Template:Reckoning cinematic transcript


 * Backed by the combined armies of the Alliance and Horde, Varok Saurfang, Anduin Wrynn, and Thrall approach the Gates of Orgrimmar. The final battalions of Stormwind soldiers march into position beside the Horde army and stop, silence now reigning over the battlefield.
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 * Saurfang takes notice of Sylvanas's own army gathered atop the gates.
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 * Glancing off to the side, Thrall steps up closer to Saurfang's shoulder.
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 * Having inclined his head to Thrall while listening, Saurfang returns his gaze to their brethren on the gate.
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 * Saurfang steps towards the gates by himself and calls out.
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 * The gates open, and Sylvanas and a single Forsaken banner-carrier walk out to meet Saurfang. Sylvanas looks upon those gathered before her.
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 * Sylvanas gives a slight smirk, then gestures for her banner-carrier to hand over two daggers. As she turns around to accept them, Saurfang turns to face Thrall, who hands him his axe.
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 * Saurfang places his hand on Thrall's shoulder, who nods his understanding and responds soon after.
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 * Saurfang quietly smiles and nods, then turns to face the approaching Anduin.
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 * Anduin unsheathes Shalamayne from his side and holds it out in both hands, offering it to Saurfang for his duel. Saurfang accepts it, taking the grip in his right hand, with another faint nod. He turns and rolling his shoulders, advances towards Sylvanas with Anduin following slightly behind him. Suddenly, Zekhan rushes out from the crowd and attempts to approach Saurfang, but Thrall holds him back, then places his hand on the troll's shoulder. Saurfang and Sylvanas face each other with their weapons in hand, and Saurfang adjusts his grip.
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 * Saurfang charges Sylvanas in an attempt to land the first blow with the axe, but she parries him and disarms him of it. She lands a number of hits on him, which leave shadowy wounds over his body. Saurfang falls to his knees as Sylvanas looms over him and taunts the orc before kneeling into frame.
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 * Thrall and Zekhan look upon Saurfang from afar.
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 * Saurfang and Zekhan exchange looks for a moment, the former with a ghost of a smile seemingly determined once more.
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 * Saurfang gets up, then begins attacking Sylvanas once again, each consecutive blow of Shalamayne parried but his swings becoming stronger and more confidant.
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 * After an increasingly irritated Sylvanas knocks him back from their blade lock, Saurfang spins away with Shalamayne at a low angle. Obscured by his body, he splits the sword into Shalla'tor and Ellemayne, and completing the spin, swings both back around at a high angle at her. The first is intercepted with the right dagger, but Sylvanas is disarmed of it and the second successfully slices at her right eye, leaving behind a nick on the brow and cuts right through the lower eyelid. An upset Sylvanas visibly recoils from the attack.
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 * The angrily barked last word echoes out that everyone can hear. The Forsaken banner-bearer at Sylvanas's side gives her an aggrieved, accusatory glance. Realizing she unintentionally betrayed her true thoughts, Sylvanas seemingly drops her facade and yells towards everyone in her presence.
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 * Knowing that he's already won whether he lives or dies, Saurfang stands with a triumphant smile for a moment, then charges Sylvanas.
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 * Sylvanas suddenly lets her remaining dagger drop and unleashes a stream of dark magic from both hands at Saurfang, instantly killing him. His lifeless, steaming corpse falls backward to the ground. She gloats as she walks forward.
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 * Sylvanas raises her hands, with wisps of shadowy smoke enveloping her as she lifts off and flies away, vanishing. Zekhan and Thrall rush to Saurfang's side, the former distraught as he kneels beside the body. He gently places his hands on Saurfang's chest and touches his necklace with his forefinger.
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 * Anduin's armor and footsteps can be heard moving as he walks up to join them.
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 * Anduin, Thrall, and Zekhan lift up Saurfang's body, Anduin and Zekhan each taking a leg, Thrall cradling the head with one hand, and he stares forward at the Forsaken banner-carrier. The banner-carrier stares back for a moment, then stamps her banner into the ground twice, turning to watch as the Gates of Orgrimmar open to admit them and then stands aside at attention. As the three carry Saurfang's body into Orgrimmar, the rest of the Forsaken atop the walls one by one begin to stamp their banners together in an identical fashion until they all join in, the two continuous clanks together sounding like a vast heartbeat, pledging their loyalty to the Horde over Sylvanas.