The Mystery of Morrowgrain (Deep Dive & Lore Theory) | World of Warcraft

This is fantastic! I love the idea of undercover bad guys actually DOING something with their time rather than just existing for a betrayal reveal. Great video!

I think the biggest support of your idea about The Cleft and that being the place where we confront Fandral is supported by the fact that blizzard originally intended to have an “Emerald Dream” raid/zone during vanilla wow. Perhaps they were laying the foundation for our journey into the emerald dream to save malfurion and fight Fandral with this un goro soil quest chain and never got around to finishing it in-game during vanilla! Great vid!

According to the story, Teldrassil didn't get ALL of the blessings from the dragon flights after the Hyjal tree was scorched and Staghelm set up the replacement tree. The furbolgs lived on the land previously then the tree grew underneath them. There are signs of huts down below the eastern furbolg camps at sea level. There were satyr and corrupted furbolgs present throughout the tree. There were 2-3 mutated / strange fruit/plants (quests) plus one of the large plant elementals had a tumor (gives a quest). Teldrassil wasn't well and Staghelm losing his son from the War of the Shifting Sands still weighed on him. I don't know when Staghelm "changed sides" but he definitely had help getting there.

Makes a lot of sense. Old Blizz devs were quite creative

I love lore theories like this. Really high quality video awesome to watch!

Another link to the ungoro soil being corrupted is during the Emerald Nightmare raid, the boss Il'gynnoth (I butchered that name lol) is located in Un Goro crater. Most likely the boss has been slowly corrupting Un Goro Crater and the soil used is the result starting to happen.

Seeing how Teldrassil's corruption is a prevailing theme in the zone, I think Fandral purposely corrupting the tree is pretty solid. It's particularly tragic that Fandral was corrupted by the same entity that was responsible for the death of his son.

Huge quality increase in this video well done!

I only discovered The Cleft fairly recently... i think about 2 years now i suppose... However, i figured there was probbaly some quest from Teldrassil that i never found for it. Very interesting to find that its yet another area where there was seemingly meant to be something there, but never was. These spots always make me think "what if a dev coded in an event here that only shows up at a certain time or certain day?" drives me crazy honestly!

I've seen a lot of obscure theory lore vids, and this was actually NEW. Well done, keep it up.

Morrowgraine, the Soilbringer.

Excellent video! I was very intrigued in vanilla when I first got this quest. The night elf druid (and Malfurion fanboy) in me didn't trust Staghelm from the start so after turning in a couple of times to see what's going on, I stopped handing them in and kept them in the bank. I already got tricked by that satyr in the starting zone, I was not going to fall for it again.

Great theorising! I had always wondered why we got that grain. Fortunately, our friends read the books, and let us know what was going on, outside the game, yet was lore. I would love to see more videos similar to this, even if they have re-conned or removed the lore or quest's. Esp with this story beat leading now into Cata and then on into BfA and apparently this new Dragonflight. I'm glad to see that the lore still is continuing and growing. Thanks!

I remember doing this quest way back in the day. It was so strange, and I actually loved that the questline ended so abruptly and mistiriously. I wish they just kept it that way, secrets lose all their charm and mistery when they are revealed. At the end the reveal was kind of a let down. It is way more fun to speculate about the misteries than actually knowing the truth. Same with the missing diplomat questline, or the Ashbringer. WoW was so much interesting back then.

I love these Vanilla WoW quest lore. They remind of old rpgs such as Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Icewind Dale etc. This is why I love Vanilla

Ooh I love this theory! I do love some Night Elf story-related theories, since they were one of my favorites to play in the game. I wish the intriguing story could have been more fleshed out in-game, especially with all these pieces of the puzzle you pointed out already existing within the world. Do you think maybe Maraudon could have potentially been related too? I know the storyline there is a bit different, but it's also interesting that the most lush part of the dungeon is also tied to the Keeper and the Princess...

Holy moly makes a load of sense... the "soil" research in thunder bluff was the one poop shoveled that was shown at one point never made and elf so I can say to their side

The quest every neglects to talk about in regards of Teldrassil's corruption is the Thresher quests in Darkshore. You can find numerous dead Threshers corpses along the beaches in Darkshore to the point where it stops being coincidence. Apparently the threshers are purposefully beaching themselves in an attempt to swim away from Teldrassil

"And now helps to lead the elves to this day" - yeah, about that. Unfortunately Malfurion (had enough of Tyrande's crap and) decided to stay in Shadowlands on the pretext of allowing Ysera to be revived.

It amazes me to this day how deep the lore for Vanilla was. How many small stories are told spanning multiple zones, even if it made for a slower leveling experience. It's funny to think how the old "visit town, grab 10 quests, genocide the neighborhood and then turn in all 10 quests" way of designing quest hubs had so many small stories woven into it while the new focus on Campaign missions and chapters can only get 1 major story through for each patch. Love your videos, keep em coming.