Question to you fine people. I’m no lore guru as much as I wish to be, so I was wondering if it’s a possibility. Xal is the harbinger to bring in the void lords. The void lords are the ones that plagued Azeroth with the Old Gods back then, but we took down the Olds Gods. Is it a possibility they can be brought back? Kind of like the demons within the Twisting Nether?
Fairly sure, no. The Void Lords could make more Old Gods and send them around, but I am fairly sure they are not like demons that are tied to another realm. If defeated fully, they are defeated.
Still dunno why we killed the old gods when the titans couldnt.
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with the lore if not changes we can not truly kill the old gods if we do azeroth will be poisoned we just knock them back to sleep
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…What? Poison? Where did you ever hear that?
The status of the Old Gods has changed many times. They did at one point say we could not kill them without killing the planet. That was later clarified into the Titans being unable to kill them without killing the planet.
We apparently did actually kill 3 imprisoned Old Gods, and the remnants of a 4th Old God.
I believe Steve Danuser once suggested in an interview that maybe Old Gods return to the Void Realm when they die the same way Demons return to the Twisting Nether, but this has never been explored and Danuser is no longer on the team.
The Old Gods are created by the Void Lords, so they could just make more instead of resurrecting old ones.
Definitely still a confusing and messy bit of the lore. I suspect we’re going to get clearer answers during the Worldsoul Saga.
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they are like a evil tick in a way remove them and they release a toxin
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I’m fairly sure they are.
Blizzard said that’s basically the standard behavior of magic creatures.
If you kill them in the Mortal Realm, they respawn in their home Realm, and if you kill them in their home Realm, they die forever with no afterlife.
It works like that for Demons, Elementals and the Shadowlads of Shadowlands.
Argus the Unmaker was called the Death Titan, will he have any influence on the Shadowlands and do Demons go to the Shadowlands or are they on a different cosmic level?
Demons are born of the Twisting Nether; normally, a demon killed on Azeroth or otherwise outside of its home realm will go back to the Twisting Nether, eventually coalesce, and come back. Sargeras tried to shortcut that process by using Argus as a resurrection engine to speed up that process. That same principle applies to other creatures of various realms (Shadow, Light, Fire, etc). The Shadowlands is specifically for mortal beings to go through the process of Death.
So the Burning Legion still goes back to the Twisting Nether, unless they’re killed there, at which point they experience kind of a “true death”. Even then however, the energy that makes up those creatures remains. For example, if a Steward named Joe running around Bastion is crushed to death, Joe is gone, because he died within his home realm, but that energy remains - eventually a new Steward, Jane, will pop up to take Joe’s place.
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As of now we’re not aware of any limits the void has in terms of its army.
Will there be another N’zoth? No, don’t think so.
Is it possible there’s a million+ N’zoth equivalents chilling in the twisting nether? Absolutely
Ah I gotcha. So the Titans couldn’t get rid of the Old Gods without destroying Azeroth, so we were sent to do it. Kind of like when someone uses a can of Raid on bugs, we were the Raid can. I’m excited to what’s to come when the Void Lords return. I can picture it like back in Legion when we entered a portal and there were hundreds of demons and demon bosses just standing there. Thank you all.
I’ll never be convinced that he’s actually dead, though. It was too easy.
When the titans killed an old god they almost blew up the planet. They only have cosmic hammers - we’re the scalpels.
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I did see a spoiler about there being a strange fish in one of the TWW zones. If you remember from the Azshara story he came to her as a fish. So here is to keeping hope alive.
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I want N’zoth to switch sides and fight his old masters with us, he’s too cool to waste as a villain.
I also wanted Xal’atath to do that but after the… “events” in the beginning of TWW that might be off the table.
The old gods are basically the kaiju from Pacific Rim, brutes tossed at something to subdue it.
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That would be interesting because what happens to the old gods once Azeroth is devoured. I can see him switching sides because it benefits him more.
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Yeah, plus we need more sympathetic/allied characters associated with Void if they’re going to go with the “none of the six Powers are actually wholly on our side, just individuals within them that we can sway to our cause” thing.
Right now all we have in the way of void characters is Locus Walker and he’s sus as hell.
I really like this explanation.
I don’t see the Old Gods as a win condition for the Void Lords. I think they are a cosmic annoyance meant to weaken the real target. Similar to how the allies in WWI disrupted the Middle East to an extreme extent to crash the Ottoman Empire and Prussians.
Another aspect I see out of the Old Gods is that their very presence brings more and more void energy into existence in our reality. With what we know from Netherstorm the more natural void energy the easier it is for the Void Lords to manifest themselves to our plane.
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Ysarj or however you spell its name was the first to “die” and look what it did in pandaria… Yeah kill them is more like setting them back… not actually ending their life. They are still there, just waiting…
Yeah why would they ever keep the heart?
Because they cant kill it, They imprisioned it and it was working… Until Mein Fuerer Garrosh came along. What a T.aco W.ater A.sphalt T.uesday.
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They should have shot the thing back into space.
This is from Chronicle:
Not sure if they ever actually bothered studying it though.
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