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.
Man I get so excited when I see leaks!
Death Knight class? :D
Doubt it.
now THIS is what I've been hoping/waiting for!
well...that's anticlimactic.
also, if we can't have a new class for deth knight apparently we just turn everyone into one
Same logics as in wow, that any one can be turned to death knight by Lich king
It makes sense, in Warcraft lore, Death knight are just Warriors, Paladins, Shamans and Warlocks turned undead.
Hmm, so will we see Undead versions of heroes as class legendaries?
AW MAN! I love those cards from Magic Origins. I would totally be a fan of that!
ME LIKEY
Naxxramus is out? PogChamp
P/S I want the Frostmourne to be legendary weapon!
I guess there will be a card, for each hero, that will change your hero's face and your hero power. (for example guldan will no longer be that dark, etc.)
Let's speculate - there will be a Legendary card (new quest?) for each class that will provide you with Death knight gameplay?
There must be Arthas Menethil
PogChamp looks good
Yesss
As suggested on a thread, this is far too well made to be fake. HYPE!
Because it's not fake, the chinese hearthstone site leaked it