Cannot rule that out.
Kinda disappointed we finally get a look at a “true Void Lord” and it’s a glorified warlock pet.
I’m happy.
It’s a nice recognition of our ungodly power over the cosmos
I did the lorewalking for that battle and kept flip-flopping all the way through on whether or not I remember doing that questline in BC or not.
(as opposed to when I got to the broker part and was confused for a moment over whether i was still doing lorewalking or whether I’d been dumped in Oribos and this was just one of the upteen alts left over when I threw up my hands in Shadowlands and said “I’m not doing this running around questline for every single character!”)
I did it one brazillion years ago so I don’t remember anything lol
Dimensius was simply a Void Lord Pet who ate a World Soul.
Old Gods are servants of the Warlock Elemental Lord of the Void Pets who envied the power of the Titans.
Full Disclosure: Warlocks stopped being able to summon the Elemental Lords of the Void after Legion’s first Patch leaving the Warlocks with just Void Elementals below the rank of Elemental Lord.
Dimensius was one of the few Elemental Lords of the Void who decided to strike a bargain with Xal’atath for the sake of getting a World Soul delivered to him directly.
Of course Xal’atath wanted the World Soul for herself and Dimensius denied her so she blew up K’aresh with the help of Ve’nari and Locus Walker shattering Dimensius in the process leaving him with no choice but to align with the Shadowguard to revive himself with Nexus King Salhadaar rejoining him the second he discovered Xal’atath’s treachery(before that discovery he was hunting Dimensius to get revenge because he thought Dimensius blew up K’aresh).
Dimensius empowered with both the World Soul and merged with the Planet is what Sargeras is afraid of which is why he has the Legion destroy World Souls in order to make sure the Void Lords simply have the World Souls’ power but without the power of merging with Worlds.
A Void Lord with a World Soul’s power is slightly weaker than an Old God unchained but given the chance to bond with the Planet would become a nightmare for the Cosmos.
An Old God bonded with a Planet is no better in Sargeras’s mind as that is pretty much just as powerful as a Void Titan and needs to die.
Any walking sentient Void Planet whether it be Void Titan, Void Lord or Old God needs to die as far as Sargeras is concerned.
TWW is starting to feel more like “The War…Somewhere…I Guess?”
But it ends within another planet.
They got 2 more whole expansions…it would be really unrealistic to expect 100% of it to be strictly digging deeper and deeper into Azeroth it/herself. Like what even is next? Oh sorry all we found and even DEEPER unground culture? It also is orcs meaning orcs are native to Azeroth and not warmongering intergalactic invaders which clearly means the ones who DID invade were secretely drawn to return to their ultra ancestral super home where in reality the Alliance is the boogeyman bad guys all along!!!
I probably shouldn’t give Blizz ideas…
Still a better love story than Twilight.
The ending cinematic we wake up on the shores of Dornogal, Dalaran falling to the ground…we were tormented by Xal’atath’s mind shenanigans this whole time…but it was all just a vision!
Nah, it makes total sense. We spent all expansion going as deep as we can into Azeroth, but how much deeper can we really go?
But K’aresh, we can go really deep in there because it’s all broken.
Our world is ending. Do you not see???
Looks like a mutated Christmas bauble
Argus 2.0, Void Boogaloo
Like, it’s almost a direct copy-paste of the end of Legion. We’re yeeting ourselves off into the cosmos, to another planet that should be an expansion on its own, to deal with a cosmic threat that will end Azeroth as we know it.
From a certain point of view, so was TBC.
Just that the other planet in that case was our own. As the expansion mainly focused on Outland.
Okay, sure, but that was an entire expansion.
They created the buildup for the expansion. Legion invades through the Dark Portal. We’ve got to stop them, and then we’ll deal with Illidan, Kael’thas, and everyone while we’re there.
Which is not like Argus or K’aresh, where there was no real buildup for either place, just BAM, we’re going there, and we get a new zone to toy around with along with a new raid and dungeon. Cosmic threat averted, then we’re yeeting ourselves back to Azeroth to deal with Sylvanas/Xal’atath in the next expansion.
No build up for Argus? You mean the planet that we orbit during the final phase of Kil’jaedens boss encounter in Tomb of Sargeras. Hence why Illidan used the Sargerite keystone to open up a rift so Khadgar could teleport us back to Azeroth? The same rift that remained after that?
K’aresh has had some build up. From the Ethereal involvement throughout TWW (and even the Harbringer questline back in DF, which established that it too had a world soul, as Locus Walker said he heard something like the radiant song before Dimensius came). Such as Ky’veza in Nerub’ar Palace and the Shadowguard stealing the Dark Heart under Xal’ataths exposed toes.
Also my comment about TBC starting with Outland then ending on Azeroth (Isle of Quel’danas) was not to much about the build up, but the funny how three expansions focused so much on X and we finish it on Y.
Am i the only one bothered by the word “K’aresh”? That apostrophe is just so unnecessary.
I did think it was odd we’re going to K’aresh so soon tbh. I don’t hate the themes of the next season- its probably the first to speak to me this entire expansion, but the timing seems… off? Like, why Dimensius right now? Wouldn’t it make sense to visit this as a Midnight thing?
It seems like the more we want to see proper worlds as actual expansions with multiple zones, the more we’re just going to get it as “zones” - ie: Emerald Dream, Argus, now this.
I dread to think what Draenor would have been like if it was released post Legion. Eesh.