How so? The creature in the mural has more eyes, no spikes, is a different shape, and doesn’t have the very distinct gaping maw for a head.
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Goodness, that’s a clever theory!
for you!
We’re talking about the creature, what about the glowing object it’s reaching for? Is that the strange Arathi fallen star, or is it the chrysalis of Azeroth herself?
I’m wiling to bet that whatever that thing is, it came here from the stars most likely with, in or opon the Arathi fallen star. Because that’s how the Lovecraft do.
Maybe but at the same time it doesn’t look correct. The eyes are all off.
I mean, have you seen cave paintings of animals?
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Ok that’s fair.
Why the mouth gotta be uwu nom nom for?
Where does it say he was the 5th one? I thought they have been ambiguous about it.
i typed into google and saw the first result
I still tend to think this could be the 5th old god and that it is Xal’atath.
First, obviously, her name is void-y. But also the previous old gods were male-coded so having the fifth be female coded just makes sense. Lovecraft had The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young after all.
G’huun was a science experiment gone awry, it was created by the titans in a contained environment, it’s of Old Gods, but not a genuine Old God.
G’huun wouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath or considered on the same level as the ones that “invaded” Azeroth, it built no empire, it didn’t compete with the others, it was a mistake made later on.
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two mentions of a 5th old god… the one you mention: The Pantheon, in an attempt to study the eldritch monstrosities and find a solution to their existence, inadvertently created a fifth Old God, G’huun
And the one in the book found in BRD: Old Gods and the Ordering of Azeroth where it says, "The Pantheon shattered the Old God’s citadels and chained the five evil gods far beneath the surface of the world. The book would indicate there were already 5 gods before the pantheon created G’hunn. I could be wrong, it just seems odd.
Besides, I’m pretty sure that’s just Ultros.
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It is important to note that book is just a copy and paste of the section in the WC3 manual of the same name.
Chronicles vol 1 did retcon how many the Titans imprisoned. Making it four instead of five. However alongside this retcon was the in-game lore book surrounding Xal’atath, which does mention that a ‘theory’ is that Xal’atath is what remains of a fifth Old God. Defeated by their kin early into the days of the Black Empire. Considering that Legion and Chronicles vol 1 were probably written alongside each other, and in game dialogue from Xal’atath herself implies that she was an Old God, through the use of the word ‘us’ when describing how N’zoth is close to actually ‘winning’ despite being the weakest of them. (aka completing the mission set for them by the Void Lords). One can reach a reasonable conclusion that Xal’atath was an Old God that landed on Azeroth alongside the other four (Yogg, N’zoth, C’thun and Y’shaarj). Chronicles vol 1 never says how many landed exactly. Just how many the Titans ended up encountering during their conflict over Azeroth.
hard to take the story seriously when they keep digging up old plot points to ruin
I guess is looks more like y’shaarj. Y’know with “goat with seven eyes” stuff.
Yup, Ghunn is created by the Titans for experimentation and not one of the 5 Old Gods of Azeroth.
Y’shaarj has been described as a being with 7 heads and we know what he looked like before he, you know, got killed. Hearthstone has art showing him in his full glory and yes it is Hearthstone, but N’zoth’s true form was seen first in Hearthstone and his model in WoW is based off that. So based on that, one can say that the art depicting Y’shaarj in Hearthstone is what he would’ve looked it in the lore. Before being reduced down to a heart anyway.
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Which is what the next three expansions will be doing. 
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Except it has 10 eyes 
An implied 11th eye may be behind the metal structure at the bottom of the figure. Presuming bilateral symmetry.
Which is a big presumption with these things…