Expansion Leak From China - Knights of the Frozen Throne
Disclaimer: Everything below is from the official Chinese website for Hearthstone. The name may be different in English. This has technically not been official unveiled, however, with an official host of Hearthstone having this up on their servers, it's legit.
Well, it finally happened. Blizzard was keeping a great secret and then less than a day before the reveal, the official Chinese Hearthstone website run by Netease managed to leak assets.
It looks like our Heroes have all died and become.. Death Knights! At least from the image below that's what it looks like. Whether or not that's actually the case, we'll soon learn.
Spotted in the image:
- Top of Icecrown Citadel, home of The Lich King.
- Frostmourne.
- The Heroes of Warcraft as Death Knights. Note the skin tones and blue glow in their eyes.
Domain
knightsofthefrozenthrone.com was registered on GoDaddy on April 26, 2017 - quite some time before today's leak. Seems excessive for a promotional link when compared to ungoro.com or gadgetzan.com, but it could just be brand protection. Currently it has a GoDaddy landing page for the url, but if it changes to point towards Blizzard DNS later today, this would further confirm the name of the expansion.
Animated Banner
You can see in the middle card at the bottom a glimpse of the cinematic.
More Images
Source
- Wreyrwy on reddit found the update on the site.
- LiriX on reddit translated the logo.
- SHIT_PROGRAMMER on reddit found extra assets.
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)Here's a thought. If turning your players into Death Knights is the central theme of the expansion, perhaps they will give Arthas as a reward for completing the SP content in this expansion. That way they can design a bunch of cards around the theme that interact with you as a DK, much like C'Thun and his followers in Old Gods.
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)They literaly said the content will not reward special cards, all cards will be get via packs (or craft ofc). But then imo, they can just hand him to everyone, just like c'thun.
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)Fair enough, the point being that everyone gets him and they can design cards around it is all I'm hypothesizing. :)
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)The thing with the blizzard symbol tied up looks like it could be used on top of packs like on un'goro so we could get them earlier.
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)*Looks at the expansion theme* Shut up and take my money
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)I'm guessing that Arthas will be a neutral legendary that reads: Add Frostmourne to your hand and Frostmourne: Turn your hero into a Death Knight or Forsaken
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)Looking forward to an even newer version of Ragnaros...
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)if the cards are good designed this would be the best expansion :D
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)Equip Frostmourne to turn your hero into a death knight?
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)we will see 100% Syndragosa as legendary
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)Never a new Warlock hero ... FeelsBadMan
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)What's that Warlock thing you are talking about?
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)Just like a bunch of people he didn't look properly and thinks Guldan is not on there...
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)read agaim, maybe you will understand that he is complaining that warlock never got a new hero, aka new skin.
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)You face Jarraxus Eredar lord of the burning legion!
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)Is that supposed to be Malfurion on the left? Why is Jaina standing inside his head?
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)He now has cold thoughts.
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)Hype is real... again...
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)Is that supposed to be Malfurion on the left? Why is Jaina standing inside his head?
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Posted Jul 6, 2017 (Un'Goro Launch)what about a Deathknight new class?