So here is the following lore beats from the Dragonflight Developer Roundtable with Ion Hazzikostas and Steve Danuser Liveblog that was hosted on Twitter Spaces.
The Dracthyr have been asleep for a very long time, with the direct experience being their awakening and seeking to discover the fate of their leader Neltharion. Many of the other dragons didn’t know about about them, including Alexstrasza.
The Forbidden Reach isn’t just restricted to being the Dracthyr starting zone. They can and will be visited afterwards during Dragonflight.
The expansion is primarily focused on dragons, their goals and the threats they face.
9.2.5 is returning us to Tirisfal Glades, allowing us to get an update on the Forsaken and catch up with Calia Menethil, and more.
** The more was not elaborated upon, I suspect Forsaken heritage armor.
Alexstrasza will comment on the Deathlord’s action in regards to their invasion of the Ruby Sanctum.
They promise that Exploring Azeroth: Northrend will have alot of cool stuff.
** I take it to mean that the book will actually have updates over the in-game timeline issue with the Kalimdor book.
So far I’m intrigued about where the next espansion is taking us. I really love anything related to Dragon Aspects and their Flights. Can’t wait to get new information.
*I’ll spam it until I get an answer on the matter… When am I getting a Night Elf Visage for my Green Dracthyr? and if I’m not getting that option then why?
You come into a mystery, awakening after being in stasis for a long time. Stasis has wreaked havoc on your memory, so all that you know is that you are in a barrack, with friends that are in trouble.
You help awaken your friends and then try to figure out what has been happening, what caused this.
You realize that you’ve been asleep for a very long time.
It’s a journey of discovery, figuring out what happened to you and Neltharion.
Hype is a strange feeling, but the idea of this race having collective amnesia is kind of fascinating. A ten thousand year old nap will do that to you, I suppose.
Also kind of tragic, what with the whole Neltharion thing. Genuinely interesting to see where this race goes.
They have a genuinely interesting setup and a lot of potential, but I worry their story will just stall out and then sit in stasis forever like pretty much every other playable race.
They went into that a little. I don’t have the exact quote, and wowhead seemingly didn’t put this in their summary.
They spoke about how Neltharion combined the best stuff from all the dragonflights, and that he did the same thing for the Dracthyrs visage form, taking from the mortal races around at the time(Kaldorei, Troll, others) to form what we see. So the implication seems to be they cannot do what the actual dragons can, and be any race, they can only be this mix that Neltharion created for them.
At least that is what I took from it. They are not suppose to be male blood elf/female human. They are this mix.
The Lordaeron shield from the Lords of Dread really hyped me for some Lordaeron lore - which is tantamount to Forsaken lore. Hopefully.
Would Blizz have the Forsaken double down on their holdings in Lordaeron? Or would the Forsaken take on a more transient ethos and leave the past behind? They lost their capital, but they didn’t get a whole zone in the afterlife dedicated to their renewal to wrap it up.
I actually started playing a Forsaken Warrior recently, to wear the Lordaeron shield. It sounds like good timing- he can participate in the post Sylvanas Forsaken society. I wonder if they will lean into the Lordaeron identity. I suppose one way to make people like Calia is to make her fight for Lordaeron, the Forsaken, and the Horde - in her way. If she turns into the Queen of Lordaeron she was meant to be (gets a revamp).
I do wonder what memory would they have lost?
Not sure about the timeframe…
But I can’t see anything important happening before they were put into stasis.
I would just like to point out that this is the 3rd or 4th time they have talked about 9.2.5 updates and not mentioned a word about the Night Elves or the Alliance.
I am beginning to think that datamined tear/seed will just be in the encrypted cinematic and that’s literally all we are getting alliance side, a single cinematic with no real updates, resolutions, or you know… content.
I will still say, It will take a miracles worth or writing skill to make Calia a desirable leader for the Forsaken in a single patch worth or quests.
She started this expansion wondering if she could get help finding her own purpose in the Shadowlands, and then Blizz chucked her off to the side for the rest of the story. She has still had very little effective build up in-game (and even out-of-game is kind of meh) where she should have been a major character to give time to for this kind of outcome.
It’s that’s where they’re going with this, then the night elves being gifted a new world tree is a pretty big update on their future as a race. We’ll know the form their “renewal” is going to take at least. What else were you expecting? A soul-by-soul update on Sylvanas’ community service in the Maw?
The Forsaken have had no development whatsoever since their blowout losses in BfA and Sylvanas abandoning them. Their future as a race is in far more dire need of elaboration.
Actual content? You know like what has been actually datamined and talked about, by devs multiople times, for the Forsaken and Eastern Kingdoms. None of which has been datamined or mentioned even once by developers for the Alliance.
But sure yea; I guess you are right, that is too much to ask for right? /s
Well, I sincerely hope the Winter Queen granting Tyrande a new world tree for the night elves is Alliance-only content. I’m as tired of Tyrande as most Alliance players were of Saurfang.
Yeah it is strange, the blood elves are getting a second heritage armor quest, meanwhile they can’t even give a resolution to a player race genocide like 2 expansions later. I’m tired of this just being something they keep ignoring and sweeping under the rug, it doesn’t make it any better.
That’s the thing, the only thing that has been datamined or talked about on the Alliance side is a single cutscene. No content to speak of. No updated maps or quests. That’s what I am saying. It looks like the Horde is getting updated zones and quests with a cutscene, while the Alliance is getting a cutscene with maybe a go talk to this person to start cutscene quest, and that’s it.
At the very least I figure that Voss should be involved since she is the current Forsaken leader… which I really want to know how that happened. I like to think the other Forsaken recognized that she had bonded with Rexxar, who is friends with other leaders like Thrall, Rokhan, Gazlowe, and Baine, and thought that she would be the best fit to represent them and help illustrate their bond with the Horde. It also helps that Voss wants to be a temporary leader, so any of them who might seek the chair are content to wait, while they gather support.
So I can’t really see 9.2.5 being the moment in which Voss steps down and Calia steps up. If anything I could see Voss noticing that the Forsaken are splintering, in a sense, by supporting various characters to be the permanent leader, and the 9.2.5 being about Voss and Calia helping the Forsaken come together. This would allow them to further seed the concept of Calia becoming the new Forsaken leader, while showing how Calia earned it over Voss just giving her the seat. Granted it might not come off well but at least it would be something over seeing the likes of Belmont and Velonara just suddenly being chill serving under Calia.