That when he was young, he was sent to the ‘Floating City of Dalaran’.
However, Dalaran had not left from the Alterac region until many years after.
Minor movie detail.
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The movie is a separate canon. It is similar to the game’s canon, but it’s not exactly the same nor does it have any bearing on game canon.
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The movie is its own separate canon but it also had a few lore issues.
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Bit funny when you read the last guardian and he was originally from Dalaran, not sent there.
As I’ve been told the game lore and movie doesn’t relate, but always thought it was pretty darn similar.
A lot of the details were spot on from the RTS, for the most part.
The movie is best thought of a strange through the looking glass alternate universe version of Azeroth where everything isn’t identical but sort of rhymes, so to speak.
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Duncan Jones, the director, has said that if he ever gets the chance to make the sequel, he would show Dalaran landing in Alterac in the second movie.
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Let’s be honest the only good parts in the Warcraft movie were the Orc parts. That’s to be expected. I would’ve liked for the human parts to be good but the way they used live actors alongside the CGI Orcs just looked weird. The humans also should have been in CGI.
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Except in this canon, Dalaran is already a floating city before anything happens to it. So in this sense, Khadgar is correct.
There are many heavy deviations from the game’s canon in the movie. The Frostwolves don’t partake of the fel and remain Mag’har, Thrall was turned green because of the powers Gul’dan used to resurrect him, Garona killed Llane by his request in the middle of a battlefield rather than in his throne room, Alodi was some kind of unknown female(?) magical entity rather than a storied Guardian, Lothar had a son, Blackhand was killed by Lothar long before the battle of Blackrock (which prolly won’t occur now), and there was absolutely no mention of Sargeras in Medivh.
There’s probably more I failed to mention. A few things from the movie have made their way into the canon - Taria Wrynn and Llane’s sword from the movie have both been canonized. To a lesser extent, I wouldn’t be surprised if the design of the library from Return to Karazhan drew inspiration from the movie’s design.
If there’s one thing I’d like to see canonized from the movie, it’d be Taria being Anduin Lothar’s sister. I like the idea of the current line of kings being a union of Wrynn and Lothar.
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Even in the proper canon, Blackhand is killed by Orgrim. And that is way before the battle of Blackrock as well. The difference between the proper lore and the movie lore is the person who killed Blackhand.
The battle of Blackrock was between Lothar and Orgrim. In which Orgrim killed Lothar
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It would also provide some more context to why Varian named his son after Anduin Lothar as well.
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My dumbass got Orgrim mixed up with Blackhand. Sorry, my bad, still sucking down a coffee.
Well, in the proper canon it’s just because Lothar was Varian’s regent after Llane’s death and the fall of Stormwind. Even if they aren’t related, Lothar was a huge part of Varian’s life in both a familial and heroic capacity. It’d just add another layer if Lothar was properly Varian’s uncle.
Someone took the city on a joyride when he was young.
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wtf is with that blue cube on your character portrait?
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It’s the new RAF hat.
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Gotta love blizzard. They are so lazy they haven’t put the model for it into the armory yet, so it shows up as a blue cube.
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Yeah, everyone pointed it out already, but the Warcraft Movie is/was a new canon separate from the game. Presumably they made Dalaran a floating city because most people playing the game know it as that, so in a bizarre, wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey bit of consistency, they made the movie version match that instead of the actual canon.
Let’s call it faux-consistency. It looks consistent to newbies, but seasoned Warcrafters know it is not so.
Damnit Rafaam.
As a standalone thing I thought the movie was alright.
It is criminal that the deck stealing Rafaam is not in WoW yet.
Honestly with the assaults in Uldum next patch, I would’ve liked it if he took that as an opportunity to ransack some old Tol’vir tombs for loots and we have to stop him in a dungeon or something.
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Yeah I like him too. I mean I get that his whole unleashing the Old Gods thing goes against canon and wouldn’t happen in WoW but he’d still be a great villain to have as some recurring team rocket style schemer.
I mean the guy stole Dalaran by strapping giant rockets to it. That’s so ridiculous you can’t help but like him.