Another 'forgotten'/very advanced race were actually the Nerubians. I know Azjol-nerub as a zone in WotLK was scrapped, but back in Warcraft 3 they had massive stone platforms moving around, tons of automatic traps, lever-powered doors, shifting walls and Anub'arak himself said their race had masterful engineers and architects. Even in the WotLK dungeons, you can see their impressive architecture to a degree and its all intertwined with magic and their webbing. Sure, it's not quite Draenei or Iron Horde levels of advancements, but out of all the races native to Azeroth, Nerubians were among the most advanced.

In WoD, Blackhand used a massive elemental to fuel his forges in Blackrock Foundry. So, it wouldn't be so far-fetched that parts of elements are used to power smaller things all through Azeroth.

I like how its a mixture of magic and science. It really is unique

Jediwarlock, Gavinrad and Taliesin are the trinity that keeps my love for WoW alive.

Already back in Warcraft 2, both Orcs and Humans built oil platforms and refineries to harvest the oil that fueled the ships and machines with which the two factions waged war with eachother.

You’ve quickly become one of my favorite channels, these are the little world building things I love to see talked about

Now I’m starting to think every single piece of gnomish technology has a tiny elemental imprisoned in it.

Another good video! Transmuting air into fire is a genius connection to Gnome's steam technology. Also it's Cig-uhh-naw-guh but I appreciate the shoutout.

Hi Jedi! Elemental fire is a good explanation, but I don't think we should discount common, mundane magic. For every enchanter who's making your weapon shoot fireballs, there's probably ten enchanters who are making planks of wood and bars of steel stronger, lighter, and more resilient. For example, if the Skybreaker was enchanted to be a tenth its normal weight, then oil alone could lift it. No need for even more powerful sources of energy. I'm sure folks in the Warcraft franchise use both approaches.

Interesting to think about, that the Gnomes might harvest the heat energy of the mountain in that black machine behind the high tinker to power Deeprun Tram. Perhaps there even exists a connection to Gnomeregan. The alpha map of WoW has another platform for Depprun Tram, running in the opposite direction.

I have always been fascinated by that giant thing behind the gnome leader. To think it could be a giant boiler does make sense, it puts a smile of my face, if i had seen this video back when i was a kid i would've been so excited.

Your editing is amazing! The video flowed so smoothly and felt like a movie. Greta job Jedi!

3:24 "Used in the Hindenburg airship disaster." That hurt my brain. Either "used in the Hindenburg airship" or "that caused the Hindenburg airship disaster." But definitely not intentionally used to make a disaster.

We see a zeppelin explode in the opening cinematic to Cataclysm. I think you are correct about the hydrogen-like gas.

As a long time Gnome main I just have to say that the whole "Gnomeregan Incident" made it quite clear that Gnomes have developed some form of nuclear technology (radiation poisoning is mentioned repeatedly), so that would be a sufficient explaination as to how they manage to power smaller devices.

I miss the dragon turtles with cannons on their backs that the orcs used as submarines in Warcraft 2, I wish they showed up in WoW at some point, but they were kind of retconned into the dragon turtles the naga used as siege weapons in the frozen throne expansion of WC3.

Never had I stop to think about how it all worked, maybe I just assumed it was all oil or electric, but seeing they evolved from the power sources they used to some sort of harnessing magic is really cool. I think you could make a video about titan technology and plague's/undead chemistry/biological experiments.

You sound like a science teacher. I love it

I have always been fascinated with 19th century technology, especially after seeing the H. L. Hunley submarine in Charleston, SC. WoW borrows from the steampunk genre RIGHT.

That was really fun to learn. I love these learning Lore videos you've been making. Thanks so much!

I haven’t finished the video, just started watching but you should check out the technology made by the Titans. There is lore behind some of it and one talks about how some of the robots is actually made with cog work. It goes on to mention how there is millions of cogs in them the size of cells. Which is just a crazy concept. (Talking about the Titan watchers and titans keepers) Also the gnomes have access to nuclear power, which is the radiation that mutated some of the gnomes into leper gnomes. It’s also says the Troggs are attracted to the radiation and makes them bigger and stronger.

I’m in love with this video concept. I’ve always wanted to see more WC worldbuilding discussion/exploration, something that’s always seemed sorely missed when compared to the myriad other forms of WC media

Only thing I never saw yet is a fueling station for vehicles or a gas stove. Or an electric outlet.

Maybe it was taintable by the Infernal legion chaos, unlike Elemental fire which was supposed to purified by the Elemental Lord of fire Ragnaros.

Hah, I was genuinely JUST about to comment about phlogiston when seeing this video. I've come across this term, and some other alchemical notions from hopping around in fantasy settings and little bit of nerdy esoteric lore, and I settled on using more or less this as the explanation for technology in my own homebrew fantasy setting. The way I explained it there was that the Dwarves would use runs on their tools and devices in order to create conditions that aren't really physically possible in real life (so metals would be able to take higher heat, more pressure, etc.), and these would make the conditions possible to create/sustain/contain phlogiston as an alchemical rather than conventional chemical substance (ie. it's inherently magic). I think it's pretty decent workaround that suits Warcraft too. Many of the magical contraptions of the Blood Elves, Draenei or Titans are also so slick and fancy that they veer over into science fiction too, of course. The line between them is blurry. There's one little tidbit I noticed: the big sphere behind Mekkatorque KINDA looks like one of the experimental nuclear cores that were build during the Manhattan project. If you google "Light of Trinity", then there should be a pic that sorta gives off a similar vibe. Coincidence? Not sure. Burning elemental fire essence in a boiler is poetically similar to splitting atoms, I guess.

Your notion about hydrogen got me thinking about like "fantasy physics": Where does WoW "draw the line", if there are like gases and hydrogen, is there radioactivity and fission? Can healers heal rad damage? I mean i could think of examples in WoW where they dont use steam but "magic" fuel.

Another amazing video! Thanks for making me think of something else, I'm currently sick 🤒

Your videos are amazing. Thank you for all that you do for all of us.

Warcraft cannot be considered a Fantasy setting. The following technologies exist somewhere on Azeroth. - Indoor plumbing - Electricity - Radio, Television, and Computers - Conventional Ballistic weapons - Energy Weapons (Including Lightsabers) - Tanks, Aircraft, and Submarines - Trains/Mag Rails - Nuclear Power, including nuclear power plants, generators and ballistic missiles - Jet Packs - Robots, Cyborgs and Mechs - Fully Realized Artificial Intelligence - Advanced Medical Science and Technology - Advanced Genetic Engineering and Cloning - Spaceships - Teleporters And yet they don't have ballpoint pens.

I can always expect some unique content coming from your channel

You say the problem is that all the gnomes stuff is steampunk but there's clearly black smoke coming from some of the exhaust pipes. Seems like the gnomes are scamming folk. They probably have recycling programs that don't even recycle.

Always loved this side of Azeroth, great video!

your wow videos are coziest, i subscribed as soon as i discovered you :D

Maybe you can explain if Silvermoon has electricity? I think the do have it as does the Draeni. My power comes from ley lines of azaroth itself. Apparently 3 phase power as some of the quests of the west sanctum imply

Cool vid man!

I'm late to the party, but catching up. I am pretty far from being a lore guru, however I was thinking to an analogy, maybe a silly one; Theramore at some point was destroyed by a mana bomb, meaning a device with a whole lot of energy stored in it. So, if the fissile material in a nuclear bomb -at a much lower concentration- can be used for civilian purposes like the production of energy, maybe the same concept can be applied to whatever (at a later stage of refining) goes into a mana bomb. Just thinking out loud, and no evidence on my part since, as said, lore noob here 😬

The little Jeeps and motorcycles must run on diesel or gasoline.

goblin shamans make contracts with the elements they summon

Awesome video!

Very nice video!

Boy oh boy, I am getting the nachos ready to watch, knowing alread that this is going to be awesome

Nice video !

I’d like to call some of the technology as “magitech”.

Enter the Draenei who have Starcraft tech :(

Grat video. However, as a Spanish speaker I have to point out the poor quality of the recording. Not that there's anything wrong with the narrator, but the actual audio had a ton of static and sometimes the recordings cut off the last few bits of a sentence. The recording had some minor interruptions here and there. Other than that, good work!

Alliance tech > horde

2 Words. Gnomes and Goblins

good video

For the Horde!

Love the detail. But Gnomes use A LOT of electricity and even some magic. While Goblins use a lot of oil, some electric and explosives. A lot of explosives.

I mean Nuclear power is clearly being used too.

thats just goblin samophlange

Phlogiston sounds like phlegm and congestion.

Now this is a great video. A person that did his research and used his actual voice. Not like the recent shit ass AI voice chanel that pop out. That person just copy and paste a text from a wiki and then uses AI voice to read for 20 minutes.

of course master

I always hated ultra scientific stuff in Wow. Why we fighting with swords and shields while we have machine guns and rockets?

How is crashing and burning "going strong"?