I thought with three expansions all announced at once and us having a very rough outline, it would be fun to have a thread where we all post our craziest predictions on what will happen.
I’ll start: Anduin will get a GF and that GF will be Azeroth’s World Soul
Well, Metzen mentioned/teased that during the storyline of Midnight “things might not go as planned” which would lead into The Last Titan.
Personally, I’m seeing big red flags for an impending character death. At this point, I’d say Thrall getting killed would be the most impactful and shocking thing that could happen with the main hero roster.
Alternatively, we’d had the whole idea/thread of Alternate Draenor and Yrel’s faction of Draenei floating in the background for YEARS at this point. I could potentially see them somehow getting involved with our timeline and being the biggest threat against The Void, but at the same time I could see them also being a catalyst for “things not going as planned” in some manner.
In short: Yrel and company could wind up being Scarlet Crusade 2.0 and see everyone that is NOT part of their group as a threat, especially if the catalyst for their arrival is Alternate Draenor finally becoming a dead husk of a world and them realizing they can escape to Azeroth.
Xalatath is after her old-god pre-dagger body, which lays dormant deep beneath the surface.
The way down is blocked by something, perhapse the subterranean Arathi Kingdom. So she recruited the Nerubians, but it’s taking too long. She’s dialed up the wildcard: Reaching out to the heroes above, disguised as Azeroth. Trusting that our presence will provide sufficient mayhem for her to finally reach her goal.
Only to find that her dormant body has been destroyed by Sergaras’s sword. Plan B: Possess the body of Azeroth.
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Crazy predictions? The ‘tribes’ of Elves will stop sniping at one another and get along well enough to actually be effective.
That’s right. NON-DRAMATIC ELVES.
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I don’t think this is particularly crazy but Kith’ix will be involved in Midnight since he’s under Zul’Aman
The War Within
11.1 will add allied race Nerubians after a very lengthy Suramar-esque campaign in 11.0. After the raid, we will have Xal’atath on the ropes and just when we’re about to close in, another problem arises.
The massive titan machinery said to be in the Ringing Deeps zone will be activated to disastrous effect, like potentially obliterate the underground levels, and the Machine Speaker Dwarves won’t be sure initially who set it off. Alleria is too fixated on catching Xal’atath to care about this right now, and sets off on hunting her on her own.
Turns out, it’s Odyn or Tyr. Most likely the former who legitimately believes that it’s better that Xal’atath do whatever it is she’s planning than allow mortalkind to learn the truths about Azeroth’s world soul. This angers the Dragon Aspects who step away from their search for Iridikrond to ensure that Watcher interference will stay a minimum for the rest of the expac.
11.2 Xal’atath baits Alleria to Hallowfall. Between the two of them, and with the power of Xal’atath’s MacGuffin, they have the void juice to corrupt the big light crystal embedded into the cavern’s roof. This taint risks spreading to the World Soul and corrupting it directly. In a 4D chess plan moment, Xal’atath is going to claim that Alleria was her “true prize all along” as she captures her with not shortage of homoeroticism, leaving everyone with a difficult choice.
Go after Alleria or focus on purifying the underground? This decision actually divides the cast of characters, but ultimately they decide to leave Alleria to her fate, whereas some are very unhappy with this decision, such as Turalyon. The playable nerubians prove their worth here as they’re experts at counteracting Xal’atath’s specific brand of void magic by this point.
The world soul is saved and the inhabitants of the Underground can breathe a sigh of relief for all of five minutes.
Midnight
While everyone’s handling this, Xal’atath uses the Galakrond MacGuffin to completely consume the essence of the Sunwell. She then slamdunks Alleria into it to create a conduit that will be capable of summoning the Void Lords, but this process will take time. The Eastern Kingdoms, or at least, the northern EK is darkened as a whole.
The Titan Keepers want to immediately go scorched earth policy on this one, but the Elves are unwilling to see Quel’thalas totally destroyed. It’s the Dragonflights who once again hold the line against Titanic-aligned forces so that mortals can do their thing.
Despite the unification of the Alliance and Horde in this conflict, despite Quel’thalas being highly familiar territory to both factions, it’s basically the Void’s equivalent to Legion and its the hardest conflict we’ve ever had to face against it. It’ll be like trying to dive into a blackhole that’s pushing against us rather than pulling us in.
Playable Ethereals arrive, being led by Locus-Walker who has an agenda of his own. Very few people trust them, but they placed their faith in the VE and Nerubians, so…
Characters will die. Zul’aman will become a whole subzone where Trollkind’s complicated relationship with the elves will be addressed. Silvermoon will be the first major raid with Isle of Quel’danas will follow up. But Azshara will keep anyone from approaching the Isle from either land or sea.
It’s hard to guess what exactly happens. We might get a glimpse of what the void itself actually looks like, but we won’t dive into it Argus style. Instead we’re going to reverse the polarity of Xal’atath’s years-long summoning spell. We’re going to detonate the Void and the Void Lords much like how Illidan blew up Nathreza, or Ner’zhul tore apart Outland.
When Chris Metzen says we’re banishing the shadow forever, he means that we’re going to make sure that they do not want to come back. Ever.
But there’s a cost for this, not only will characters die. But the sheer power of the magic involved Cataclysm 2.0’s the world, (which will lead to a modern revamp). And the sheer reality-warping nature of the blast is enough to cause Azeroth’s World Soul to finally begin to wake up for real, and for the Titans up at the Seat of the Pantheon to notice.
And they are not happy.
The Last Titan
The Titans are not crazy enough to leave Sargeras by himself, so what they’re sending to Azeroth are their Avatars. Illidan, in a rare moment of actually caring about something that’s not the Legion, sends a message warning us about their sudden shift in priorities.
Odyn and Tyr basically rat us and the Dragon Aspects out. What results from the Titans presence is a world-wide reboot of all the titan facilities to reroute their power to Ulduar. Titan forces engage in a cold and hostile takeover of the entire continent.
But there’s a problem, the Storm Peaks are too well-defended to even remotely get close. We need an alternative route to get in so that we can beseech (attack) the Titan Avatars.
The only route available is to delve into Azjol-Nerub and find a way to breach into the surface, so we kind of have this Nerubian book-end to the saga. Somewhere in the deeps, though, lies the last laugh of the Black Empire. A secret weapon of some sort that can be used against the Avatars of the Titans. The Iridikrond storyline finally comes full circle here because he’s after the same thing and we put him down for good in the Dragonblight.
Whatever the conspiracy is, we’re forced to take some of their Avatars and the Titan Keepers out. Not all of them, Aggramar and Eonar might be chill. Aman’thul cannot be chill about it, however, and he breaks the containment at the Seat of the Titans so that he can show up in the flesh and is about to blitz the world with time magic.
Azeroth manifests, grabs the sword from Silithus and strikes Aman’thul down like the vindictive Mother Earth that she is. The Pantheon is suddenly under new management, but there’s one distinct cost.
In that moment of Aman’thul’s destruction, Sargeras escapes out into the Great Dark Beyond. Illidan has never been angrier in his entire life and he leaves us plenty of heated voicemails about it.
Azeroth wants to pursue him alongside the rest of surviving Pantheon, but first she blesses the Children of Azeroth, for having fought on her behalf time and time again. She reluctantly leaves, but not before ensuring that the world will keep turning and thriving without her there.
Roll credits.
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The Titans used pre-Order magic to get a 3 Million Year early access head start on the rest of us.
We don’t know a lot about the ‘First Ones’ identities because they’re still under investigation by a committee deliberating if they abused any bugs that would be considered being against the spirit of the ToS.
A mysterious cult embeds themselves amongst the heal-care systems throughout Azeroth, and have been lobbying to nerf tanks to make sure groups know who wears the pants in the dungeon. And though not everyone involved is privy to true ambitions of the group, through their actions we start to uncover that they’re goal is to enslave the population to be used for medical experimentation to create a potion of immortality and to make their… ummm…ears grow larger, to attract a mate by showing what a good listener they are. And to accelerate their medical experiments, they convince the populations that they are in danger of catching a super deadly disease called 'covoid21’; so that ends up turning into a whole thing once people start asking some unrelated questions by accident, but accidentally uncover an unending number of cartoon-villain plots of unimaginable scale and complexity that many people have trouble accepting as the truth of it all, which culminates in an increasing amount of unsustainable tension as well as constantly shifting sides among allies/enemies upon the realizations of certain information which makes them start questioning if maybe these cultists (who have now been elevated to infallible god-like saviors) might not have their best interests in mind; so as they start taking inventory of all the questionable things- that when all added up together with 20/20 hindsight- end up being creating some possible areas of friction
Maybe Illidan visits and we do a small quest chain with one of the quest titles being called something like ‘No seriously, you guys have no idea how unprepared you truly are, there’s really quite a bit going on that I’m still finding out about as well.’. Maiev is absolutely floored by how great it is that there’s a never-ending hunt for unknown entities of horror that make Illidan’s crimes seem rather tame; she couldn’t be happier about the new discoveries of unfathomable evils.
The main storyline(s) will consist of a rather lengthy achievement(think Suramar, but considerably longer) called ‘It’s All So Tiering’, which upon completion rewards the player with the Title ‘______ the Sleepy’. that allows us to ease into the next trilogy featuring The Emerald Dream.
But that’s all subject to how the real story; afterall, a story’s only good as the storyteller allows it to be, and I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking there’s only one person who’s right for that job. So yeah, I’m sure we can expect Toddy Whiskers to be a pretty big character to help us navigate through these difficult times, and you know what that means; yep, it’s going to be another Alliance fueled saga to no one’s surprise.
The crystal in Hallowfell is an ancient Naruu. Maybe. 
Anveena returns.
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WoW Midnight: We go back to presundered Azeroth, the Black Empire, and mess up A’man Thul’s grand plan, which just pisses him off.
On the gameplay side of it, the old world isn’t built to hamfist in dynamic flight zones. With dynamic flight, you’ll fly from one end of EPL to the other in 3 seconds. Unless the whole Eastern Kingdoms is rebuilt from the ground up, those zones cannot support an expansion.
In addition, updating old zones leave very little room for creative freedom, something I’m sure they don’t want to lock their artists into.
Sunwell and Ulduar are likely pre-patches or bridges to another major zone.
The main problem is that there are so few Horde characters left. I think they are mostly using Thrall because of a lack of better alternates in the fist place.
I think killing Thrall makes a Sylvanas return almost a certainty.
<Gasp!>
Shocking!
I know, Crazy right?
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I have a crazy idea…
The final boss of The War Within is Xal’atath and during the fight, there’s a load voice that goes “Enough.” We turn and standing before is Big Kinook, who reveals that every soup we made had made him stronger and faster and that now that Xal’atath was weakened, the hour of his ascension was at hand.
Before we can react, he opens a void portal and drags Xal’atath through it. He then ventures to the Sunwell and combines Xal’atath and the Sunwell itself to create a Void Soup, that the Void travels through. As the void ravages Quel’thalas, Big Kinook mutates into a ferocious void creature and is determined to turn us into soup and devour us to gain our strength.
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The Vulpera, having long prophesied the day of Midnight, are prepared: having built a flotilla of space ships, they leave Azeroth and become space nomads, exploring strange new worlds, and helping a scantily-clad exiled Ethereal princess reclaim her empire.
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I predict that we’re going to learn about someone who, through a long line of retroactive storytelling, is behind most every inciting action in the Warcraft world, and that all of his schemes have been leading to a grand plan.
And then once we defeat him, he’s going to reveal that all of his schemes were actually to unite everyone to save us from something bigger and badder than him.
War Within predictions
- Playable Kobolds added in a patch
- Deep Kobold lore, expanding on candles pushing away the void, like we see in Legion
- Xal’atath and Iridikron survive
- The entire expansion is mostly a diversion while they prepare to initiate a Light vs Void war on Azeroth in order to attract the Titans.
- Playable Nerubians
Midnight predictions
- Zul’jin returns (may or may not become a Loa, like Vol’jin)
- Playable Amani in a patch
- Ula-tek makes a canon debut
- We defend the Sunwell, but make enough noise for the Titans to return, just as Iridikron plans
- Dimensius the All-Devourer as a raid boss
- Possibly get Ethereals playable
- Void class
- Azshara returns
The Last Titan predictions
- Tyr and Odyn will be raid bosses
- King Ymiron will return and want revenge on Odyn (and possibly us)
- Playable Vrykul
- Nerubian zone (possibly a patch)
- Sargeras is free
- Orderbound Illidan
- Iridikron
- Aman’thul final boss
- Zereth Ordus (and more details on the First Ones)
- Chaos as a cosmic force is revealed
Then we have to work alongside Nomi to spoil the soup.
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That would be Sad. Didn’t he cured Azeroth from Old Gods infestation? So actual life could begin there.
I cannot say that I am fan of this direction. Titans aren’t perfect but if it wouldn’t be for them there wouldn’t be Azeroth we know now.
Well, if you mean curing by ripping Y’Saarj out of Azeroth and nearly killed the planet via bleedout, than sure, he cured Azeroth.
He initially did more damage than good