Ol’ Yoggy called himself The God of Death. Who does Sylvanas serve now? “Death”. She also set out to destroy “hope”. Yogg-Saron, Hope’s End is a legendary card in Hearthstone. But we defeated him, you say? Can a Death God die?
" He will learn. No king rules forever! Only Death is eternal!"-Yogg-Saron
During The Diamond King quest back in Legion saronite vapor and faceless ones were present in Ulduar, along with the Death God’s whispers. The Black Blood of Yogg-Saron was mined by the Scourge and used to make everything they used. Saronite was also how Sylvanas commited suicide.
“The fall alone couldn’t kill her: her animate flesh was nigh indestructible. But the spikes, the hardened blood of an Old God, they not only would tear the body apart but would obliterate the soul as well.”
She died. And entered the ‘hungering darkness’.
"There were others in the darkness. Things she didn’t recognize, because nothing so terrible could exist in the world of the living. Claws tore at her, but she had no mouth with which to scream. Eyes looked at her, but she couldn’t look back.
That all said I’ll bring up an old thread I made many years ago. The Old Gods are Necrophotic Parasites.
" Ohh yes… They Float Georgie… They Float… and when you’re down here, with me… YOU’LL FLOAT TOO!" Sylvanas was floating in The Dead Lights.
“The tortured spirits of your ancestors cling to you, screaming in silence. Apparently they are quite numerous.” -Puzzle Box. Given the supposed Shadowlands expansion which now seems more likely, I wonder how true this will be if we go into the Shadowlands.
“Have you had the dream again? A black goat with seven eyes that watches from the outside.” -Puzzle Box
Many take this to refer to Y’shaarj. What if his destruction only allowed him to return to Nyalotha?
“In the embrace of the great Nurgle, I am no longer afraid, for with His pestilential favour I have become that which I once most feared: Death.”
“The common man is like a worm in the gut of a corpse, trapped inside a prison of cold flesh, helpless and uncaring, unaware even of the inevitability of its own doom.”
Old Gods are just interdimensional parasites. The biggest problem with killing them, as the Titans found out, is not that they can’t die, it’s that they tend to kill the host when they do.
The Old Gods are all very much alive. Y’Shaarj is the only Old God that was killed because he was pulled out of Azeroth by Aman’Thul. That damaged Azeroth pretty badly, which is why they made the plan for C’Thun, Yogg-Saron, and N’Zoth to be imprisoned. N’Zoth is the only one that is actually 100% free now.
We simply beat C’Thun and Yogg-Saron into dormancy. They’re taking very long naps. Their cores are still very much attached to Azeroth, and the only way to kill them is if they were ripped out of the planet like Y’Shaarj was. That would be fatal to Azeroth’s core, and killing everyone on it.
I’m just going to take this moment to shamelessly plug myself. Excuse me a moment.
He was essentially ripped apart, not killed. The Sha in Pandaria are what is left of him, and his heart below the Vale. Like trying to cut out a malignant tumor, it’s just not going to work that way. His 7 heads are the 7 manifestations of the Sha. Anger, Despair, Doubt, Fear, Hatred, Pride, and Violence.
Though we “killed” the manifestations, I’m speculative we destroyed his influence. Hell, Xal’atath was essentially destroyed by her brothers yet here she is.
old gods are beyound our ability to kill, easilly killable by a titan though it leaves a bit of a mess. Yogg is still alive, we simply injured him i think. Also he’s still bound so we where really just fighting an avatar i believe.
Sylvanas was floating in The Dead Lights.