Isnt it odd how the Dragonflights were all ok with the council of Tirisfal empowering a mortal to be very nearly as powerful as a Dragon Aspect?
Clearly they knew about it since there was a Blue Dragon on the Council at one point. You would think this would raise some red flags with the blue dragon flight. Even if the Councils intentions were good, to protect the world, a mortal having that much power never seems like a good idea.
At the very least you would think they would insist that the Guardian be one of their own Dragons, instead of some mortal.
The guardian is the evolution of a high elven technique originally not shared with humans, but later revealed out of desperation to defeat the more powerful demonic agents that the magisters and Kirin’Tor Tor were dealing with. The original technique was know as the spearhead and involved the mages channeling all of their power into one leaving the other mages defenseless. The technique was later refined after a dreadlord exploited this weakness and killed the spearhead.
The refined technique involved each member to give a portion of their own power to one indefinitely. The guardian was made more powerful than a mortal mage with this technique and while this was a lot of power they were not on par at any point with an aspect. The only guardian with that level of power was medvih when he was controlled by sargeras.
I dont know about that…Chronicle Volume 1 says the council considered making a 2nd guardian to fight Aegwynn when she went rogue, but decided not to because the fight between them could cause catastrophic damage to the world. Aegwynn also beat an Avatar of Sargeras, which I would argue is more powerful than an aspect.
I don’t think they were willing to press the point. Or more likely they simply didn’t take the Tirisfalens or their Guardian very seriously. Most of the Guardians prior to Aegwynn weren’t nearly as powerful as she was.
6 powerful mortal mages don’t equal the power of the Titans, and the avatar of Sargeras was a Trojan horse with the specific purpose of corrupting the guardian. To answer your question though the aspects had no real opinion on the guardian because they had been in hiding and isolation since death wing’s betrayal and losing a portion of their power to the demon soul. The blue dragon flight as a whole hated the idea of a guardian and closely monitored them but malygos was suffering from insanity at this point and was hardly in a state of mind that could be relied on to make sound judgement
A Guardian has the power of 7 of the worlds most powerful Archmages, then speculating here, the Forge of the Guardian exponentially amplifies that power. If we go by how the “mark of the guardian” buff that mages get in their order hall founding quest, it increases spell power by 1000%. And this is a buff applied without 7 archmages empowering you, it comes only from the forge of the guardian.
If we assume things work via simple math, a fully empowered Guardian has the power of 7 of the best archmages+their own power, X 10 with mark of the guardian= the power of 80 top tier Archmages.
We can derail into an argument that we won’t come to an agreement on if you’d like but your question was why the aspects were okay with a demigod level mage running around and the answer was simply that the aspects were in hiding and the aspect of magic was in a state of insanity during the time that guardians were a thing.
The Red and Green and Bronze Aspects were not in hiding at the time, but ok, fair enough that the most likely to get involved, Malygos, had a few (or all of them) screws loose.
Not sure why you “won’t come to an agreement” with me, the fact that the Forge of the Guardian amplifies magic power is not up for debate, its stated fact when it literally amplifies the powers of your artifact, I believe one of the mage hall npcs says as much.
And the blue dragon aspect wields the focusing iris the same device that allowed the blood elves to create a Mana bomb so powerful it distorted the nature of reality in the area that was theramore. Also doing a quick cursory search I was able to find that the forge of guardian doesn’t increase power exponentially but rather allowed the council to channel the spear head ritual permanently and at great distances by linking all members to the guardian. The guardian is a being of considerable power and there aren’t many things in existence that can
Stop one but an aspect is one of them. In beyond the dark portal we see khadgar currently one of the most powerful mages in existence square off with death wing only to have most of his attacks brushed off as mere child’s play and he isn’t even an aspect that deals with magic or time.
The idea that the same beings that were able to grant the night Elves immortality would be afraid of a guy who is empowered by a few powerful mages and linked by a forge when they were empowered by beings that can shatter worlds is a bit silly.
He had to have made the fight be realistic though, otherwise it would be suspicious. He probably didnt hold back, since the “world shook” during the fight.
The dragons were a bit negligent at times. I mean, they allowed the Night Elves to settle around the Well of Eternity as well. Malygos specifically was basically in a deep depression due to the near destruction of his flight during the War of the Ancients.
Actually, some of the lore implies he couldn’t beat her with the Avatar anyway.
In the icy wastes of Northrend, Sargeras drew the Guardian Aegwynn into battle, advancing on his opponent as the portal he’d torn into Azeroth closed behind him. His avatar was but a pale shadoww of his true form, but that hardly mattered. After all, even if he coudn’t defeat Aegwynn, he could still use her for his own ends. He had only to weaken her defenses, to create an opening for a shard of his spirit to break through. Just as he’d infiltrated Azeroth with the scepter, so too would he invade Aegwynn’s soul, corrupting it into another instrument of the Legion.
The skies of Northrend churned and darkened. A monstrous demonic form emerged upon the battlefield: Sargeras, ruler of the Burning Legion. This was only an avatar of the demon lord, a tiny portion of Sargeras’s vast cosmic power. Yet he nonetheless radiated great strength and fury. He unleashed his terrible might on Aegwynn, intending to destroy the Guardian who had thwarted his agents for so long.
As for it being easy.
The battle that followed was the most difficult Aegwynn had ever fought.
Afterward, Aegwynn would remember the battle as the most brutal she’d ever fought, but she finally destroyed the avatar of Sargeras in an avalanche of arcane might. As she stood triumphant over her fallen foe, she could scarcely believe that she had won.
These quotes being from Chronicle 1 and the Tome of Blighted Implements. To be fair, this retconned prior aspects of the event as described in Aegwynn and the Dragon Hunt.
They have power invested in them by 7 Archmages, they don’t have all of the power of the mages who invested them. No archmage would totally strip themselves to power a Guardian.
Medivh wasn’t an ordinary Guardian. He was descended from Aegwynn a woman who had the Skywalker genes for magic as well as carrying power from Sargeras himself. His Ghost has none of those abilities save the ability to take Raven form.