We had a lot of retcons and such things like that, but we never, ever had something so massive in-game like this be shifted to something else.
They would have to rework 30% of the quests/lore in hallowfall for this to be the tip of the sword. Plus the model of Beledar itself, because its design is not like the sword design. Plus the map.
You are literally “But who said that apples can’t cure cancer? We have no proof!” kinda guy. Nope.
I thought the same but people say it’s not. It was a falling star, the NPC say. So yeah, the sword couldn’t have looked like a falling star with that gigantic monster attached to it. Must be something else.
Why thank you, I’ve been playing for a very, very long time. Off and on, but I’ve played every expansion at least. The only helms that match it are armet of the rotten mind and myrmidons headdress. Maybe one day they will add a helmet for it that actually goes with the judgement set, but I highly doubt it.
It has nothing to do with geography. If it was geographically impossible for the tip of the sword to be there, Anduin wouldn’t have said “The sword was aimed at something”.
The map we have pretends that this underground world is flat and exists only on two axis. But that’s just representative. Even still, the surface of Azeroth isn’t flat. Scale is very fluid in this game and we can’t even reliably do any kind of math to determine if a linear sword of any size wouldn’t be able to penetrate to Hallofall from Silithus, nor are we certain of the orientation of Hallowfall’s caverns ceiling. Up is not necessarily up and down is not necessarily down.
Like, two generations at most in a technical sense. Faerin was a child when the expedition left, and theyve only “had Beledar in their lives” for a few decades at most but talk (and maybe rightfully so given its affect in plant life) like its been there and relatively understood enough to base whole sayings and euphemisms around it and in a few years time around the shifting, too.
I just hope when we eventually see and hear non-Beledarian/Hallowfall, pre-Imperial Expedition Arathi who don’t say a damn thing about Beledar in their voice files. Gonna be annoying if the entirety of the Arathi Empire reference and speak of Beledar wherever they are experienced when they themselves have less experience with the thing than we do.