The legion and there for the Orcs, never came to Azeroth and the Alliance was left alone to fight the old gods and whatever other thread lies on Azeroth?
the excuse used for opening the dark portal in caverns of time I think, was something like the legions invasion would succeed without the orcs at hyjal
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The Bronze said without the Horde invading, the Alliance would never be formed, the Seven Kingdoms would descend into civil war, and without either the Alliance or Horde, the world was screwed.
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Without the Orcs, there wouldn’t be Thrall, the Hour of Twilight would have come to pass and Azeroth would be a Void-corrupted Titan. Without the Legion, Illidan would never have become a Demon Hunter, and created his plan to invade Argus, thus the Titan Pantheon would have been corrupted, and the universe would have been destroyed.
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And without Orcs vs. Humans, there would have been no need for Azeroth to have ever existed!
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Eh, the Bronze have shown to not know everything about the timeline and Nozdormu has openly changed the timeline(see Dragon Soul). While this is the most likely scenario I’d say it probably not the only thing that could have happened.
The Old Gods only started to escape their prisons because Cho’gall was there…
Furthermore they were only able to awaken Deathwing because the Dark Portal opened.
They would have never been able to do much of anything if the Legion hadn’t appeared causing the War of the Ancients…
The Old Gods would have remained in their prisons making the Titan Keepers dormant while Azshara continued to gain power over Azeroth until Argus awoke and casted End of All Things fulfilling Sargeras’s will.
The Legion never arriving on Azeroth would have resulted in Argus wiping out all things in the Great Dark Beyond including the Void Titans. Sargeras’s defeat was due to deeming Azeroth worth the Legion’s notice.
Eh. They’d probably have been fine.
The Bronzes say the humans would have just sat on their ***es forever without the Horde. But what do they know, just cause they can see the future?
Without the Horde constantly wiping out their armies and cities, they’d have more time and resources to explore and expand across Azeroth. Ally with races that ended up allied to the Horde instead(like the Tauren).
I’m sure it would have all worked out.
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None of such would have ever happened as azeroth would have been defeated by the legion is the great war when ashara summoned him and sundered the planet. It was an orc who struck sargeras and drove him back the only mortal ever to physically harm the titan
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The original unaltered timeline(the one before the Old Gods tried to mess with it) still had the night elves defeating the Legion.
You see the paradox of time travel here right? You don’t have a previous timeline only the current where the night elves won that doesn’t exist and technically never has
No, it happened, or to be precise, the Brox we are introduced to would never have existed had the night elves not originally stopped Sargeras without Brox help.
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Do you mean if the Legion never came as in, even in The Sundering? Or just the Dark Portal.
Either way, I think the world would have been ultimately screwed given the various help the Horde has given as a united organization and the unity it has given the Alliance as well.
No as brox was not timeline but alt dimension like dreanor. The best way to argue my point is one could go back to the war and would see brox one cannot go back and see a timeline without him as it no longer exists. String theory at its finest
HEY GUYS LETS DEBATE TIME TRAVEL!
Certainly the well founded consistent treatment time travel as a concept receives throughout the fictional world will give us a firm foundation from which to extrapolate reasonable conclusions regarding any potential hypothetical alternate time lines set in the World of Warcraft setting.
…Did anyone else hear someone yelling “YOLO” in the distance?
…hey where the hell is Garrosh?
Time travel in WoW is like an extended version of the “what if we put our minecraft beds next to eachother, ha ha just kidding. …unless…” meme.
The fact that the Infinite Flight tries to disrupt Medivh’s opening of the Dark Portal and the Bronzes send you to stop them should be clue enough.
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Yes, that’s why we had to make sure the Infinite Flight didnt prevent the portal from being opened. But that’s not why the portal was opened in the first place.
Medivh’s mother, Aegwynn - a powerful mage in her own right, had onced duked it out personally with Sargeras. In the course of that fight, Sargeras put a fragment of himself in Aegwynn. That fragment took hold of Medivh when he was still in the womb. When he turned 14, his magical abilities awoke - and so did the essence of Sargeras. This battle for the soul of Medivh put him in a coma for 6 years.
When he awoke, Sargeras was pulling the strings, and led Medivh to open the portal by making a deal with Gul’dan to provide the location of the Tomb of Sargeras.
The opening of the portal led to the Second War, and all the atrocities there associated.
Which from the Darwinian viewpoint of the Bronze Flight… were neccessary steps in Azeroth’s evolution to becoming a world that could fight back against the Legion’s inevitable return.
Depends on how far back you go with the legion coming to Azeroth. If they never came in the first place the war of the ancients and sundering would never have happened and the Night Elf Empire would probably be ruling Azeroth. Impossible to say how they would be able to handle the Old gods or what magic they would have access to with 10,000 years to play with the Well of Eternity.
The Old Gods were only able to mess with the Well of Eternity due to the Infinite Dragonflight according to Chronicle Vol. 3 so if the Legion never came to Azeroth in the first place the Old Gods would just be stuck in their prisons until Argus awakened and wiped out all existence!
Azeroth would be doomed if the Legion never came in the first place because the Legion already had a Titan capable of ending all things and only had to wake him up! Them not coming doesn’t mean the Void wins but the Legion wins!