"Remember, Arthas, we are paladins. Vengeance cannot be a part of what we must do. If we allow our passions to turn to bloodlust, then we will become as vile as the Orcs".-Uther lightbringer. Funny thing many paladins in game have a lot of things related to vengeance.

The most epic stories are usually the most tragic ones too

Am I the only one who actually thinks that Arthas did right with cleaning Stratholme? I mean, he could not prevent his people from changing so he gave them a quick death and at the same time, we prevented the Undead to get more soldiers. It was picking the smaller evil for Arthas and imo he did choose right

I like the fact that after he took Frostmourne he got cool evil armour

I feel like warcraft lore was only meant to last until the end of Wrath of the Lich King and they've been in oh shit mode ever since.

Imagine how powerful the Alliance would have been if Arthas didn't stray too far from the light. He's my favorite character in all of the lore..damn you Frostmourne!

God if only they could make a movie of this (a good movie, none of that bullshit)... The most epic fictional character of all time!

Stratholm was not a choice, Uther and Jania turned their backs on Arthas at the time where he needed their support more than ever, the fall of Arthas squarely falls at their feet. Alone, no sane man could live with the horrors of what needed to be done at Stratholm.

8:02 "the two clashed blades" Uther's hammer: Am I a joke to you?

Something that's also interesting that I didnt mention is that when Arthas ran into Gavinrad, Arthas offered to let him live and to not hurt him if he simply stood aside and let Arthas pass. Gavinrad refused and insulted him which angered Arthas. Arthas then responded by saying that he would kill him, raise him into undeath, strip him of his free will and make him an obedient servant. Despite saying this though, when Arthas killed Gavinrad, he did not raise him into undeath. Instead, he let him enjoy the peace of death. Unfortunately though, his soul was still trapped in frostmourne so thats why the dks see him in their frost campaign

Sylvannas wasn't a night elf, she was a high elf :)

Yup still my favorite Warcraft character.

I just realized that Arthas's story is so familiar to Anakin's story from Star Wars.

The first soul that Frostmourne claims is Arthas himself, when he said that he will pay any price if he is to gain the power to kill Mal'Ganis. Arthas felt nothing he said it himself to Tichondrius wen he asked him, no pity no remorse.

"We may never know, Uther... I intend to live forever" Or atleast until wow

Funny how Warcraft 3 Paladins have this quote "Strike with great vengeance!"

Arthas: *I have brought peace, freedom, justice and security to my new Lordaeron.* Uther: *YOUR new Lordaeron?!*

Arthas was right to initiate the purge of Stratholme. He saw the unimaginable pain, fear and cruelty of what it meant to become undead. It is far more merciful to kill an infected while they still retain their humanity, than to force them to go through such torture.

The story of Arthas is my favorite in WoW universe. I really identified with Arthas and Jaina while playing Warcraft 3 and even more afterwards. Their lives taking tragic turns is so sad and yet so satisfying as a story...

5:17 that music is so sad it just sometimes wants to make me cry especially since arthas is about to kill his father

Just listened to the audio book..man it’s so sad with the amount of tragic irony...loved the video and how close Arthas came to turning back

In the Rise of the Lich King novel, Arthas also destroys Dalaran and kills Archmage Antonidas, Jainas teacher. With the help of Kel'Thuzad

When arthas blamed the mercenaries and had them killed for ""settting fire to the boats" in northrend was when he truly went down a darker path, atleast a start of it, it was arthas talking and not frostmourne/ner'zhul (yet)

Arthas's changewas a lot quicker than the lore updates changed, just playing up the drama. I haven't played W3 for years, but I still remember the dialogue like I heard it yesterday. "Finish it," Sylvanas sputtered, blood in her throat "I deserve a clean death." Arthas stood above the general, not in victory, merely in grim determination. "After all you've put me through, woman, the last thing I'll give you is the peace of death." He didn't rush over to Muradin after the dwarf was impaled. He was already broken. He merely looked at the fallen comrade, almost quizzically, then his attention was consumed by Frostmourne, landing right at arm's length.

Cool video man! I've always found Arthas' story most interesting because this complex of being a human that has done anything in his power to stop this undead plague and then become the very thing he had so despised before. Arthas' story is through the book, the story in warcraft III and WOTLK are nothing but fantastic!

Love these types of videos. Arthas is by far, my favorite character in all of World of Wacraft. He wasn't just "evil" to be evil. He was a complex person, who believed he was doing the right thing until he had fully succumb to corruption. His story is a dark one about a fallen hero.. A fallen hero Warcraft will never forget. Even to this day, I hold wotlk as my favorite expansion of any game I've ever been able to play. I can definitely see where Arthas felt he did what he had to do.. And in the culling of Stratholme, I really didn't see any alternative myself than to purge the city of infected. The best heroes aren't afraid to take charge when in the darkest of hours.

Yes, yes. Once again well done!

You know the beginning part always confused me,couldn't they just eat while on horseback? I've done it before..it's not even hard.

Honestly, playing through Warcraft 3, I understood exactly why Arthas was purging Stratholme. Yes, he was a Paladin. He ALSO was the Crown Prince and would someday be king in Lordaeron. His kingdom was being ravaged and his citizens wiped out by the Scourge Plague...and he had to find some way to curtail that. He had tracked the tainted grain through Stratholme and realized that practically the entire city was infected and would soon fall to the plague of undeath and the Scourge. If that happened any forces he dedicated to quarantining the plague would most likely be overrun by the wall of undeath surging from Stratholme and then turned to the Scourge. As much as it pained him, he thought the best (and most likely only) course of action was the purge the city. Better his citizens die than be converted to a colossal army of Scourge.

All these was rectoned, what about "I hope hell has a special place for you, Arthas - We will never know, Uther, I intend to live forever" we never saw these hesitation neither...but I'm not complaining, I just find it quite funny to see what changed between Warcraft 3 and WotLK x) Nice video!

Really liking your explanation videos. You have a subscriber. Keep up the good work, these are great.

Arthas -Windrunner- "Make Azeroth great again!"

Arthas killing Uther always brings so much pain.

It upsets me so much that there are so many times that arthas thinks about everything he did and pretty much regrets it for then frostmourne to push him that one step further. To the point where there is no way back anymore no matter what he thinks

"Jaina noticed that the boy she knew growing up had changed," Yeah, that's what growing up means.

Just a little correction on your part. Arthas didn't strip Uther from him from his rank. Blind by his rage he said that he is stripping him yes, but even though he is the son of the king he didn't had the authority to do so. In my mind Uther just left the boy alone shocked and angered by what Arthas said and then Jaina followed Uther also shocked by Arthas's words.

Arthas is my absolute favourite villian! Awesome video!

Arthas' fall from grace was the most tragic thing in all of WoW, hands down. Because of what he did as he fell, after he fell, and even the conflicting emotions within him the entire time. All he wanted, was to protect his people, and he ended up slaughtering them all after falling. And the entire time he did so, it was destroying him within. His is by far the absolute saddest and most tragic story in all of World Of Warcraft.

Hell yea another Arthas vid!!✨✨✨✨✨✨✨Keep up the great work.✨✨

High elves* not night elves. high elves 9:30

Though I already knew the story I enjoyed the video, great job!

Dont forget the fact Frostmournes main power was stealing souls, Arthas was he first soul it took once Arthas took up the blade. Thus rendering him unable to feel any emotion.

The Pic of Jaina at 1min is absolutely beautiful, that's a keeper!

Awesome video !

It's not that the light refuses to help Arthas, it's that Arthas started doubting his own actions and that is why the light left him, Arthas was in conflict if what he is doing was right, if he was truly convinced that that was the only way to help the citizens the Light would have stood at his side to aid him, but deep down Arthas knew that he wasn't doing the right thing and that doubt led to the light abandoning him.

He felt empty, because he had a craving for gold, which a goblin heart could fill. Papa bless.

one can dream for a movie (Warcraft 2: fall of Lordaeron)

Ty for a nother arthas video! :)))

Pure joy

One of the most complex character blizzard ever deliver. Like seriously his story was done so well. You see him descends from holy to madness in such a perfect balance. When he become a Death Knight, he was just a pure badass villain with no remorse. He saw, he come, he conquered. His arrogant even make him even cooler. And When he become lich king, god he even more meancing with his deep tone, and how he taunted the player throughout wrath and let them fall into his trap. It this kind of story telling blizzard need to focus on. Singular chatacter instead of the big overreaching story. Blizzard can't never deliver this good of a story line again. You see this with the current legion story line. Wow right now only care about crafting the universe, creating a meta plot line with big bad villain that has no depth. They dont dived into character dynamics anymore like warcraft 3 did. Even Mist of pandaria have way better story line than even the current legion right now due to the political dynamics and how it effect the character like jania, vojin, thrall, garrosh, varian and anduin. Now it just world building and big threat that is meaningless. No matter how disconnects and ridiculous the horde and alliance storyline at stormheim, it was at least interesting and intriguing. Legion threat however is just typical bad guy with the same one liner "this world will burn" like yeah we heard you guys like billion time.

this is one of the best fictional character stories together with darth vader, so tragic

amazing video, thanks

I've always wanted to see a movie about Warcraft 3, but after hearing how Arthas felt it would be such a good movie, with emotions and character development, something the first movie lacked. If they take the time and make more than one movie for WC3 and if they pick the right actors.

One sentence to describe arthas: You have become the very thing you once swore to destroy!

9:30 High Elves not Night Elves. Know you know that but caught the typo great vid tho, love these.

Look at the clouds at 4:43. It resembles the Helm of Damnation as Arthas pics up Frostmourne.

Everyone asks why purged Lordaeron. Nobody asks about his feelings.

Great video.

nice vid man

I'm glad that there is still things I don't know about the WoW lore :) Not whole lot but enough!

Regretting killing Sylvanas doesn't come across in the WC3 campaign though. He basically says that after all the trouble she caused him, the last thing he'll give her is the peace of death. But then again, WC3 never really gives us an insight into what the characters think.

i still can't get used to your new name XD, nice video as always. ( what's the first song in the video, forgot the friggin' name 0:00-0:40 ish )

dude I fucking love watching ur vids

Do you know anything about the Guardian whom Arthas fought before embracing Frostmourn? Is there any information regarding the last character who tried to protect Arthas from the cursed blade?

We get it krucial, you love Arthas.

I hardly believe Arthas felt anything after picking up Frostmourne. Tichondrius explained his emptiness by the sword taking his soul, so the moment he picked it up, he effectively became a psychopath.

Arthas never had a choice, he was born to become the Lich King, his destiny was decided a long time ago

Arthas and Illidan are my favourite characters

Video: ''..turned to Jaina, expecting her to follow him'' Subtitles: ''...Returned to China, expecting her to follow him''

Arthas and Sylvannas needs their one movie. Such an amazing stories have these two.

Arthas "died" when te took frostmourne At this moment his heart was still beating but his soul was no longer with him Evwrything he did after this has no difference with any other character slaved by the scourge

I knew it...Jaina x Arthas is fucking canon... *cries*

I know how I felt during this mission, because due to a bug I couldn't purge and the last save was from hours ago

Arthas story is one of my favourites when it comes to games and almost in general aswell. It was what made Wotlk the best expansion to me.

Arthas is without doubt one of my all time favorite villains.

Arthas doesn't have any more interesting or conflicting thoughts in his mind until he becomes the Lich King or even afterward ? a video about his continuing thoughts would be very cool

Best part was all the great artwork. I dunno where you found them bro, when i search the web i cant find things of same quality.

Jaina's Locket.

ahhh arthas... nolstalgic, THIS MUSIC OMG THIS MUSIC ....

God, i really love the story, i hope there will be a GOOD movie about warcraft lore, its so good

Evil can sprout from good intentions too...

9:32 Night Elven troops, you mean High Elven troops :^) Good video though.

At 6:33 That accent was just perfect imo !

Good job. u are great

Sylvanas wanted to give her enemy fair warning..... How noble of her.

The light responds to faith, not morals. It left Arthas at Stratholm because he himself was losing faith in that what he was doing was right, even though it was the only way. Meaning he truly did have a conscious.

in some of the artwork, Arthas looks like Dave Mustane from Megadeath.

A mere prince who merged with the most powerful being on Azeroth(considering Old Gods are locked away with hardly any influence), a demigod of death,. It is said that both, Arthas and ner'zhul held back from unleashing the Scourge's might because of the unstoppable force that it is, though, its a pity, if any of em did, Azeroth would have already fallen long before Wrath expansion time period. So as cool as Arthas was, he kept the Lich King entity from its true potential, because the lore states his true power is immesurable in essence, and also because it grows/expands infinitely, a trait no other bad guy possesses, not even Kil'jaeden, hence why he wanted his creation dead, as the LK was becoming a threat.

The hardest choises requires the strongest wills.

I like how you took some ideas from book Rise of the Lich King

even after becoming the lich king he still has tendencies to stir the hearts of his people

"I dearly hope that there is a special place in hell waiting for you Arthas." ~Lord Uther Lightbringer, greatest Paladin to have ever lived.

Still don't know why people blamed Arthas for this, it was logical hell even Arthas regretted what he did to his people. Uther and Jaina could've just stayed with Arthas and persuaded him even if it took force to do it, but for some fucking reason they instead left him because "they couldn't stand it" or some plot bullshit

When did you change your name man? I haven't been watching your vids cause I didn't know you changed it c.c

Really liked the part where varian has affect to the story

What is the song in the background? I can't find it anywhere

I really loved the soundtrack, Black Rock And Roll. It really reflects the mixed emotions of the campaign, the courage, the desolation, and deception. Especially the ending, reflected the betrayal, when I had to march those brave men to certain death, and by their own Prince himself... So much emotions...

I find that struggle in Arthas mind is very important in the lore, as well as the evil thoughts and actions of Nerzhul who betrayed kiljaeden himself ... it's like everybody have some evil and good inside and they are also influenced by Greater forces, but in he end the desicion is on the characthers. That's why there is Free Will in WoW and you can see bad guys like the Defias who have nothing related with the Felmagic-BurningLegion or the OldGods-TwilightHammer-Shadowmagic. And so we can say that Arthas was proclive to evil and he choosed that way so he deserved what he got ..... but then rises another question; When he died he said that he was seeing "only darkness" and Terenas ghost said "no king rules forever" ... I think both sentences are from Yogg-Saron ... in wich case He was the real master of puppets and therefore there are no Free Will in WoW... Nice videos as always, greetings.

you forgot to mention the raiding of Dalaran to get the book of Medivh in order to summon Archimonde into Azeroth :p

Wonderful!