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The Coreway and Azeroth's Worldsoul - Weekly Archive Quest Story (SPOILERS)
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In our third Weekly Archive quest,
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, players learn more about the recently revealed 'Manifold', and the true nature of one of Khaz Algar's biggest mysteries. Spoilers ahead!
WARNING: Spoilers for The War Within!
The Message of the Archive
Archaedas says: At the titans' command, we keepers began the Acclimation. Each installation, all linked to the Manifold, produced vast numbers of titanforged workers.
Archaedas says: We fired the Great Forges, to fuel the Acclimation and empower the Manifold to heal the ravaged world.
Archaedas says: Then began construction of the Coreway, a direct channel to the heart of Azeroth, that would allow the titans to study the Worldsoul without harming it.
Archaedas says: However, as we delved deeper, we encountered certain obstacles--colossal crystals which we came to realize were calcified chunks of the Worldsoul's essence.
Archaedas says: They are of great power, and I wonder how many yet remain undiscovered beneath the earth, all over the world.
Archaedas says: By word of the great Khaz'goroth, the titans' research has revealed that Azeroth's Worldsoul is indeed the Prime. Our purpose may yet be fulfilled.
Like before, Dagran and Brinthe react to this information with speculation on what it might mean for the present day. While they don't discuss the confirmation of Azeroth's status as the Prime Worldsoul, they do discuss why the Earthen never looked further into the purpose of their facilities to glean these kinds of answers.
Dagran Thaurissan II says: Enormous powerful chunks of Worldsoul essence... do you think Beledar, in Hallowfall, could be one of them?
High Speaker Brinthe says: Potentially. But it was never within the scope of our Edicts to study the crystal.
Dagran Thaurissan II says: He mentions the titanforged making the Coreway... did you know it was built to study the Worldsoul?
High Speaker Brinthe says: We were created for the great purpose of serving the titans, and thus we built it. Its purpose was irrelevant to us.
High Speaker Brinthe says: We fulfilled our Edicts dependably, and we have strived to do so throughout the millennia, despite Khaz Algar facing many... setbacks.
Dagran Thaurissan II says: Setbacks? What do you mean?
High Speaker Brinthe says: Long ago, the continents of the world split apart, and the machinery that powered our facility was damaged--cut off from the Manifold.
High Speaker Brinthe says: We were unable to repair the connection. We operated on auxiliary power for a time... but eventually it ran out, and we fell into... disarray.
Dagran Thaurissan II says: That must have been the Sundering... it's miraculous that any of this survived intact.
The True Nature of Beledar
The most obvious bombshell reveal in this message is that Beledar, the massive crystal housed in the caverns of Hallowfall, did not come crashing into the planet from the Great Dark Beyond like many have speculated, but instead originates directly from Azeroth herself.
According to Archaedas, Beledar is not merely a crystal of Light and Shadow, but a coalescence of the Worldsoul's essence. We
learned last week
that in the wake of cleansing Azeroth of the Old Gods, the Titan Keepers build a series of facilities across the planet called 'the Manifold, and in this week's message, we learn that their purpose was to fuel another new term known as 'the Acclimation'. As Archaedas says, the Acclimation served to heal the planet, and it seems that in the process, it may have had the side effect of causing a calcification of the Worldsoul's essence into crystals like Beledar.
The most obvious question this answers is why Anduin heard the call of the Radiant Song when he first entered Hallowfall during our leveling campaign. Initially, it seemed as though he may have simply misattributed its source during his crisis of faith, but it now seems like his speculation was quite accurate. He also commented in a Stay a While that the keyflames the Arathi use in their dawntowers seem suspiciously close to the Azerite crystals we found during Battle for Azeroth, another piece of speculation that the errant priest was on the money about.
The question that does leave, however, is why Beledar presents itself in such an abundantly Light-centric fashion. While the first Archive quest revealed that Azeroth's true nature may be something much more complex than merely a slumbering Titan, the information we've known so far since Dragonflight indicates that her natural energies trend towards the power of the elements, and that beings like the Titans and the Old Gods act as suppressive tools for those elements amidst their attempts to control the planet.
What this reveal might entail is that Azeroth's Worldsoul may be a confluence of
all
the known cosmic forces. As mentioned, we've known for a long while that the elements run rampant across Azeroth, and we've seen the powers of Life and Order in abundance in places like the Well of Eternity and the vast number of leylines stretched across the planet.
If crystals like Beledar originate from the power of the Worldsoul itself, that would also offer an indication that she has the Light in her growing repertoire of cosmic alignments. Although the crystal's periodic shifts into its darkened state may have been caused by Sargeras plunging his sworn into the world, the fact that it affects Beledar so fully indicates that the Void may be in that list as well.
More Crystals Within Azeroth?
The reveal of Beledar's relationship to Azeroth's Worldsoul wasn't the only massive new piece of information revealed by the Keeper, however. He also revealed that Beledar is not a unique phenomenon, and that other crystals exist hidden beneath the planet's surface.
This reveal is surprisingly well timed with a reveal
recently discovered from the 11.0.5 PTR
, where a group of goblins gossip about a mysterious crystal they recently found on an abandoned island. The presence of a crystal like this is suspicious enough in the same expansion as Beledar, but the implication that the Arathi may also be seeking this crystal out lends credence to the idea that this island houses yet another of these pieces of the Worldsoul's essence.
This may in fact not even be the first of these crystals we've seen beyond Beledar. In Season of Discovery, one of the crafting quests involves investigating a Shard of Pure Light in the Alterac Mountains. The player uses the power of this shard to destroy a void-infused box they recently found, and uncover a shard of void within it.
Most interestingly, once we destroy the box, a 'Shadowy Figure' appears, as a high elf wreathed in darkness and wielding a dagger who many suspected to be Xal'atath. At the time, many saw this simply as a nod to Xal'atath's current relevance in the modern story, especially with how she showed up again in subsequent phases of Season of Discovery. With the knowledge of these new crystals, however, perhaps it was a tease for even larger events in the modern game.
Regardless, with such a concrete place being set up, it seems likely that this new crystal island may be the setting for one of our upcoming patches in The War Within, and that we will learn much more about Beledar's relationship to Azeroth's place on the cosmic chessboard in the near future.
The Source of the Earthen's Woes
Despite the colossal importance of Beledar's true nature, Brinthe seems just as unaware of it as Dagran and the player. When prompted, she reveals what we've been told time and again - that such matters were not within their Edicts.
What is a worthwhile reveal from Brinthe, however, is confirmation of why the Earthen have faced so many troubles in recent years. According to her, Khaz Algar operated as intended for millenia after its creation, maintaining the Coreway and keeping it safe from outsiders. Their machinery would be broken eventually however, in what Dagran surmises to be the Sundering, the event that ended the first war against the Burning Legion and saw the unified continent of Kalimdor shattered into various smaller continents and islands.
While it may not be as exciting an answer as being caused by the appearance of Beledar or being intentionally turned off by Archaedas, as many might have speculated, it does reveal yet another reason why the Earthen are wise to stray from their stringent Edicts. Their facilities were clearly not built with failsafes in mind, and if we had not come around when we did, the Earthen would likely have all fallen into stasis or corruption, leaving the Titan's direct path to the heart of Azeroth entirely exposed and unguarded.
With how Archaedas words his last line, this does not seem to be the end of our Archive reveals in the immediate future, so stay tuned in the coming weeks for more story!
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