I want the dragons to stay as well. Deathwing’s death shouldn’t have cost then their powers either. Now they are all weakened and in lower numbers than they ever were.
4 hours later and I’m waiting too.
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6 hours later, and I’m not waiting. I have pancakes coming soon. I have more important things to wait for.
I’ll worry about the dragons going extinct when they stop living for umpteen thousand years. Rendering them infertile loses its stakes when they’re effectively quasi-immortal, we still have thousands of whelps fluttering around and even more unhatched eggs.
It’s like Wrathion being the last of the Black Dragonflight…
Except for that guy over there…
That other guy on that other world…
Those pre-born dragons over in the corner…
Maybe some others hiding around the back…
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Every single story touched by dragons becomes worse for it. Good riddance. Let me kill some more to speed up the process.
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I wouldn’t worry too much about population numbers. Blizz sure doesn’t, until it’s time to beat the melodrama drum because “Forsooth we are but the last gasp of a dying race” sure is a cheap way to do that.
The Sin’Dorei had 90% of their race wiped out over like a weekend, then continued to fight in every major conflict, and there’s still enough of them that a fringe break off cult is numerous enough to be an allied race.
So either Quel’Thalas had the population of about two and a half Asias and the staggering scale of the Scourge’s terror is too horrific to depict, or populations don’t really matter.
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Wrathion never said he was the last one period. Just he was the last one to his knowledge. He didn’t know about Ebonhorn until much later.
** Wrathion says: It is done, friend. To my knowledge, I am the only black dragon who remains.**
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Patricide
To be fair to lore, it doesnt take much time to write “Danuser dragons wow” or something like that.
They hinted in a 83 interview he was gonna be involved probably but beyond that who knows.
Because the Aspects channeled all of their power into the Dragon Soul in order to finish off Deathwing. And included in those powers was apparently their flights’ ability to reproduce.
But yes, that’s a ****ty plot contrivance that they never should have written.
That said, all the Aspects must die. 3 are already dead. One more is already fated to die. Only Alexstraza remains…
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Given the recent story hooks put out in Legion and BFA it feels as though Wrathion is up to something as he is apparently seeking the Dragon Isles.What this means exactly I don’t know but more than likely he wants to accomplish something their that could aid the dragonflights.Wouldn’t be surprised if we were headed there once we literally kill death itself some how.
Welcome to Blizzard writing in a nutshell.
Daily reminder that another fantasy universe, DragonLance (which Richard Knaak wrote novels for) also had an “Age of Mortals” that took away the entire Divine pantheon, organized magic, entire nations, and threw everything about the Dragon flights into the recycle bin (literally, the “dragon tyrants” cannibalized all the dragons they could find). It was so badly received that TR or Wizards rescinded it before the setting got canned.
Then again, Wizards doesn’t writes books for D&D anymore because Hasbro is one of the greediest companies in the world. Breaking even to draw in more fans wasn’t good enough I guess.
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They never retconned it. The Chronicle books were a general guide. There were alot of details that were not in game/ingame but not discussed in the book!
This is not what the age of mortals means. The age of mortals as far as WoW is concerned is that it is the mortals that will now decided the fate of the universe. Hell, we actually got the Titans back even though they were all killed/before we didn’t know what happened to them.
There was no such interview. You can blame Blizzard for alot of things that slip the cracks here and there, but the whole dragons losing their ability to have kids is not one of them and it was even an important plot point in Legion.
Yes there was, it was between Ion and Jesse Cox with WoW Crendor.
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Proof? Again, last we checked on the dragons in BFA/Legion they still could not have new whelps and it was an entire deal about how Senegos last brood was something we needed to save.
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That was literally the intent of DragonLance’s “Age of Mortals.” That’s exacting what was stated in the end of the opening novel. Mortals would decide their own fate. Obviously the technicalities are different, because being tit for tat would be a copy write infringement. It was so badly received that the setting authors (Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman) came back to write a new trilogy undoing it.
Honey, “throwing out established lore because keeping track of basic things like Sylvanas’ internal monologue” isn’t something small slipping through the cracks, its called not having an editor or listening to the nerds who you keep on salary just to keep track of lore.
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I have never read dragonlance but it is clearly WoW has done it different. We didn’t lose magic or dragon or anything in particular with the age of mortals. The only difference now is the mortals are the ones that can affect the greatest change. And now that the dragons are mortal as well they have the capacity to make monumental changes to the world as well.
Right now the problems with Sylvanas and whatever she wants/what her true internal monologue is that no one really knows. 9.1 patch is just a week or so away, by then we will see if Blizzard will actually managed to stitch something coherent with regards to everything Sylvanas has done since Edge of Night or not.
Clearly. Otherwise you’d see the obvious comparisons.
Neither did DragonLance. It got more rare, because the new setting was all about Mortals now. Honestly, the entire concept of an “age of mortals” screams of human insecurity.
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Would you mind providing a link then? You said you would ages ago and we are still waiting. Burdon of proof is on you.
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I don’t have time right now to check if the interview actually says what Lore says it does, but I think this is the interview he was referring to:
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Whcih leads me to the point. An “age of mortals” thing can be done in a good way or least not in a way that follow whatever Dragonlance did.
We literally have deal with Dragons in ever expansion post Cata sans WoD. The whole dragons no longer being to give birth is just a problem that will likely have a solution in the future.
Also, the age of mortal feels more like an attempt to show case human determination. That we will keep moving forward even if we know we are all gonna die and keep trying to change the world while we are at it.
That still does not make sense because even by BFA dragons still can’t give birth. Which mean this retcon was either retcon again or is being misinterpreted.
But when it was referenced - By Alexstrasza, that’s not what it meant at the time. Their duty was to Azeroth & Azeroth alone, not ‘The universe’.
Alexstrasza had also stated it, because their battle with Deathwing & infusing the Dragonsoul removed the titan-power once bestowed to them - which had also blessed forth to their entire flight. After the battle they were reduced to mortals, and additionally rendered much of their once-great power.
The thing is, their duty may have just been to Azeroth, but ultimately from what we have learned Azeroth is pretty much the center of the universe and its destiny is going to be important for the universe.
Also, Dawn of the Aspects more or less was the rebuttal for the lost of power. So what if they lost their power? Every mortal race on Azeroth has lost something important to them and yet they keep moving forward. Dawn of the Dragon basically got the Dragon Aspects to get off their behind and keep helping Azeroth, even without most of their original power!