Question for everyone to theory craft and speculate about relative to the Dragonflight cinematic:
What was the blue/purple/green stuff in the water?
Observations:
10,000 years changed to “Now” and we hear/see a strong rumble (akin to that of an earthquake or maybe the volcanic eruptions we see occurring later in the cinematic), as well as a blue/purple/green hue bouncing off his stone skin. He looks up to see the Fel storm, earlier seen in the distance of the ocean’s horizon, is now gone. The water is radiating with some type of energy, possibly Azerite. He looks back and sees that while he’s awake, the island is not, and the mist shrouding the island has not dissipated. That big pylon of power (whatever that thing was) was never reactivated.
Fast forward a little and he’s walking up a pathway to a Titan facility, similar to the Titan engines seen in Northrend. My guess is that after 10,000 years the volcanic activity on the island was strong enough to either wake him up naturally, or serious enough that the integrity of the facility reached a critical level triggering some type of alarm in a few (or maybe all?) Titanic watchers still alive. I say this because the cinematic made it a point to show each other Titanic watcher broken and still sleeping, though I believe they’re most likely dead or in a state of disrepair. He probably realized that with the Fel storm gone, it’s safe enough to reactivate the pylon thing and deactivate the shroud.
Moving on, he’s walking up the pathway with molten lava spilling into the structure and causing structural damage. Time is of the essence and so he climbs the tower, scales the pylon, and brutes the mechanism back together. Shroud disappears, dragons show up mere seconds later (wow they fly quick), and everyone’s doing barrel rolls in the sky.
My theory, as stated above, is that the water was carrying ashore blood of Azeorth, and that the volcanic activity spurred some type of defense mechanism in the facility, waking any able Titanic watcher up. Maybe the volcanic activity ruptured a wound (like when you accidently itch a scab and it starts bleeding again). But if the water contained Azerite, how did it make its way to the shores of the Dragon Isles? Is this blood from BFA that is only now hitting the shoreline? Or is Azerite still bleeding up to the surface and, if so, close enough to the Dragon Isles to cause contamination of water? Why didn’t this occur sooner than “Now” when Azerite first erupted almost one whole expansion ago. Lastly, if it’s not the blood of Azeroth, what else could it possibly be?