I wanna put it out there…
I predict that Xalatath will somehow capture Arator, whatever way Blizzard chooses to go about it, could just simply capture, could turn him void, could just use him as bait in some way… but the end result will create a situation where Alleria and Turalyon need to save him…it will be Xalataths way of luring them to her, then Turalyon will be killed by Xalatath.
Blizzard has already planted the seeds of Xalatath picking Arator out of the entire army in the Immolation video, her eyes looked all over the battlefield and then locked in on Arator with Xalatath saying something along the lines of “there you are”, she clearly has something planned for him.
They’ve planted the seeds of Alleria and Turalyon being overly protective of Arator, and Arator going against their wishes. These are seeds planted showing that Arator will do what he wants leading to him getting captured by Xalatath. Then Alleria and Turalyon will try to rescue him in a desperate and unprepared fashion.
They’ve planted the seeds of Arator seeing Turalyons past, seeing Anduin Lothar being killed on the battlefield and it changing him forever. This will result in Arator witnessing Turalyons death, and progressing his story arc…but this time around he won’t become like his father did, he’s better than him because this is modern Blizzard story telling.
This will also add to the long list of reasons for Alleria eventually getting the killing blow on Xalatath, unsure if it will happen during Midnight or Last Titan though. She’s been hunting her for a long time now, its her nemesis. Xalatath killing Turalyon will make the moment of Alleria killing Xalatath that much more meaningful. I could possibly be wrong about this though…I feel like its possible Arator will get the killing blow but I still think Alleria is most likely.
Turalyon will die, cause he has had death flags on him since the day he was reintroduced into the setting.
My prediction for these three is that all three of them get captured, because Alleria approached Turalyon for a divorce and the two were arguing over whose fault it was that their not!marriage fell apart, whilst Arator is being written in a way that shows him trying to find out the “Why” Xala’tath kidnapped all 3 of them and is keeping them locked up.
Only for it to be revealed that Xala’tath is actually Turalyon’s and Alleria’s granddaughter from the future, making her Arator’s kid, and she claims that their divorce will be the cause of Azeroth’s complete and total destruction so she devised this whole ordeal involving the “Devouring Host” in order to save their marriage!
And then Azshara comes in WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
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I have a feeling Arator is going to embrace the Void and be able to switch between Light and Void , ushering in Void cosmetics for Paladins, similar to the green fire of Warlocks.
Arator will probably temper his Light Rage with Void , and learn to master both, and wield both by the end. And then we will be able to be Void Paladins - some cosmetic option that turns all the spells purple.
I think this is all a build up for that.
Turalyon keeps acting like a moronic goober until he dies, tells Arator while dying that Arator was right all along, then Alleria feels bad about being a radioactive toxic partner to aforementioned goober, and swears vengeance on Xal’atath for the 1,947th time.
Edit: whoops, forgot to include the part where Arator says he needs his mom for something and she goes “no, I have to do this alone, only me am can do handle this Void Xal’atath grrr.”
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Don’t Discipline Priests already mix Light and Void? And Light’s never driven them mad. It only happening to paladins is contrived.
To be fair, I do think that could tie into how Arator makes more sense as the “Child of Light and Shadow” from Xe’ra’s prophecy (though that was “to end the age of demons” - which we have resolved - and Blizzard’s been obsessed with 
ing on all things Light ever since then).
If you put it that way, it almost seems like circular logic.
In the sense that Priests havent gone mad with the Light possibly because they have a healthy touch of Shadow, while the Paladins are so steeped in the Light, that’s why they are susceptible to the “Light Rage” so maybe a touch of shadow (Void Knight customizations) will be the answer.
It’s not a theory I am hanging my hat 
on. It’s just something that looks like could be in the cards, imo. Especially since he is all tattooed two ways.
This shouldn’t be the case imo. Paladins are of the light, Arator is an anomaly given who his parents are, but with that said, I don’t think this should really even be the case for Arator, his mother took on the Void years after she gave birth to him, he has no ties to the void other than the fact that his mom chose that path later on. His dad was already a paladin at the time of his birth.
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I think it’s possible that instead of purplish void aesthetics, Blizzard would use this opportunity to bring in Nelf/Velf “blueish cosmic” Paladins as there’s already a separate Nelf and Velf paladin in-game.
I say this because the nature of the “Void” as shifted so much that it is aesthetically unrecognizable with regards to modern day WoW. The “Void” is now aesthetically a blue-oriented cosmic/stars stuff whereas before it was the purple-oriented fleshy and gooey stuff back in MoP and up until the end of Legion.
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