After defeating fyrakk, Amirdrassil blooms into azeroth and appears in the dragon isles. There is a cinematic where Ysera says she is going to restore the balance and she needs to return to ardenweald. A portal to ardenweald appears and she steps through… and then it closes… Where is Malfurion blizzard??? So now Ysera and Malfurion are both in ardenweald now? Amirdrassil has come to azeroth and Tyrande and the night elves establish the new city of Bal’Ameth and create a moonwell, ysera goes back to ardenweald but malfurion doesnt come back to azeroth?? im so tired
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My best guess is that they want to show Malfurion’s return in a quest, but then it doesn’t explain why they would have Ysera depart in that manner. Unless there’s trouble in Ardenweald or something…
Side note: Does Bal’Ameth sound like a Protoss name to anyone else?
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I thought for sure he was going to walk out of the portal after Ysera walked into it, but nope…
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Please. Just go back to writing us like Protoss mixed with Wood Elves.
For the love of god it’s 1000x better than whatever are rn.
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She went to trade places again, were you actually expecting her to walk into the portal and have Malfurion immediately come out of it?
If I had to take a guess, we’re probably gonna get a small quest either in the coming weeks or in the next patch where we go back to Ardenweald and have a big goodbye for Ysera, with Tyrande and Malfurion having a moment over his return.
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Please let this be and not screw the feel good moments and make Malfurion be forced to stay longer!
He’s probably sleeping.
if you go to ardenweald you can find him and he actually is sleeping
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The same place Vol’jin is.
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In the “break glass” case alongside a brooding Sylvanas and a gloating Illidan?
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Who is going to come back to the game for Vol’jin?
He has no where near the appeal of either of them.
My guess is Malfurion’s return will happen in one of the three patches they’re bringing between now and WW.
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Bal’ameth sounds like some kind of biblical demon. Bal. Baal. Ba’al. Blizzard knows this. It’s one of their demons in Diablo IRC.
It was a god of Canaan in the bible.
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Which Bible?
idr this in the kjv.
Yeah, it does sound rather biblical to me.
All I know about Baal is that he was some old timey “god” IRL, as well as being one of Diablos brother in a video game. (Oh, and a sometime poster in this forum, who used to be a Blood Elf but I think he is a Zandalari, last I seen).
Googling it, it is interesting. Like, I see some website said Baal was sort of the preAbrahamic God of fertility in that region. Maybe he got a bad rap as the Bible became the book to read in those parts. In that context, I see some sort of nature/fertility connection… I guess…
Maybe it is some one at Blizzard trying to take back the name Baal from some sort of evil pagan connotation to some sort of natural blessed connotation.
Just kind of seemed curious. Not necessarily odd or wrong. But I was like:
“Isn’t Baal sort of some bad guy in the Bible? A curious name for their new city.”
Maybe they’re going to find an excuse to leave Malfurion in Ardenweald so that they don’t have to include him in the Worldsoul Saga.
Ba’al simply means ‘lord’, and that kind of negative language towards rival faiths is common for a polytheistic or kathenotheistic culture moving towards monolatry and eventually monotheism. There were many strains of belief in Ancient Israelite society, but the modern Abrahamic traditions rely heavily on the monolatrous/monotheist strains. Baal is also the root of names like Beelzebub. There is one ancient god that is primarily meant within this context when we say “Baal”, but the broader meaning is very relevant. c.f. Moloch/Malik/MLK in semitic languages, which means “King”.
I rarely see conscious references to it which only use one vowel, be it a or e – the double vowel is a common feature even of dated or corrupted transliterations.
I wouldn’t dismiss the possibility but I don’t think it’s especially strong.
It is sort of interesting in a way, given Amir is an arabic/hebrew word, and Ba’al is from the same corner of the world…
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I’d chalk that up to the presence of semitic phonemes in Western European mysticism through multiple crossover points, but fair.
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