Hello everyone!
Last week we finished up the main storyline for shadows of argus, but there are a couple
of minor things that didn't flow well with the overall storyline so those I want to cover
today as well as talk about what's coming up and speculate a little bit about the future.
First things first though, on the vindicaar we have a couple of conversations going on
with people on the ship.
One thing that fans have been wanting to see for a very long time is a windrunner reunion.
The moment alleria stepped through the dark portal was pretty emotional and she wanted
her sisters to have something to remember her by.
Verana was charged with bringing her farewell message as well as 2 specially crafted necklaces.
She melted down the necklace given to her by her parents and held on to the emerald
one, while giving the ruby and sapphire to Sylvanas and Vereesa.
A lot has happened in the time she has been gone, Sylvanas has gone through quite a lot
of story which Alleria knows nothing about.
She stood against Arthas and the Scourge trying to defend her kingdom and their people, has
been turned into a banshee and now made warchief of the Horde.
How would someone like alleria react to seeing her sisters again and this is what we got:
Overhear the windrunner reunion, Vereesa and alleria have a chat:
"Impossible!
I refuse to believe she now leads the Horde.
Not after all they did to our people during the war."
"There is more.
I'm...I am not sure how to explain the rest.
Or if this is even the time or place to---' "I must know, Vereesa.
What fate befell our sister?"
"Give me a moment.
I will do my best to explain...
Perhaps we had best discuss the matter in private."
I'm hoping that this is not the end of it and we'll see more with Sylvanas in the
future.
Vereesa definitely has reasons to hate the horde, the bombing of theramore took away
her rhonin, but it's not the same horde that Alleria fought against.
They literally have that horde join their army of light in the fight against the Legion,
surely she realizes that it's not the same.
You can also check out a pretty fun dialogue with khadgar, alleria and turalyon as well
as a conversation with aethas and khagar and then there's one with Liadrin and Silgryn.
So besides these little stay a while and listen conversations a couple of you mentioned seeing
a familiar name near the circle of Aspirant namely Akama and you asked what's up with
that.
How come his spirit is just sitting there wile our Akama is still very much alive.
I understand the confusion since sometimes they use the term spirit and sometimes they
use the term echo, but I'd say that this is an echo, similar to the echo of Velen and
Archimonde and Rakeesh and pretty much any and all of these ghostly being walking around,
memories of the past, a way to show a reflection of what Argus was like before the coming of
the Legion.
A couple of you also asked me what's up with Alleria's bow, why is she using thas'dorah
but she does acknowledge marksmanship hunters using her bow.
"I would have words with you, Huntmaster.
Vereesa told me you accompanied her on the mission to Niskara.
That you risked your own life to rescue me, and prevented her from falling into the inquisitor's
trap.
It is clear you wield Thas'dorah with skill and finesse.
You bring honor to the bow and to the memory of those who carried it before you.
There may come a day when I will have need of my family weapon once again.
But for now, at least, I have a different path to follow.
Hold Thas'dorah proudly, champion.
Know that you have proven worthy of it.
"
From this point forward I'm going to talk about the upcoming raid and cover some major
spoilers that we know, the ending of Legion and beyond so if you don't want to be spoiled
and you don't want to know quite yet, then let me just say thank you very much for watching
so far and have a great day!
For those sticking around, during part 2 of Shadows of Argus we heard Sargeras talk to
Aggramar
"What is your bidding, master?"
"The circle nears completion.
The mortals must not disrupt the rebirth.
"
If we look at the adventure guide and open up Antorus, the Burning Throne, we can see
that Aggramar is not the only titan that Sargeras got his hands on, Eonar has been able to hide
away but the others, Aman'thul, Golganneth, Khaz'goroth and Norgannon, they're currently
being tortured by the coven of Shivarra, prepared to be reborn as a brand new pantheon....One
that does not stand against Sargeras and joins him in the mission of scouring the universe
of its corruption.
That's what they're working on, that's the rebirth he doesn't want to see disturbed
"The hour of rebirth draws near.
Are the souls prepared?
Our kin still reist the true path, master.
But they will soon be broken."
Walks away One still eludes us.
Her essence is needed to ensure to victory of my crusade."
"The lifebinder will soon reveal herself.
She will not escape me, master!"
"When my new pantheon rises, no power in the universe will stand against the Legion!"
Eonar is the last one that they need, the last one to complete their new pantheon but
they haven't been able to capture her yet and we still have time to help her out.
"I remember the awakening...how life sprang forth all around us.
I remember unity....until it was shattered by betrayal.
I remember fleeing...to keep him from his prize.
The time for hiding is over.
Aid me...or everything ends.
"
So a lot of people wondered how it was possible for Sargeras to get his hands on their essence,
on their souls.
With aggramar you could say oke, he was destroyed by the dark titan so his soul was still around,
but the others made their way back to Azeroth and entering the keepers caused a domino effect
like the corruption of Yogg-Saron with the keepers in ulduar and Ra-den's issolation
leading into Lei-Shen becoming the thunderking and later on Wrathion devouring his heart.
At this point I don't know for certain, perhaps he was able to gather some part of
their souls left behind when they made their escape and is planning to make more little
avatars or perhaps when their powers were expended, they returned to where their journey
began and Sargeras picked them up there.
If we try, we can give a spin to it without retconning the chronicles and we are going
to do our very best to stop the rebirth, stop Sargeras from corrupting the pantheon and
get their aid in dealing with the dark titans plans.
That's the main threat and along the way we have a couple of bosses standing in our
way.
Garothi Worldbreaker, Constructed deep within the core of Argus and outfitted with an arsenal
capable of decimating worlds, this war machine has been designed for a single purpose: to
bring the mortals' invasion to its knees.
It's a fel reaver with massive cannons trying to blow us up.
Felhounds of Sargeras, Infused with fire and shadow, F'harg and Shatug are the prized
pets of Sargeras.
Bred for carnage, these hounds delight in eviscerating their master's enemies.
With the Army of the Light and their allies advancing upon Antorus, the Legion prepares
to unleash these viicious creatures onto the battlefield and put an end to the mortals'
invasion.
Fire and shadow trying to sear our soul and puppies you do not want to keep next to eachother.
Anotran high command, long ago in the golden age of eredar civilization, a council was
formed to oversee the defense of Argus and maintain peace.
But after their dark bargain was struck with Sargeras, these master tacticians used their
military expertise to help orchestrate a Burning Crusade that ravaged countless worlds.
Now the full might of the Legion's army is theirs to command, and they wield this
terrible power to annihilate all who oppose the Dark Titan's will.
They have command pods from which they can fight, but also leave one empty to be taken
over and for those that wanted to take revenge for the Xenedar being blown out of the sky,
Chief Engineer Ishkar, the one responsible, is part of this encounter.
Portal keeper Hasabel, maintains the nexus through which the Legion has unleashed its
insidious armies upon countless worlds.
With portals that open to a myriad of strategic locations throughout the Great Dark beyond,
Hasabel is capable of bringing the might of the Legion's arsenal to bear upon any who
oppose her.
She will open up a fiery portal to Xoroth (Vulcanar), a fel portal to Rancora (Lady
Dacidion) and a shadow portal to Nathreza (Lord Eilgar).
Xoroth might sound familiar to warlocks as that's the world where the infernal dreadsteeds
and wrathsteeds come from.
Rancora is a newly named planet, but since Lady Dacidion is one of those spider demons
that might be their homeworld as Nathreza is the homeworld of the nathrezim, a planet
invaded by Illidan and his demon hunters during the novel Illidan.
It was once a world of magic and knowledge, but now a twisted landscape from which none
escape, possibly because Illidan made sure to cause so much damage that it suffered a
same fate as Draenor turning into Outland.
Eonar the Life Binder, though she was felled by the blade of sargeras, the Life-Binder's
essence escaped the grasp of the Dark Titan.
After millenia spent hiding in isolation, Eonar's sanctuary has been discovered by
the Legion.
Should her soul fall into the enemy's hands, Eonar's power of nature and growth will
be perverted to make the Burning Crusade unstoppable.
The forces of the legion are going to try and take her out, we must defend her and buy
her enough time to strike back.
The infamous Imonar the Soulhunter serves as the Legion's bloodhound, capable of tracking
prey across the cosmos.
With a vast array of gadgets and traps at his disposal, Imonar has yet to lose a bounty...and
he certainly doesn't intend to sully his perfect record by failing to fulfill his latest
contract.
A bounty hunter recruited to take us out, aren't we special.
Kin'garoth ,the design of every Legio nwar machine stems from the depraved mind of Kin'garoth.
Obsessed with crafting implements of death, Kin'garoth infused his very body into the
production machinery so he could more efficiently churn out a never-ending supply of destruction.
At the behest of the Legion's dark master, Kin'Garoth's fevered brilliance has developed
a new super-weapon which he plans to unleash upon the Army of the Light.
HE switches between construction and deployment, sending out fel reavers while the automated
defenses of his work shop rain death upon his enemies.
"Fel reaver waaaaaaaaamp"
An old familiar face is also found in Antorus, Varimathras.
As one of the dreadlords overseeing the Legion's forces during the Third War, Varimathras failed
to stop the rebellious Lich King.
He submitted to an ill-fated alliance with Sylvanas Windrunner, then made one-last bid
for power before facing a humiliating defeat.
In payment for his blunders, Varimathras has been tortured by the Coven of Shivarra.
The vindicvtive sisters stripped away both flesh and sanity, leaving only a singular
desire to inflict suffering upon the mortals who cost him everything.
That last bid for power was during Wrath of the Lich King where together with apotheary
putress they took over the undercity and tried to summon Sargeras.
The alliance and the horde both went in to put a stop to that and apparently he's been
tortured for a very long time.
Poor guy is not looking so great and has some interesting stuff to say, but we'll get
to that later on.
The coven of shivarra, the ones responsible for torturing varimathras and the pantheon,
they've proven themselves to be the most depraved and fanatical of all of Sargeras'
followers.
He entrusted the coven with the unholy task of twisting the minds of the fallen titans
into an unstoppable dark pantheon.
Each sisters employs her own signture brand of torture, eliciting screams which echo through
the halls of Antorus.
It is said that neither mortal nor demon can refuse their whispers, making it only a matter
of time before the will of the titans is broken.
During the battle we'll face 2 of the sisters directly while the other 2 keep on torturing
the titans and force their powers to be used against us.
Defeating the tormented apparitions of the titans is the key to defeating the Coven itself,
and freeing the souls of Aman'Thul, Golganneth, Khaz'goroth and Norgannon.
So we are going to free their souls and move on to one already taken over by Sargeras,
Aggramar.
Once the noble Avenger of the Pantheon, Aggramar was struck down by Sargeras and reborn as
a titan of destruction.
He now stands at the core of Argus, guarding a power that could unmake the universe.
Not even demons are permitted to treat within the titan's halls, and any mortals bold
enough to trespass will be reduced to cinders by Aggramar's burning blade, Taeshalach.
He actually has a corrupted Aegis, remember the Aegis of Aggramar we had to pick up? and
this corrupted avatar stands infront of the world soul of Argus.
"Soon comes the awakening of my brother, Argus.
Together, our new Pantheon will join the master in breaking your fetid world.
But you will not live to see it."
Not much is known about the final encounter in the journal, but we are going to see Argus
the Unmaker.
Bound.
Broken.
Eons of existence, knowing only pain.
A shattered soul, fueling infinite evil.
The master beckons.
Rise....Rise!
Begin the end of all things.
The Speaker, Magni, has heard the anguished whispers of the Unmaker, an emerald star calling
out from the darkness.
Alleria also dealt with the spirit of Argus as told during the audio drama.
But this time it tried to communicate.
Alleria felt as its raw emotion gave away to something else.
Memories.
It was sending her its entire lifetime in a single, uncontrolled burst.
In that instant, while the corrupted fount of arcane might was upon her, her mind was
transported elsewhere – Blink
It was energy, spinning out into the cosmos.
Blink It found warmth near a sun, and a world formed
around it to protect it as it grew.
Blink Generation of life lived and died upon it.
Blink It was betrayed.
It was bound by something powerful.
Blink.
Pain.
Pain.
It hurt so much.
Its only solace lay within its dream.
Blink.
They enslaved worlds.
They burned worlds.
They used its strength to revive their fallen souls.
It hurt so much.
Blink.
They found another.
It was much more powerful.
They wanted to claim it, too.
Then they would be unstoppable.
The Legion set their eyes on claiming the final titan, Azeroth, and with it under their
control, they'd be unstoppable.
Apperantly the Legion also used the strength of the titan of argus to revive their fallen
souls.
I initially thought that this meant they were reviving them at a faster rate, since demons
always had their immortality when killed outside the twisting nether.
This was true even during the day that Sargeras was still fighting against them, way before
he ever made his way to Argus and is the reason why he created the prison world of Mardum
to contain the demons rather than have them respawn again.
Argus is one of those places where demons are permanently killed, but then it does seem
like the demons killed on Argus return to Antorus.
According to Illidan when you do the world quest Vagath the Betrayed, he thinks the dreadlords
punishment in Antorus will be severe.
So it's a bit unclear, perhaps Sargeras thought that the demons perma death is a bit
of a weakness and with the titan Argus under his command, he was able to utilize its power
and remove that weakness.
Like I said, a bit unclear but what ever, we need to deal with the titan Argus and the
Pantheon is going to help out.
There's even a data mined ability called Reap Soul which says:
All players are instantly killed.
Were in not for the titans, all hope would be lost... and together, Aggramar included,
we'll stand against impossible odds.
They're keeping the full encounter shrouded in mystery but the end result is known.
Illidan Stormrage: It matters not.
We have lost.
Look to the skies!
Prophet Velen: Sargeras will soon undo all we have fought for.
Voice of Amanthul: No.
Voice of Amanthul: We will use the last glimmer of Argus's power to bind him here.
The Seat of the Pantheon shall become Sargeras's prison... and ours as well.
Prophet Velen: You would condemn yourselves to stop him?
Voice of Amanthul: A sacrifice must be made.
Illidan Stormrage: Our world must survive... no matter the cost!
Magni Bronzebeard: Their final act will harness the last o' Argus's power, to imprison Sargeras...
once and for all.
Voice of Amanthul: Return home, children of Azeroth.
Protect the final titan.
Magni Bronzebeard: Heroes, I can signal the titans ta begin.
Once they start their ritual... there's no turnin back!
High Exarch Turalyon: Prophet... what happened out there?
Prophet Velen: Illidan serves as the Dark Titan's jailer.
His sacrifice has ended the Legion.
At long last, the Burning Crusade...is over.
Isn't it ironic?
The powers from Argus, the being imprisoned by sargeras are turned against him to imprison
him at the Seat of the Pantheon and Illidan, imprisoned for 10.000 years now becomes his
jailor.
I'm sure Maiev is very jealous and will miss her illywilly greatly, but that's the
end of Legion as the children of Azeroth return home.
Sargeras' imprisonment leaves the window open for the titans and Illidan to return
one day and while the Burning Crusade, that for which the Burning Legion was formed to
begin with, that's indeed over...it does not mean the end of demons.
They're now free from enslavement to Sargeras as Lothraxion put it and free to do what ever
they like.
They might find a planet infested with old gods again basking in their power, they might
conquer new worlds for themselves or perhaps some will decide to keep going with their
mission against the void, potentially become allies in the future.
The sky is the limit as it always is with speculation and keep in mind that the things
we're going to talk about next are speculation.
I'll do my best to support as much as I can with information that's known, but it's
not set in stone.
Before we go away, Illidan hands over a couple of farewell messages for his twin brother
Malfurion, his beloved Tyrande and one for us.
"You have proven your commitment to Azeroh, your dedication, your sacrifice rivals my
own.
But more will be asked of you, so much more.
Even now, enemies gather and the shadows grow darker.
From this day forward the defense of our world, of all we hold dear, rests with you."
Malf: Now is not the time to ponder personal regrets, we must see to healing the world
champion.
The soul of our world is in agony.
Tyrande: In my lifetime, I have twice witnessed a sundering of the world.
Mother moon, I pray I do not see a third.
Khadgar: The legion is defeated.
Its master imprisoned.
But in his final, spiteful act...sargeras may have doomed us all.
Our world is wounded champion, its life essence seeps out into the sand just as Magni foresaw.
"Her feelins are aj umble.
I need to focus.
Let her thoughts flow into arghghghgh.
sands...soaked in pain.
Rivers....rivers of blood.
Skies aflame.
A sword...in the darkness...the wound...it's burning.
Sargeras...
The dark titan comes!
"This meredrop of Argus blood surges with incredible power, the might of a titan.
If the blood of azeroth also proves to be a source of such strength, those who seek
to rule this world will stop at nothing to posses it.
The days ahead may be dark indeed.
For now, go to Silithus, gaze upon the wound in the world with your own eyes.
We will find a way to save azeroth, I know it.
"
Alright so something's going down with Azeroth and a datamined map of Silithus shows a wound
which kinda looks like an eye but more like Sargeras was able to give one last fu to the
children of Azeroth as he tries to hurt the titan spirit he's been lusting for, for
so very long.
A broken blade is pushed into the planet and interestingly enough is that when we did the
magni scenario, some out of bounds trickery revealed that her beating heart, the location
where they keep an eye on her dreams, that was also in silithus.
We can't take that as canon quite yet, but it's pretty certain that the dark titan
was able to stab the final titan and she's hurting.
The last time this happened was when the titan ripped the old god y'shaarj out of the planet
and the keepers were forced to patch the wound from keeping her life essence flooding out,
creating the well of eternity.
Many years later this well would become incredibly unstable after the war of the ancients and
the sundering took place.
This is the first sundering tyrande witnessed, then came the cataclysm with deathwing breaking
through and causing the cataclysm, elements in uproar, massive changes to the world and
she fears for a third.
"At the hour of her third death, she will usher in our coming."
Yep back to those delicious whispers of Illgynoth and lets try to decipher them, so this stabbing
of the planet could be her quote on quote third death, the third massive event happening
to the planet.
"The king of diamonds has been made a pawn."
"From the earth, he draws strength.
Our earth.
Our strength."
"Her heart is a crater, and we have filled it.'
Magni Bronzebeard is the king of diamonds speaking for the titan spirit of Azeroth,
drawing strength from the earth, but a world with a heart that is a crater, and they have
filled it.
During the magni scenario we heard the beating heart of the planet and darkness had taken
over the place, forcing us to step in and clean it up...a place potentially stabbed
by Sargeras... but why is Magni their pawn as he seemingly seems to listen to Azeroth?
Well remember what exactly he has done, he pointed us towards the 5 pillars of creation
which we needed to seal of the gateway at the tomb of sargeras.
"Five keys to open our way.
Five torches to light our path."
"The lord of ravens will turn the key."
Khadgar, the lord of ravens used the 5 keys, the 5 pillars of creation within the tomb
of sargeras, but our adventures in that place lead to Illidan opening up a massive rift
between Azeroth and Argus allowing Sargeras easy access for stabbing the planet.
Will the titan spirit in pain be beneficial for the old gods?
Well we already knew that one of their prisons was weakening from Xalatath in the emerald
nightmare.
Xal'atath whispers: Almost completely gone, as if it never existed.
But the rift is deep and vast, and somewhere down there it stirs.
Something has changed, the last prison weakens.
We must prepare.
So are we just talking about N'zoth here or are the other old gods also coming out
to play?
Well we have this line:
"Flesh is his gift.
He is your true creator."
And from the chronicles we learn that the one
responsible for the curse of flesh, that which made the creations of the titans weaker, more
vulnerable to corruption and gave them flesh, that was Yogg-saron.
We've seen him poking around in Ulduar at the start of Legion so he's been active,
the only one that hasn't really done much is the old god C'thun who's very close
to the wound in Silithus.
To find him, drown yourself in the circle of stars.
and a couple of months ago someone uploaded a picture from Deepholm on reddit in which
we can see a circle of stars which has a lot of speculate that Deepholm, or this spot is
where we're going to drown ourselves, perhaps with the Maelstrom, but as some have pointed
out...that's not the location of N'zoth in the chronicles.
Things change, but lets not forget that we saw a lot of his minions during our questing
in Vasjhir, but we can be certain that he's somewhere beneath the waves of Azeroth.
That is of course assuming that the he that they're talking about is actually N'zoth
but ya know, this one is pretty vague lets move on to the next one.
"Its surface blazes bright, masking shadows below."
Hard to pin what this one is talking about, it could be that things seem fine on the surface
of Azeroth but there's actually a lot of darkness down below or perhaps it was hinting
at Xera and the recent development with the Light not being so fantastic and actually
have a bit of a dark side.
"The boy-king serves at the master's table.
Three lies will he offer you."
Some suggest that the boy king is Wrathion since the black dragon has offered us a fair
few lies, but I don't remember them having a system of royalty amongst their flight not
to mention that he's not even actually Deathwings son.
Some suggest Moira's son, but is anyone really going to listen to what a 8 or 10 year
old has to say?
Not to mention that it would go against a lot of the character development they had
for Moira during Mists of Pandaria.
I still think it's Anduin, mainly because it's just too much of a coincidence to have
Gul'dan call him Boy-King as well.
"Your pathetic alliance will fall to dust.
Your new boy-king will bow down and serve me, as will all of you!."
That means that we still have some lies to look forward too which I think the Alliance
could definitely use since it's been way too unified ever since the cataclysm up to
the point where it gets a little boring.
Having Anduin in the roll as king, trying to fill his fathers shoes and failing, not
being completely honest leaves a lot of room for character development and drama amongst
the alliance ranks.
The most recent uproar we had was Greymane going after Sylvanas in Stormheim but that
actually had quite a lot of story and reason to go with it so not much of a drama, and
sadly that story seems to be cut out of Legion.
There's was quite a bit of build up between these 2, quite a lot of things Sylvanas was
planning with the Valkyr and Eyir and Helya, but in the end all we got was them going after
towers while the rest of the Horde and Alliance focused on the war against the Legion.
Speaking of Sylvanas, this brings us back to the interesting stuff Varimathras has to
say, when we encounter him in his cell he says:
Alliance: So, your Alliance still endures.
Longer than I expected, though she has already planted the seeds of its downfall.
She is patient, that one.
When your thrones run red with betrayal... when your holy places burn and the shattered
mask hangs above your hearth... only then you will know.
And it will be too late.
It matters not.
You are blind to the true darkness closing in around you.
Horde: So, she found me at last.
Sent her underlings to finish the job.
Tell me, when she seized your throne of hides and bones, was your allegiance forced?
No...
I'd wager you surrendered it willingly... or were convinced you did.
It matters not.
You are blind to the darkness in your midst.
Death... claims... us all.
Even this had some speculate and wonder about who this she is, some connect it to Jaina,
but I'm going to take it at face value and believe that he is talking about Sylvanas.
The shattered mask hangs above your hearth is the symbol of the forsaken and Varimathras
has a lot of history with Sylvanas, asking if her underlings have come to finish the
job.
Of course let's not forget that the shivara have tortured him into madness so the source
is a bit shaky, but say that we completely trust him then some sort of storyline with
Sylvanas in which he believes she will betray us all, our thrones will run red and the true
darkness is closing in around us.
When we think back as to how Sylvanas seized the throne of hides and bones then we go back
to the moment where Vol'jin was poisoned by the Legion, his end was coming and the
spirits told him a name:
"Da loa spirits will say death will claim me soon."
"IN the end, death claims us all.
But the Horde will live on."
"I have never trusted you, nor would I have ever imagined in our darkest time that you
would be da one to save us."
"Da spirits have granted me clarity.
A vision dey whisper a name."
"Many will not unda'stand.
But you must step out of da shadows and lead.
You must be....warchief..."
In the end death claims us all, indeed Varimathras and Sylvanas, now sadly her roll as warchief
has been uneventful, possibly because of some story that they decided to cut.
Now another warchief up on the chopping block like Garrosh, I don't think a lot of people
are looking forward to that happening not to mention that Sylvanas has a huge fanbase
that don't want to see their queen go.
That's not to say that they couldn't do some interesting stuff with her character.
Her main objective ever since she tossed herself from the top of icecrown has been to stay
alive.
To not return to the hell that she saw and to help her with this, she made a bargain
with the Val'kyr who in exchange from being released from bolvars control would take her
place in hell and would even resurrect more forsaken to strengthen the bullwark against
the infinite.
The small bit that we saw of her in Legion was making a bargain with Helya, queen of
the underworld to obtain a device that allowed her to subjugate titanwatcher Eyir, and as
we saw in the halls of valor, Eyir has the power to create more Valkyr.
More valkyr means extra bonus lives and extra manpower to create more forsaken.
No real change to her motives, she still wants to stay alive at all cost, but we don't
know how much of what she saw, how much of what the valkyr told her is actually the truth.
When she dropped down from icecrown she landed on top of saronite, the blood of the old god
yogg-saron so the visions of hell shown to her could have been false.
The valkyr just wanted to be let go of bolvars control, but what if all they really wanted
to do was join the banshee queen in recruiting more troops for the Lich King.
Icecrown citadel and the lich king itself have always been speculated to be influenced
by yogg-saron, part of that is because we see a vision of Arthas inside Yogg's mind
and during Legion, bolvar has put the death knights of acherus to work.
Sure, their goals lined up with facing the Legion, but at the same time they are resurrecting
more death knights and several questlines show our so called followers dealing with
the Lich King on their own.
Rather then have Sylvanas be the full blown bad guy, have outside forces influence her.
She wouldn't even be here creating more undead was it not for the hell that she saw,
so perhaps it was yogg-saron pushing her to go on, pushing the Lich King to create more
forces for them only to have them turn around at the right moment and serve their true master,
serve Yogg-Saron.
Could even add a return of Kell'thuzad if we really wanted.
Bolvar trying to go against Yogg-saron, have Kel'thuzad help him out with that.
Team up with Icecrown in the battle of the North.
"Bow down before the god of death"
What else do we have to work with, well we know for blizzcon that Jaina Proudmoore is
featured promptly as the Warcraft representative, it's highly likely that we'll get the
next expansion announcement during this blizzcon and we also have datamined armor pieces for
Kul'Tiras.
If we're going to deal with N'zoth, an old god set to be beneath the waves of Azeroth
then a marine state like Klul tiras could definitely come in handy.
Last time we saw Jaina she was still not willing to work together with the Horde and left Dalaran
because of it and after that she hasn't really made an appearance.
Perhaps she want back to her home of Kul'Tiras, but it leaves the question how well she's
received there.
She let her father be killed, it's a marine state so a direct line of rulers is not really
a thing nor does she have a lot of experience with naval warfare.
She is a very talented sorceress with a lot of connections so perhaps she could be the
bridge into venturing forth into new content, allowing us to explore more islands and different
parts of the planet.
The Legion wasn't a big enough threat for her to work with the Horde, so perhaps losing
Anduin, the boy king serving at the masters table, perhaps that would be something to
push her into realising ...Oke...our world is messed up, I just lost one of the last
things I really cared about, please horde....please come join kul'tiras in our war against the
old gods peleeeeeeease.
Or she's actually serving the old gods but I really hope not.
So with a way on to the sea we of course have queen Azshara and the naga that have been
serving the old gods for a very long time.
They were deadset on obtaining the tidestone of golganeth during Legion, trying to flood
the land and take control, with their master rising from the sea...their time is now.
Could also see Zandalar and king rastakhan, perhaps Vol'jin as a loa warning us that
things are not what they seem to be with Sylvanas, something to redeem just killing him off like
that and not giving him the time to shine as a warchief.
'Windrunner..."
What else we got?
Well what about the chromie scenario that seemed to come kinda out of no where and disconnected
from the overall Legion storyline.
Someone was trying to kill our chromie with all kinds of different forces like the void
and the demons and we had to go to this timeline, a timeline that was not meant to be, and we
had to save her.
Part of being a bronze dragon is knowing your moment of demise and making sure that time
flows as its supposed to be, regardless if that means you're going to die.
In one instance, or perhaps in a future still to come, the bronze dragon Nozdormu was actually
tricked by the old gods into trying to subvert his mortality.
As a result, Nozdormu shattered the timeways and created the infinite dragonflight.
If we are truly going to deal with the old gods and this is still a future supposed to
happen and according to Nozdormu being moruzond and being killed by us is his true moment
of demise, that means we might see the birth of the infinite dragonflight take place.
C'thun is located pretty close to the caverns of time and from mists we still have one potential
vision of the future that never came true, the demise of soridormi as Kairozdormu watched.
Note that I do say a potential timeline, it's not garanteed to become a reality, but the
loss of his mate might be something to push Nozdormu into going mad and abusing his powers.
How cool would it be to team up with Chromie and figure out who it was that was trying
to kill her, dive into alternate timelines and see what different universes could be
like.
It's a concept used for the novel Thrall Twilight of the aspects and I would love to
see that play out in game, deal with C'thun and the birth of the infinite dragonflight
leading into a full circle of Moruzond showing up during the cataclysm and Nozdormu's true
demise.
"Atlast it has come to pass.
The moment of my demise.
The loop is closed.
My future self will cause no more harm."
"Still...in time...I will fall to madness and you heroes will vanquish me.
The cycle will repeat.
So it goes."
So just to summarize all of this real quick, potential storyline with Sylvanas, Yogg-Saron,
the Lich King and Kel'thuzad in the North.
Potential storyline with C'thun and the Bronze/infinite Dragonflight in the south
west.
Potential storyline with N'zoth and the great seas of azeroth, Azshara and her naga,
Jaina and Kul'Tiras, Different islands, more of the world of azeroth to explore, Anduin
serving us 3 lies and creating some conflict within the alliance.
There is more of course, we have the Ethereals very interested in the void, Alleria being
a weapon of the void but never willing to hurt her son.
Turalyon seeing a similar vision of himself with Arator during the audio drama as Arator
has always dreamed of.
Nyalotha, a realm mentioned by several creatures of the void could this be the domain of the
old gods and after dealing with the problems on our homeworld, will we venture forth into
the great dark beyond and explore whole different planets?
Speaking of Ethereals, some of you asked me what potential races they could add to this
expansion and the Ethereals with all their shiny new models could be a thing and are
heavily connected to dealing with the void.
The whole reason why they look like they do today is because of Dimensius the all devouring
so they could be a thing, but perhaps better kept for a future expansion as we go into
the great dark beyond.
The other 2 potential races, and that is assuming we're even going to get a new race, those
would be murlocs and naga but both kinda have the problem of not being able to wear older
armor.
The origin of the naga would flow so well with the story of N'zoth though and murlocs
serving them, also being beneath the waves, what stories they might have to tell.
I wouldn't say no to more customization with the current races for example give humans
the option to also pick vrykul or the elves with a potential nightborne skin, subraces
that add to the costumization.
In the department of new classes, same deal assuming we're going to get a new class,
we have alleria pretty much combining a shadow priest with a hunter.
On paper I think that sounds pretty sweet, being able to combine abilities of different
classes into one, but I don't think it would work out well in practice with keeping the
game somewhat balanced.
If anything, i'd like to see it be a ranged class, maybe that long awaited mech class
with the adition of the light mechs we see on argus?
Hard to say.
As a final note some have been wondering if we're going to see a massive timeskip on
Azeroth considering time doesn't work the same as we party in the nether.
We have alleria and turalyon fighting with the army of the light for a thousand years,
but from our point of view they've been missing for around 35.
That's the problem with the timeskip idea, it's reversed.
In the nether we go faster, but azeroth actually goes slower meaning that unless our war on
Argus took atleast 500 years from our perspective, we won't see a massive change on Azeroth.
I'm actually going to laugh my ass off if they pull another warlords of draenor and
be like surprise, you all thought it was going to be the void didn't ya?
NOOOOPE WRONG, go party on alternate Argus, we have some stuff for you to do there.
Ahwell all kidding aside, can't wait what we're going to find out at blizzcon and
this is usually one of the most fun times as in speculation running rampant and the
sky is the limit.
Can't wait to find out more but for now thank you so very much for sticking with me
and I hope you enjoyed these videos as much as I enjoyed making them.
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"Oh, I see them.
A million, million worlds glittering in their perfection but one above all others.
Oh.."
Float up in to the sky....
"OHHHHH We have fallen, we must rebuild the final titan, do not forget."
"What are you trying to pull?"
"It is gone.
I don't remember any of it.
Oh, none of them remember.
The irony!"
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