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[00:00] This video is sponsored by Square Space. Hello Internet, Taliesin here, and today we are talking... Cinematics.

[00:12] We are talking the Void Spire Raid. We are talking the death of major characters. We're talking about Zalatath's big reveal and the setup for the March of Keldonass, and more. Like, probably, N'Zoth and stuff, which was maybe unexpected,

[00:26] because we are talking about the Void Spire Raid ending, and everything that happens and everything that it means. This is the best raid ending cinematic in a very long time. There's a lot to unpack,

[00:39] but obviously before we do, the usual disclaimer applies. This is not a reaction video, okay? I've watched this cinematic quite a long time already, so if you haven't, this video will be a very bad way

[00:51] of watching it for the first time. There's literally stopping and starting and skipping bits and talking about the top of it and obviously massive spoilers for the end of the raid too. But if that all sounds like your kind of thing, then join us as we ask,

[01:06] who is actually alive at the end of all of this? Where does that get that big knife from? And celebrate Midnight's very own Argus in the Sky moment as we get all deep and dive you with the Void Spire ending cinematic, okay?

[01:21] Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. So just the tiniest little bit of setup before we get into the cinematic itself. This is, of course, the climax of the new raid, the Void Spire, one of the three new raids in Season 1 of Midnight.

[01:34] Or, actually, four, if you count the one-boss encounter coming in 12.0.7. But this six-boss encounter is definitely where the main story is to be found this week, leading up to the march of Keldenath in two weeks, where all of this will presumably reach some kind of conclusion.

[01:51] It follows our attack on the Void Spire, where all of Zelotas' machinations are centred. And honestly, the raid does a pretty good job of capturing a picked battle at the very beginning, as the Vanguard of the Light fight their way to and through the tower.

[02:06] It's hectic and explodey, and Mountain Fist gets vaporised and charged to the boss. I repeat, your favourite character who got added in patch 12.0, Commander Kamu's Mountain Fist, is dead.

[02:19] He's gone now. Rip Mountain Fist. Don't worry, that's not the major character death I was talking about. And all the while, Zalotas and Eleria are engaged in a massive trash-talking session like,

[02:31] Ooh, you gonna get it, Eleria? I know you gonna get it, Zally! You know, that sort of thing. This antagonism climaxes after the penultimate fight, the light-blinded vanguard, where Zally seems to make Eleria snap.

[02:44] Oh, Eleria, she says, if I'd known you would all simply kill each other, I wouldn't have gone through all this effort. I shouldn't be surprised. Now that you're Turalyon, try open your own sun.

[02:59] And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking... Because did he though? I'm not going to bang on about this, okay? But, you know, Turalyon accidentally hit his son with his sword

[03:12] after his son purposely jumped in the way of the sword as Turalyon tried to hit an enemy combatant, an unarmed enemy combatant, sure, but one that Lorsamar and the Adrin and all the other blood elf forces there

[03:24] would have been absolutely fine with Turalyon killing, by the way. Only Arator wanted to stop it because he knew the truth of the situation. And yes, that's really very unfortunate that that happened. But Arator was physically fine,

[03:37] like five minutes later for me, since I did Arator's journey as the next chapter. But whatever, it doesn't matter how I feel about how the ending of the Everson campaign prayed out. It's how Elaria feels about it. And she feels strongly enough about it that, yeah, consider her completely triggered,

[03:52] because she charges through a void portal completely blind in pursuit. Umbrick zaps us all up to the platform to follow, and when we get there, Zally has seemingly incapacitated Elaria, and this fight, as we predicted from the very beginning,

[04:05] when Elaria's shadowy form first appeared on the Midnight Dungeon Journal in Alpha, it's about us trying to rescue Alaria from Zalatav's clutches as much as anything else. So it is certainly at first, until the fight draws on,

[04:18] and Alaria does indeed start to succumb to the dark energy flowing around her. It's a really spectacular looking fight, with more than a passing resemblance to the Sylvanas fight in Shadowlands,

[04:31] right down to Alaria's voiding voice lines. I never mean to stop her. Unlike in that fight, though, are allowed to get Elaria all the way down to 1% health before the encounter is won

[04:43] under cinematic plays. Mother, hang on.

[04:57] I'm here. And our opening shot isn't of Elaria at all, but of Turalyon and Arator, our allies in the fight, and of course, family members of Euleria. Despite all the troubles these two have had, and we saw a video on Turalyon's art coming,

[05:13] here the framing shows us that when it comes to protecting Euleria, they are side by side, united. In fact, Turalyon's prominence in the foreground of the shot, and his quicker reaction to Euleria's off-screen cry of pain,

[05:28] show us that any misgivings we may have about him and his relationship to the light, It's not anything we will need to worry about at this moment. He is in concerned husband mode again for the sake of this cinematic.

[05:40] And as he and Arator arrive at the prone figure of the defeated Eleria, on her knees, a common theme for characters at the hands of the Light and Void, this expansion, we can see that she is no longer the blue-purpley void-infused Eleria that we were just fighting.

[05:57] I like how the camera's position from above here shows us out of voice running into her, but also hides her face while she convulses in pain on the floor. And when we do get to see it in the next shot,

[06:10] I love how wide-eyed she is, as the voice positively cascades out of her eyes like upside-down waterfalls. The look of terror and pain in her face, quite unsettling for a character that we know to be so resolute and focused.

[06:23] Pain, because A, we just beat her up and that's going to hurt, for sure, but also because this is hilarious in the moments after she failed. The one thing she swore would never happen.

[06:36] She lost her battle with the void powers within her. It took control of her. And not only that, but she attacked her son. The anchor that she assured us, Turalyon, and herself many times in the past

[06:49] was the whole reason she would always be able to keep control. Well, she didn't. And that's where this manic fear and pain in her expression is coming from. Way more than any physical pain. In contrast, Arator's glowing golden eyes radiating the light

[07:04] feel incredibly comforting and gentle, don't they? Although we see Elaria's fear more closely mirrored on Turalyon's face. You have a feeling he is maybe more aware than his son is what all of this means to Elaria.

[07:17] The shot where he grabs her hand, her hand outstretched and in kind of a cough or almost, rigid with pain and he snatches it but again there's no anger here no zealous rage or light

[07:29] fueled wrath from Turalyon only care and when he says I'm here that's kind of what he means too I know this is going to sound like I have Turalyon in session okay and it is true I find him one of

[07:42] the more interesting and nuanced characters in Midnight so far which I know a lot of people disagree with me on and you know they're probably going to disagree with me on this too when I point I think in these beast moments here in this cinematic before it all kicks off,

[07:57] Turalyon is showing that he is actually capable of what Alleria always claimed she was. In that when his anchor, Alleria, is in danger, he doesn't even think about the light.

[08:10] It not even an issue Everything really does come second to Alleria for him He not burning up with righteous lighty wrath fire as honestly you might expect given the circumstances

[08:22] and like his Vanguard teammates did in just a boss fight before this one. It's all about Eleria for him. Always. And as usual, Zalatath makes her entrance mockingly from above

[08:35] and behind the people she is talking to. Hi, Jane. Such a fucking race to save anyone. And now, the moment of truth.

[08:57] Because she's just a creepy-ass bint, who very much paid attention in high school theatre class about the importance of positioning and levels in communicating status. Our boys turn back to look at her as she dominates the scene, displacing Eleria, taking her place in the tableau almost.

[09:15] And we look up at her too, because this is the moment of her victory over us, but more importantly, Eleria. She has won. This training is telling us that in no uncertain terms, we just don't know how yet.

[09:30] She effortlessly zaps Turalia and Aratora across the space and out of play, and descends upon her prey. This is, she promises, the moment of truth.

[09:42] And Eleria tries to fight back with another sassy Smackdown comment, I will die before I serve you! But it's said to a grimace, because Zalatath isn't playing that game anymore.

[09:54] She doesn't need to spar with Eleria anymore. She has her exactly where she wants her, and Alaria knows it. Tell me. Despite all we've been through.

[10:09] As she playfully runs her hand over Alaria's armour, it's like a lion playing nonchalantly with a mouse before devouring it whole. And then a close-up shot of Zalata's hand carefully placed on Alaria's shoulder.

[10:23] I think the first moment the two have ever physically touched, but I might be wrong. Correct me in the comments if I am, and correct me too if I'm wrong when I say we've only seen her touch two other people before.

[10:37] Ansarach and Salazar, both on the shoulder, both as part of her manipulation of them. But there's no manipulation here. This hand we are about to see is to constrain and steady Elaria for what comes next.

[10:55] As the blade of the Black Empire manifests in her other hand. And look, we're going to talk about this all, I promise, but we just have to let it play out, okay? It was never actually you.

[11:09] This is Christ. This super tight shot of the two faces and then Aleria's cry of pain escapes to the sound

[11:30] of Zalatath quite literally stabbing her in the back. And that drew a way to describe the end of her relationships with, well, just about everyone actually, but especially literal in this case.

[11:43] And the camera is really allowed to linger on Alaria's quivering jaw here. This entire sequence is quite horrific, actually. Zalatath twisting the knife. Again, something she has been doing to Alaria for the past two expansions.

[11:57] But, you know, literally this time, and noisily, and brutally. And the way Arator is revealed in shot here by the knife jaggedly sawing through Alaria's spine in the foreground.

[12:09] we are given no doubt as to how violent Zalatap is being here. Reflected in the horror on Arator's face, which, you know what, fair praise to you, mate, I'm going to say you're justified on that one, yeah.

[12:22] And when, with a final, noisy, bone-grinding flourish, Zalatap removes the blade, the lifeless, dignity-less heaviness of the way that Hilaria's body hits the ground

[12:36] tells us the audience for certain, yes, she's dead. As Shakespeare puts it so viscerally in Macbeth, Zalataz has unseemed her from knave to chop.

[12:49] There's a thick, voidy smoke and energy emanating from a wound that must span the whole length of Alaria's torso, just as it flows from her now lifeless eyes just moments ago. And then...

[13:01] and last of the time you people

[13:21] the pieces of the void naru lura escape from inside aleria to reform in the sky above the Void Spire. And okay, now we can start to unpack this.

[13:35] Lura is the Dark Nauru who we found with Locus Walker on Argus at the end of the Seat of the Triumvirate dungeon in Legion. A dungeon which, rather handily, is in the Season 1 Mythic Plot Rotation from Midnight,

[13:47] which begins next week, just in case you missed it at the time. Although she was already an accomplished and willing student of the Void at this point, to the extent that she had already been imprisoned by Zera, her previous boss in the Thousand Year War,

[14:00] it was consuming Lurah here that really took Aleri's voidiness to another level and made everything that's happening now kind of inevitable. I can't quite emphasize enough, we have been waiting for a moment like this for the last nine years or so.

[14:17] Now that's all very well and good, but what I really love about all of this is the context that it gives to Aleria and Zalatath's relationship. Because it's the payoff that we needed, I think.

[14:29] From the very minute Zalatath was reintroduced in the Dark Heart epilogue quest of The War Within, she had a major hard-on for Aleria. Aleria was her special little plaything. And the question was always, why?

[14:43] Is it because she was trying to turn Aleria? To corrupt her? That certainly seemed to be it for a while. Well, and I think the attempt in Asshahet was probably genuine on Zalatath's part, sure, but Zalatath didn't seem surprised or put out when it failed.

[14:58] So why goad Elaria into hunting her so intensely? It honestly started the scene like a weakness on Zalatath's part, one that objectively hindered her own plans when Elaria first damaged the Darkheart

[15:11] and then accidentally led the Shadow Shard cereals to it so they could snatch it from under Zali's nose. I was beginning to think that she just hated Eleria because Blizz wanted a fun dynamic between the two.

[15:23] And if that's all it was, that would have felt a little bit cheap for me. This, though, is excellent. The reveal that this whole time, the reason Zalatath has been so interested in Eleria specifically

[15:35] is because she wanted the Void Nauru within her. The power of Lura was needed to brute force away through any defenses of some well and create, in Zally's words,

[15:47] THE DARK WELL! Yeah, the Dark Well. Look, it's fine, alright? It's dark. And rather than go hunting for Alaria when the time came, she just kept Alaria hunting her throughout.

[15:59] So whenever Zally was ready, she knew Alaria and her tapeworm, Naru, would be close by. Not a 5D, 10, 3, and IQ super plan, so much as just ruthless efficiency. And extreme confidence, too,

[16:11] that you can afford to make someone as famously badass as Elleria obsessed with killing you, but honestly what are you going to be able to do? I'm motherfucking Zalatath, son. Even then though Zali did have a plan B We see her trying to make a backup Dark Nauru in the Voidstorm questing One that as Zali says is not quite as good as the one in Elaria which we are also reminded of foreshadowingly in that questline I love this twist because it actually was a twist for me

[16:39] I did not see this coming, right up until Lura was shown in the Dungeon Journal to be the final boss of the March on Kalvanath in Alpha. Before that, I simply did not guess that Zalatath was constantly goading Elaria

[16:52] and causing her misery specifically because she wanted to utilize the Nauru inside her at some point and couldn't be forced to go looking for Eleria when she needed her. And because I was fooled, I'm totally willing to believe Eleria was fooled too.

[17:06] It's a vicious surprise and brutal in the way that Zalatath is able to use and discard Eleria in a moment, at the drop of a hat. It would almost be impersonal if Zalatath didn't insist on making it so very personal.

[17:21] Because don't forget, Zazaz doesn't have to touch anything. For the last two and a half years, we've seen she barely needs to raise a finger or an eyebrow to defeat anyone in her past. To toss some of the most powerful figures in lore around the place like they were nothing.

[17:36] She does not have to take this dagger and cut Eleria open by hand. She does it with all the savage and crude sawing and crunching that it entails because she wants to. Almost like Eleria has earned it in some sick way.

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[19:45] The Blade of the Black Empire is, of course, how we first met Zalatath, if we were Shadow Priest players in Legion. It's where my own love affair with Zalatath started, and why all of your priest friends in Raid just seem to like Zali way more than anyone else does.

[20:00] She was trapped in the dagger by the old gods. The dagger itself is said to be the claw of an unspecified old god. We released her in BFA to get at N'Zoth, and the last we saw of the blade, Rathion used it to clear the way through the carapace of N'Zoth in Ny'alotha.

[20:15] So how, and why, does Zalatath have it? There are lots of possible explanations, The least interesting of which is that it's not really the blade of the Black Empire at all, but just a manifestation.

[20:27] Zalatath magicked up a dagger in her hand to open up Elyria. It could have looked like anything, and she made it look like this, because she's a merceous little nymph. Very possible, but quite un-blizz-like.

[20:40] There is almost certainly some meaning behind the use of this particular blade, but what? Well, ever since it disappeared in Nihilotha, people have been speculating that perhaps a trace of N'Zoth's being had been stored within it.

[20:55] Taken from the carapace, and meaning that when we killed N'Zoth and ended BFA, that actually, he wasn't really dead. Because we didn't really fight him, because he was really in the dagger. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Taliesin, that sounds like Cope for a disappointing end to one of the all-time WoW baddies.

[21:11] And perhaps you're right. But then, that bit in the lore-walking quest, where we saw Zalataz reach out to N'Zoth after she was imprisoned in the blaze, and him being seemingly open to it. What deal was she offering him there?

[21:26] Many have said, and maybe it's true, that whatever deal it was, was fulfilled when she was released by him and us in BSA. But maybe there is still a twist in the tale here. Maybe this dagger wasn't just used to release Nurah from Alleria, but to transfer N'Zoth into her.

[21:45] Maybe Alleria is planned to be N'Zoth's new, um, avatar? I actually don't love that. Don't forget that Hilaria said she felt she had died twice already. And of course that makes you think of the Oganoth whisper

[21:58] at the hour of her third death. She ushers in our coming. And, well, this would certainly be her third death. Does that mean the old gods are on their way to Azeroth with Zalotas?

[22:11] Okay, how about Hilaria's soul was imprisoned in the dagger when Zalotas used it on her? Like I say, doing all of this by hand is a sign of pure spite and it wouldn't be hard to imagine Zalatath taking great pleasure

[22:25] in keeping Alaria's soul in the dagger that she's spent thousands of years cooped up inside herself. Whatever the future may hold the blade of the Black Empire, though, and I know none of what I've said actually answers the question of

[22:37] where Zalatath got it from, but still, back to the present. Zalatath. You.

[22:51] Beautiful! I love the mechanical creaking of Lura as she reforms in the sky here.

[23:07] It really does make the Nalu feel like a construct, a vessel for the light rather than a true living thing. Zalatars describes it as beautiful. And honestly, it kind of is.

[23:19] The way it's presented isn't the dead, empty void darkness that we usually see from a fallen Nauru, but almost astral, thrumming with cosmic energy and raining starlight down onto the

[23:32] platform, and then the reason for this summoning becomes clear. Do you remember the cinematic at the end of Shadowmoon Valley in WOD? Bring it home. Bring it home.

[23:45] The dark star falls now upon you. The dark well is open. Where pretend Velen sacrifices himself to turn a void Nauru back to the light.

[23:57] And everyone's really sad except any of the players. Because it's only pretend Velen so we don't really care. Well this is interestingly kind of like the mirror opposite of that one. Bring it home. The dark well opened!

[24:16] Lura blasts downwards, destroying the platform and engulfing Zalatath in the resulting dust cloud. Don't worry about her, she always disappears in the nick of time. That's like her thing. And I love this moment of silence as we see the destruction at the top of the tower from a distance.

[24:38] It like that bit of Makira where Tesla flies into space and takes out the atmosphere to ground laser And then the quick zoom in and contrasts with the chaos within the beam as it channels down

[24:52] Arator getting butted against the rubble as he tumbles downwards. And then... Then the moment I hate about this cinematic.

[25:07] Oh no! As the weirdly calm, chiming, Exodar-like music plays, Arator sees the body of his mother and cries out to it.

[25:25] His hand almost touching hers before he is teleported out. His last glimpse of his parents can see them tumbling into the infinite darkness below, like when you see people sink under the waves.

[25:37] and... Aaaaaah! She's not really dead, is she? Look, there's nothing about Hilaria's body that suggests that she's alive here, okay? Her eyes open, but they don't glow. None of the void smoke is coming out of them anymore.

[25:50] She's completely limp. It's just... She had her rather brutal death scene. Why have Arator reach out to her here if she wasn't gonna turn out to still be around somehow?

[26:02] Turalline certainly isn't dead, and no one thinks him disappearing into the dark is the end for him, So it wouldn't have to be for Eleria either if somehow she survives or somehow she returns.

[26:15] Hilariously, Aratul must think Eleria is dead, but still reaches out to try and save her rather than his dad, who he knows must still be alive. And fair play, that's some pure dad hatred from Aratul right there. You have to respect that level of petty.

[26:28] But this, I do not like. When I thought Elaria had just been killed, I was shocked and moved, and also thought that it served the story beautifully.

[26:40] Something of major consequence had happened. Elaria achieved a lot through the last couple of expansions, but ultimately she could not learn the lesson to stop getting totally baited by the sassy void lady, and she paid for it with her life.

[26:53] Nothing against Hilaria as a character, obviously, but a major, brutal character death is exactly what the story needed in this moment. And when it looked like that had happened, this was shaping up to be an all-time classic.

[27:06] And then... This. I don't know. Maybe I'm completely wrong, okay? Maybe this was just an extra poignant moment to really play up the desperation and denial and feelings of loss that Arator must be going through.

[27:21] And if that's the case, yeah, actually it's very touching. But I can't be the only one who's feeling this, right? I can't be the only one who just isn't feeling any dramatic impact from the loss of Valeria because this moment means I'm always just going to be waiting for her to somehow return, you know?

[27:37] Like, even if she is actually dead and does never return, this moment here ruins that because it made me expect her to somehow return. And so the moment of her death has been undermined.

[27:49] I mean, come on, Blizz. She's been pretty much cut in half. Let the thousands of years old elf lady die. Unless, and this is the only other scenario I'll accept, okay, Claire and Turalyon somehow get zapped to another cosmic realm

[28:02] and have to fight another thousand year war together. Just because that would be quite funny. That I'll accept. Mother.

[28:14] Mother. It has a word. So, with the tragedy of the scene having been diluted somewhat, by now, Arator's reaction is still very moving.

[28:26] It's Umbrick's tether that saved him that we helped set up in Magister's Terrace Quest before we went to Roystorm. I like that that turned out to be important. And, you know, presumably Umbrick did save us as well, even though we aren't shown in the cinematic.

[28:39] I'm pretty sure he saved us too. He wouldn't forget about us, really. Umbrick. And as Arator helplessly calls after his mother, and father, oh he remembers his dad now, and falls to his knees, he resembles Eleria just

[28:53] moments ago, lost in anguish and pain and probably guilt. But unlike in that scene, Umbric doesn't kneel to help Arator, so devastated is he by what he sees above the sunwell. And

[29:06] the framing of this shot is incredibly reminiscent of that wonderful scene after the Tumasargeras in Legion and the Argus in the Sky reveal, which is a million percent intentional because

[29:20] this is absolutely midnight Argus in the Sky moment.

[29:35] The beam that Lurah created has broken through the Vanguard of Light's defences and engulfed the sumwell. As you'd expect, this is represented in-game and looks awesome. Also,

[29:48] and I feel like I just really want to go on for a second about how amazing Silver Moon feels after the Void's Fire. It's dark and eerie. The bombastic city music has been replaced by the same themes

[30:00] but played in a much more spooky, ethereal way.

[30:12] It's actually very disconcerting, very eerie, and I love it.

[30:32] All of this is genuinely one of the coolest things I think has happened in WoW in a very, very long time. Probably since Argus in the Sky, really. We lost everyone, Umbrick says. And to be clear, he has just seen the vanguard of light largely wiped out by this event.

[30:48] The questing that happens directly after this sees us find survivors of all of those light users who are stationed around the Sunwell. And there's like seven of them. I won't spoil who. The Sunwell is now the Darkwell, corrupted, seizing, and controlled by void entities.

[31:06] You basically instantly die if you get too close. We've lost everything, he says. Meaning, obviously, not just the Sunwell, not just the mission, not just Eleria, but Azeroth. Because this is way bigger than the Sunwell or Silvermoon, and always has been.

[31:21] This is what Zalatath has been working towards since that first whisper to Eleria at the end of Dragonflight. The trail that she started laying for Eleria and us, and ultimately Lurah,

[31:33] Lurah, with that very first taunt in the Dark Heart quest, was leading right here. And we failed to stop her. It's honestly the kind of urgency you can only really achieve in the story when you've

[31:45] got another raid to launch in two weeks' time. And it feels big. It feels important and desperate. And it probably won't stay feeling that way beyond that final raid. But the dramatic impact here is great.

[31:57] This is great. This is great. This, I hate. But okay, fine. All in all, I would probably rate this as one of the best end-of-raid cinematics in WoW. Certainly for an instance which isn't a final raid, and it sounds weird, but does kind of feel good to lose, doesn't it?

[32:13] But what do you think? What is the fate of Valeria and Turalyon? How does Zalatath have the blade of the Black Empire, and what significance does it hold? How effective is this as a raid-ending cinematic for the Void Spire and leading into the march on Calderon Earth?

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