This would be the weirdest premise for an expansion I have seen. Kobolds are not exactly a planetary threat…
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But little lizard guys are cute and I wanna boop them on the snoot
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Not a menace! The good guys. And in any case the Maw Walker would fight for them. 
That explanation of why Kobolds have candles in the first place was horrifying, yet intriguing at the same time. I hope WoW revisits that.
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Why? That was like super cool. And made me love the little geezers even more.
Oh, surely you mean “revisit” as simply “go there again”. Sorry, I had understood “modify that”. Danuser & C made me paranoid. 
Anyway, imho the side quests with Kobolds and Murlocs were the best things in the expansion, and among the best things in all WoW.
Yea. H.P. Lovecraft said that the oldest fear is of the unknown, and that we attribute darkness as evil because we cannot see through it.
The wax candles of the Kobolds sound like village folklore. No matter how deep the Kobolds dig, the candle keeps the darkness at bay. Those who lose their candles are doomed to be swallowed by the unknown hiding behind it.
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I always wanted to know the answer to that question.
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How do you know? The quite ones always the ones to watch out for me. Never know what they are thinking.
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…like how? They are stealing all of Azeroth’s candles?
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Already better than Shadowlands.
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Once I lost myself in a cave system. A BIG cave system. Lost the group, was hearing nothing and was alone with the darkness. I thought I was done for. I can post this because I chose a couple of good turns, and then heard the others calling me.
How I understand the Kobolds’ fear.
Yes!!! Someone else who can see the greatness of Kobolds. They would make the most glorious paladins. No one loves the light more than Kobolds.
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Unless they take the world supply of candles.
Should of read further lol
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LOL oh well, quite obviously thinking along the same wavelength
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I looked, and the D&D kobolds are super cute indeed, and very boopable! I had forgotten them, my bad.
Problem is, also WoW kobolds are super cute. The D&D ones could be added in Wax For Azeroth as Lizbolds or something like that.
Or maybe if dragon isles ends up being a thing. Since they like helping dragons
Still mad I never got to play a dnd campaign with my pink necromancer kobold. Someday. Someday.
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Fantastic! 
Well, maybe they need the candles for a massive summoning circle. To summon some evil god, alien intelligence, or maybe super assassin col bob.
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…and then it turns out to be a big kobold that once its on Azeroth…just shrugs and starts digging?
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I could see Kobolds digging too far underground and finding a small Old God. Slowly they start to worship this Old God as the God of the Candle. They become corrupted and gain greater intelligence, then start spreading their “religion”. You would start to see the smaller races like Kobolds, critters, and beast being taken over.
It could be a fun little xpac.
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