Bringing King Sal back from TBC was not written well at all. He literally pops up out of nowhere buuuut this is also in the story where the writers force us to ally with Xalatath and have us turn off our brains. Also the ethereals (wows arabic faction) using WMDS on their own planet for a sake of a plot twist for Alleria’s character growth. Jesus that writing was not needed at all.
Also are there white people on other planets in space now? When did this happen.?
Let’s see. Purple haired female won?
EDIT: Ofc she did.
Her being a silver surfer type character isn’t really new info, this is likely just being dropped in animation form so you don’t have to karesh to learn this info
Animated cinematics are back. This is Great.
Well yeah, what did you expect? The bad guy to lose before their evil plan manages to even be executed.
Don’t worry we know Xal will face plant soon enough, and not because of her hair color but because she has been a source of evil to the world.
So, with Xal we’re chasing a dead pointy-eared woman that says she is the real victim despite doing to others what was done to her - that she alone will show everyone the truth and bring them freedom and salvation - through multiple expansions where everything we do to try to stop her plays right into her hands so she can fulfil her master plan for the cosmic force she sided with…
Yeah, I think I’ve seen this before. It didn’t end well.
Xal is chasing alleria because she wants Alleria’s body after Alleria gives into the void.
Xal’s current body is a basic civilian.
Alleria’s is bathed in the heart of a dark naaru.
Yeahhhh so I really am not feeling this direction they are going with Xalatath and the story.
Positives: Love this style of cinematic; honestly, Blizzard needs to do dozens of these per expac, not 1 or 2.
However, that’s where the good ends for me.
The timeline is confusing to me - Saladhar is secretly in service of the Void and Dimensius from TBC times isn’t he? And he definitely is a Void agent by TWW/Manaforge Omega. So why is he fighting Xalatath? Why is Xalatath speaking to him as if he is totally on the other side? If it were a matter of duplicity, wouldn’t the conversation be more around switching allegiances/plans as opposed to some bombastic reveal of the Void being survival?
And if this is from TBC times or somewhere between then and now before Salad’s defection, why does Xalatath look exactly the way she does now?
That’s my objective issue with the timeline.
Subjective take is that I really dislike this direction they are going with her and the Void in general. I think that downplaying her connection to Azeroth, the Old Gods, the Black Empire detaches her from the world the players care about, makes her less compelling of a villain, and strips the the Void of nuance.
They had/have an opportunity here to really expand upon the nature of the Void, Void Lords, the Old Gods, the Black Empire and Azeroth, but they have chosen to go the route of Void is essentially blurple Fel with might-is-right vore overtones. Not only is this sort of simplistic, but it also doesn’t mesh well with what we previously know about the Void.
Essentially, they’re making the same mistake they did with Shadowlands by taking the setting in a markedly different direction, and introducing backstories or plot points that are wildly separated from the existing lore instead of resolving or directly adding to existing story hooks.
In closing, the more I learn about Xalatath and the Void right now, the more I lose interest/get turned off. Her Legion → BFA angle was the most interesting to me.
While I think there’s a lot going wrong with Midnight, I dunno, I personally kinda liked this one. Xal’atath’s literally the only interesting thing in this game since Sylvanas got sent to do janitor duties in the maw, imo.
…Huh, I might just have a type. 
Don’t really like the whole “I was a mortal once, y’know” kind of thing. What happened with the theory that she used to be an all-devouring old god that got carved up by the others?
Went from enigmatic to boring really quickly for me, tbh with this change.
Part of me thinks it was part of the TWW re-write to fit within the World Soul Saga. Also the timing of Xal’atath being a mortal turned Herald for Dimensius (even the early hints back in the Dark Heart questline at the end of Dragonflight) and the reveal / release of Fantastic Four: First Steps seems too much of a coincidence imo. But that is just me being a bit conspiratorial.
I honestly do think that the mural of that Old God looking entity we see in the Ansurek cinematic, which also appears at the end of the City of Threads dungeon was going to be Xal’atath until the ‘totally not a silver surfer rip off’ plot was added.
One thing that is really lame about Midnight is that Blizz had the opportunity to to get real crazy Lovecraftian with the big bad void stuff. And they just went with big void walkers?
BFA was a better void expansion than this.
The cinematic starts with Salhadaar and his men fighting against the void creatures, there is teleportation or even hints of it preceeding. You’re making up a guess work and projecting as if it was presented to us while it wasn’t. You can keep your gas lighting to you.
First you say that he was absorbed, now you say that he wasn’t absorbed, you have a supirsingly short memmory for a would-be manipulator.
I generally like the dark vibes of this cinematic and its tone, but I can’t pretend everything is fine, when Blizzard is inconsistent with its own narration. if they release extra cinematic or extra in-game quest / scenario, closing the gap between patch 11.2 story and this cinematic, it would look much cooler. Ignoring the gaps in story will not make it look better.
In any event, I will not bother replying to your cheap Gaslighting anylonger.
So what are the chances that a Lothraxion Animation comes next?
My predictions?:
He infuses his power into a Cult of Xal’atath’s species including Xal’atath herself only for the Light to capture him and unleash it’s power on Xal’atath and the Cult only for the Void to intervene to save her.
Lothraxion is caught off-guard by the presence of a blatantly Eldritch Shadowy Entity different from the Void(with Red Eyes and Back Tendrils like Sylvanas) and is informed that the Shadowy Entity is the True Shadow originating from Zereth Umbrae and that the Cosmic Void is the 7th Force spoken of in the Writings of the First Ones.
Lothraxion promptly devotes himself to the destruction of the Void and lets himself be Lightforged.
Little does he, the Shadow, the Naaru or the Void know what lurks at the bottom of the Maw…
Prediction: Xal’atath and her people once revered the light, but in their time of need, the light had forsaken them in their fight against the emergence of Dimensius.
One by one, their mortal lives were taken, and each now transformed into void beings, were locked into a cycle of fighting and consuming their former kin to survive.
What could drive Xal’atath to scheme and climb her way up the void hierarchy for all these hundreds of thousands of years, and to what end? Here’s to hoping the answer to those questions is compelling.
Completely agree. I’ll never forgive Blizzard for not giving us the Black Empire expansion we deserved and instead giving us the dumb Nyalotha raid with the terrible ending
They’re saving that for when N’zoth returns 
I love Yvenathilm posts. I’m fully convinced they are the maddening whispers of the infinite Void made manifest in binary 1s and 0s.
They aren’t lying or misremembering or making erroneous connections. They are making factual statements about a reality that isn’t.
And I think that’s beautiful.
There is a difference between the statements “He was absorbed” and “He was not absorbed by the Dark Heart” You do understand that, right? It means he was absorbed in a different way, like in a way that sent him to Voidstorm.
It’s called inductive reasoning, sweaty. He was in one place, Xal’atath did something to him to make him disappear, and then the next time we see him, he’s in Voidstorm. Basic cause-and-effect dictates that she teleported him there. I have to assume you do not need every minute detail spoon-fed to you, but instead that this temporary laps in baseline media literacy is the result of a negative bias towards the writers. Maybe try to interrogate that a little before you start calling people “manipulators”, okay hon?