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The Storm-Eater’s Fury Analysis - Raszageth Reminds Us Why the Aspects Need Their Power
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02/12/2022 a las 06:00
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A new cinematic from the Waking Shore main questline offers us further insight into the Primalists' motivations. We breakdown the confrontation, Raszageth's accusations, and the need for the Aspects to regain their power.
The Storm-Eater’s Fury
Early on in the main questline in Dragonflight, we encounter a confrontation between Alexstrasza, the Dragon Queen, and Raszageth the Storm-Eater, Dragonflight's first major antagonist.
As we learned from previous cinematics, Raszageth was one of the Primal Incarnates - Proto-drakes with elemental magic so powerful, they were on the level of the Dragon Aspects themselves. Sometime after the Aspects were granted their powers, dragonkind found itself ripped apart by civil war, as the Primal Incarnates and their followers rejected the Titans' influence, preferring instead their natural, elemental powers.
Raszageth was the youngest of these Primal Incarnates. In a battle against Neltharion and his dracthyr army, she freed the dracthyr from Neltharion's influence by destroying the Titan artifact he was using to control them. Faced with potential defeat, Neltharion gave into the Old Gods' whispers, using void magic to trap Raszageth beneath the Forbidden Reach before placing the dracthyr in a stasis.
Now, thousands of years later, Raszageth has been released from her prison during the Evoker starting experience.
Confrontation
As the dragons square off, we can see the fact that the Primal Incarnates are as powerful as the Aspects reinforced in the fact that Raszageth is easily as large as the Dragon Queen.
Alexstrasza: Raszageth, enough! We need not fight another war. There is still time to see reason.
Raszageth: Time is precisely what you stole from me. Thousands of years, rotting in that prison.
Raszageth is furious, her voice harsh with anger as she screams at Alexstrazsa for stealing her time away from her. Characteristically, Alexstrasza's response is gentle - the Aspect of Life is known for her kindness and mercy. More interestingly, Alexstrasza seems to be willing to admit her own fault. She sees the war between the dragons, and the consequences of that war as her own failure to restore peace. Even in her dragon form, she looks genuinely sad and regretful as she admits to this fault, but Raszageth isn't having any.
Her unruly, almost wild appearance reinforces the length of time Raszageth has spent imprisoned, her eyes are narrowed and she crackles with lightning, radiating anger and resentment. It may seem odd - it was Neltharion, and not Alexstrazsa, who defeated and imprisoned Raszageth - but we realize it's not only her imprisonment that angers her.
Alexstrasza: I failed then to restore peace between us. Too many paid for that.
Raszageth: Spare me your sanctimony! You forced the titans' edicts upon us all. You betrayed the world that gave us life, and when we dared resist, you cast us out! Never again! Your false reign must end!
Raszageth's Accusation
According to the Dragonflight Collector's Edition Art Book, written from the perspective of the Dragon Aspects, the war between the Aspects and the Primalists began when the Primalists attempted to exile Titan Keeper Tyr. The implication is that the Primalists did not wish to allow Titan influence at all, even in those dragons - like the Aspects - who embraced it.
Through Keeper Tyr, many proto-dragons chose to become infused with Order magic. And yet some of our oldest kin argued that we dragons should remain unchanged, choosing to embrace our inherent elemental energies.
A cabal of these "primal" proto-dragons joined together to resist the influx of titan influence. When our Aspects denied their demand to exile Tyr from their new home, it became clear to the Primalists which path the new Dragonflights had chosen. The seed of rebellion had been sown.
However, Raszageth's accusation suggests that the war began in part because the Primalists were being forced into accepting Titan influence against their will. This accusation is not without basis - lore books found in Uldaman indicate the Titan Keepers -
Tyr specifically
- wanted to "keep even the most willful dragons aligned with the titans' philosophies".
It is also interesting that Raszageth accuses Alexstrasza of betraying "the world that gave us life". That world is Azeroth, and dragons are one of the races to evolve naturally - unlike those races descended from Titan-forged creations, such as dwarves and humans. Raszageth may simply be talking about the way that the Aspects rejected natural, elemental power in favor of Titan, Aspect power. But Azeroth is also a Titan herself - or at least the world soul of a Titan. We wonder if Raszageth knows that.
Raszageth's Power
Either way, Alexstrazsa does not dispute Raszageth's claims - mostly because she isn't given much chance. In the fight that follows, we can see the two seem evenly matched... until Raszageth calls down lightning on Alexstrasza, utterly defeating her, and the Dragon Queen falling out of the sky is a strong visual reminder that - without their powers - the Aspects are not strong enough to defeat the Primal Incarnates.
To both Alexstrasza and Raszageth's surprise, Wrathion arrives to take on the Primal Incarnate, but instead of attacking Wrathion, Raszageth seems strangely reserved. She references Wrathion's youth, and tells him he's chosen the wrong side - almost as if she believes he would join her if he could understand her point of view. While it's clear she hates Alexstrasza, she seems almost willing to treat Wrathion as if he's merely misguided.
Instead of finishing the two dragons off, Raszageth chooses to leave - though she makes it clear she does not do so out of mercy. She merely seems to want Alexstrasza to suffer first before dying.
Alexstrasza: Wrathion?
Raszageth; Ah. You are bold, whelpling, but you are fighting on the wrong side. She never told you the suffering they inflicted upon us, the insult of being forgotten. I want her to watch helplessly as everything she built comes crumbling down. Only then will she meet a fitting end.
Up until now, Alexstrasza has been an emblem of dragon power in Dragonflight - from
rescuing Koranos in the Dragonflight Announcement Trailer
to her breathtaking arrival in the Dragonflight Launch cinematic,
Take to the Skies
. Yet now, we see her helpless, alive only because it seems to suit Raszageth. In Dragonflight, the Aspects are desperate to restore their power, and with an enemy like the Primal Incarnates to worry about, we can see why.
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