Hi, just came back from a long hiatus, I’m mostly caught up now but not all the way, have a few questions, some of them rhetorical, some not.
Is Azeroth still bleeding? That all seemed like it was supposed to be a big deal but no one except Magni seems to care at all. And no one cares about Magni. He somehow got less interesting after becoming a diamond dwarf that speaks for the sapient planet God alien
Does any of this planet bleeding stuff lead onto shadowlands directly aside from Sylvanas’ weird plan
Is it at all related to mechagnomes for that matter? There are a handful of gnomes who appear to be native to Kul Tiras, I noticed on Alliance; is the sudden resurfacing of this long lost city, uh, hanging out off the coast of a major seagoing power at least related to Azeroth bleeding somehow.
Speaking of which, Erazmin and the average inhabitants seem to be pretty well informed about the outside world (Naaru get mentioned). Am not sure what to make of that.
Azeroth does not seem to be bleeding anymore no, The way Magni describes it we have sucsessfully purged the old god threat from Azeroth, which has resulted in the world soul being strong enough to finally heal herself to a degree she is not… you know… dieing. It is a bit like being cured of cancer so now your body has the strength to heal from being stabbed… mostly because that is EXACTLY what in effect occurred.
As I know it will come up the Devs have also said the GIANT PLANET RENDING SWORD has not been forgotten and plays a part in shadowlands at some juncture.
As for being up to date? They are super intelligent genius cyborgs. You could put that down to scrying magic of some sort, or tiny drones that have been watching us. Or perhaps there is some old Titan observation network they have been hacking into. None of which is creepy at all. Nope.
In Silithus the Druids and Shaman are outright shown trying to remove Void Corruption from the Wound so N’Zoth was actively trying to kill Azeroth for the sake of forcing the Champion of Azeroth to fill the Heart of Azeroth enough for N’Zoth to escape his prison.
The Titan is still wounded yet is no longer being poisoned on top of that so she is in good health as the wounds aren’t gushing blood like the Well of Eternity did before the Titans stabilized the wound.
Azeroth now has multiple Wells of Eternity which of course means we are in a greater Arcane era than the War of the Ancients! …or would be if we weren’t treating the Azerite as merely a weapon and bomb enhancer…
Something to remember is Azerite, once the world stabilizes, goes inert. That is why Gallywix’s cane top started all glowy and azerite-y during the cataclysm, but turned that dull red for years, only to reactivate when the world was wounded enough for power to start to flow back into the azerite.
…so in short post N’zoth we are basically where we were magical power wise, with a lot of mostly useless dull red metal stuff.
(Observation): Mechagnomes and Mechagon are an entirely self-contained plot with no relevance to any of the stories of Battle for Azeroth. They could’ve appeared as they are during any other expansion and nothing would change with Battle for Azeroth. So, no, they have nothing to do with Azeroth bleeding or Sylvanas’ schemes.
I’ll try to answer these as best as I can. Just a heads up, these answers ARE going to have spoilers for the ending of BFA, and maybe some about Shadowlands, just in case you’d prefer to find these things out for yourself. If not, read on!
Not perfectly clear, but come BFA’s ending, we’re to assume she’s been “saved.” While the sword is still there, I think we’re to assume N’Zoth’s death ended up saving her from a lot of the would be problems the wound led to.
It’s not terribly clear.
Hard to say at the moment. If anything, the events of the war campaign are what most tie into the Shadowlands plotline. BFA’s two different stories (being the Fourth War and N’Zoth) were disjointed and somewhat poorly tied together, so you’d honestly just be better off studying them as if they were separate. As far as I can tell, Azeroth’s wound doesn’t have any bearing on the Shadowlands plot… yet.
They HAVE said in interviews that they’re not ignoring that the sword is still there, so this implies resolution for that as well. Could be in Shadowlands, could be beyond.
Not terribly, no. The Mechagon plotline seemed to be an entirely contained side story outside of the events of the Fourth War and N’Zoth. I think mainly we happened upon it because, since the Alliance and Horde had a focus in Kul Tiras, we took notice of the vault in Tiragarde, which led us to Mechagon.
Meanwhile, the gnomes “native to Kul Tiras” aren’t explicitly native. While the Alliance and Kul Tiras weren’t on particularly good terms, Kul Tiras wasn’t closed off. Individuals, largely, were allowed to come and go as they pleased. Individuals like Okri Putterwrench for example. That’s not to say that a gnome who’s native to Kul Tiras is an impossibility.
This one might be a bit tricky. I think it’s possible that, even if Mechagon wasn’t readily known to the outside world, that doesn’t mean they didn’t come and go outside of it as they pleased. Not all of Mechagon’s residents were mechanized - it’s possible that they sent out the occasional gnome to report back to the Mechagon what had happened in the world.
You wouldn’t be able to discern a gnome from Gnomeregan and a gnome from Mechagon in a crowd, presuming the latter didn’t have any glaring modifications.
The Well of Eternity is practically a Pool of Azerite and now there are multiple Azerite Wells… Each a superior source of Arcane to the Sunwell and especially the Nightwell!
The Well of Eternity was a somewhat unique instance of a Titan destroying an Old god outright, tearing a hole the size of a small continent all the way to the core of Azeroth in the process. This was during a point of time when the planet was still barely recovering from suffering from the Black Empire for who knows how long, and so titanic machinery was placed to stem the bleeding: a big magic tourniquet.
Azerite is an amalgamation of a crystalline subtance and the raw essence of a Titan. The Well was just the essence itself, basically arcane energy in liquid form. If you think of Azerite as a full out blood sample the well was basically a giant lake of Titan blood plasma.
During the Cataclysm Azerite bubbled up in smaller amounts as well, but went inert when the world healed. Azeroth is obviously still injured with the GIANT DOOM BLADE stuck in her side but with the old gods toast now the Titanic life support systems are able to devote the power they had put to restraining the old gods to keep her stable, so those pools of Azerite are going to dry up and go inert.
Now if someone goes and rips the sword out without a plan to contain the bleeding/damage THEN you might see a second well of eturnity… or more likely azeroth die.