I set one foot into spiderville and was like, “Nope. No way. Skyva, you belong topside where the sunlight and stars watch over you.” Then I wrote a letter to my Paladin friend Brokk and he went straight away. Then again he’s one of those Dark Irons that smell like sweat and ash.
I gave up on the story in BFA after they failed to acknowledge anything in Legion, tbh, but for me it’s about the endgame, and TWW has delivered on every front EXCEPT Necrotic Wake.
Everything else is awesome and I’m having a great time.
I actually debated rolling another Dwarf the other day, just so I could have some cold climate fun.
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Actually, not a bad idea. I have been meaning to reroll, on WrA, an old dwarf rogue from my first realm. He was fun to play.
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Spiderville for me was tonally repetative. Anduin going “They’re just like us, frfr” and I’m just getting violent Iron Horde/Suramar flashbacks.
“I’ve seen this place. I know this face.”
I’m waiting for the plot point that our driving the Old Gods back into Stasis ended a low-level planetary-wide Angy Field sort of interference between the lingering pockets of Old God influence and corruption and the Titanic structures that make up the Mantle.
That Azeroth has been stuck fighting each other ever since the end of the Black Empire because the Old Gods’ corruption across Azeroth was so far-reaching and so deeply ingrained that when the Titans started pumping the planet full of Arcane energies via the Leylines and this Mantle network of facilities, and we know Void reacts violently with most other forms of Primal Magic, that we’re all torn between the chaosic darwinism of the Void pushing us to embrace every possible option, and the stifling order of the Arcane pushing us to obey, comply and reproduce, that now that one of those powers is offline and the other is barely functioning, for the first time in thousands of years … there’s silence.
And that is why we can hear the World Soul calling out to us through the Visions now.
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Personally, I’d like to know more about the vast cavern of Old God blood in Spiderville.
Strikes me that I distinctly remember Azeroth herself bleeding a few expansions ago. And now we find out there’s vast pockets of Old God blood also in the world. Seems like the blood of the Worldsoul and the blood of the Old Gods coming together would have implications.
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No I’ve really enjoyed the story- I got loremaster and I’m taking a pause to level some alts while it’s easy. But soon I’ll go back on more of the main story quest. I really enjoy the characters.
The Novella they released for the direct/20th anniversary was dope too
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The theory I’m running with is it is a lot like Saronite, except instead of Old God blood that fossilized, this is Aqir blood. And just like we have two types of Saronite, Green Saronite which is the ‘fossilised’ version and can eventually be worked as a metal by talented smiths, and ‘Black’ Saronite, which is fresher and still harbors the will of Yogg’Saron within it, being resistant to almost every force, even the Light, although with the Words of Domination, the Lich King and the Scourge were able to force it, and potentially Yogg’Saron, to serve their purpose.
Isn’t that a horrifying through. Yogg’Saron wasn’t declaring itself the God of Death, it was fighting a three-way war between the Champions, the Titanic facility holding it imprisoned, and the Scourge, and due to the re-writing/dominating/altering properties of the Words of Domination, it was slowly being re-written on every level to be an extension of Zovaal’s will.
It was becoming the God of Death.
But to Aqirite and the Black Blood we’re facing now has different properties, pointing to a different origin than the Black Blood of Yogg’Saron. I theorize that the Black Blood we encountered this time fuels rage and lowers cognitive ability, making it very powerful for shock-tactics and suicide charges, and what’s an Old God from a nearby landmass that specialized in emotional control?
Y’Shaarj, whose remains tainted nearby Pandaria for thousands and thousands of years, and whose heart was destroyed in the aftermath of the Siege of Orgrimmar. We assumed incorrectly that all of his remains had been destroyed, but if the Black Blood beneath Dornogal is his … and Old Gods are intrinsically tied tied to every scrap of their corporeal bodies, making banishing them effectively impossible unless you destroy every last one of those scraps …
Wouldn’t that be terrifying? Xala’toesies wasn’t just draining the crystal in Hallowfall to empower herself, she was trying to revive the Old God Y’shaarj because he was the most powerful of the Old Gods, and his emotional powers would be excruciatingly potent in the aftermath of however-many-genocide-attempts-we’re-at-now Wars between the Alliance and the Horde?
And even worse? She’d be using him as a throw-away minion because she knows we can kill Old Gods … but he’s too dangerous for us to ignore so she can run off and put the next phase of her plan into motion and we can’t go after her for months, at best, and we’ll be so battered and broken that we’ll be hard-pressed to be more than a nuisance to her in the process.
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