Blizzard Debuts Cinematic for World of WarCraft: Warlords of Draenor

@heatdrive88: It's time travel. Garrosh Hellscream has gone back in time and stopped the orcs from drinking the blood.

Alternate timelines and time travel stories are simultaneously the best and the worst.

goodbye next decade of my life

Cool visual callback to the Warcraft 3 cinematic there!

Wellp, Blizzard still crushes any competition with their cinematics. Great throwbacks in it as well.

That's an Orc alright.

From what I understand, it's time travel. At the end of the current Pandaria storyline Garrosh Hellscream is defeated by the players and imprisoned. A Bronze Dragon however frees him and using the dark portal transports him through time to the Draenor of 35(ish) years ago, before his father and the other orc leaders accept Mannoroths Blood (as depicted in the cinematic). Instead of the demonic blood, they use Garrosh's knowledge of tactics and advanced military technology to form the Iron Horde, imprison both Gul'Dan and Mannoroth under the Dark Portal to power it.

It means you have to start those 6 years all over again!!!

Does this mean I get back 6 years of my life?!

Orcs are still the coolest race, jussayin'.

Anyways, I'm a little confused by this lore - assuming that is indeed Grom Hellscream, Gul'Dan, and Mannoroth - wasn't the whole basis of WC3 based on Grom accepting and drinking the Blood of Mannoroth? Is this looking at like a canonical revision if Grom turned it down instead or something for the expansion?

Also, is that other orc at the end that pushed Grom out of the way Garrosh? Or someone else?

I'm confused... but goddamn do I still love the lore.

Yep. That was legitimately pretty awesome.

I'll probably end up checking this out.

Yup, that was pretty neat.

My copy of Warcraft 3 is disappearing just like Marty McFly's family in the photo.

This.

Haven't played WOW in a very, very long time but man you gotta love these Cinematic trailers. And I think I even killed that Giant demon with a two man army back in Burning Crusade.

That was cool.

Man I can't be more pumped for this. Say what you want about the quality of the game but I still love WoW and I'm really like some of the changes they are implementing. I'm super depressed it so close to Dragon Age: Inquisition but I've definitely got a full winter ahead of me.

Between this and Dans brave attempts at WoW makes me kinda want to install this again.

Orcs!

This just makes me want a Warcraft 4.