In the lore blurbs apparently after the Sundering the Dragon Isles were (they say was since Isles are plural I’m using were) cut off from Elemental energy. So the dragons had to leave I guess because they need it for something? That isn’t made clear but the watchers were there such that once the elemental energy came back they would light up then turn on that beacon.
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I’m talking about interesting plot points relating to the lore, even if those concepts were not used right away those ideas were recycled into something good. So for example, in WoLK, Afrasabi hinted that Tyr might be found in Uludar as a “corrupted Old God Titan.” now that didn’t pan out because it seems like they were instead going to bring Tyr back, so they gave that corrupted Titan plot to Ra-den in Mists of Pandaria and saw that plot through in Battle for Azeroth. Now. that’s lore consistency! this new team doesn’t respect or understand lore consistency. In Legion they pretty much say that the Scourge, under Bolvar’s command was trying to Ressurect Galakrond to fight for the Scourge. They were using forst giants to do it, then in the DK mount quest Bolvar finds the solution to raising Galakrond by using the “life essence” still found within fallen red dragons from the second war. They followed this up by saying Arthas himself was also looking for the power to raise Galakrond, but never found it. That’s a Chekhov’s gun. That gun was never fired, and that’s why I have lost faith in this writing team.
Even if they raise Galakrond now, they missed out on getting big hype by showing a “big bad” cinematic trailer to really set the tone on what we will be facing this expansion and why the stakes are so high.
“Sorry, innocent Redridge farmers dying to the invading Scourge, I have to catch a boat in Orgrimmar, to the Dragon Isles, so I can have an adventure independent of your suffering!” /s
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- The Sundering during the War of the Ancients split the land and caused the magic of the Dragon Isles to go dormant, causing the dragons to leave the isles.
- The Titan watchers left behind were supposed to call back the dragons if the elemental energy every recovered. In the cinematic, this is why we see the watcher activate the beacon. The dragons are returning to cultivate their homeland.
Oh for this expansion? Absolutely no way I agree. I was talking about 11.0
This expansion they are just getting us out of the way and creating a lore reason to say “Azeroth has recovered and woken up!” and then monkey paw me to introduce yet another cosmic warfare.
And when they release cataclysm classic they will say… hey remember cataclysm? So we put a world revamp in your world revamp.
Thats what I am hoping for anyway.
If 11.0 is yet another dragon isles or shadowlands. I am done with this game.
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Well… sort of yes? they torch planets they think are too messy. Billions and billions have died that way seemingly. they rigged Azeroth to do the same if things didnt go to their plans.
But I guess the plan for team dragon after the terrible damage Neltharion caused was to divide and do their own things in their own corner of the world. A united dragon kingdom was shattered as none of the flights trusted one another anymore and decided they needed some time apart? I 'unno.
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Here are some higher quality pictures and gifs, the dragon dance is pretty cute
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I’m watching Bellular’s stream and they’re looking at interviews that have been released. Some of the enemies are followers of Galakrond. They don’t like the Aspects and want to rule Azeroth.
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And yet we still revere the Titans as Gods? Seems a little sketch to me.
I strongly suspect that 10.0 is going to be used to repair things in the world… just so the cosmic villain/s of 11.0 that the writers want us to hate can smash them. What do you think of that idea?
That makes it worse. Why not lead with a Galakrond reveal? What are they trying to hide?
This team has ZERO showmanship.
A Galakrond reveal would have hyped everyone up.
instead they lead with “Dress-up in Dragonland”
I don’t think Galakrond is alive, it’s just proto dragons that worshipped him or somesuch.
Reminds me of the Legion cinematic where we see Gul’dan find Illidan’s body. I think something like that would be good for this expansion. See the necromancers start to reanimate Galakrond. See some powerful mage wake Chromantus up.
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Then that is just lame, and they squandered all potential to make this expansion cool.
I can almost guarantee normal players have zero idea who he is.
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In RL history there are lots of gods that people worship that are… awful. Its kinda a thing.
I dont think they want to reveal their end boss so directly. They want to build it up with story. Last time they revealed the end boss was Zovaal and that went over like a lead balloon.
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Yes, we need stakes, we need to know what we are fighting against.
All the fluffy fan service stuff is great in theory, but without a reason to be there why are we even there?
They don’t need to, giant cannibal dragon is hype. I doubt most players knew about Deathwing before Cata.
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He’s a major lore character, his bones are still in Northrend, there are lots of quests to visit his bones every time we go to Dragonblight. They could have had a lore catch up for new players.
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IGN interview.
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Giant cannibal undead skeleton dragon now leading the leaderless Scourge would be hype.
Does it even matter if people know his lore?
Meanwhile, the current “big bad” of this expansion is lava rock dudes in loin cloths.
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