Why, in the name of all that is green and good… does Wrathion keep calling Deathwing his father?! He’s not! Grandfather, sure. Father? No.
So what gives?! This has been a huge pet peeve of mine since that [insert expletives I can’t use here] dragon first made an appearance.
Does anyone have an explanation? Or is this just his smug bs he’s throwing around? Even Wowpedia says “unknown father!”
flails wildly
Oversight or retcon would be the easiest conclusions to make.
Ugh… Blizzard and dragons and aging and parentage just… are…
Don’t think about. Just don’t. It eventually leads to the conclusion that at the maturation and reproduction rates depicted, Azeroth should have collapsed into a black hole made out of dragons centuries before any of this was relevant.
The problem is, Wrathion is actually a combination of 3 whelps. A dead wild whelp, a wild egg and an egg bred from the Black Dragon Rhea had in chains.
Because of this I feel Wrathion just calls Deathwing his father as Deathwing was the leader of the Black Dragonflight.
… what? O.o
I cant remember what the point of bfa even is. And what is nyalotha. And why does killing nzoth complete the xpac, when we just found him while chasing azshara .
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Return_to_Blam
The titan artifact removes the Old God corruption from the dead whelp, the wild egg and Nyxondra’s egg and then combines the 3 together.
The three objects are combined into a Purified Black Dragon Egg
Right right. I remember now. Thanks. Which means he’s just a mutt of all sorts of crap making stuff up.
grumbles
Ny’alotha is a sort of pocket dimension N’zoth made that reflected the Black Empire. It was mentioned since Cata through the Puzzle Box of Yogg-saron and in Legion after you defeat Ill’gynoth in the Emerald Nightmare
Considering that he refers to Onyxia as his “auntie”, to which David Kosak said that she is indeed his aunt. And that Nyxondra is canonically Wrathions mother, my guess is that Nyxondra’s egg was the dominant personality when the titan artifact did its magic.
But given his origins, my guess he refers to Deathwing as his father because Deathwing was the first “black Dragon”
Which makes Wrathion a grandson. Not a son. Whereas Ebyssian most likely is an actual son of Deathwing.
Correct.
Which is why I feel Wrathion just calls Deathwing his “father” because Neltharion was the first “black” proto-drake that was transformed by the Titans via the keepers. Given Wrathions’ weird origins.
As to who Rhea used to breed with Nyxondra is anyones guess
As the original Black Dragon, Deathwing is the father of the Black Dragonflight.
So in a way all Black Dragons consider him their father, even if he is their great great greatfather.
Well… I think it’s dumb. And I hate it. And it bothers me.
And the way he tried to liken Deathwing’s death to Varian’s just made me twitch.
Wrathion went on an episode of Maury.
I think they just screwed up the DNA test.
LOL…
If you’re the kinda player that gets hung up on the idiosyncrasies of WoW’s lore and inconsistencies in its canon, you’re gonna have a bad time.
“Dragons are weird. It makes sense. Don’t overthink it”
Some people say ‘father’ when they speak to an IRL priest in their local church.
Deathwing was kind of a guide, teacher, mentor… father!