Is Dimensius... K'aresh?

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This theory is starting off with the assumption that Beledar really is a shard of the World Soul. While we know not all of the information in the Chronicle is true anymore, it outright says that naaru and world-souls were born from shards of Light thrown throughout the cosmos at the birth of the universe.

Like the naaru, the Beledar has both a Light and a Void form, suggesting this might not be an unusual state for a world-soul to end up in.

This brings me to the Black Blood. The PTR reveals that N’Zoth did not create the Visions of N’Zoth using his own power, but through the power of the Black Blood, suggesting that the Black Blood is not simply from one of the Old Gods. The Black Blood was said to have been dislodged by Sargeras’ sword, just like something else did in the same expansion N’Zoth started that trick - Azerite.

Azerite is known to be the blood of Azeroth, but if world-souls shift between Light and Void, could it be that the golden Azerite has a shadowy counterpart in the Black Blood? Both Azerite and the Black Blood have been used to create incredibly powerful and volatile weapons.

We also know that the Ethereals heard a Radiant Song from their own world shortly before it was destroyed. We’re hearing a Radiant Song from Azeroth as the Black Blood is spreading and the Beledar is beginning to shift into the Void.

Maybe the Shadowguard and the Order of Night aren’t so much traitors to their worlds, as much as those wrapped up into following its darker half. Perhaps K’aresh wasn’t so much “destroyed” as its world-soul was birthed during its Void phase.

This is clearly still not a good thing. Even if it’s a natural event for world-souls, it still clearly would not be a healthy one and something we would want to avoid for Azeroth. The prophecy of Renilash, then, may not be so much about a cosmic showdown between Light and Shadow, but Azeroth’s final decision as to whether it will be born in Light or Shadow.

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What destroyed K’aresh was Dimensius opening portals to the nether letting shadow and arcane energy flood the planet. Ethereals were able to put up magic barriers that stopped the shadow, but not the arcane, which is why they are arcane infused souls now. If it was just Dimensius turning void-y as a world soul then that wouldn’t explain why ethereals are arcane infused.

World souls are not naturally light or shadow, the first one to awaken was Aman’thul who is order aligned. The lore is a bit fuzzy because of recent things, but world souls are either naturally order aligned that can be influenced to other forces or they are naturally neutral and can be influenced to different forces with the Titans being the most successful in influencing world souls towards order.

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I still believe it is the former given that Argus was still a Titan despite being pumped full of fel and death magic. After all, Argus being a Titan is important as that is the reason why the robot Arbiter blue screened when Argus went to the Shadowlands instead of where he should’ve went after his kin used his soul to imprison Sargeras.

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Maybe, unless Argus turns out to be a Titan because it was already found and Reordered at some point, and that was how Sargeras knew to go there upon looking through his Rolodex of worlds the Titans had previously visited when shopping for a sufficiently orderly race of prospective generals to organize and lead his army.

Not that I’d personally like that to be the case, but I could see them going that route to explain away Argus already being a nascent Titan before his Fel or Death corruption if they end up actually pursuing the theorized “blank slate” approach to World Souls.

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Every world soul is a Titan they just aren’t Order Titans. It’s the route blizz appears to be going with their new lore on world souls

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Argus is referred to as a death titan, so that likely is the route Blizzard is going. It’s the easiest way to reconcile the newer lore with the older lore.

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If the Black Blood comes from Azeroth it could explain why N’Zoth was able to create Alternate Universes as Azeroth did restore Nozdormu to his position of Aspect of Time so she must have Time Magic.

There is another possibility for the Black Blood if Beledar is not Azeroth’s essence: Beledar itself could be the source for the Black Blood:

https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Buried_Secrets_(Siren_Isle)#Notes

Glittering Ancient Tablet
<The monolith depicts a vast stone tower collapsing into an massive wave. In the shadow of the wave, a faint figure can be seen.

Beneath the tower, in an underground chamber, humanoid figures take shelter before a glittering gold facet.>

For generations passed, our purpose held, the Luminous Heart at ease.

When lands seized and heaved, the skies flashed in noxious green.

Our bastion cracked, as towers fell, and waters black encroached.

In Vault beneath, we Sturmvyn prayed, Cyrce’s hand upon her Heart.

But when tremors grew, its cries rang out; Hymosul’s squall renewed.

When silence fell, the cries still pained, our stone-runed doors unsealed
As Cyrce strode forth, our bastion ruined, surrounded by waters new.

Upon our shores, a dark thing stood, its words in our minds, it spoke:

"The Deep One stirs, this place calls out, his right to claim is nigh
Kneel before the Old One’s gifts, their powers yours combined."

N’Zoth claimed Beledar after the sundering so he easily could have made Beledar’s Blood into the Black Blood as well as change Beledar’s descendants into Void Naaru.

Once N’Zoth realizes that the Crystals could bleed with Sargeras stabbing the one under Silithus in an attempt to spite the Light for imprisoning him he would force Beledar to switch to Void State in order to channel the Black Blood into Azeroth through Elun’Ahir’s Roots and injure the remaining Crystals under Kul Tiras, Zandalar, Darkshore and Silithus in hopes of gaining the Azerite needed to break open his prison.

Of course once N’Zoth is dead and no longer infusing the Void into it Beledar is simply retaking the Black Blood and spewing it back out in order to simulate the Void state because it’s too used to having it.

Furthermore I suspect Beledar is one of the places accessed from the Portals that Dimensius opened up(explaining the Radiant Song appearing at K’aresh) so if the Black Blood is sucked into the Dark Heart then Beledar’s true face without the Light is revealed.

I expect that Azeroth(who channeled her Aspects through the Dragon Aspects after the Amirdrassil Raid) and Elune(who channeled the Night Warrior through countless vessels) aren’t the only beings to have Aspects…

Once the Black Blood is drained the Crystal Beledar will draw in Aspects of it’s power to fill the True Void revealing the One Truth: “Only the Strongest Survive.”

The Eternal Ones each bore an Aspect of a Deity which overpowered the Prototype Bodies with the Winter Queen’s Aspect saying “Only the Strongest Survive.”

Fortunate how the Incarnate of Ice was given an Aspect of Azeroth otherwise she would not survive if the Incarnate of Ice’s original Aspect was originating from Harranir Goddess in Beledar. Of course since the Incarnate of Ice resembles the Winter Queen that’s not good news for the Winter Queen as she is now as good as dead in order to replace the Harranir Goddess’s Void Face.

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Seems to be the case that the Black Blood is a goulash of every Azerothian Old God’s blood. K’aresh having a Worldsoul, given what happened with Dimensius, seems to disprove the notion that Void Lords seek to corrupt a Worldsoul to become a Void Titan, unless Dimensius is a rogue Void Lord with a different agenda. Maybe he’s the “Sargeras/Zovaal fractal” of Team Void or something, I dunno.

I will point out, however, by way of disproving the notion that The Black Blood reflects a dual nature to Azeroth, that Azerite has been shown to overpower the Void. Magni did so when purging the Earthen, crystallized gathering nodes overpower the void afflicted ones, and the means of dispelling The Unseeming is via resonance (I’ll wager that ties into Azeroth’s song in some way; Bonus noncanon sources of reference in the leaked Class survey).