Considering it’s N’Zoths himself who put the dagger in Sylvanas’ hands, this has to be part of some 5000 IQ 45D Monopoly game.
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The real kicker is that apparently we don’t even use Xal’atath. At least not in the in-game cutscene, someone might use it in the cinematic.
well wrathion has it
Of course Wrathion will be the one doing the Kill Steal this time around.
From what I hear, it’s the Forge of Origination that actually kills N’zoth.
I think the dagger is just to trap N’zoth soul.
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I am gonna stick with the idea for now we end up sealing the spirit of N’zoth in the dagger, and fry his body.
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Well if that was the plan we didn’t even need the Engine of Whatshisface and the Heart of Azeroth, just bring the Horde’s magical catapults to the raid.
Sealing the Spirit and energies of an Old God prevents a Sha situation.
Y’Shaarj’s Sha leaked out of his Heart when he died so C’Thun and Yogg-Saron should be leaking out Void corruption too.
N’Zoth dying and being absorbed into the blade means that his brand of corruption(seems to be Fire and Eyes) isn’t infecting Azeroth. Yogg-Saron and C’Thun are the only Old Gods whose deaths are likely to infect the World Soul.
The fact that she is happy and healthy doesn’t mean much since neither C’Thun’s Madness and Chaos nor Yogg-Saron’s Death spheres of influence require pain or sadness. Imagine Azeroth becoming like Joker!
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Refer to Ulduar and Uldir. The titans didn’t understand the nature of the Old Gods. Alternatively it could just be an oversight on the Titan’s part that they never considered localized reorigination rather than whole planet reorigination.
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Really in terms of “titan time” scale, the Keepers had only just finished building the two Forges and initiating preliminary research to figure out removing the Old Gods when the Pantheon was called away to confront Sargeras and got themselves killed, leaving Azeroth’s Keepers and machinery on auto-pilot. Thousands of years had passed between the Old Gods’ defeat and the completion of their facilities, but for titans and their ageless servitors that was hardly any time at all.
Had they been able to continue personally overseeing the Azeroth project uninterrupted, the titans very well may have figured out how the Old Gods actually “worked” and fine-tuned the planet’s mechanisms to systematically isolate and remove the infestation without causing harm to the world-soul. That was really even their ultimate intention; they told Sargeras about Azeroth in the hopes that he would abandon his mad crusade, return to the Pantheon and accompany them back there to help remove the Old God infection and save the planet’s soul.
Which arguably might have greatly helped their chances of removing the Old Gods, had it worked out. Who better to bring in on such a project than the very titan whose foremost specialty was cleansing entire worlds of corruption caused by outside invaders?
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Uldir was created because the Titans had no idea how to deal with Old Gods. Same for why the Heart of Y’Shaarj was shoved into the Heart Chamber.
Titans knew nothing about Old Gods when on Azeroth. What they learned while exploring the Cosmos is unknown but they had little time to return to Azeroth much less give the order to preform localized Reoriginations.
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Oh boy dont speak about my death star!
I know a farmer and an old man whispering in his mind destroyed it but c’mon 
Anyway being serious now.
Why do chronicles servers now? I mean every patch we got that some of the cosmical forces are involved they are retconned! It was a waste of money and time. Seriously.
I would argue given neither fully broke free their prisons should themselves be effective bottles to keep their passive corruption contained.
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Another laughably minor threat dealt with. Remind me why we stopped fighting to deal with this again?
Now to see how they bugger up the Death Knight intro.
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Great point. This is why the Horde and Alliance have to make peace once and for all and work together? Did the Horde and Alliance even have anything, at all, to do with this?
What does N’zoth do that is so terrible in 8.3? Does he burn down a tree full of civilians? Oh wait, no that was the Horde playerbase.
As far as I can tell, the worst atrocity N’zoth commits is setting the stage for Calia to become leader of the Forsaken. Now that is truly unforgivable.
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Lich King 4.0: The Lich Queen
I dunno if you know this but, the Old Gods’ bosses are still out there in space.
I want all their organs(C’thuun’s eye, Yogg’s brain, Y’sharj’s heart and N’Zoth’s…I dunno, stomach maybe) to Voltron together into one final Super Old God fight.
How do you know there isn’t?
Uh, supposedly he starts sucking the world into another dimension where the Old Gods rule…
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N’Zoth’s worst atrocity was getting Deathwing to cause the Cataclysm and make attempts at wiping out all Life on Azeroth so that it would be barren enough to merge with Ny’alotha.
His lesser atrocities include corrupting chunks of the Twilight Highlands and Loch Modan with Elementium, having Ragnaros burn most of Mount Hyjal while failing to kill everyone, corrupting a good chunk of Val’Sharah irreversibly with the Nightmare and attempting to merge Ny’alotha with reality.
N’Zoth caused massive damage to Azeroth as a whole yet failed to do much against the populace itself.
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You know what? I totally agree with this and I have to say, that I hope I am not the only one who thought that they pulled this same sort of thing with Argus.
Like, ever since we learned of where the Draenei came from, Argus was being hyped up as the capital of the Burning Legion, the seat and source of their power.
…and how do we experience it? Not as a whole separate expansion in and of itself… but as a single content patch.
That- as enjoyable as the Argus story and Antorus raid were- was a huge letdown for me, personally.
I really hope that this trend does not continue.
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If Argus(which was made on a whim since they threw out Thal’dranath due to Elf Fatigue) was a whole Expansion right after Legion we would have gotten Legion fatigue after already getting Legion Fatigue.
Furthermore a lot of players on the Story Forum(such as Reignac) were complaining about Old Gods overstaying their welcome and being boring so an Old God dominant Expansion was out of the question when Blizzard started developing BfA!
By the time the Anti-Old God Players left Blizzard already had everything set firmly in stone it seems.
Hyped places being thrown down is due to the fact that the primary antagonists of said hyped places boring the Players before the Expansion can even happen!
Azshara was spared because she was interesting, Sylvanas was spared because she was interesting and Sargeras was spared because he was interesting.
We aren’t even sure we won’t return to Argus since Archimonde is potentially still out there and with his belief that any resource “might still be of some us to me” he could gather enough resources to repair Argus enough to make it an interesting Expansion with Archimonde as the first Patch Boss.
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The Old gods are not a “laughably minor” threat, the faction war is a petty, foolish, conflict that clearly served no ones’ interests. I’m glad we stopped fighting, we had no reason to be fighting to begin with.
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