Wanted to start a speculation thread on how the devs appear to be doing a multiverse/time travel approach in linking retail with SOD’s story by introducing Xal’atath in each phase progression.
I have a hunch that depending on how SOD wraps up, it would be possible that the SOD player characters end up getting corrupted and become a raid boss or sets of raid bosses we may clash with in WW.
Kind of like how in Pokemon gold and silver the last boss you face is Red or Blue from the previous Pokemon game.
Anyone else got some cool ideas they might pull off in linking both stories?
What is recently happening in Season of Discovery again?
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SOD isn’t a different timeline, it’s still the same canon from Classic with some new lore bits.
Yup!
And that’s what’s fascinating about it.
So the OG vanilla characters/champions that played through the story up until now had those exact experiences as they happened. And now with SOD from what I can gather, this is a different set of player characters going through their own slightly divergent experiences that Xal’atath may be engineering them toward.
If this is the case then what might we expect to happen at the end of SOD? These divergent champions get killed, corrupted or perhaps live to meet us during the WW?
I’m trying to see what speculations others might have of this.
It’s not just Xal’atath that’s linked. Remember how in the first phase just before she appears you break the void box with the help of a large light crystal that fell from the sky. Located in the Hillsbrad foothills.
In war within one of the zones hosts a giant light crystal lodged into the ceiling, and we learned the Arathi humans “recently” saw a “falling star” and then moved to the subterranean zone of Hallowfall.
Light crystal falling from the sky? Xal’atath? Surely just a coincidence that both of these play a part of both SoD and WW.
The light crystals might even be from the same event of falling to Azeroth.
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It does seem that Blizzard is using SOD to say, “Xal’atath has been around doing things beyond what we knew about in legion and BFA” instead of flat out retconning her into those events via a book or something. For example we knew that the Twilights Hammer had been in possession of Xal’atath since at least Cata. Since she references how the Twilight Father was not foolish enough to wield her. But it seems that the cult has had her since vanilla.
Honestly I hope they continue with it.
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Xal’atath’s Void Elf body comes from possessing a the corpse of a High Elf.
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Inani
She shouldn’t even have that body in SoD.
Who is to say that she hasn’t had other ‘host’ bodies prior to BFA? She is still bound to the dagger in SoD.
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While Xal do say when she takes over the helf body in bfa that it was ages since she took a mortal form, confirming she’s taken one before.
Most importantly is that she at least can travel through time in some way. In Dragonflight the void portal Iridikron escapes into with Xal waiting on the other side, is placed over 20k years ago in Azeroth’s past, way before any elf even existed and yet we see Xals silhouette in the portal. So somehow she does have access to the timeways.
Xal could have taken a detour to vanilla to influence events, or maybe even just stayed hidden for 20k years since the event until she resurfaces in vanilla to start her schemes.
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Which means she didn’t disappear from Modgud by floating out of her possession but by swiping herself from Modgud’s possession.
She probably also took herself from our Banks and Bags.