I seem to recall during the ritual Magni preformed to become one with the Earth, he initially heard hundreds of voices in his head prior to being turned to diamond. On top of this, the ritual was meant to allow him to draw strength from the Earth. “From the Earth he draws strength. Our Earth. Our Strength.” Then of course we have “Its surface blazes bright, masking shadows below” (which can ONLY be referring to Azerite dont you think)?
Finally, my favorite to postulate on … C’Thun’s final words. “You’re Heart Will Explode” … and should you talk to MOTHER when she has no quests for you she mentions an ERROR: Another Titan Facility Nearby … and warns you not to enter it (C’Thun’s Prison Perhaps?) Blizzard has to take the Heart of Azeroth away from us somehow right?
Yes, yes. This all sounds very promising, hope yet remains. I just really want to see a fully unleashed C’thun and Yogg, and eventually Y’sharaaj.
I just really like the idea that Cataclysm wasn’t the “real” Hour of Twilight, and that the true end of days will one day be upon us when the Old Gods will be unleashed from their prisons and dormant states, and wreak havoc across Azeroth. Everyone will need to unite in a big, A:Endgame-style, ensemble of heroes to face off against the full might of N’zoths superior kin. I’m talking Red, Blue, Scourge, AU, Illidan, remnants of the Legion, the works.
Hmm … if Yoggie reappears I actually think he’s become a festering mass in the Shadowlands. He’s the Hungering Darkness that Sylvie is feeding. As for C’thun, THAT guy has been WAY too quiet since BoT; especially with a Sword Shoved so close to his prison (and with a strange HIM colored magic ore spouting out everywhere that promotes grand visions of what could be).
After all, everything we’ve learned about Azerite is from Magni (and MOTHER after Magni reprogrammed her to let her leave G’Huun’s titan facility).
I used to think Magni couldn’t be evil, but his relationship with his daughter makes it a very real possibility. I fully expect him to pretend to be a regretful father to manipulate her for something, only to betray everyone.
I would like to think Blizzard would not make that mistake. Adding new races as DKs has been limited because they were not around for Arthas. They need to create new DKs in a way that allows for future races to be added to the roster without being tied to a dead character. I guess we will see if they learned from the past.
I would not be sure it is for good. N’zoth may be dead or trapped (I suspect trapped). Yogg is potentially just trapped as well. So, both would have potential for a return. And the Old Gods were created by the Void Lords, who are still around. And there were a LOT of them spread across worlds. So, a lot of potential fora revisit. And given what the Old Gods do, they kind of have to be contained or destroyed for any story that does not involve them to happen.
But you have to consider timing. They killed one and it hurt the planet. They contained the rest and decided to play it safe and do some study first. They just didn’t want to risk things. And Sargaras wiped them out before they had a chance to finish. Ultimately they could have dealt with them, they just didn’t have a chance.
Oh, ok, there’s DEFINITELY an actual cinematic after that. It always cuts to either black or white after sequences like that as prelude to actual cinematics. It was done that way after the mini cinematic of us walking up to orgrimmar in 8.2.5 as well.
Or the Kamehameha wave…err…i mean Azerite blast, leaves an opening for Wrathion or whoever else is going to be present in the raid with us to stab N’zoth with Xala’tath and seal the Old God within the blade.
I personally think that the Hungering Darkness is Mueh’zala, not Yogg. I’ve said it multiple time, no need to drag the Old Gods in everything, everywhere. Blizz failed to instill the same kind of cosmic horror from their Lovecraft’s homologues. At this point, they are mostly a bad caricatures of the Cthulhu Mythos’ Old Gods. A farce that couldn’t have ever work in the kind of setting forced by the MMO genre.