The Warcraft movie shows a statue of Medivh & Atiesh in Stormwind Trade District at year 0.
As Medivh was like 13/14 when he went comatose then basically out of it for years then a reclusive possessed wizard who stayed in Karazhan 90% of the time prior to the war there wouldn’t really be a need or want to there to be a statue.
It seems much more likely to find a statue of King Barathen Wrynn defeating Packlord Garfang if one was to walk into Stormwind at year 0.
Is there canonical lore to support to Medivh statue or what statue would have been in Stormwind at the time?
The movie operates off a re-imagining of the Warcraft story, not a retelling of the original. It’s a story retooled for a general audience, not for Warcraft gaming nerds.
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Like Drahliana said - the movie’s canon is unapplicable to the game canon unless stated otherwise (Llane’s queen and his sword made it into canon AFTER the movie), but assuming there WAS a statue? Probably Lothar.
A fan theory I saw was that the Warcraft movie universe is just another timeline, and that the Warcraft 1 original story is an entirely separate reality and timeline that just runs alongside the movie one. Meaning that all of the retcons and changes throughout Warcrafts years are all just separate universes.
So if we think of it like that, its quite possible that Medivh did something spectacular enough to earn a statue in Stormwind and thus justifies it being there. At least, in the movie version of the story.
In game canon he does do something spectacular that would have netted him a statue: He obliterated the Gurubashi forces that threatened to destroy Stormwind in the Gurubashi War, single handedly ending the conflict. I haven’t seen the movie in a while, is the Guribashi War ever mentioned in passing in its dialogue?
Doesn’t Lothar have a statue by Blackrock Mountain?
Yeah, but it was built AFTER the fall of Stormwind in Orcs and Humans. We don’t know much about what the first Stormwind looked like, but him having a monument there was a definite possibility.
It was actually not much more than a castle as it was called Stormwind Keep.
That’s not true. It might have been represented by that in the DOS game, but Stormwind was an entire city similar to the one seen today back before the orcs destroyed it. It certainly wasn’t just a castle.
If we measured everything by how Orcs & Humans scaled it, Azeroth would be tremendously small.
A statue of Tassadar.
Its like nobody wants to honor his sacrifice. Ingrates.