Supposedly, Old Gods can’t be killed without mortally wounding the world soul. The reason Sargeras led the Burning Crusade was because he didn’t believe his fellow Titans’ methods of imprisoning Old Gods in order to spare the planet. This was evidenced by the fact that Old Gods are shown capable of eventual escape from their prisons, and Azeroth happened to be lucky enough to have heroes who could fight back partially released Old Gods. We inferred that we only fought them back into an imprisoned/dormant state, as killing them would damage the planet. However, this isn’t true. Blizz revealed we have indeed killed the Old Gods and Azeroth was fine. Now in 8.3 we’ve shown that we can use Titan technology to laser down an Old God without the planet being compromised.
If that’s the case, then Sargeras has no sense in starting the Burning Crusade. His internal motive as a villain becomes senseless, because we now know that you can have your cake and eat it too. It’s not an ethical dilemma. Sargeras just wanted to kill Old Gods along with world souls because he’s a really mean guy.
Except for the fact that there’s always the concern of not being able to get to a planet in time to stop the corruption. So his “solution” seemed easier: just destroy everything and then there’s nothing left for the Void to corrupt or re-corrupt. Nothing left to keep watch over means not missing something and no Void Titan.
It’s a conundrum, but I’m still not entirely convinced we’ve seen the full consequences of our actions yet.
I’m OK with occasionally throwing up my hands and saying “I’m just a mere mortal, these mysteries are above my level”, but Yogg’s “Bow down before the God of Death!” and “The end of days is finally upon you!” shouts are nagging at me.
This. Sargaras started the legion to literally wipe all life from the universe so that there could not be any chance of the void corrupting it. The idea of saving a Titan world soul by killing the old gods that were corrupting it wasn’t an option in his mind. He was going for a complete scorched universe so he could reboot it to his ideal.
The Titans are the personification of Order. They are control freaks in orders of magnitude beyond anything we can understand. They don’t think the same way we do.
I’m confused by this information. Afrasiabi says “have you played any Cataclysm?” and is immediately contradicted by the fact that the old god’s death wasn’t necessarily what cause the Cataclysm. Really it was because of Deathwing, who was corrupted by whispers, but that’s a different matter.
So we’re supposed to believe the reason the old gods were imprisoned was because killing them damages Azeroth, yet every instance where we kill one, that consequence just doesn’t happen.
They were imprisoned because when the Titans killed one by ripping it out it hurt the planet. They had no idea what killing one without ripping it out would do and they didn’t want to risk it because a World Soul was too precious to them. So they chose to imprison them instead. Like I said, they don’t think on the same scale that we do. Just killing the Old Gods and leaving their bodies in the planet might not have even occurred to them. Or they might have believed that the body left alone could be reanimated by something else.
The fact is we don’t know what damage we might have done by killing them. Just because it wasn’t an explosive apocalyptic event doesn’t mean we didn’t doom Azeroth.
WHY THE HECK IS THAT THE LORE???
It was pretty clear I thought that we were pushing them back into their prisons? What happened to the whole we can’t kill them because they’re too powerful and even if we managed to somehow by a miracle kill them we would still die because it’d destroy the world.
I thought we could kill N’Zoth because we channeled our super powerful world soul powered cannon into him directly, and the reason it didn’t destroy the world was because it was in another realm entirely (as in ny’alotha)
But I guess, we could have just killed him at the power level we were at in classic as we did with C’Thun, which I thought we had not defeated but only temporarily pushed back but I guess not.
Yeah, funny how that was an interesting aspect of the old gods which created dilemmas on how we have to deal with them.
Unfortunately, Blizz found that plot point too inconvenient, so they yeeted it. We have to come up with other explanations like maybe the Titans just didn’t think to use their technology to kill old gods, so we did it for them with N’zoth.