I always feel sad when you put “dumb thoughts” on your posts. Your thoughts arn’t dumb, don’t be so hard on yourself
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He knows they ain’t ever dumb, it’s an attempt at being humble. I find it funny that for as creative as his content on these posts are, he doesn’t make a more creative title for himself.
Anytime we see “Dumb Thought”, without reading the rest, we know it’s from him and worth the read.
You should feel bad for the person who does have a thought they feel is right, but is pretty sure others will think it’s dumb.
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God, if they did a multiverse expansion that would be the last burial in the dark graveyard of their originality.
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I am kinda dumb and these threads are a 30/30/40 split between “Hey, I noticed something.”, “I really like this and want to share it with folks.” and “The brain worms won’t shut up until I put this out into the world and make it everyone else’s problem.”.
It is me trying to warn people I’m letting the weirdness take the wheel for a short while.
Buckle up, Ms Frizzle ain’t got nothing on my incorrectly assembled, factory defective grey matter.
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Listen, I read the DC Flashpoint comic.
I know that all multiverse situations are a bad idea.
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There is actually some hope here.
There’s rumblings that Blizzard is declaring the twitter/podcast comments about the natures of Souls and Alternate Realities non-canon, meaning we are not doomed to be fused to our Alternate Selves and forced to suffer for their sins in the afterlife, but it does raise the issue about if there are all these Alternate Timelines, why haven’t they won with the powers of their World Souls?
I think the answer is, ironically enough, the Shadowlands. Yes, the power of Azeroth’s World Soul is unique and could conceivably allow one force or other to eventually conquer all of reality … but you need a First One’s installation to access that power in a meaningful way. Otherwise, you’re just draining it like a battery like the Legion did with Argus, and the Old Gods wanted to do with the World Soul to make themselves a Titan-like entity that could forcibly break the barrier between the Void and the Material Plane.
Since the First One installations are sealed up and inaccessible without specific keys and souls attuned to the energy of the World Soul, as well as the First Ones’ inscrutable prophecies that not even the Pantheons can completely understand, at best the World Soul gets used as a bludgeon to smash barricades aside, rather than the key to re-writing all of reality to your own designs.
Its why these Alternate Azeroths are just Timelines, apocalyptic and dreadful, but not the end of all creation. They never got the MacGuffinites required to open the way to a Zerith facility … and that’s why these timelines ‘fusing’ into ours is so dangerous.
Not only are we looking at Time Paradox nonsense, but we have accessed Zerith Mortis. We know how to, or are capable of, accessing this facility and have the trust of a Pantheon that is now aware of how to enter this holy space. If the Old Gods, Legion or Titan-dominated Timelines figure this out, we’re screwed. With the timelines all tangling together and fusing, they might not just be able to reconfigure their own realities to their whims, they might be able to do it to all currently existing and stable timelines.
That would be a heck of an Expansion. Chromie’s actions and Iridikron’s machinations create an absolute fubar situation where we have to invade the Old God, Titan and Legion versions of Azeroth, use our Heart of Azeroth to either euthanize or absorb the powers of these World Souls and return with it to our Azeroth, which throws these realities into chaos and begins their disintegration as an ‘unstable’ timeline, and allows us to further inoculate and fortify our Azeroth against the machinations of the Fel, the Void … and the Arcane.
Furthermore, we could end up saving or recruiting alternate societies to aid us, and bring them back with us, much like the Mag’har were during the Battle for Azeroth.