The more I think about it, the more it makes sense.
Expansion about the underground and the Titans.
Iridikron is an Earth-elemental Proto-drake being that despises everything Titan.
And he gave Xal’atath the Dark Heart (imbued with Galakkrond’s power), but where did he go after?
I think he’s still down in Azeroth somewhere, dismantling the safeguards around the world soul. (The very ones we learned about doing the disc fragments quests.)
He claims, back in DF, that he’ll be back to claim “his prize” (being Azeroth) when the Titans return, like he’s gonna swoop in and steal it from them.
Maybe with the artifact in hand, he and Xal actually have a chance at killing the Titans (the later expansion being called “The Last Titan”)
I think he’ll be the bridge that brings TWW into Midnight, some kind of apocalyptic event, maybe the Pantheon get destroyed outright or something.
It’s clear whatever the Titans had in mind (total order), we don’t want either, based on the Earthen quests.
Azeroth herself wants/gives free will. Thraegar are a thing.
It’s been confirmed he’s coming back at some point. Seeing how he’s the catalyst to make all this happen he’ll be a major player I imagine.
Void is the antithesis to the Titan’s absolute Order, it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility to imbue Dragon Soul 2.0 with Void energy to zap Titans out of existence. Going to the goblins make sense as they were the ones who made the Dragon Soul in the first place.
Really the goblins have a lot of history doing not great stuff for not great people. Look past all the money and explosions and there’s a good deal of wretched history.
Hard telling if Iridikron is defending Xal and whatever she has, or if he’s doing destructive stuff but guess time will tell.
Technically Fel/Disorder should be the antithesis to the pantheon Order as they wrote it, though the story often conflates Void and Fel (as the “evil ones”) and their alignments and motivations.
I think and this is just me thinking lol but I believe he won’t show up until mid to late midnight. Like half way through they kill the titans or something
Iridikron makes sense as the end-boss of TWW, as there isn’t really another known character that would be at that stature and they’ve already said Xal’atath is going to span the story arc and not die in this expansion.
There’s other things it could be (e.g., N’zoth isn’t really dead, whatever old god is in the painting in Azj Kahet, one of the titans, Azshara, etc.), but some of those have already been used and others would feel rushed. Given that it seems we’re going under the sea, some re-emergence of Azshara and/or N’zoth would make sense. But I would guess they’re going to do some further redemption arc for Azshara.
Could also be the emperor of the arathi or whatever, but it seems kinda rushed setting that up, and that’ll probably be a more mixed/grey faction.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was, and the irony of first Fyrakk being a final boss and in the next expansion Iridikron would be funny.
I feel like they are trying to set up new long term villains though, so idk if they want to use him that quickly and need to set up more villains in later xpacs.
I don’t think we can kill the Old Gods. The Titans sure couldn’t and I’m not seeing why we would be successful when the Titans were not.
Even the one they did ‘kill’, Y’shaarj, they couldn’t completely kill as it’s heart was very much beating and certainly had plenty of corruptive influence on it’s own. Their attempt left a serious wound on Azeroth which lead them to not even try killing off the remaining ones.
I’m sure they’re still around, and they are biding their time. If the Void and it’s minions are anything, it’s that they are patient.
Yeah I think they’re immortal and can’t really be definitively killed, only banished back to the void temporarily or whatever. Or he just tricked/mind warped everyone and you never defeated him in the first place. But the latter is probably too nuanced for the blizzard writers.
They are all basically dead at this point except Sargeras. And I think the writing is pretty clearly on the wall that Azeroth is not a Titan, which makes ol’ Sargie himself The Last Titan.
Yeah it’s pretty clear Sargeras is “the last titan” whatever that implies. And probably that he wasn’t chaotic evil as originally implied, but some kind of morally grey figure who was fighting against titan dominance as well as the void and others.
