It only lasted for 11 years I guess. Not much of an “Age” if you ask me.
For those confused, in the final patch of Cataclysm, Alexstrasza said that the purpose of the Dragons had been fulfilled, and she then proclaimed that we were all entering a new age, The Age of Mortals. And that “it is now the charge of Azeroth’s mortal races to safeguard their world themselves.”
But in the new intro cinematic for Dragonflight she claims Dragons “shall be Azeroth’s protectors once again”, and that “the new age of dragons shall begin.”
So depending on when Dragonflight releases the “Age of Mortals” lasted 11-12 years in total.
LOL
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Did you /see/ the wreck we made of things? I imagine Sylvanas trying to kill the multiverse was sort of the last straw.
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Less actually. According to the UVG’s timeline (the most up to date version of the timeline we have right now), each expansion lasts about a year in-universe.
The Age of Mortals lasted roughly six years. Seven if we’re being generous.
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Imagine one of the other Pantheons deciding the Dragons’ failure in this Expansion(which I would assume is inevitable) is the last straw for them to get involved.
The Pantheons of course fail to acknowledge that Sylvanas did what she did due to meddling from Zovaal. The Horde became the threat it did because of meddling from the Legion. The Legion was able to invade Azeroth because the Dragons slacked off on their duty!
The Pantheons and Dragons are going to get a reminder that they are the reason the Mortals are even able to mess things up!
They are going to get the same lesson the Shadows and Vorlons got in Babylon 5.
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It makes sense to me now that N’Zoth’s out of the picture.
End of Cataclysm:
Alexstrasza says: The dawning of the age of mortals has begun.
By the end of BfA:
Alexstrasza says: That was a bad idea.
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The Age of Mortals was a stupid decision and it’s a good thing they’re reversing it.
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So, if the age of dragons is back, does that mean we mortals get to kill the dragons wholesale to prevent them from trying to dominate/exterminate us?
Cause you know all “higher beings” with power love to dominate and/or exterminate mortals.
it was the age of dragons up till six years ago and they didnt go all murder stabstab on us then, no reason to think they would now.
They just don’t trust us to run with scissors so much anymore. The PC is an idiot who helps obviously evil people at least once an expansion… so this is a fair assessment of us.
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I’d forgotten the “Age of Mortals” was even in effect. The bigwig dragons continued to enjoy decent screentime and deific reverence well after Cata.
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They have to do a lot of retcons/changes for wow dragons to not be terrible anymore, they have been completely ruined since cataclysm.
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Tyrhold seemed to have a forge installed in it; perhaps it has the power to re-imbue the aspects using Azeroth’s power. Sort of an Emergency failsafe which due to their own actions they were never able to access when they actually needed it.
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With the dragonflights, if they couldn’t be defenders of Azeroth anymore, what is their future?” Jeremy ponders. “That’s really what we’re going to be exploring, and we’ll be getting into their stories as you land on the Dragon Isles. You’re going to be meeting with dragonspawn and dragonkin, some of our ancient friends from Blackwing Lair (up-resed for the new generation), learning about their purpose in dragon society. We’re going to find the life pools of the red dragonflight, where their sacred oath to the Titans was put forth. Helping them regain some of their power.”
Sounds to me like the “age of mortals” is not exactly ending either. And whatever happens to the dragons, it doesnt seem like status quo is simply going to return with the Aspects getting back their power.
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I sort of suspect the second age of dragons is one of partnership.
- The First Age was them being aloof overlord guardians of the world as the Keepers before them had been.
- The Age of Mortals was more like a intermission where the dragons left everything up to us and went into decline.
- The Second Age is them realizing you can’t leave everything up to one group. The Keepers made that mistake with the dragons, and the dragons repeated it with mortals. Everyone needs to work together to keep the world safe.
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Odyn was right. Screw the Age of Mortals. Screw the Age of Dragons.
Give me the Age of Titanforged and add Earthen, Valajar, Giants, Vrykul, and other Titanforged as playable races!
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This is well said. I didn’t understand why there is another age of dragons…besides Blizzard leaving a lot of story lines open and unresolved issues with the flights. But it will be nice to get some background I hope. I do feel like the story is out of place though. I don’t understand why “now” the Watchers woke up… and how we go from SL to Dragons… like they better have some connections that make sense and work.
That Black dragon guy in Vanilla that appears in the Searing Gorge among many others.
idk who for TBC
Loken in Wrath
idk for Cata
Garrosh for horde in MoP
AU Gul’daddy, AU Cho’gall and AU Teren’gor for WoD (intro only)
idk for Legion
Sylvanas for horde in BFA while whoever gets the canonical clear of TEP for Azshara / N’zoth
Denathrius for Shadowlands.
Pure guesswork on my part, but I’m thinking it’ll have something to do with Zovaal’s actions at the end of Shadowlands. Somehow, him activating Icecrown’s soul forges restored elemental power to the Dragon Isles, and that woke up the last Watcher.
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They mentioned it. The Sundering was a wound Azeroth never fully recovered from, and the elemental energies of the isle bled away. The land slumbered. Post BFA purging the last parasite (old god) infection she was suffering allowed azeroth to recover as she had never been able to before due to them siphoning her power away. As such the elemental essence of the world returned to the isles. The glow to the water, and volcanic activity was meant to be signs of the sudden influx of elemental magic.
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