Elune might be older and more powerful than we ever imagined

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Loreology does not equal Lore. Lore is the head CM. Different people. Also being a lore-keeper is not the same as being the writers who actually develop, and in some cases retcon, the lore. I see there is an archive of Loreology’s tweets but I don’t see anything about Elune not being an Old God.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, I just don’t see anything, not even speculation, in regards to this tweet. Just a dead link on wowpedia.

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She doesn’t do shadow, void, or anything associated with old gods or void lords. This is a rubbish theory that popped up right around the time people were trying to claim Sylvanas was a hero destroying Teldrassil to save the world from old gods and nothing more.

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Which is why I said…

Nothing from the writers or devs has yet to disprove that old tweet. I can’t help it that they deleted the newer stuff without archiving it.

sighs

This is the only place where I post current info and people refuse to believe it. :expressionless:

Have a good night, all.

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Sounds pretty omnipotent deity like to me. “Let mortals do mortal things.”

Like this whole “burning of teldrassil” and war between the Alliance and Horde isn’t even a concern of hers. Oh wow, her followers are in trouble? Why does she care? It’ll be over before she’s done yawning.

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Well the theory is that Elune is a good Old God in contrast to the others on Azeroth, so not really a reason to burn Teldrassil (or at least not a reason with good motive).

Also Elune very definitely does have a shadow aspect, hence the Night Warrior and also Night Elven shadow priestesses of the Moon. I don’t think Elune’s multi-faceted aspects are in dispute.

Sure, but what was the tweet? Wikis are open to be edited by literally anyone.

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My tin foil hat? She (Elune) was imprisoned by the Titans - much like the old gods - after the titans learned she could be a threat. Why a threat? Possibly because elune had dabbled in Void - something the Titans apparently abhor. Elune seems to be about balance, but the Titans don’t seem to like balance - just order.

And due to her imprisonment, she can only assist so much. In fact, wouldn’t it be interesting if Azeroth was imprisoned, too? And that Sargeras was trying to free her to help him fight the pantheon?

Ok…tin foil hat off

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Didn’t Tyrande completely shoot down Khadgar’s wild guess? Also Elune is definitely not a light goddess. She is represented by the darkness eclipsing the light and gave the night elves the power to become one with the dark. She also seems to be fairly powerless to act and is unique to Azeroth. Most likely she is a titan system designed to watch over the wound created by the titans removing the old one and went off her program to become attached to the Night Elves.

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Because Nathanos is a writer’s self insert. Literally just google “Nathanos is a writer’s self insert” and you’ll find all the sources you need.

If anyone links any of them, there’s at least one mod on the board that goes around and deletes them. They cover it up and when asked why, they responded on twitter that it’s “invading the writer’s personal life.”

Plot Twist, if talking about Nathanos is “invading a writer’s personal life” then they probably should not be writing for Nathanos anymore, like, ever. They should be distanced from the character not only for the sake of lore, but for their own sake as well.

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I think it’s interesting that that quest on the horde side, the drum take the power from earth mother instead. As far as I can tell. This is like the first ever that the earth mother did some divine act.

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Selune, a diety from DnD Forgotten Realms: has the moon, stars, questing etc sort of thing as her aspect(s).

Maybe Elune is just a giant candle and Kobolds are the real chosen.

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What are you talking about? Did we play a different scenario on DS or something? Tyrande isn’t channeling the full power of Elune, I doubt anyone on the plant could contain her raw power. She has been empowered with her wraith. As for the fight in question, she was NEVER in danger of losing that fight. The player was nothing more than a third wheel in that encounter, we hardly scratched the Valkyr that we were helping Malfurion fight. She then turns on one shots the thing from existence. And even when empowered by the other Valkyr, Nathanos was never a threat to Tyrande.

The only problem with that situation is the writers had to make sure that they didn’t allow Nathanos to be killed off. After seeing her instantly kill a Valkyr, it is clear she could have easily wiped the beach with them if they hadn’t fled.

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I think it’s fun speculation that Elune is possibly the first Titan. She could possibly be the Titan of Creation.

But I also think that she’s Azeroth because it is incredibly odd to me that Elune has no presence outside of Azeroth. She favors the Night Elves over all others for some reason.

Idk, there’s a lot of holes in my speculation, but I’ve felt Elune was the first Titan for awhile and I think she has a very odd connection to Azeroth.

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I hate when people say that Elune is a Loa. She is so much more. She has to be somewhere at, just below, or even higher than a Titan in power. Calling her a Loa is just an insult to her.

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Elune is probably one of the most mysterious things in Wowcraft lore. Folks tossing out their speculation is all good fun. Also depending on their depth of lore knowledge, some folks might see Loa as an absolute powerhouse.

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A Loa is actually pretty weak in the grand scheme of things. They are strong in their own right, don’t get me wrong. But compared to other players in the other cosmological forces, they are fragile and weak.

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I agree, but the game doesn’t really go into this depth vs. Chronicles.

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Yeah, its sad that we have to read books for this kind of in depth information rather than seeing it in the game.

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I think it’s possible Elune is the first titan, the mother of all titans.

In lore, it’s only said that Aman’Thul was the first titan to wake from his slumber. But it’s not specifically stated he is the first titan in general or the maker of all titans.

I think Elune is the one who birthed the planets and in turn, the titans inside of them.

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She was able to lift the corruption off of Ysera, even though she was corrupted by a titan artifact. She also seems to work in a very specific way so she may not even exist on this plane at all, calling her weak because she didn’t “save” all the nelfs or attack the legion is pretty ignorant considering.

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I like to think of Elu as (documental voice) “Long time ago during the Cosmic Dawn and beginning of all things”…or when the Light / Void first collided and a bunch of things resulted from it, Elune was the first “entity” created that had control over both forces and thus “achieved Balance”. :first_quarter_moon:

That’s how I explain to myself how she can go from “wrath mode :new_moon:” to “tender mode :full_moon:” and why she doesn’t directly intervenes with mortal mishaps, being more like a guardian of Balance. (And yes, of incredible power way above anything except pure Light/Void stuff).

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