So running around on alts, trying to get the roster up and ready for 10.1.0 and I stopped and had a real good look at the area.
For those who don’t know, this is a spot in the Azure Span that has a massive, Aspect-sized Dragon skeleton with two heads half-submerged into the ground.
Location of the Traitor’s Rest if you want to go inspect it for yourself.
Now, this makes me wonder.
Is this a Traitor to the Aspects? Or the Primalists? Those skulls don’t look like they belong to Proto-Drakes, but the only multi-headed Dragons we’ve seen are creatures exposed to either the Void, or to Flesh-Warping magics such as those practiced by the Mogu, the Kaldorei and the Titans, which tends to be Arcane in nature.
Given the shape of the skulls and the size of them, as well as the location and given how the Azure Span was apparently the site of a terrible battle, and also unnaturally cold with the Blue Dragons having been experimenting with Wild Magic (first time that’s ever been brought up in WoW, AFAIK) and sealing up some terrible power beneath the land, this could be quite a dangerous thing we’re just flying over.
Decay magic is very present in the region, one of the reasons why the Gnolls have gone from a minor nuisance to the Tuskarr and Dragon-kin of the region to a legitimate threat to the existence of all life in the Azure Span. And Decay is the ‘negative’ form of Spirit Energy, while the ‘positive’ form of this Spirit Energy is known as Life energy. It could be that this ‘Traitor’ was a member of the Dragonflight that experimented with this dual-natured energy, and was mutated into an entity with two minds, one ruled by the balancing force of Life/Spirit Energy, the other controlled by the dominating force Decay/Spirit Energy.
Given the direction the skeleton is facing, it was heading towards the Azure Archives, where we encounter another mutated Blue Dragon, Umbrelskul, a child of both Malygos and Sindragosa. It is entirely possible that the ‘Traitor’ was a fellow researched like Umbrelskul who refused to heed the warnings of the Aspect of Magic and was grotesquely mutated into a gigantic, Aspect-sized two-headed Dragon.
But that doesn’t explain the ‘Traitor’ name of the region.
It could be that, just like we are finding the Dragon-Kin, the Draconids and the Wyrkin, are angry and resentful towards the Dragonflights for their nonchalant attitude towards their ceaseless devotion after ten thousand years of abandonment and silence, that back before the corruption of the Black Dragonflight as a whole and either before or during the Dragon Civil War between the Protodrakes and the Dragons, several of the Dragons who had been ‘Ordered’ began to resent and reject the rulership and burdens of their Flights and saw fit to try and join the Primalists.
We’ve seen the Primalists are more than capable of infusing Titanforged Dragons with Elemental energies, especially when in the egg, and the Dragon-Kin themselves are also easily altered to return to their more ‘natural’ state.
And here’s the thing. Decay doesn’t turn inorganic matter into organic matter, Life/Spirit energy does. We saw this on Draenor when the Sporemounds turned the Magnarron into semi-organic creatures, and the descendants of those Titan-made Giants mutated further under the effects of the Life/Spirit energy, becoming less and less stone and metal-based until we got to the Ogres and the Orcs.
The Old Gods claim they gave us the ‘Gift of Flesh’. Implying that it was Void-based. But it is Life/Spirit energy that does that … meaning that the Old Gods are either lying out their thousand orifices, which is definitely true, or they wielded Life/Spirit Energy to create the Curse of Flesh in the first place.
What’re your thoughts on this ancient skeleton, and the secrets it may hide?
messed up results if cast incorrectly, or your ‘exit point’ is not clear of obstacles.