I wanted to start a topic on Galakrond as I believe the new Frostbrood Proto-wyrm is a hint about him. I have often thought that the Maldraxxus is the corpse of Galakrond. When looking at the new mount I noticed domination runes on the saddle. My theory is that this is one of the drakes that Galakrond enslaved after consuming. When brought back by Galakrond the drakes where kept in line with domination magic. The Primus learned of this type of magic from Galakrond or the Maldraxxus. The name “Maldraxxus” is a Latin-based construction that would mean roughly “Evil Dragon”.
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It’s way too cool of a theory for it to actually happen.
It’s hard to say as Blizzard constantly bungles their own lore. But what was interesting is in more than a few places Maldraxxus was referred to as if it were a creature, not a place.
Now that may well just be a grammatical oversight but the place is at least a giant tumor of some sort. What with pustules, hair and teeth like protrusions popping up all over it.
I kinda doubt it was ever meant to be just Galakrond. WoW’s never been the best at scale but from the descriptions I figured he was more Godzilla than continent size. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if the dead dragon was part of it.
I’d figured Maldraxxus might be a Flesh Titan of sorts. The Scourge at least was able to get those colossus up and running that were made out’ve Storm Giants. So there doesn’t seem to be an upper limit on how big you could make the things.
What if Maldraxxus itself was a last line of defense meant to wake up and do battle if something the size of Sargeras ever managed to pierce the veil?
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“Mal Drago” is evil dragon in Latin. Mal Drago = Maldraxxus, that’s a bit of a stretch.
What would Maldraxxus being Galakrond accomplish? Nothing, he’s still dead, only now he’s a landmass in Hell?
The drakes were never kept in line with domination magic. Galakrond’s mutation was a result of the 6th element of decay, not domination magic. Galakrond was uncontrolable during his time. The Lich King had tried to raise his bones but failed. This is a big stretch theory based on the idea that the new WoLK DK mount, has domination runes on it, but it’s a DK mount, of course it has runes of domination on it.
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The problem with this theory is that we already know how the afterlives are constructed, thanks to the existence of Zereth Mortis. Every single afterlife, from Bastion to Revendreth, the Maw, Korthia and all the infinite afterlives that exist were all created there.
So Maldraxxus cannot be the corpse of Galakrond.
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It’s a good theory. Maldraxxus is the only zone that’s described as being alive. Not in the traditional sense, but all that flesh like material used by the maldraxxi is being produced by something
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We know where Galakrond’s corpse is though. We can literally go visit his skeleton.
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Maldraxxus does have tumors growing on it, that skinners can skin, whatever maldraxxus is, it’s definitely a living thing. Dead things don’t produce tumors as far as I know
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Which was super creepy when I first found it out.
I could buy Galakrond being “touched” somehow by forces from Maldraxxus - hence his necromantic-ish behavior.
He consumed proto-drakes, which then raised them as ghoul-ish zombies.
As far as I know no reason was given for Galakrond’s change, so it would be at worst soft retcon. Might be harder to come up with a story linking that. Or even why. But it would fill in a bit.
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There was a vauge reason given in Dawn of the Aspects, but it doesn’t hold up under a microscope. It was that the necrotic affliction is a natural part of Life, as it’s duality of decay, and by consuming too much death Life essence Galakrond became undead.
But, some new lore in Battle for Azeroth came out that may actually change that. Xibala also was affected by the necrotic affliction and she also infected others with the Blood Plauge not unlike Hakkar, this was something that was in the alpha/beta but never made it to live, this was also when Xibala was a him not a her. It’s speculative at this point, but I think both Xibala and Galakrond were the result of the Titans expirements in Uldir.
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I don’t even remember that much, I just remember Tyr saying “things didn’t go as planned” as if it was somehow accidentally his fault. But it’s been like 10 years since I read it.
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All the more reason to think the Titans are somehow responsible for what happened to Galakrond.
The titans are likely responsible for a lot of questionable stuff. Like how they conveniently didn’t mention them accidentally creating g’huun.
What other monstrosities are they responsible for?
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Maybe they’ll have the Primalists resurrect Galakrond. In Hearthstone, they had Rafaam’s henchman resurrect Galakrond in five different ways. Rafaam was datamined in Dragonflight.
I’m absolutely sure Galakrond is the last boss yeah. I’m pretty sure they said outright the primalists worship him.
The gnolls using decay, a magic type which has otherwise been entirely ignored since Chronicle introduced it, could be seeding it early so it doesn’t come out of nowhere when being used to explain Galakrond.
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They can’t bring Galakrond back without villifying Trag Highmountain. That’s something I have been worried about. because Trag was a hero from the comics who eventually became, and still is, a death Knight. But, that is also exactly what could make for an interesting story. They did say there would be people rising in the ranks of the Scourge to fill the power gaps.
Galakrond cannot be raised without the missing bone from his skeleton. Over the span of the comics that bone ended up in the hands of Trag, he presumably still has it in his possesion.