Blizzard has released a new cinematic for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. Check out here what Jaina is up to!
In the lead-up to Battle for Azeroth, Blizzard is once again releasing a series of cinematics to advance the story of World of Warcraft. First, Blizzard has started with the video “Warbringer: Jaina.” Here you can watch the short cinematic:
In the video, we see Jaina Proudmoore on a small boat at sea. She is singing a folk song from Kul Tiras, her former homeland. There she is infamous as “the Daughter of the Sea,” who let her father die.
This goes back to the campaign of Warcraft 3. There, Daelin Proudmoore, Jaina’s father, wanted to annihilate the Orcs. However, Jaina had formed a peaceful pact with the Orcs. When it came time for the decisive battle, she let the Orcs pass, directly exposing her father to death.
Since then, Jaina is hated in Kul Tiras and her mother is also not on good terms with her, who now governs Kul Tiras.
The cinematic ends with Jaina lifting her father’s ship out of the sea and making a decision: this time she will stand by the humans and fight against the Horde.
Cortyn says: Chills throughout the whole video! I can only hope that the videos for Azshara and Sylvanas are similarly impressive, because then Blizzard should be able to raise the hype for Battle for Azeroth even further. Overall, I really like Jaina’s development – instead of simply going crazy, she becomes determined and strong. A nice change in the Warcraft universe. This is also another example where the German version of the cinematic was brilliantly translated.
What do you think of the cinematic and these animated short films in general? Do you like that the plot is advanced this way and more is revealed about the characters?
