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"Tales of the Past is a storyline movie, based upon the realm of Dunemaul (EU). All three movies of this trilogy have been released. The main idea for this movie was to make battlescenes between huge amounts of hordes and alliances, talking over ventrilo to make it work. This worked out greatly and we managed to do battles and speeches etc with 70 hordes and 40 alliance, in an epic movie that will blow you away!"
Characters
- Yimo - an officer of Eden Aurorae
- Blazer - Yimo's best friend
- Arthas - The Lich King himself
- Thainor - A Human Warlock living in the underground Stormwind, supposed to help Yimo but is working for something more sinister
- Monóri - An elf officer of the Alliance
- Jaina Proudmoore - One of the greatest sorcerers ever to live
- Rexxar - A champion of the Horde
- Thrall - The Warchief of the Horde
- Saurfang - An officer of the Horde
- Smorisha - Orc General of the Horde
- Morbid - Undead General of the Horde
- Eden Aurorae (The whole guild) - The guild behind the movies (mostly Martin Falch, the director/writer/and so on)
- Iron Edge - A Horde guild that took a great part in making this movie
- Serphentos - An officer of the Alliance, in control of a lot of soldiers
- Highlord Mograine - The Death Knight of Naxxramas reveals himself as something more
Story
To prevent an upcoming war between the Horde and the Alliance, Eden Aurorae has a goal to find an artifact of great evil to stop the madness.
(Under construction)
Tales of the Past - The Series
Tales of the Past is a World of Warcraft Machinima series.
Martin Falch (Maquan) is the director of and the mastermind behind these films.
The series started with a film named Eden Aurorae Guild Movie, which was a self promotion movie for the guild Eden Aurorae. After getting some great feedback Maquan started working on the Tales of the Past trilogy and have since created some of the most epic WoW movies ever made.
| Movie | Title | Size (MB) | Runtime (Min) | Release Date | Direct Download | WCMovies | Stream |
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| Tales of the Past | This is your story.. | 401 | 15 | Nov 02 2005 | WCMovies | Stream | |
| Tales of the Past II | Revelations | 520 | 41 | Jun 16 2006 | WCMovies | Stream | |
| Tales of the Past III | Legendary | 2.33 GB | 1h 28min | Dec 12 2007 | DDL | WCMovies | Stream- |
Maquans own words about the series:
The series originally started out as a guild promotion movie for my guild, Eden Aurorae.
However, as it got popular, I decided to continue and make my second storyline movie, Tales of the Past, which was indeed a way more serious project than the original guild movie. The original idea of [[Tales of the Past was to make a movie with arranged events between the Horde and the Alliance - as you've seen, the same thing goes for Tales of the Past II.
Tales of the Past II was my ambition to make what I did not make in Tales of the Past.
Voiceacting, camera changes, action, a script, a plot - everything a movie should contain. This ambition turned out to result in quite a ride, spanning over 6 months of hard work, but also tons of fun with all the actors, voiceactors and supporters of the movie! In the end it fulfilled my ambition and I am satisfied with the result, even though I know I can improve in many areas! I have learned tons from this production and I know a lot more than I did when I began.
That is why I hope you will stay tuned for Tales of the Past III, which will be the final result of the whole experience!
Tales of the Past II
Tales of the Past II (TotpII)is an epic machinima movie based in the WoW universe. The move is the second in the 'Tales of the Past' series directed by Maquan (Martin Falch) of Dunemaul. This film, with a total run time of 41 minutes it is arguably the best and largest scale machinima movie ever created using recordings from the popular World of Warcraft MMORPG. Production of the movie took place over approximately six months and included more than 1000 extras in the form of other World of Warcraft plays providing support for epic battle scenes.
Main Characters
See Tales of the Past II Characters
Tales of the Past III
(Under Construction)
Main Characters
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See Tales of the Past III Characters
Storyline
This epic storyline movie picks up where Tales of the Past left off. Yimo and Blazer set out on a quest to prevent a forthcoming War between the Horde and the Alliance, by revealing a mysterious corruption in Stormwind.
Yimo and Blazer begin their quest by visiting Thainor, a warlock who tells them that information about Conrad Schultz is contained within his diary, hidden in the Library of Stormwind. They successfully retrieve the Diary of Conrad Schultz, but accidentally teleport to the tower of Karazhan when making their escape. At Karazhan, Yimo and Blazer face an ambush from hundreds of undead members of the Scourge army. Luckily, members of a group of warriors known as The Ancient save the plucky heroes and transport them back to the safety of their camp.
(Only seen from behind)
Cast and Crew
(Under construction)
FAQ's
(Under construction)
Easter eggs!
Yimo's eyes
(Under construction)
(This is because there are three actors for Yimo since the 'real' Yimo stopped playing during production.)
Red tauren
At 30:24, when the undead patrol is chasing Yimo a Tauren with red shoulders can be seen on the right behind the hill in Winterspring. (The tauren seen is a guy who should have hidden behind a rock when his noggenfogger didn't work, but accidentally he hid the wrong place and got into the shot.)
Drinking undead
At 31:17, when Yimo says "Please stop them Blazer...", the high angle shot revealed an undead infront of the crowd sitting down and drinking. At 31:31, when the undead patrol charges at Yimo, the same undead was still drinking while everyone else moved. (The drinking undead and the group of undeads had just been attacked by a dragon, so he felt he had to regain some hp/mana.)
Two Blazers
Red Dress Tauren
In the attack on Stormwind Sequence, the Tauren Xconzoa is wearing a pretty red dress.
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Tales of the Past - This is Your Story
Yimo & Blazer is friends and is in the guild Eden Aurorae. They are some of the defenders of the Alliance. But then a dangerous power take action they must hurry! Warchief Gorshag and his friend the supreme commader Conrad Shultz of the Horde has come to destroy them. But a mysterious thing is going on something about a book is involed Demons and Death...
Tales of the Past II - Revalations
This epic storyline book picks up where Tales of the Past left - Yimo and Blazer set out on a quest to prevent the forthcoming War between the Horde and the Alliance, by revealing a mysterios corruption. To do this he need to get to Stormwind City and talk with his friend Thainor. And he tell him to get to the library to get a mysterious book. After that him and Blazer teleports to their camp in Tanaris but is landing in Karazhan there they fight a Undead army and get helped by some from the Horde and travel to The Crossroads in The Barrens and be telled that they must get the book hurry to Gwaar in Feralas so he can translate it but that is much dangerous than they think...
Tales of the Past III - Legendary
Since the death of Yimo and the shattering of the Orb of Visions, the Horde and the Alliance have accepted an unstable peace agreement. However, old hatreds stand in the way of cooperation and at the same time, chaos erupts as the Lich King finally takes action.
In the meanwhile, Blazer travels to Northrend to hunt down Mograine, the Death Knight, and retrieve the legendary blade that may decide the fate of Azeroth – The Ashbringer…
A Naaru.
Tales of the Past IV (Unknown Title)
We do not know if other books will be made. A 4th book can be made but we need to make a movie first or something else just hang on cause this page is gonna be updated soon. and soon a image of the first book will be posted.
Music
(Copied from www.edenaurorae.com)
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Soundtrack TotP III
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External links and references
- Visit the Tales of the Past Official Site
- Tales of the Past II in Warcraftmovies.com
- Tales of the Past mentioned on Denmark radio (included for notability)
- Tales of the Past mentioned in a Danish newspaper (included for notability)
Tales of the Past III
This is a storyline movie, based upon the realm of Dunemaul. It's the final movie in the Tales of the Past series and was released on December 12 2007. Just under an hour and a half long, it is a full feature-length movie.
Of all WoW Fan fiction, Tales of the Past has arguably the most complex storyline, and the greatest tie-in to lore.[citation needed] The presence of Mograine, Arthas, The Ashbringer, and even a Naaru make for a rich and enjoyable experience. The movie is masterfully devised in such a way to leave the ending open for other opportunists to expand on the story. The film is filled with all kinds of scenes, beautiful, intense, sad, happy, and everything in between. It is an absolute must-see for anyone, even, for that matter, people who don't play World of WarCraft.
A teaser trailer for Tales of the Past III has now been released by the series' creator Martin Falch (aka Maquan) at Warcraft Movies.
A synopsis of the movie is forthcoming, please be patient! After all, it's over an hour and a half long.
Brief Overview (like the description you would read on the back of a book)
The hour of judgment has come. The time for all to show their valor, and their courage... or their weakness.
Within Orgrimmar, many orcs publicly announce that the pending negotiations with the Alliance are worthless, that the Humans will betray them once again. Thrall himself believes they will take too much time. While Saurfang does all in his not-inconsiderable power to quell such uprisings, these sentiments seem to be shared by many. Their fortunes change, however, when a lone Mok'Nathal appears at the gates, and Rexxar is ordered to watch the Alliance and determine what they are doing in the war against the Scourge.
Meanwhile, within the Alliance, discord is ever present. Monóri and Serphentos do all in their power to help smooth relations between the Alliance and the Horde, but in addition to their angry followers, their own prejudices present a barrier as well. Only the theft of an important artifact, and a mage's quest to recover it, can convince the Alliance that this is necessary.
And while the war rages on Azeroth and Kalimdor, Blazer follows the trail of the Ashbringer, and it's wielder, the dreaded Death Knight, Mograine himself. From Azeroth, to Northrend, to lands unreachable by normal means, Blazer's trail follows, and unless his enemy can help him... he will fall to the darkness that took Arthas. A darkness that has, at last, a form to be seen.
A Naaru.
Speculation
- ((SPOILERS))
There is a theory that makes sense of the presence of a naaru at the end of the film. It's plausible that that was NOT, in fact, intended to be a naaru, but merely a representation of the unbound Lich King, Ner'zhul, who's character model is absent from the WoW image files. It makes sense that the Lich King, unwilling to suffer utter defeat, would return to once again merge with Arthas, returning Frostmourne to him and following with the quote: "We... had... a... deal...". Falch never elaborated on this, so it is a mere speculation, but after all, it's the closest he could have come to representing the Lich King using WoW models only, and it's much more fitting to the storyline than a sudden, unexplained appearance of a naaru.
Unfortunate this "theory" falls apart due to the fact that Arthas and the Lich King are now fused as a single entity, as they were at the end of the Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. Again the appearance of a Naaru suggestining that it would willingly assist the Lich King would be extremely unlikely considering the lore of the Naaru in the Warcraft Universe.
Reception of TotP III
The movie was a great succes on www.WarCraftMovies.com with an average rating of 5 out of 5 and almost 200.000 downloads the first three days (1xRecommended + 2xPlatinum). The seeding of the satisfied downloaders on .Torrent made it clear that the movie was a succes.
Contradictions to game lore
Despite the fact that TotP III features numerous tie-ins to the game plot (namely, the story of the Ashbringer up to the death of Mograine at the hands of his son is recreated perfectly), it also has a lot of contradictions.
- In battle scenes of the Second War, tauren and night elves are seen, though they were not a part of the Alliance and Horde at the covered time.
- Jaina is different from her WoW model, with brown eyes and Stormwind tabard.
- Arthas/Lich King wears Dreadnaught armor, different from his actual attire. This is because no Arthas mode existed in WoW at the time the movie was created, and the authors simply used lookalike clothes to recreate his image.
- A Naaru is depicted as the force behind Arthas, which seems extremely unlikely considering Naaru lore.
- Many important characters, like Sylvanas or Kel'thuzad, are missing, though by the story's logic they should have taken a minor part in the action.
- The story of the Ashbringer starting with the fight between Mograine and Blazer, as well as the following plot, are major lore fabrications and should not be taken as related to the official story. However, as mentioned already, the beginning of the Ashbringer plot has little to no contradictions, and before the release of the Ashbringer comic could be considered canon.
- Blazer, in his final confrontation with the Lich King, both characters make direct references to a singular God. This simply wouldn't happen in the World of Warcraft as the main faith of paladins resides in the concept of the worship of the Holy Light, not a singular entity named God.
Armory
(Under construction)
Weapons
- [???] as Boneslasher
- Corrupted Ashbringer as Itself
- Ashbringer as Itself
- The Hungering Cold as Frostmourne
Fan Art
 Yimo's Dream |
 Final Battle |
 The Battle of Karazhan |
 Return of the Lich King |
 Yimo and Blazer |
 Yimo's Sacrifice |
 A small Tales of the Past Logo |
Links of interest
Official Eden Aurorae Webpage
Official Tales of the Past Webpage
Tales of the Past III Teaser Trailer
Tales of the Past Forums
