Something that occurs to me after watching this cinematic.
We never were told what happened in the Primalist Future, but considering the region is in a perpetual blizzard so deadly that unless you have specific items to raise the ambient temperature, you will freeze to death in short order.
That’s Vyranoth. Fyrakk would be a blistering firestorm (or shadowfirestorm now) and Iridikron would likely be a bleak, lifeless earthen hell.
So why a perpetual blizzard? How does this work with the new World Tree, Ameredrizzle?
Two things:
1) FROST-DRAGON GOES KABOOM
During the coming event, Fyrakk will lose control and attack everything with Shadowflame. Shadowflame drives everything it touches mads and infects them with the Whispers of the Old Gods/Void. We’ve already seen that the infusion of Shadowflame has made Fyrakk so powerful he can nearly overwhelm his sister with just Elemental Fire alone, and Ice is normally strong against Fire (Pokemon Logic works, I guess?), and we can assume Vyranoth wasn’t keen on murking one of her few remaining friends and family members, that was a very big upset to the group dynamics of the Primal Incarnates.
Fyrakk loses his marbles and starts lashing out with Shadowflame as soon as his already-taxed patience is tested and starts spewing Shadowflame everywhere, urged on by the Whispers who are hard to get inside that World Tree and claim the power within it, the melding of Life and Death and a promise of eternal renewal and rebirth therein… and in the process, hits Vyranoth. Vyranoth suddenly hears the Whispers and pushes herself to the breaking point trying not only douse the Shadowflame, but save her brother.
This ends poorly.
Fyrakk detonates as the conflicting medley of mutually-hostile energies in the situation (Life and Death from the World Tree, Elemental and Void magic within him, opposing Elemental energies from his sister, and the Arcane forces within the Emerald Dream and the Green Dragon Flight) ignite and blow him up, but also slay his sister, who had summoned her full power to try and ‘douse’ Fyrakk and extinguish the Shadowflame within him. This results in a massive explosion of Elemental Frost which combines with the essence within the World Tree and shrouds at least the Dragon Isles, if not a large chunk of the planet, in a permanent ice-age as the Shadowflame consumes itself in the explosion (Being half-fire, it should follow the theme of fire in that without something to burn, it extinguishes, hence the ferocity and aggression of Fire Elementals, they are always on the verge of starvation if they aren’t setting something on fire!) and the ‘infusion’ of Elemental Ice into that Life-and-Death seed that forms the heart of the new World Tree.
2) Return of the Elemental Lords
The plan might be to merge the seed of the World Tree into the Elemental Plane itself, re-combining Azeroth and the Elemental Planes.
We know that the Druids of the Flame are showing up in the next patch. We know that in Cataclysm, the Druids under Malformed the Deviant Art Furry used Druidic Magic to create and establish a permanent base in the Firelands, the former domain of Ragnaros and currently leaderless after the Elemental we shoved into that empty seat supposedly went missing and we just kinda … ignore that?
Erk
That means we already have two well established cases of Druidic Magic being united with Elemental Fire. Shadowflame is a union of Void and Fire. Void wants to get all up in that World Tree, which is being nurtured with Druidic Magic.
Y’see the point I’m making here? The Elemental Lords care about protecting Azeroth since it is their home and their mother. We kind of screwed up so badly that Alexstrasza decided to pre-emptively cancel the Age of Mortals only a season or two in, what makes you think the Elemental Lords won’t come to the same conclusion?
Ragnaros might spring back, only for Fyrakk to eat him in an ironic echo of what Ragnaros did to Al’Akir, while Therazane might rumble against Iridikron, unwilling to give up her throne but unable to contest his might without losing her Consorts, Vyranoth is Ice, not Water, so might get along tolerably with Neptulon, and again, nobody has seen Smolderon in years.
To prevent anyone accessing the World Tree but to also avoid killing it since that might have drastic knock-on effect for the whole of Azeroth since this World Tree is directly tied to Azeroth, the Emerald Dream, the Shadowland and whatever the hell Elune is part of, driving the new world Tree Ameredrizzle into hibernation much like deciduous trees achieve by shedding their leaves and excess branches to preserve nutrients and water during extreme cold and low sunlight conditions. This not only keeps the World Tree Dormant, but prevents anything not blessed with the protection of Elemental forces from moving freely through the are, since anything not using Elemental energy is going to stick out like a sore thumb and thus be attacked on sight by the Primalists and Elementals loyal to the Primal Incarnates.
What are your thoughts?
