona an aspect of the sun. That is why the sword has the effects of the sun.

The "vibrant purple thing" is the void,those creatures as the one the girls were fighting comes from the void. Kaisa (the purple girl) is a human but the void has gotten into her ,i think since when she was little, killed her parents and tried to conquer her too but she fought it back and conquered it instead,so now she has void powers and seeks the void to fight it off

Chris Connor : *see the best waifu of the game* his reaction : "This is what ate Boba Fett" love dude, you do a really good job

The sci-fi spartan will be the hero of runeterra, you'll see

I waited for this reaction since the first time I saw this cinematic :D Finally it´s here now ^^ In my opinion the best cinematic from league in graphic quality and epicness. Warriors and Awaken are also great, maybe even better music. But the visual effects here are the best.

Pantheon firmly subscribes to the "with your shield or on it" philosophy of warfare. Screw dodging, if I can't deflect it with my shield it deserves to kill me.

I just come to watch Chris haha 😅 He is so handsome

I love how he was really into the animation

finally!!! given an eternity!!! like pusheed!!!

So the deal with Kai'sa having the same vibrant purple hue as the monsters, is that they both get their power from something called the "Void". Kai'sa was kidnapped as a child and sacrificed to the void by an insane prophet, but instead of dying, merged with another weak void creature so that they might both survive. The creature now exists almost as a venom-like second skin, and they both grew stronger as they fought for survival. Now that she has made it back to the overworld, she fights to protect people from the void monsters that make into their world, even as she is seen as a monster herself by those she fights to protect. The mask coming on as she prepares for battle symbolizes her giving up her humanity, and embracing the monster that is a part of her now.

14:50 there is actually a good explanation why her skin is not that like that, because Sejuani is not a normal human, she is an Iceborn, Iceborn are the People who can survive really harsh and cold weather

I shall remain as vigilant as ever, Chris me boy you should react to the Warframe Prime Trailers specifically Valkyr, Banshee, and Nekros or all of them!

My eyes burned while he put on that GX light mode lol

good observation with the purple hues that monster is from the void , kai ' sa the girl gets her powers from the void as well she basically grew up there so they look alike because they kinda are both from the void.

This is what ate Boba Fett got me hahaha

OMG FINALLY

It's so cool to see how you're picking up on lore elements from just your perspective as a film maker, without knowing any lore. The "purple energy/magic elements" of Kai'Sa(lady shoot violet energy blasts at the giant monster) and Rek'Sai(giant earth monster from a place known as The Void) both essentially use Void power. While oversimplified and not 100$ accurate, this is the simplest way I can describe it. Rek Sai is a monster from the void, and Kai'sa hunts void monsters by wearing the hide of a slain void monster to give her void powers.

Finally!!!

To explain a bit of the lore. The 3 places shown in the cinematic are the Frelyord(Ice), Shurima(Desert), and Mount Targon (Spartan Sci-Fi) The people in the Frelyord are being led by Sejuani and Olaf, Sejuani is on the Bore, Olaf is the chonky man who breaks the ice with his back. They're going to war with Volibear and his followers the Ursine (half-man half-bear people.) In Shurima Taliyah and Kai Sa are going to fight the void and collapse a nest created by Rek'Sai(Giant purple creature aka the Broodmother). Kai'Sa is leading Rek'Sai back to the void essentially sacrificing herself while Taliyah has to collapse that giant statue to cover the void portal made by Rek'Sai. Finally, the spartan looking dude Pantheon, is going to fight the Aspects (Basically Gods) and has to scale Mount Targon and has to face off against Leona, before getting knocked back down by an unknown force, theoretically from Aurelion Sol. But so far riot is dismissing all theories regarding that. Ornn is forging divine weapons to help push back the void. Hopefully this helps some! This is pretty much the summarization of what I know so I don't expect all of it to be perfect :)

best, most impressive shot had nothing to do with the action. it was the hand. the detail, of the skin and muscles moving in the hand grabbing the rock. the shifting of the skin being under strain, and compressed by the wrist armor... my roommate who's been a a graphic artist for close to a decade watched that scene with me over and over, zoomed in, could only say, "I don't know how they did that. there is no software, I'm aware of, that can do detail work like that on a moving 3D model." which tells me the amount of work done and time taken for those couple of seconds is probably disgusting. I'm asuming thay had to have drawn every single frame of that sequence individually, which is... absolutely insane.

Chris, after Arcane, or as an intermediate after 2nd arc, you should react to the more recent (two I think) SW The Old Republic Cinematic trailers. They're dope as always

12:22 - A bird? It was a scarf :D

Leona, sun and fire god Aspect This guy - “valkyrie like chick

I hoped Chris say a couple words about ice peak falls on viking.

for if u dont know. i can explain the purple similarities between the purple girl (Kai' sa) and the purple monster (rek'sai). they both have to do with the void. what is the void. the void is the absent of licht and supposed to be like the nothingness before the light. what u see here in the clip is a whole being opened to the void. rek sai is also called the void burrower. there are many void creatures in LOL. Kai'sa however is a special. she basicly lived as a human in the void (forgive me but i dont know how she got there) but she has been there so long that the void started to interact with her. wich ultimatly resulted in her being granted a void bio armor. (like the mask opening closing). so she has void powers. there is a clip wich follows kai'sa right where she left of in the end in this one. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ntCAhpabmr6yo6c.html . watch this and u will see the VOID from the inside. if u want to know more just reply to this and i will reply back XD enjoy

No entiendo mucho lo que dice pero me emcanta ver su reacción siento como si algien superior le dé el visto bueno

The transition is not a bird, it's the piece of cloth Taliyah picks up of the ground and it transitions into leaves, just thought i'd point that out

if more of this is what you want check out the Cinematic "All That Will Ever Be" which follows after the events of "The Call"

"Looks like you have some required reading to do." - Vegeta, _DBZA_

"Please dont leave me hanging" Riot: WATCH ME Me: #MOOD

With Elden Ring finally out, you should check out their cinematic tralior. Probably not long enough to do a video of, but something to still watch and enjoy. Nice video as always :).

A thing abot phantheon (spartan guy) and leona (valkyrie chick) they are both an aspect (a somewhat similar or close to demigod)

Ngl yeh im tryna know his gym workout 😂😂😂

when you mentioned that in "real" films they dont fight "pose" and continue fight i had to think of bruce lee films. i think it happens there alot ^^

Sejuani fight with Olaf is best part for me

Okay so the reason why Kai'sa and the monster had similar purple hues is because the whole that the monsters were from is a place called the void. The void is believed to be a place that ONLY devours the living so when Kai'sa fell into this hole when she was around 4, her father followed her in. The father survived empty-handed and corrupted. After 20 years, Kai'sa survived, without an armor to protect her, Kai'sa now has void armor that is also alive soo the purple hues is alive yes and the suit survives together with Kai'sa. Somehow Kai'sa is the only person who got out alive and sane. Most of the people who enter the void either die or they get our corrupted and insane. There are 2 champions in League that are human that survived but went insane and one of them is Kai'sa's father; Kassadin.

Bro Your accent is 100 % from the mediterrain . You remind me of either a Spanish/Iberian man an Italian man or A Greek man

two of these story beat are stories going on at the moment. the 3rd is guessed by fans will be a story coming this season. i wont try to explain them (others have done it better) so if you REALLY want to know whats going on, look it up. who ever is doing riots stories are great (well we wont talk about the that one) and its amazing that they can juggle their games music and stories so well. good reaction and break down.

not gonna lie moments of this one the characters look almost live action

Ornn busy making longsword costing 350g hahaha

Let's gooo

opera gx is really good, i use it since ive heard of it last year and its the best browser ive ever used

You should check out some Rainbow Six Siege Cinematics some of the newer ones have amazing CGI.

😂 I take back what I said about....eehh yess

What a actor 😂

"Flip transverse the script." In many games, when a female equips something like full plate it's something similar to a bikini. That's why it's a Valkyrie in full plate versus a Spartan that's in a loincloth and a cape by the way. Because there was a woman I once knew that complained about the sexualization of women in art.

Purple light:they are both from void

Pantheon vs Leona damn the battle of gods except they are not entirely gods but just a host

Where did you get this shirt? I love it

Quick Run-down of what's happening: 1. Ornn, the primal deity of the Forge Ornn is doing what he does best, forging a weapon for an unknown purpose. This is probably the most significant thing in this whole video because Ornn hasn't forged a new weapon in thousands of years, so if he's doing it now, the cause is terrifying to speculate on. 2. The Freljord (Wintery place) Sejuani (The aryan chick riding the giant boar) is leading her starving people into the domain of the Ursine in search of an artifact that can fabricate food to feed them. The Ursine are spirit-walkers (they can take the form of spirits of the wild, like bears) that worship the deity Volibear (which we get to see in the clouds watching over the confrontation when one of the Ursine calls upon lightning magic). The Ursine were commanded to confiscate the artifact that Sejuani is looking for, and they've been guarding it since. 3. The Shuriman Desert Taliyah (the earth-bender chick) and Kai'sa (the chick that fires energy from her fists) are searching for allies to fight off invading creatures from the Void. Kai'sa actually spent most of her life trapped in the Void and survived by bonding herself with a predatory creature that now acts as her armor suit. She only recently made it back to Runeterra. They arrive at a settlement too late, finding it empty of humans and full of Void creatures: Rek'sai and her brood. Kai'sa sacrifices herself to save Taliyah because she knows she can survive falling back into the Void. 4. Mount Targon (sort of like Mount Olympus from Greek mythology, it is the hangout for god-like entities called Aspects) Our champion Pantheon climbs Mount Targon looking for a fight. Pantheon used to be one of the Aspects, the Aspect of War, but decided the Aspects and other Gods should not dictate the fate of humans and stepped down from that position (but still kept most of his powers) and now is trying to lead a one-man-war on the other Aspects. The Solari attempt to stand in his way and Pantheon beats them all with just his fists and shield drawing the attention of Leona, the Aspect of the Sun. She comes to defend her followers, but is surprised to receive assistance from either Aurelion Sol (a cosmic dragon that has a beef with all the Aspects because they tricked information out of him and gave him a cursed item long ago) or Zoe, the Aspect of Twilight. The result is Pantheon gets booted off the mountain. He dusts himself off and uses his in-game ultimate ability to fly off into the stars to go pick a fight with whichever one of them interfered in his fight with Leona.

Here the Story so far: For the freljord, basically Sej is trying to recover a pot made by Ornn, which is said that one sip from it will feed a person for a whole day (or month, or year, i can't remember), she is doing it to her tribe can survive, problem is, that pot had been taken by the Ursine, people and shaman that worship the Volibear, basically those bear hybrid you see in the video, Volibear is only seen in his siluette in the clouds! They took this pot because they believe that it will make people weak, and less wild, and Volibear wants Freljordians to be wild For Shurima, Kai'sa and Talyah met in a story that you can find on universe, kai'sa was going to the ruins you see in the video to fight the void, talyah was going there to help her people, in the end, we don't know if kai'sa simply dived head first into the sink-hole to protect Talyah and her people from Rek'Sai or because she is going back to the void for something we still don't know! Fun fact, the giant statue Talyah destroyed was a statue of an ancient Ascended shuriman! As for manly man pantheon, it's the most unknown, his gist is that he doesn't like Aspects, at all, he wants to kill the aspects because he believes that they are too powerful, and are treating people like marionettes, and he's going to Targon's peek for reasons we don't know, he fights Leona, aspect of the Sun, and leader of the Solari, who are kind of zelots, and are in constant fight with the Lunari, so no one of the two is necessarily good or evil, but at las some kind of star thingy shoots pantheon down, and we don't know what it could be, maaaybe aurelion sol is getting free? As for Ornn is chilling smithing weapon, other comments already said why that's a big deal! In the end all these characters will probably come togheter in the void event that is almost sure to unravel later this year because : The watchers are in the Freljord, and something could very well happen there, Aurelion sol is one of the few beings capable of closing void rift, Kai'sa is now in the void, and Ornn is smithing weapons, which in the event could be that he forges special weapons to fight the void!