So something I’ve always found interesting is if you talk to Chromie, for each individual Timewalking raid we’re assigned a quest. Chromie’s concern gets progressively worse with each timewalking raid we head into. She implies that someone in particular is messing around with the timestreams, and they’re getting more skilled each time they do it. Hence why they’re steadily progressing through expansions, gathering / searching for something. Plus if I recall we don’t ever exactly find out who tried to assassinate Chromie; aka, the individual who is really noticing this villain’s antics in detail. Here’s some references to the quests in particular.
I mean don’t get me wrong I don’t dislike the idea of the infinite dragonflight being the big bad. My issue would he that historically speaking (wod) time travel shenanigans has not been the writing teams strong point. This isn’t entirely a failure on their behalf it’s a hard subject to write good story with it.
Well going by current people that we know can time travel it’s either bronze insurgents turned into the infinite dragonflight or Aman’thul. It’s more likely that it is someone we haven’t met though.
I could see Aman’thul entirely as well tho. Blizz has always been subtly pushing the titans bad narrative and amanthul is the leader and the one who can time travel.
The reason why I think it may not be Nozdormu is because we stop him at end time-- so that’s where he meets his end. Unless there’s an in-between were we are destined to lose to him, it has to be somebody else.
That’s just the point where he dies, but we have no idea what leads to that. We’ve only seen the moment of his death but now how it all ends up there
Maybe he decides he doesn’t want to die, and tries to alter the timelines to prevent his death, and maybe that’s how he ends up falling and dying by our hands
I dunno, the idea of the big bad being someone who already died expansions ago in a levelling quest lots of players haven’t even seen doesn’t feel right to me.
Or perhaps it is Chromie herself who fell to the infinite in the future, but is trying to prevent her own fall by trying to alter time and kill her past self?
Nozdormu tries to subvert his death. Shatters the timeline and become Murozond as a result. He then tries to ensure that the reality we saw in End Time is the outcome of patch 4.3. Only to fail. One often meets their destiny on the road they take to avoid it.
End Time dungeon, which was a max level dungeon at the time was a leveling quest?
It could still be Nozdormu, we just don’t kill him when he becomes Murozond. Wouldn’t be the first time that we don’t actually kill the final boss of an expansion. E.g. Kil’jaeden in TBC or Garrosh in MoP. Hell Archimonde atm is a cat in a box when it comes to his fate after HFC. Mythic ending (where he dies in the Twisting Nether) was meant to be the canonical ending, but the cinematic after his defeat has him dying on Draenor.
Besides, the infinite dragonflight time travel. I mean the first time we notice their interference is trying to stop Thrall from escaping Durnholde Keep. The next time is back when Medivh / Sargeras first created the Dark portal. Yet the latter happens before the former chronologically without the infinites interference.
That is basically repeating the character arc of Nozdormu. Besides, killing her past self would cause a time paradox.
I would LOVE an infinite dragonflight expansion. We have yet to see what leads up to and causes Nozdormu to become Murozond.
Only thing that doesn’t add up to his story, maybe I am understanding something wrong or maybe Blizzard storywriters didn’t realize this…
If the aspects lost their powers and it was the age of mortals after the Dragonsoul raid…how did Noz still have time powers in the future when he became Murozond and started sending troops back in time to disrupt events.
This has still yet to happen…does he get his powers back? Did the dragons REALLY lose their powers or did they not? Did blizz just oversight this paradox?
You mean Vormu. She is the quest giver for all of those 3 quests you linked. Just because Vormu and Chromie are both bronze dragons does not mean they are the same person.
They still have their powers, just in a weakened state compared to before. I mean Chromie can still time travel as seen in the Deaths of Chromie scenario. It is also why Kairoz needed something like the Vision of Time to transport himself and Garrosh to alt Draenor and 30 something years in the past. The plot of this “dragonflight expansion” could be that the aspects get back their full power. We know that it might be possible for a Black Dragon to become the Earth Warder. Since Neltharion (aka Deathwing) never put his powers into the Dragon Soul at any point. And he was still the Earth Warder when he died. Thrall was just a stand in as he was a powerful shaman and non-dragons are immune to the Dragon Souls (rip ya apart) side effect.
However that can only happen during the special event known as The Eclipse. Where Azeroths two moons cross-over eachother. The last time that happened was during Cata when Kalecgos became the new Spell Weaver. Replacing Malygos who died in Wrath.
I seriously doubt the Dragonflight is a “cosmic” level even that would have required the Jailer to rebuild and enslave all of reality to stand against.
Eh, relative to time travel plots in other franchises, WoW’s was actually pretty clean. It wasn’t necessary, I’ll give you that, but the story was a selling point. Even if they did excise the middle chapters.
Ironically though there are multiple dragons that are stronger than zovaal if we’re talking objective ability.
Nefarion only succeeded in making one chromatic dragon and it was invincible and almost domed all the aspects as well as thrall so they had to stuff it in a vault.
Meanwhile zovaal, the arbiter of death who has lived for millenia wilted like a grape.
It’s a bit silly to think about, but the only threat stronger than dragons we have faced is the burning legion
