On the human side, you’ve got King Llane Wrynn (Dominic Cooper), ruler of the kingdom of Stormwind his wife Lady Taria (Ruth Negga) and the commander of their armies, Anduin Lothar (Travis Fimmel). In the film, the main characters you’ll meet are largely the leaders of their various factions. Eventually with the arrival of the orcs the world is split into factions: The Alliance, composed of the humans, elves, dwarves and gnomes and the Horde, composed of orcs, trolls and Tauren (goblins, being greedy creatures, have opted to stay mostly neutral in the hopes that they can trade with both sides).įrom left to right: Anduin Lothar, King Llane, Lady Taria, Garona Halforcen, Durotan, Ogrim Doomhammer, and Gul’dan. At the time the film is set, there are elves (split into Quel’dorei and Kaldorei, AKA High Elves and Night Elves, and even later down the line a subsection called the Blood Elves), dwarves, gnomes, trolls, goblins and Tauren (large, bovine humanoids). But they won’t really factor into this movie a lot, as they only really start to show up later in Warcraft‘s timeline.Īzeroth, though, is the home of many races - very few of which are sadly in the film. However, Draenor is also home to the Draenei, a race of blue-hued humanoids who had fled from their real home planet after it was ravaged by the Burning Legion. Although the movie doesn’t really show it, we’ve seen a few shots in the trailers of elves and dwarves, but their involvement is minimal at best. There’s a lot more to Warcraft than orcs and humans (despite the fact that this movie is based on a game called Warcraft: Orcs and Humans). In actuality, they’re invading because Gul’dan has sold their souls to the Legion, who just enjoy invading worlds a lot.įrom left to right (big breath!): Forsaken, Troll, Tauren, Blood Elf, Orc, Human, Draenei, Dwarf, Gnome, Night Elf. After making a sneaky deal with some evil demons called the Burning Legion (more on them later), an orc Warlock called Gul’dan (played by Daniel Wu in the film) begins uniting the Orc clans on Draenor to build a not-at-all-ominously titled Dark Portal that connects Draenor to Azeroth, so, as the orcs believe, they can invade and find a new, bountiful home. Azeroth is lush and vibrant, Draenor is barren and wasting, having been picked apart for resources by the orcs for generations. There are two big important planets in the Warcraft fiction: Azeroth, home to the humans, and Draenor, home to the Orcs. Those big burly orcs I mentioned? They’re actually big burly orcs from outer space. Warcraft, at a first glance, looks (and mostly is) about as traditionally “fantasy” as you can get: There’s knights in shiny armour, castles, mages casting spells and big burly orcs. Neither is it based on the more obscure but iconic-amongst-gamers Warcraft III, the third game in the franchise that told the story of a human prince named Arthas Menethil, who became corrupted by evil and fell to the forces of villainy, rising as the terrifying Lich King - the story most fans would love to see told on screen, and even expected when the film was getting under way all those years ago. And yet, surprisingly, Warcraft the movie is not based on World of Warcraft or its various story expansions. Whether you’ve never touched it or sunk hundreds and hundreds of hours into the insanely popular MMORPG over the past 12 years it’s been running, odds are you have heard about the pop culture phenom at some point (or seen that South Park episode about it). There is only one reason we’re getting, of all things, a Warcraft film in the year of our Lord 2016: World of Warcraft. No, really! It’s not actually based on the hit World of Warcraft video game. Don’t worry, we’re here to help! Here’s what you need to know about the weird world of Azeroth before you start your journey (into a movie theatre). The Warcraft movie is nearly here, and if you don’t know your Gul’dans from your Garonas, everything in the trailers probably looks monstrously confusing.
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