It doesn’t really make much sense. I’m playing through the campaign and where exactly is it going? I know how it goes and ends but, midway they say they’re fighting for Azeroth when they go up against Sylvanas. I mean, are you fighting for the Honor of the Horde or saving Azeroth from a big bad? It’s so confusing it makes me feel uncomfortable.
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Sylvanas/Nathanos made a bargain with Azshara and gave her the now-empty Xal’atath dagger (which I still don’t understand but not doing the Naj campaign again to find out). Then Azshara tee hee had us release N’zoth (to… kill him maybe? unclear, the patch cinematic had her taunting him and the HOA unlocked his prison during the fight). Then Azeroth had a legit problem loose at the same time as Sylvanas getting stupider and stupider.
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Yeah, I’m struggling to figure out how the story works.
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It was weird lore.
It began with last time on Dragonball Z we beat the space devil, but he stabbed the planet and we cracked open some cold ones. Then the goblins brought some magic rocks to Sylvannas which may or may not have been around for some time (lore is a lil murky with that), and then the alliance found out about the magic rocks. Sylvannas (who was working for the Jailer) decides to start WW4 over the magic rocks but mostly for SL stuff and burns down the night elves’ tree. Comedy ensues.
Meanwhile while all this is happening, the collective playerbase is doing the gta here we go again meme. Sylvannas does shady stuff and makes a deal with Azshara to get Xalatath’s old mobile home to probably (guessing here) kill N’Zoth probably so N’Zoth doesn’t eat the planet before the Jailer does. Because Azshara does say in the nyalotha raid that she planned to play prison shankers with N’Zoth. The rest of the Horde/the planet doesn’t know about this for the most part so there is a collective “ayo tf” and horde civil war 2 happens and ends in about 10 minutes. Sylvannas peaces out, and we laser N’Zoth.
And somewhere in the world Ron Burgundy is saying
That Escalated Quickly
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That about sums it up.
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Don’t look out your window if the game makes you uncomfortable because you don’t understand how it works. 
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I’m not sure how to respond to that.
It’s a big confusing world outside your window. Don’t try to tackle it if you’re hard stuck on BFA storylines is my point. 
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this is a great thread. omg help big draenei posting.
Essentially ‘the gathering’, Teldrassil, undercity events lead to a pretty hostile relationship between the Alliance and Horde leading to a fight between them in which the Alliance basically comes out unscathed. Zandalari king dies but we got talanji now and she rocks.
The people of Stormsong have been influenced by their king who has been listening to the ‘voice’ from the oceans aka N’zoth proxy through Azshara.
Horde and Allianxe set aside their differences for the 69th time and beat Azshara and then N’zoth.
I understand now, thank you for clearing that up.
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i see what you did there.
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Teldrassil would like a word with you.
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Ikr
/10 char
I included that as a precursor to the war, not the war outcome.
I do think the Horde backyard bbq went a little too hard.
It was dark and Dumb timeline that should know happen but all Blame on Alex when he tries to take Sylvanas with him be villain… Would been fine if she die but meh
We may deal with shadowland but in end it beind us now.
it is lol
Basically Horde players (and yes that is canonical) aided Xal’atath in collecting three relics of power. Xal’atath then gave these to N’zoth and the PC in exchange for her freedom. During this questline is was also able to inhabit the corpse of a high elf although she was still bound to the blade. N’zoth upheld his end of the bargain and let her go, on the condition that the blade stayed with him.
Later Horde players do the Crucible of the Storm raid and retrieve the dagger after killing Uu’nat. When alliance players do the raid they find the dagger missing. Horde players give the blade to Nathanos.
When horde players broke Lady Ashvane out of Tol Dagor, Sylvanas wanted to speak with her. It is during this time that Ashvane, whom was working for Azshara the whole time (I give you azerite weapons and you help me overtake Kul Tiras), introduces the Naga Queen to Sylvanas. The two make a bargain where Nathanos will head to Nazjatar and give the empty blade to Azshara. Azshara in exchange will kill off anyone Sylvanas deemed a threat. Including members of the Horde. Such as Lor’themar and Thalyssra. N’zoth shows us a vision of this bargain taking place in his encounter.
Nathanos lures the Alliance fleet to Nazjatar as Azshara uses the Tidestone from Legion to part the oceans.
Azshara was hoping to free N’zoth by using the Heart of Azeroth to overload the console controlling the locks that kept N’zoth bound. Afterwards she planned on destroying the power nodes that kept the pressure shield up. Thereby killing us in the process. With us dead, she would swim down to N’zoth and stab him with the dagger. Hoping it would either kill or imprison him. Allowing her to fill a power vacuum and become the true ruler of the Black Empire. However a pesky human mage and a nightborne mage managed to reverse engineer Azshara’s anti-teleportion spell and bound her within the pressure bubble when she decided to come in because she was bored.
No seriously, phase 2 happens because Azshara was bored. She was only messing with us during phase 2. Phase 3 is when she was like, “okay that was fun, time to get on with my plan” then the beginning of phase 4 is her overloading the console. However because of Jaina and Thalyssra, it was now a fight to the death. Hence why Azshara takes the fight seriously in phase 4.
Although we knock her unconscious, Azshara was successful in releasing N’zoth. The Old God saved his “faithful” servant by bringing her to Ny’alotha. Only to discover that she had the empty blade of the black empire and realized she was planning on using it against him. Hence why Azshara is being tortured by Xanesh in Ny’alotha.
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The only thing I really remember about BFA was the azerite “meme beam” necklace power was the coolest button the game has ever had.
When Tinker happens it better come with a channeled flamethrower.
The outside world is easy to deal with if you blindly follow the oversimplified ideology* of some charismatic public figure where problems are stripped of their nuances and watered down to fit in a soundbite and solutions are simple enough to communicate with a catchy slogan.
* Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong. - H L Mencken
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