Is Argus an Aesir or vanir Titan? It makes the most sense for him to be aesir because his skin doesn’t look rocky and it looks more like the other Aesir Titans. Also if we don’t count him, there’s already 4 vanir Titans (one of which being Sargeras) but only 3 vanir Titans. I don’t think we ever get outright told this answer?
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I feel like Blizzard abandoned this part of the lore (as iirc most of it came from the old RPG books). And instead moved it to the titan forged instead. Where some were made of stone (e.g. Earthen) and others were made of metal (e.g. Mechagnomes)
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Yeah, Chronicle established that Aesir and Vanir weren’t types of titans. They were types of titan-forged, though more specifically the first generation of titan-forged that cast down the Elemental Lords and Old Gods. The Keepers are among them, as well as Watchers like Ironaya, Jotun and the Lorekeepers of Norgannon. The Watchers of Uldum were such as well, along with MOTHER, Norushen and numerous others scattered around Azeroth, usually inside or nearby titan facilities.
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It’s not so much that Blizzard abandoned stuff from the old RPG books as that they never committed to that stuff in the first place. The books were written by a third party and contained a lot of stuff that Blizzard hadn’t fleshed out at the time. When they did decide to put those things into their games, they didn’t consider themselves bound by what was in the rpg books—see their very different take on Kul Tiras, for example.
Another example of blizzard pissing on good lore
So Aesir and Vanir were something established in the Tribunal of Ages, which Chronicle states was filled with wholly false information. Chronicle was then said to be of questionable canonicity.
So it’s anyone’s guess if they’re still a thing.
I wouldn’t call it good, just unnecessary since it was going nowhere.