I’ve gotten the Loremaster achievement and I still don’t think there’s been any explanation for why it happened.
We can infer that them being available again is due to Azeroth’s titan starting to wake up, but what made the isles go dormant in the first place?
I think it’s like turning on the security system for a house before you go away on vacation except the system turns your entire county invisible and you forget the password on your keyfab to disable it so you drive up and down the new coastline for 10,000 years trying to figure out where the property is supposed to exist until a tectonic shift triggers the automatic reboot feature which disables the force field hiding the entire stretch of land.
I think the cinematic explained they turned on the hiding thing before going to fight the Legion?
They turned it on just as the sundering was taking place. If you rewatch the cinematic you can see the well of eternity in the process of blowing up
It’s not very clear but it was because of the Sundering. The dragonflight cinematic trailer takes place at the same time as the Aszhara Warbringers.
The Highborne mages put arcane locks on the Well of Eternity to stop Sargeras from using it as a portal but when Sargeras tried to come through those arcane locks triggered an explosion that sundered the world. The Well of Eternity is connected to Tyrshold so to protect the Dragon Isles and the Life pools they triggered the defence mechanism Tyr put in place, because Tyr prepared for this to happen.
There’s a lot of lore still locked behind renown but if you fiddle with stuff in Tyrshold you get some little lore bits. That suggest Tyr was a doomsday prepper, and he prepared for the Legion invasion.
Wouldn’t you be if you lived on Azeroth? Tyr was just a competent titan watcher.
The Stoneboi cinematic, the lesser cinematic, seemed to imply the Dragon Isles took a nappy because the Flights left it when the first Legion invasion happened. Presumably the longnap was intended to keep it safe from the Legion? It’s a best guess situation, and that seems to be the best guess anyone’s had.
Why didn’t it wake back up after the Legion left?
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Dragon reasons.
The Isles were hidden due to some kind of magical shrouding from the big device at the top of Tyrhold. So many people on this forum have lately been implying that the dragons just forgot where the Isles were from geography change or something (as if the dragons couldn’t just find it again by rasterizing the ocean). It’s not that complicated, it was magically hidden in the same sense Pandaria was.
I was imprisoned by uncle Malygos, so I have no idea.
Which cinematic is this? The expansion one?
I missed that entirely and need to rewatch if so.
Lets just say it is like what happened to the Forgotten Worlds in Spyro 3. All the dragons left (well, forced to leave) and suddenly the magic all dried up.
So if you see any thicc lizards with a bunny near them, make sure to bring a Sabaron with you.
The concealment of the Dragon Isles was a deliberate mechanism activated by the Keepers at Tyrhold, but the timing of the elements there going dormant comes across as likely being a symptom of the Sundering.
I’m kind of getting the impression that Azeroth’s world-soul may have been wounded and struggling to recover for these past 10,00 years, and the nominal removal of the Old God infection as of BfA is allowing her to at last heal properly from the effects of the Sundering, which is why the elements on the Dragon Isles started waking up. So possibly “the world is healing” and the primal elements are becoming active because the planet is finally recovering from the damage to its soul that was caused by the Sundering.
Hmm, that’s kind of odd, since technically the Keepers shouldn’t have really known about the Burning Legion until it actually invaded Azeroth, which was well after Tyr’s death. The titans themselves only found out about the Legion after they’d left Azeroth. Of the Keepers, only Ra received any moderately coherent memories from the slain titans’ spirits attempting to inhabit the Keepers, and even those were so fragmented that he had to sort of piece together just the basic realization that the Pantheon was dead.
Yeah, it’s the initial one that was released during the prepatch. As the isles are being closed off, you can see the implosion of the Well of Eternity in the background
I doubt the mechanism was set up specifically for the Legion, it’s probably more of a general “In case of cataclysmic event, break glass” sort of thing.
Although, it’s also possible that the Keepers knew of the Legion for much longer than initially thought because the Titans themselves might have told them.
You should take everything Mithonic says with a grain of salt unless he provides a quote (like his claim that Chronicle said Freya made the dragons when it says no such thing). I’m not sure what he’s talking about in regards to Tyr and the Legion and I did every sidequest in Thaldraszus.
Umm that’s really rude of you to say like, wth? What’s your beef with me Raile? What did I ever do to you?
There’s a quest in Valdraaken where you power up the Tyrshold defence mechanisms where the Lady Stone Watcher says verbatim, Tyr planned for every threat, he theorized every possible outcome and prepared for it.
The Titan keepers were infused with a soul fragment and powers of the Titans’s themselves. Tyr was empowered by Aggramar, that’s really important since Aggramar became the Titans champion to stop the Burning Legion.
Patterns repeat themselves. Tyr’s disagreement with Odyn is a pattern of a similar dissagreement between Aman’thul and Sargeras, and later Aggramar and Aman’thul.
Tl:DL He built defence mechanisms into Tyrshold to protect the dragon isles from any threat.
The Dragonflight cinematic trailer shows he was able to protect the Dragon Isles from the Sundering and potential Legion invasion, by triggering these defence mechanisms.
The 10,000 years ago bit. Is that same day, same hour, same minute as this:
It’s when the Well of Eternity exploded. These events happened simultaniously.
I really wish they’d switch the in-game world map to one of the more rational versions with smaller, more spaced-out continents. It would be a lot easier to believe that the Dragon Isles had been successfully hidden all this time if they didn’t occupy the entirety of the space between the EK and Northrend.
I don’t have a beef with you, you just tend to make claims without backing it up at all.
You’ve come to that conclusion with what? The one disagreement we had over lore? Where I couldn’t “prove” speculation?
Speculation is speculation. If there’s proof to be given I often provide it, unless I am at work, in which I will often edit my posts later providing the requested proof.
I don’t know you. It seems like you are singling me without provocation. I’ve had many lore discussions with Raselle and them holding me accountable is fine, I provided the lore above to back up my assertions.
You asked for clarity in the lore and now you are being condecending to anyone offering up explainations. Are you a troll Raile?