Blizzard Have Retconned Their Mistake…
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Since Odin lies, it could just as easily be G'hun, seeing as hunger is his middle name.
Could K'tanth actually be the "real name" of Kalimdor?
see if galakrond eat snickers that problem wouldn't exist , you are not who you are when you are hungry , moment he eat it he turn to young small dragon instantly
If only there were a way for everyone to post comments on your videos.
I would love to posit, that it’s possible that both of your ideas were correct. If she took over the heart of Azeroth in that world.
i doubt he ever read comments at all , let alone reply to them , he hate us and ignore us@@OtawoOnlineGaming
"Blizzard have Retconned their Mistake." The fact I saw the title of the video and instantly said to myself "Which One?" is rather telling.
Was hoping the just went all in and said "BFA and SL were just a fever dream"
@@DrewPicklesTheDark "Hey buddy, you hit your head pretty hard there. N'zoth? The Nippler? What are you talking about? Come on, we need to get back to Northrend and take down the Lich King."
Eyes: C'Thun, Mouth: Yogg'saron, Brain: N'Zoth, Heart: Y'shaarj, Stomach: K'tanth/Xalatath whatsit. What if the old gods are just pieces of a larger entity. Idk but I think it's cool either way
and that larger entity... is Azeroth.
lorewise they are parts of void lords flesh, so kinda yeah
Exodia.. obliter-oh whoops wrong universe
Ok, now can they retcon the entirety of Shadowlands including the Arthas and Jailor stuff?
I think the one problem Blizzard cannot now ever get out from under is WoD and the many timelines with the possibility of an entity transcending them (the legion). If we go to a future or timeline where Azeroth is corrupted, then that means the void wins in every timeline. They only needed one corrupted titan to unmake creation. So, Azeroth is already lost in timeline 20438485 (and if we are talking infinite timelines in an infinite amount of other ones too). What is the point of fighting any of this in that universe? The whole transcending timelines idea was the worst thing they could have ever done.
It didn't even make any sense back then either. How could the Burning Legion transcend timelines? If it did, why wasn't there more plot revolving around Kil'Jaedan and Archimonde going "wait, we did this already. Didn't we do this already? What the fuck is going on?"
Well, they seem to have retconned the Legion transcending all timelines- part, since it turns out that too was Afrasiabi's fucked- up idea. So I wouldn't worry about the Void winning, as long as we keep beating them in our main timeline.
@@stormstrider1990 Have they yet though? I always thought the Legion transcending was the dumbest thing I ever heard either way, but I did not know they pulled it back. Though, there is a question though of why a timeline with a void corrupted Azeroth would not simply destroy its own timeline and then just hop to another one to destroy that one. Being able to bring the lightforged back to our space is another mess.
As soon as WoD introduced time/interdimensional travel things were fucked. I have always hated when time travel and such is introduced to a franchise unless it's entirely self-contained (Which the CoT did well enough), or the franchise revolves around it as the central plot point. As much flak as pandaland got for "harhar Kung-fu Panda" it's lore is much more solid than WoD or any of the stuff that came after.
I believe that Blizzard had stated that there is only one Azeroth(entity) and that in other timelines she doesn't exist.
I just want to point out although Blizzard is retconning the Black Empire into having a "Benevolent" Side, nothing we have witnessed or been in contact with or visiting the past has showed us a good side or good beings connected to the Black Empire in any Expansion.
Yeah, plus there's benevolent to, say, humans, orcs and stuff, and then there's "benevolent" to void beings and the spawn of the Old Gods etc... So there's context we're most likely missing to help us understand that "benevolent" part anyway 🤔
I much preferred the very old lore where there were no Void, just the Burning Legion.
That was nice. I didn't mind the introduction of the Void initially since it gave the Legion an actual reason to exist besides mustache-twirling, however I think they have gone way overboard with it. Sargares should have remained the big bad, just because there is another villain(s) that he deemed a big enough threat that he was willing to do what he did, doesn't mean he's suddenly "not so bad" or a "good guy". The Burning Legion destroying planets before the Void can corrupt them I think was a good path, the Legion is still the ultimate bad since they are literally destroying everything, where as the Void is merely corrupting it, but the Void's existence gives a method to the Legion's madness. It's not unlike the purging of Stratholme. Arthas was the villain for slaughtering most of it's population, but his reasoning wasn't exactly wrong either. Nobody called him a "good guy" or "not so bad" once he turned to darkness, merely because he opposed the Legion. Sargares would have been the same. The Void could have strengthened the Legion's story, but the writers opted to throw the Legion out in favor of it.
Those were the days. Now, the lore is a sad joke. Bel has no choice to force copium hype it up cuz of views but it the story feels just empty and boring after bfail.
With every level of Queen Azshara's renown she mocks you until finally at exalted she admits she kinda enjoys having you around.
Hell yeah
Real GLaDOS vibes
i can dig a monster girl tsundere, long as we bangin
Tsundere queen Azshara is something I need now.
But does she step on me
“Iridikron slurped that deep, dark goodness out of Galakrond’s body.”
PHRASING!
Ayo? 👀
This makes me wonder what the original purpose of the titan facility under the Tomb of Sargeras was. Back in the day, N'Zoth and Y'shaarj fought a battle there. Then, the titans built a mysterious titan facility on the same site. Then, Aegwynn found it and used it to imprison the Avatar of Sargeras. It was also claimed to be "an ancient source of power" which is why the Night Elves built their temple of Elune on top of it.
Was it a titan prison for an entity of the Old Gods that was later set free? It does certainly look like a prison, and I doubt Aegwynn remodeled the place just so that it would suit the Avatar of Sargeras.
You know, this stuff didn't really find room in the video because it got way too complicated, but: Xal calls Elune "a great enemy" in Tomb, and when the Priest attempts to absorb Elune's lingering power, they're killed. The upstart 'goddess' and all that. Was Xal originally imprisoned here? Is she somehow a dark aspect of Elune, or her opposite? Does that even make sense?
K'Tanth, and the mysteries of the Temple of Elune, are probably really important to mull over, though we don't have enough to draw conclusions.
"Fan Service". (old man of 40 voice) Back in my day.. we called that "making what your paying customers want to buy."
I personally really want Xal'atath to be like H.P. Lovecrafts Nyarlathotep. A being that would be as powerful as an old god, in human forms, just to cause chaos and spread insanity. It would really fit the old gods theme.
I like the idea that Xala'tath is going to just pop down into the Heart Chamber, knock Magni on his back leaving him helpless like a turtle, and then jamming the Hungering Essence down into the Heart. Boom. Shadows of Azeroth.
CHAMPION, AH KEN HEAR AZEROTH CRYIN OUT IN PAIN! YA HAF TA HEAL HER WOONS!!!
@@ivenslaercio6474 CHAMPION, I CAN FEEL SOMEONE DRAWIN' POWER FROM AZEROTH'S OPEN WOONZ. I NEED YE TAE BREAK THEIR FUCKIN' KNEECAPS WITH THIS LEAD PIPE AH FOUND!
A turtle made it to the water
@@bonefetcherbrimley7740CHAMPION, I NEED A FUCKIN BREAK FROM ALL THESE WOONS ALREADY. I PASS THA POSITION O' SPEAKER TAE YOU. GOOD FUCKIN' LUCK.
@@bonefetcherbrimley7740I would have respected Magni so much more if this was his dialogue.
Yea, Blizzard can retcon to their hearts' content: The moment they retconned Gul'dan from just being an evil bastard to a woobie villain that we're apparently meant to feel bad for, and completely destroyed the story of Arthas and the Lich King they lost me permanently.
I vote that it doesnt matter. The retcon of the retcon will get retconned.
Did you all just forget that time travel and multi-verses are not only still on the table but are in fact more on the table than ever before? Anything the villains can do, we can find a counter in time or in the infinite alternate realities, and likewise they can counter our counter just as easily. We're in a Rick and Morty story now, and Im sad to inform you the whole point of that series is nothing matters.
Hey, if the infinites can open a portal to alternate timelines. Why didnt the baddies just hop over to the primalist universe and instantly have everything they wanted?
I have felt that the big thing coming that everyone is bracing for.... Is Azeroth awaking. She doesn't have to be corrupted by old gods to be corrupted or evil.
She doesn't need to be corrupted to be corrupted..okay..
@blackrose8418 he said didn't need to get corrupted by old gods. She could be inherently evil. She could be corrupted by something else. She might not even be evil or corrupted.
That would be a really cool plot twist - us thinking we have to protect Azeroth from being corrupted when actually Azeroth herself is the biggest threat in the universe. Maybe thats why Zooval wanted to destroy Azeroth and thats why the Nathrezim are inflitrating other cosmic forces, to persuade them into waging wars on Azeroth in hope of destroying her. Maybe Azeroth is what Zooval was trying to warn us from.
@@blackrose8418 just meaning something other than old gods, or she just is "evil"
@@ForgetfulDreams6 old gods would make the most sense but I guess
Gonna have to say, I think none of the theories are correct. It feels like the story is more alluding to this 5th old god being on the hidden continent and having fully taken control, or even made some pact with the creatures there. Odyn’s troops being unable to conquer it and then him demanding any mention of it be erased seems pretty fitting to the idea.
Stuff like this is why it's so hard to engage with Warcraft lore. Retcons and this feeling that they're desperately grasping for new BIGGER plot threads to make players feel very scared of the loot pinata for the next expansion. It's getting to a stage where a lot of Roleplayers just flat out ignore the newer lore where possible because a lot of this stuff would otherwise contradict and harm their own characters development over the last nigh-on 20 years.
WoW needs a genuine, proper world building bible. Something akin to the RPG books but of a more consistent quality and rigid lore (Those books, while tonally amazing, have a LOT of stupid mistakes and ideas in them. I do recommend giving them a read though). Chronicles was supposed to be that and now it's all but worthless. Relegated to nothing more than a falible perspective so they can warp, chop and change the lore to magic hat more threats into existance.
Oh you mean like Warhammer or Warhammer40k? Now that's an IP that has established lore to the umpteenth degree
The amount of hurdles people need to jump to make sense of Blizzard forgetting, ignoring, then retconning their own lore
After all these years Bell, it is still NOT called the "Black Blade of the Empire" it is the "Blade of the Black Empire"
Wasn't it stated though that Galakrond started to consume his fellow protodrakes because he drank from water that was corrupted by Yog-Saron? So by proxy, that hunger should come from Yog-Saron somehow?
Yea. That's correct, but iirc the void itself is about consuming everything it touches, so it would Moreso be all of the old gods and not just yogg
@@babelincoln2092but the old gods fought each other in a big war before so it doesn't make sense.
considering Yogg was also the one that got the closest to the heart of the world by using the roots of the world trees, that could fall under azeroth herself being the hunger
@@andrewgru7077 or maybe its that world's Galakrond that was never defeated and ended up growing more and more until he dominated the other forces.
@@brunohommerding3416 I feel like 'ancient one' wouldnt apply and they would infer something dragonesk. Ancient ones are older than titans and old gods so this would line up with the azeroth herself.
I get that the spelling of
Y'Shaarj makes it hard to pronounce, but we’ve heard it pronounced by the Klaxxi in game as YAH-sha-raj.
I know it’s a nitpick about pronunciation of a fictional deity, but it’s a little annoying when people don’t do the research
I don’t care about cosmic stuff, bring back Zul’jin and the Amani empire. I don't want the void plot, i just wanted elemental stuff. Also, Fyrakk is best incarnate.
I agree, cosmic stuff is just boring. I WANT TROLLS! Trolls actually winning!
Imagine if Shadowlands had been a troll expansion. Maybe with Hakkar and Mueh'zala as main villains instead of a sideshow.
Pretty sure K'tanth is the name of a portal or something, the old gods can communicate with, to inform the void or get some support from the void. Battle of K'tanth. They fought over a foothold. Something to have against the other competing old gods.
The old one could be azeroth after being corrupted. She became a void being and ate everything
But she's not old, she doesn't even have her titan form yet. She's just a world soul.
@@ChinnuWoW In our timeline.
Meh…
or might just be that they are adapting the hearthstone card Ancient one, just like they did with N`zoth
@@ChinnuWoW Maybe she doesn't want a titan form. If titans took already formed life and reshaped it to fit with their ordering, maybe a world soul is also a life they are taking and forcibly reshaping to their view of order. Flesh is the gift, not the curse.
"Why was Galakrond so hungry..."
Was totally expecting a Factor meals sponsor.
Did Neltharion really write "Wavees" instead of "Waves"? Did the Void touch his brain mid-sentence?
I'm not opposed to the idea of the sleeping old one being Azeroth but I would also like to see the introduction of a void lord because we've been teased by that since before Legion
I think the ancient one is Xalath and the reason the other old gods destroyed it because they saw the timeline where it devoured them all. Also might explain why the Titans are obsessed with the one true timeline perhaps this is the only one where the old gods are not consumed to one and they beat the Titans.
The Ancient One who will usher in the end and consume all is....
Steve.
Am I the only one tired of saving Azeroth? Tired of enemies trying to corrupt her, devour her, destroy her. Its about time she wakes up and clean up her own shit.
In true cliffhanger fashion, Azeroth gets consumed at the end of the expansion and just as the screen fades to black, the shot fades back in but now we are in a familiar cabin of an alliance ship, we can hear the muffled voice and see the blurred face of Genn Greymane quickly coming into focus, “My lord! Wake up! We are ready to make approach and we await your command!”
With a half written letter to his son in his hand, King Wrynn realizes he dozed off and it was just a totally fucked up dream.
Actually better story and ending than what we've had for 13 years now.
That would be like a giant middle finger to everyone else.
I'll do you one better: it fades to black, when suddenly we hear the wheels of cart, and open our eyes
"Hey, you, you're finally awake"
"You were caught trying to cross the border, right?"
Yes, I'm sure that a book written by Neltharion is an unbiased source given that he had been whispered to by the Old Gods for ages before he got corrupted -_- Then again. I'm thoroughly convinced that Blizzard would do something this stupid given that Thrall's Horde right down to the happy slaves is an unintentional analogy to the Lost Cause Confederacy myth.
The Void represents constant change, just as the light represents continuous stability. There can be no good results from either of those realities. The only thing good is found in the merging of the two. Change needs to be tempered by stability to create good living conditions and stability needs to be affected by change to evolve else it becomes stale and corrupted.
WoW more and more becomes "world-building that people think is kewl!" The writers fully uncritically make world-building and never think about what already exists. So, they just make new shit instead of revisiting things that when looked at critically is really really bad writing.
If they retcon shadowlands, ill actually think about committing to the company again.
They'd have to retcon the breastmilk incident too.
@@greyknight5823 pretty sure they already did, just cover ups with millions of dollars haha.
What bothers me is that we have faced every old god so far directly, with the specific exception of the fifth and Y'shaarj. Y'shaarj seemed to have no direct cultists unlike other Old Gods, only his minions the Mantid. Considering he was said by everyone to be the strongest of the five, I doubt his involvement is done as well. Sleep and Death seems to be one and the same to Y'shaarj. This has got me thinking, if Xal'atath is made from a claw of Y'shaarj then would that not make her a subordinate to him? Could she be actually working to wake up/bring him back in some form? Only speculation and theory crafting from my end here but considering we have only faced an echo of Y'shaarj through Garrosh.
Not paying attention, are we. You do know where the well of eternity came from, yes? Aman'thul, Yshaarj, yoink, etc.
But the book specifically says the Titans bound *five old gods* beneath the earth, not just that there were five of them on the planet?
I’m just waiting for nzoths gift at the end of BFA to pay off. I think it’d be cool if he gave you a way to beat the 5th old god because he knows he can’t win the fight alone. No one seems to know anything about the 5th old god. I think next expansion would be sick if we were guided by nzoths visions and whispers.
Damn the title got me excited that they retconned their mistake of retconning 20 years of lore to make Sylvanas evil and completely getting rid of Shadowlands and the end of BfA.
There is a card in hearthstone named ”The Ancient One” and since they took the design of nzoth from hearthstone i think they would do it for The Ancient One too.
Blizzard? Retconning stuff in WoW lore? Well I never!
Listen this is all cool stuff but as long as Blizzard keeps to the formula of building up a Big Bad then turning that Big Bad into a loot Pinata then none of this really matters. Look how cool some of the old Raid bosses are/were and how they are pretty much yesterdays news. Most of the loot from them has either been vendored or disenchanted.
I wonder if Xalatath's whole plan is to consume the remaining essence of the other old gods (since we know we never really kill them fully -- we just kill part of them, effectively). Would make sense. Now that all of the other old gods have been defeated (with our defeat of n'zoth back in bfa), they're all basically lifeless husks ready for xalatath to absorb them. One final old god to battle would make for a thrilling next expansion.
I'd rather see the second rise of the Black Empire with seeing Xal'atath making a deal with her kin to revive them all seeing the Black Empire at full force with N'zoth, Yogg-saron, C'thun, and Y'Shaarj perhaps even a deal with a lesser cousin of G'huun returned by the fifth Old God Xal'atath herself. Seeing the Mantid, Aqir, and Nerubians making a move. Possibly with a looming threat that both the Void Lords trying to peer into our world and even one of the Old Gods serving as a Beacon after their defeat, a beacon to call other Old Gods from other worlds to come to Azeroth, or their extensions to come.
That would be as bad as how N'zoth died.
Doesn't really account for N'zoth's own plans paying off though. We're 95% sure N'zoth set up the events of BfA so that he'd profit either way, and we have yet to experience that payoff. Xal'atath devouring him instead would be kind of anticlimactic.
Playable Nerubians when?@@eternallegacy89
underwater dragon riding is just swimming lol
They retconned the entirety of BFA and RAID: Shadowlands?
Tbh, its rly sad. Seeing how Blizzard is throwing little crumbs of lore every now and then, "building up" stuff over years and years and years and no fucking end in sight, its terrible and lazy as fuck writing, with enough time in between to retcon and change things.
Can't wait to find out about the REAL bad guy who was manipulating The Nippler for the past 20 years.
and it will be retconned in the future, I dislike retconns because they have the ability to destroy the story if you do it to many times it will also end up confusing
There was a point where we needed to stop with the retcons and we have clearly passed it. But let's keep going and see how bad we can make it.
Nothing is scarier than another underwater zone
Gotta love the endless train of "well actually no-" retcons blizzard keeps doing, makes it real hard to give a shit
Ultimate blizzard move is to retcon a retcon
They chose to retcon this, but not Shadowlands? Jfc Blizz
It's growing old that enemies of the past become allies to fight with, illidan, vashj, Vanessa etc if Ashara and naga are friends in next expansion ugh
As Bell puts it so eloquently in the last part of the video, I'm calling it now: The ancient one is Azeroth, having absorbed the Old Gods, becoming an impossible nightmare in the process. There are no more old gods left because their whole purpose was to corrupt her. Once the goal had been reached, she simply devoured them in turn.
Azeroth being the Ancient One is the theory I originally came to myself, but I think from a story building perspective, having Xal'atath (or K'tanth) being the Ancient One would probably give it more longevity.
They could throw it all sideways by having "The Ancient One" be either _The Master_ or _The Primus._ It wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility that an ancient from the realm of death is hungers for life. _The Master_ especially would have reason to team up with the Void against the Light.
What if, Xalatath is actually Azeroth's avatar, but she doesn't know it because she was corrupted by the Void ?
I find myself wanting to care about WoW but I just don't anymore and that's truly sad, played since BC and the game just doesn't feel like anything close to what drew me to WoW for all those years. I think a lot of it is the way the company is monetizing everything so nothing feels genuine anymore.
I know the feeling.
Man I can't wait to see how all this gets recontextualized next expansion
xalathath is the void corrupted titan that Sargeras slew.
Next Expansion: "Battle AGAINST Azeroth"
Jailer was a fever dream and Shadowlands never happened?!!??!
If only, but no. It's book stuff. Everyone already pretends those Expansions were a fever dream or bad trip.
Azeroth: the place where they travel to other planets, dimensions, times BEFORE seeing what's around the river bend...
i don't know whats happened in the game; stopped paying attention, but i was always of the impression, that Elune was secretly the fifth entity.
also; i think something happened with elune in a recent xpac, even so; i suspect between retcons, misdirections and outright lying, have brought us to the point of not trusting much of anything of recent xpacks.
It's Bobby Kotick, stealing breast milk offerings ^^
If they want to save the story, they would do remove the complete story of wow from the lore.
I think the 5th old god is Azeroth and the whole struggle to save the world soul is because the Titans "tainted" the old god with Order to counteract her inherent chaos. Xalatath and Azeroth could be the same entity from different timelines.
Soo blizz pulled out a female old god from their ass. Because luckily they put a shady npc into the game during legion...
The 5th old god or Ancient one is inside azeroth itself..it is azeroth or the "titan" slumbering inside ...that's why sargeras plunged his blade in desperation into the planet because remember his main enemy was the Void...to try and stop what's "meditating " beneath...also WHY the dev team wants us to ignore the sword..
EDit>.o shit nm just got to the part in the video where this is actually a theory..
If Blizzard made the storyline as good as Bellular and other RUclipsrs speculate, I'd probably still be playing the game. 😆 But instead we got the Jailer. 🤮
there is one logical flaw. if the titans said kalimdor was the only continent, why is yogg in northrend?
Because it was part of the main landmass before the sundering. All land masses we see now were a collective whole until the sundering.
Noooo, Blizz fucking up their story and forgetting their own lore?
Must be a day ending in Y.
Honestly, that squarespace web-building tool makes web devs dumb. Code is what you need to know in order to be good. All these handy tools that make things easier make you dumber.
I saw the headline and thought Shadowlands was being reconned. Disappointed. 😞
As a Priest, any kind of new Knaifu lore makes me happy.
** only shadow priests get to enjoy Knaifu. If you didn't main Shadow in Legion gtfo
Your only flaw is that its stablished that Galakron became him by consuming the tainted water...corrupted by the Yogg-Saron's prison 'leak'
It's Azeroth, just not one that was made corrupt. She was always hungry, and consumed all the of the spirit element. Who is to say she would have stopped there?
Old gods fighting among them makes no sense.
Their mission and purpose is to corrupt a titan soul not to gain power.
This is what we've been told at least
Don't say there could be an "underwater" anything. Plz
Xal'atath is the old God of gender identities and preferred pronouns.
Xal'atath, God of Devouring, getting defeated in the days of old by being devoured herself is hella ironic.
The ancient one is a hearthstone card released in an old gods theme expansion years ago, it suspiciously looks like Amon and the xelnaga (basically the gods in the starcraft universe)
Azeroth is but one planet, an infinitesimal dot in a universe filled with potential corruption - and power. One can only speculate the absolute astronomical amount of things we could uncover in the future.
"Battle of" or "Battle for" usually refers to places, not people, so I'm inclined to believe that K'tanth is either a city or the name of The Black Empire itself.
Their word for Azeroth. Hence, they never saw carnage like The Battle for Azeroth.
The Shath'yar word for The Black Empire itself is already confirmed to be "Shath'mag" though.
If N'zoth sees all, or at least many timelines, then when we traveled back in time N'zoth became aware of the timeline which we were a part of - something Bellular has said. Because what ramifications will that have? Now N'zoth knows Xala'tath kills him. Did he he perhaps allow this because he had already foreseen it (on the assumption that the timeline is fluid - all of N'zoth's actions up to our point is because we had already gone back in time... time mechanics are screwy to me)?
I'm ever more certain that Azeroth *is* the equivalent to Lovecraft's Azathoth.
Both are 'slumbering', 'sleeping'..
Azeroth is the focus of everyeone's attention due to its power, just like Azathoth is the most powerful entity in the Cthulhu Mythos.
"According to Lovecraft, reality is Azathoth’s dream, and when it/he wakes up the “true reality” asserts itself and the one we know of ceases to exist. The “true reality” is assumed to be something that no human, sane or otherwise, would understand. And that it really wouldn’t matter because no human would exist anyway."
*tinfoil hat intensifies*
What if Xal'atath IS Aazeroth's worldsoul? Or even Elune?
She consumed the original worldsoul and replaced it with her own before the other old gods destroyed her body.
And all this time, all whispers that preists, druids or shamans have heard as their deitys have been Xal'atath all along
Only way I would work with the nagas is if Blizz opens up the Naha race for us to play with. Have them be elves on land and turn into a Naha when we’re in the water.
Whatever they do, I think it would be a mistake to make Xal’atath a straight up enemy.
Just a random theory: What if the cosmic forces were all manipulated into fighting against one another by an outside force just to get them off the board of a 4D chess style game.
Where the hell does all this come from? I haven't seen *any* of it in-game
This is a long shot idea, but is there any connection between Galakrond (and his hungering essence), and the Devourers of the Shadowlands? I'm not sure what those things were, but the covenants AND the Zerith Mortis brokers considered them invaders, not native to anyone (even discount Thanos wasn't a fan of them). And their only goal was to consume whatever they could get their (mouths?) on. Much like Galakrond consuming whatever he could munch on.
What if "Azeroth" is somehow similar to Lovecraft's "Azathoth" in that the world is sleeping and if she woke up she would end all existence? Maybe that's why all the baddies what to destroy her.
Shadowblands was actually just nightmare
The Dreadlords being beings from death was neat
Hopefully this and last expansion
Damn...I got excited. Nope...Teldrassil is still burnt down 😢
its NOT NAG-UH ITS NAH-GUH! Fucking A, for someone who's so lore conscious!
Your theory is a bit of a reach.
"Ash Keroth" that sounds a lot like something Illidna said in Warcraft III - the forzen throne, weird if that returned in this way.
This makes sense to me but I don't know a ton of extra warcraft lore. Yeah Xalatah is like the parasite Voldemort and she needs to claim the source of her power stripped from her and somehow bound to galakrond.
What about the other old god weapon? When we fought garrosh he dropped the desecrated image of gorehowl, xal'atoh. Yet another old god weapon that whispers to you. Do you think the connection is a coincident or are we just another old god pawn like garrosh ended up being in mop
And here I thought they were gonna retcon the mistake that was void elves and finally give us high elves
for the 5th year in a row, I have no idea what's happening in the story
Imagine being Iridikron and you just corrupted Azeroth to have your vengeance over your biggest bully , the titans , but you realize you just changed your bully for a worse one and essentially you just F*cked things up for real