Algalon questions whether all those murdered people could have resisted the same way the people of Azeroth did. The Titans never even gave them consideration before wiping them out.
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Coming across a world that had been completely infected by monstrous aberrations known as Old Gods, the titan ruthlessly interrogated a conclave of nathrezim demons who dwelled on the black world. From them, Sargeras learned that the void lords had sent the Old Gods out into the cosmos to infect any worlds that housed titan world-souls, and if they succeeded, the world-soul would be twisted into an unspeakably dark creature that not even the Pantheon could stand against: a Dark Titan. Enraged at this discovery, Sargeras cleaved the planet in two, instantly killing the nascent titan it housed. He then immediately returned to the rest of the Pantheon to tell of his discovery, but they chastised him for his rash action, insisting that they might have been able to purge the world-soul of its corruption without killing it. Sargeras tried to convince the other titans that what he had done was right, and that the universe needed to be purged of life - which, in his mind, could have been already corrupted by the void lords - in order to prevent the risk of a world-soul becoming corrupted and opening the way for the void lords (in his mind, even a lifeless universe was better than one dominated by the Void, for he argued that if life had once taken root in the Great Dark on its own, perhaps it would do so again). Eventually realizing that the others would never see things the way he did, Sargeras stormed off, and never returned.
Technically, he still fights against the Void/Old Gods, he just goes about it in a way that makes him a villain to us and the other Titans. Hence why he leads the Burning Legion and wanted to destroy Azeroth still.
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Of course they didnât.
If the zombie apocalypse is starting right in front of you, you donât stop to ask if the zombies have feelings. You kill them before they kill everyone else.
It doesnât feel nice, but itâs objectively the right choice when all life in the universe is at stake. If any one of the Old Gods had succeeded, the void would have consumed all that is, was, or will be.
The slight chance that the denizens of Azeroth could stop them, despite most of those denizens being their own creation, was not statistically probable enough to be worth planning around.
The Titanâs decisions effect the cosmos on a scale that they simply do not have the option to consider the humane solution over the practical one.
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Similar to gods of destruction in Dragonball Super.
Their purpose in the grand scheme is to âdestroy old planets to make way for new onesâ and people insist this means they are inherently morally neutral despite how many deaths this causes. Thing is, they are clearly capable of shirking their duties and wielding their stations improperly. Beerus blows up eight and a half (it makes sense in context) planets after waking up from a decades long nap for no real reason other than boredom or simply not liking their food.
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the titans have a conspiracy going on according to chris metzen
Iâm trying to get to the bottom of whether Titans have free will. I have no doubt they serve order and fight the void, but I think they have different opinions and ideas on how to go about it, which I think points to them having some degree of free will.
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The story that annoys me the most is the â1000 years warâ where they go through some time travel/time dilation crap so they fought for 1000 years in like a 30 year span. Fiction requires a lot of suspension of disbelief, and that stuff is one of the things that breaks it for me.
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yeah that was when i checked out of the lore completely. i had a bad feeling right then and there they were gonna do my girl dirty.
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Weâre gonna kill all the titans in a raid!
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Doesnât mean the Titans still arenât the good ones.
For example looking at Helldivers 2 (could also use 40k) Super Earth is Evil by our standards. However they are the least evil option.
Automotons chop you up and forcefully make you cyborgs.
Illuminate transform you into mindless zombies.
The Terminids just eat you.
Super Earth IS the best choice. Same could be the case with the Titans when you compare them to the other cosmic forces.
I donât think it can, the Titans will kill us when the time is most opportune for them, theyâre just using us to further their interests first
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We know the titans believe that. Itâs never happened, so itâs entirely unclear whether that is true. A void-corrupted Argus could end existence? Sure I buy that, since he could do it anyway. A void-corrupted third party? Maybe, but nobody can say.
Murdering trillions of people isnât good though.
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Im unfamiliar with that plot.
So has all of the other forces of the cosmos. Titans seem the least worse of them all.
Only those who donât serve their interests. As with every other cosmic force.
Order seems to be the least evil of the other cosmic forces. The Light will forcefully forge you into a single minded creature. Chaos is well the Burning Legion. Void is full of possibilities but you will probably just be sacrificed for the Void Lords. etc
Order seems the best for us.
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From what weâve seen, any of them winning is basically game over for us. Life and Order might not want us obliterated, but being overrun with something like the Genesaur and kept alive but helpless isnât good, and being turned into automata like the Titans wanted is no good for us either. None of the cosmic forces as a whole want to help mortals.
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True. I see it as them going against their nature. It comes across a lot like the scorpion and the rabbit.
They can resist or circumvent their nature for a time but it eventually asserts itself.
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Least worst is not good.
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Least worst is still the best out of the other choices. Iâd throw my lot in with the Titans over the other 5 cosmic forces.
Odin or however itâs spelled in wow. Would be he titan to decide how much free will they have. He seems to be the titan tasked with attempting to bring order to the shadow lands. He is nabbing souls something no other titan is shown doing.