Blizzard released a new trailer for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria today, heralding the game's most recent patch and the coming of a new opponent: the Thunder King.
The video above introduces patch 5.2's main storyline. As viewers are taken on a visual journey through the hills of Pandaria to a lonesome island in a dark sea, a mournful voice recites the ballad of the Thunder King.
In World of Warcraft lore, the warlord Lei Shen made his home in the Throne of Thunder deep in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms long ago. He was the first to unite the mogu factions of Pandaria and became the country's first emperor. A tyrant to the core, Shen disposed of all who opposed him and built lavish shrines for the empire. His best kept secret, a mysterious and powerful artifact found in the...