So we just released N’zoth from his prison using our heart necklaces. If this was always the way to release him do you think he’s been planning it since the very beginning? Influencing events that eventually led to Garrosh going to alternate draenor and allowing Guldan to come to Azeroth and bringing the legion here which eventually led to the defeat of Sargeras and him stabbing the planet and making her bleed her titan blood? Because Azshara states that the blood of a titan is what was needed to break the chains. I just wonder if Nzoth knew these events would transpire since day one.
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Hard to say really. There is even one really wacky theory making the rounds that all of BFA is going to be framed as just a vision of N’zoth we have been living over and over again.
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I can’t imagine a more boring/lazy story development than “literally everything that’s ever happened was N’Zoth’s plan”. Especially since it’s just to cover already dumb/lazy plot points that don’t make much sense when you think about them.
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How funny would it be though if it was?
Our PC wakes up drenched in water, no HoA to be seen with Sylvanas/Anduin standing over us with an empty bucket. They express confusion at how this “fourth war” even came to be and that we’re clearly still suffering from N’zoth’s influence. They smack us and suddenly we’re in the next Xpac: Visions of N’zoth, 4 realz this time!
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No way. Good schemers adapt their plans to the circumstances but they’ll rarely admit it wasn’t all according to plan. It adds to the mystique.
The official Comics show Alleria being told by N’Zoth(8.2.5 and the post-Ny’alotha Raid dialogue confirms it was him) that Sylvanas serves the true enemy(and we end up seeing Sylvanas’s own point of view there) so BfA does happen the question is whether we are living in BfA’s present or are in Ny’alotha in 8.3.
Il’gynoth seems to recognize us when we meet him in the Nightmare and N’Zoth was able to pass a Faceless One as Wrathion while also passing a bridge off as the top of a building in the Twilight Realm.
We could have already reached the 8.3 point of the story but be trapped in a vision where we retrace our steps while N’Zoth or Il’gynoth sneaks in a warning of Sylvanas(posing as Varimathras)!
It was probably more of an opportunistic turn of events for N’zoth. There are hints though that connections to the void give individuals some sort of ability to have psychic visions of the future. Best known example is Ogmot who essentially forsaw the entirety of BFA, but Il’gynoth is also worth mentioning. I think Alleria has visions also? I’m not 100% on that.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Ogmot%27s_Dream_Journal
Alleria’s multiple visions from the Void itself supposedly showed her bowing before N’Zoth and absorbing him before creating a worse army.
Of course that was her opinion about what she saw though said vision could have been her seeing the Ny’alotha version of herself bowing to N’Zoth followed by Sylvanas absorbing N’Zoth into the Blade of the Black Empire(which Alleria mistook for herself absorbing N’Zoth due to her previous vision of bowing to N’Zoth).
The Void shows half-truths. The futures they show happen yet the people in the futures they show may not be the real deal. N’Zoth saw Wrathion turn evil yet didn’t consider that it may have been the Faceless imposter he was about to use on us.
N’zoth was mucking about with all that Deathwing stuff (his minions being in the Dragon Soul raid, for example), and Deathwing winning there was a win condition for N’zoth was well, but he failed. So, I don’t think N’zoth is a 5000 IQ prophetic genius. I think he’s just making it up as he goes along and taking opportunities where he can find them.
N’zoth’s current plans probably started when Sargeras shiv’d the planet, or when Magni gave us the Heart of Azeroth. That’s where he saw an opportunity.
As for prophecies in general, the ones that the Old Gods have are often a bit wonky. I think they can just sometimes see possible futures, and that they have some sort of clairvoyant sense of the world (rather than just knowing what they’re actually present to see and hear).
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The Void shows half-truths.
It could be more of a case that the void shows potential futures rather than absolute ones. So she’s seeing a possibility. I’d imagine that the 8.3 visions that are coming are the same thing, potential futures the void is showing us.
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