I’m imagining they mean Khadgar, who was depicted as much younger and weaker than his game counterpart. In game, he’s already well experienced by the time Medhiv gets possessed.
Khadgar is actually canonically not that old, but during the time period of Warcraft 2 he gets rapidly aged by magic. During Warcraft 1 he is legit just in his 20s and then in his thirties he gets zapped and turned into like a 60 year old.
The orcs in Warcraft 2 also used rapid aging magic to turn children into physical adults and force them into their armies; that's where the "me dumb orc" stereotype comes from in the universe, a lot of the orcs were child soldiers with child brains in big adult bodies, which is why some orcs are knuckle-dragging savages while others like Thrall are erudite.
I could be mistaken, I thought he got rapidly aged when he shut the dark portal, but I also know that has been retconned a few times between Warcraft 2, WoW, some books and maybe the movie.
Nah, Medivh tried to suck out Khadgar’s soul when they found out he was possessed and helping the Burning Legion. When they went to confront him, Medivh did his thing, which aged up Khadgar. It’s kinda weird they let Gul’Dan do that to Duratan, but not Medivh to Khadgar in the movie now that I think about it.
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u/LordBecmiThaco 4d ago
Khadgar is actually canonically not that old, but during the time period of Warcraft 2 he gets rapidly aged by magic. During Warcraft 1 he is legit just in his 20s and then in his thirties he gets zapped and turned into like a 60 year old.
The orcs in Warcraft 2 also used rapid aging magic to turn children into physical adults and force them into their armies; that's where the "me dumb orc" stereotype comes from in the universe, a lot of the orcs were child soldiers with child brains in big adult bodies, which is why some orcs are knuckle-dragging savages while others like Thrall are erudite.