And the Xal’atath questline:
- Cho covers the acquisition of the blade in Legion (including replaying the whispers that it gave over the entire expansion), and the BFA re-empowering (which seems to have been canonically done by the same priest from Legion, a male blood elf).
- Then Cho says that he and the other Lorewalkers have found something new. An ancient tablet from Stormsong that took many years to decipher. A record of the Black Empire.
- We are taken back to Ny’alotha, when the Old Gods sent all their forces to counter an unexpected attack from Xal’atath and her void minions. We play as a faceless one pledged to N’Zoth, fighting this attempted “usurping.”
- We summon in all the other Old Gods. Some of N’Zoth’s minions claim that he could easily have defeated Xal’atath on his own, if his forces had not been “infiltrated.”
Yogg-Saron: Xal’atath’s betrayal was inevitable, but she has played her hand too soon.
Y’Shaarj: N’Zoth should have known Xal’atath would target him when she learned what he was building. Fortunately, our aid will leave him in our debt.
C’Thun: Xal’atath underestimates us. Her attempts to distract us have failed. Even we will work together, when faced with such blatant betrayal.
- For her betrayal of the Black Empire, Xal’atath (shows as a voidwalker-type shadow creature) is condemned to imprisonment. I’ll just link the video from Wowhead that shows it.
- Cho wonders if Xal’atath was unfazed by her imprisonment, because her ultimate plan was to collaborate with N’Zoth in the far distant future of BFA. We still don’t know her ultimate origin - even though it may not be connected to the Old Gods at all - but we have another piece of the puzzle.