Honestly, I miss when Warcraft was fighting the Burning Legion and the whole war between orcs and humans. Man, I really miss that.
There are a couple things I want to comment in response to the "we have been manipulated by the Titan Keepers" and "First Ones Also Purged from History"... well, mostly as a story of what, according to me, would be interesting to discover in Dragonflight and beyond.1) Why did Aman'thul say "We must gather our strength" at the end of the raid.if that was their "forever prison" what is the strength needed for?2) The remark from a developer about the red star in the sky box, saying (and this is not quite verbatim): "If it goes out be worried."(or something to the effect)Also personally I think we've looked at the Cosmological chart in the wrong way. We've looked it in two dimensions... as a flat map. I think it's a three-dimensional structure. Reality is the bottom floor, then Shadowlands and Emerald Dream and in the case of Shadowlands, ask yourself why there's a cloud around the zones. The elementals (earth, fire, etc is the next floor), then it's the floor of the titans, legion, wild gods and undead. Then it's Light, Void, Order, Disorder, Life and Death (with the stuff listed around it). In fact, Oribos gave me the idea that this is how it looks.The irony is that The Crucible in Oribos resembles the top floor of Cosmological chart, even down to a "light creature" (Arbiter) sitting in for the Light, and once he "turns up" The Jailer sits where Shadow is on the chart.The paths that don't go to a Shadowlands zone... they connect to other parts within the Cosmological "tower" and we were told they were to other zones. Why don't they go there anymore to those zones? Because between them, Zovaal and the Titan Pantheon schemed and let in powers from other parts of the cosmological system come in and mess with the cycle of life.Also, if there's the Zereth Ordus, then Zereth Mortis is the Death part. We just need names for Light, Void, Disorder and Life at this point.Something is afoot, and the culprits of the "crime of the century" (so to speak) are still at large, and I think that Zovaal was the fall guy. Why would Aman'thul need "strength" for perpetual slumber in a prison? Why did Eonar know that "it is time" (Aman'thul is the one with temporal magic). And ultimately, I don't think Illidan said "at last" because Sargeras arrived... I think he said it because the plan between Sargeras and him was to get to the traitors of Shadowlands to destroy the one among them who had caused their betrayal and I already mentioned her name.She's the life-binder... Zovaal was the death-binder?If the First Ones are "on par with the titans" then can we assume that one of them could have been masquerading as a titan. No, not Sargeras. I mean Eonar. Somehow she knew it was time for US to go. She's also who took care of Un'Goro (God Lands in Qiraji) and I think it's under the volcano in the centre of the crater (the hottest place of the crater) we'd find the original entrance to the Heart of Azeroth chamber - the door we see beside the teleport pad). Sargeras knew that we couldn't get in that way so created a way in elsewhere, with a sword containing stolen Shadowland technology (that's why it glows red). In fact, at one point I was busy looking at my map on my main and it malfunctioned and showed Un'Goro instead of the chamber map (I reported it to Blizzard at the time).There's one more floor and now I'm adding that Light and Shadow are up there. They've been manipulating everything below them for eons, causing all sorts of shenanigans to happen. Everything they do causes the domino effect up all the floors below, and then Sargeras realised what was happening, started searching for entities who felt the same. Got a few of them purposefully into Shadowlands somehow to unbalance the "arbitration" of souls by the then-Arbiter Zovaal who obviously got accused of the wrongs, banished etc. Once the new Arbiter is in place, there's manipulation to get the Void to attack the Light's champions (Bastion), then the Light retaliate against the Shadow's champions (Revendreth), and in the meantime, through Illidan and others Sargeras manipulates Maldraxxus, and the allies there whisk their boss away so Zovaal can imprison him (he's likely who identified the titans as traitors).Reality only happened as a result of all these manipulations above the clouds. Odyn was on the side of the traitors until he discovered they were traitors.Also, about the sword... the other theory is that the red stuff is all the anima from Shadowlands seeping BACK into Azeroth (and all of us) from the whirlpool we see from Revendreth. About this part my idea is that suddenly we start seeing Azeroth heal up all over. By itself. No druids involved or needed. I'd pay attention to the "broken places"..."All eyes shall be opened..."That was the message we got. I don't think the Dragon Isles revealing was an accident. They were uncovered precisely at the moment a sword slammed into Azeroth... while you stared at the sword landing I was looking at the other hand and wondering "What that hand doing? Where is it leaning?"Btw, as a side note, the mists around Pandaria happened at the same time period as the War of the Ancients (shown at the start of the cinematic when the dragons leave) so what if the mist around Pandaria had nothing to do with the Pandaren leader "creating them" and them just getting a waft of the Dragon Isles magic coming over the north east horizon going around the planet and north over Pandaria...If he was plunging in Kalimdor, and he leans on Azeroth while doing this, he might have cleared off the magical shield that "woke up" Dragon Isles. So it wasn't the way Alexstrasza was wanting it to happen but from the manipulation of the titans against Sargeras that caused it. She might get rather annoyed when she finds "Sargeras-sized claws imprints" somewhere near the islands. (Is the no fly bit in the ocean beside Ohn'ahran Plains (left of the "O") a Sargeras claw mark. Would we find more if we could dive in the ocean north and south of this spot?Okay I think I wrote a long enough fun bit of fan fiction based on this article intertwined with my theories that like have ZERO inclusion in this game but represent the sort of questions I would want answered in Dragonflight and later expansions.Not done anything in beta testing Dragonflight, so I'll just see what the story brings...Have fun picking apart my theories, and remember that we only know part of the Dragonflight story so far...
It's amazing how modern entertainment consistently manages to turn "shades of gray" into some of the most heavyhanded writing.On the one hand every genocidal maniac gets a redemption arc cuz he/she was feeling a bit sad and we should understand his/her feelings.While on the other hand everyone who's vaguely good, but not perfect in every way, eventually turns out to kick puppies as their favorite past-time or something equally absurd.There was absolutly no reason to turn him into a mustache twirling villain if they wanted him to be an antagonist somewhere down the line. We already know he's an arrogant bastard and that he merely tolerate the curse of flesh. All that's needed is just some event to make the curse "worse" to put him in an antagonistic role. You don't need to make him some weird secret schemer who's apparnelty been trying to control the free will of the mortal races for that to work....
Just when I thought I could hope for Dragonflight to be good story-wise - that cinematic with the Titan watchers! Dragons! - here we go again, back to the shadowlands first ones garbage. People also really need to stop saying "well ever since they revealed that Chronicle is just Titan propaganda..." for the umpteenth time that was not the point of Chronicle nor what Metzen intended in writing it. Just because the current writing team is so uncreative, and cannot look FORWARD instead of rewriting what we already had, does not mean it counts as a legitimate argument to make this kind of junk not a retcon. It's just redoing the entire Titan story and its slow unfolding over time (while making them into villains for no particular reason but "ooooo wouldn't that be a TWIST". Just stop it already, and maybe consider writing something new that actually fits into the existing lore instead of ripping it apart.
And the other thing that frosts me about it is that it's yet another example of Danuser casting veiled insults at anyone who doesn't like what he's doing with the story. Basically, here we get "well, MY story is the true one! That stupid book you all are clinging to was just written by some fascist jerk!" The man has an obsession - it's not enough to merely pick up where his predecessor left off, he must be discredited and written out. It's really quite insulting, especially to Chris Metzen.
I don't like this subjectivist balance stuff they're doing. It's a slippery slope. A balance of Germans and Jews requires a final solution! Unless this balance stuff is revealed to be an old god trick in order to grasp more power through convincing us they aren't so bad, I'm not a fan.There's no such thing as a balance of good and evil. Donating to the poor does not need to be balanced with killing a homeless person. This inevitably ends up with the conclusion that good and evil don't exist to begin with, which in a materialist world you would need to conclude, which ironically enough would make something like the holocaust OK since we're all just quarks to begin with, no different in physical makeup or value than a rock.Take a philosophy class before you think about disagreeing with me :P