They followed a vision about a fallen star (luciferianism) and they found a crystal that had fallen through Azeroth’s crust. They worship this crystal as a divine being and a light source, but it’s turning Void.
It couldn’t get any better than this.
The Church of the Holy Light, the OG light worshipers are luciferians. That’s what i’ve been saying for years.
The Arathi splinter group are not the Church. The Arathi left before the Arathi Empire even split. Whereas the church was formed centuries after the Troll Wars.
And a casual search shows luciferianism is more than just having some connection to a fallen star.
A Light crystal turning Void? It’s just a Naaru, I think you might be overthinking the situation just a touch. We’ve done this story before in TBC.
You are correct! It’s also a philosophy and metaphor for self improvement and divine humanism. Which I’m sure will be huge themes in the aptly titled expansion, The War Within.
The Church of the Holy Light was always meh, this, new Arathi faith is where it’s at. Not only is it a nod to Canaanite cosmology it also leans into the cosmic chart that there are two Demiurges who created the universe, Time/Death and The Earthmother, the two snakes on the new cosmology chart, from my cosmology chart breakdown.
I honestly don’t care about TCotHL and it’s attempt at Christanity, there are much cooler faiths represented in WoW.
If that is a naaru then it is the most stupidly oversized naaru in the history of naaru.
My guess is it was actually a shard of primordial Light for Way Back When™, which had been tumbling through the great dark since time began and eventually came hurtling down on azeroth.
That, of course, also means it is a shard of primordial void as well.
I’d assume the Naaru is inside the crystal, like with Oshu’gun.
All I know is, I would love to see the thing it broke off from. It’s a fragment of something immensely huge if the shard is that big
It’s not a Naaru. It’s a “fallen star” whatever that means. Either it’s a shard of pure crystalized Light or remnants of the clash between Light and Void at the dawn of the Universe. I think it’s pretty clear it’s not a Naaru but it does seem to follow the same Light to Void life cycle of a Naaru.
If it is a crystallized fragment of light, than it having a void form makes sense, since the light and void clashing is what set things into motion to begin with
Am I the only person who thinks the giant light crystal in TWW just being another naaru would be kind of boring? They need to branch the light out past “the windchimes did it”.
That was where I was going with it yeah.
Although I suppose it could of been the Light’s try at turning Azeroth to Team Light.
Yeah I’ve been reviewing K’ure lore and it seems like there’s a connection between it an Xal’atath. The Burning Legion was using K’ure as a “void spirit portal” and the Pale who got their knowledge of the Void from K’ure, that knowledge was later passed on to Orc Warkocks, and that’s the Secrets of the Void book that Nathalie Seline either wrote or stole as it’s part of the priest Xal’atath artifact weapon, it’s the off hand.
If we are fighting Xal’atath offering the Nerubians a “dark acsension” i’m sure this lore will be revisited.
I’m pretty sure it was sent down to try and reach Azeroth’s heart, the same as the Old Gods were sent to do the same. It’s either there as an inoculation against more Void influence (and is now slowly failing) or there’s the more sinister idea that it was supposed to convert Azeroth to a Light Titan, and failed.
My guess is it’s the former and the mission in the zone will be to fully restore it and deal with the Arathi who have succumbed to the whispers of the shadow, believing it to be their Light telling them what to do.
I haven’t ruled out that it might be Azeroth’s physical heart because if you look at the art, it seems like it does have a yellow/blue hue like Azerite.
Location wise it’s really close to the Chamber of the Heart.
A lot of people believe it is some sort of slumbering Naaru incased in the crystal. It could even be some sort of Oshu’gun situation where it is some draenic vessel that carried the naaru, and fell like a star like the Genedar did on Draenor.
It being another naaru thing is nearly as bad as every void thing being “the old gods did it”. I really hope they are more creative than that this time.
I don’t think it’s a Naaru (or a Naaru ship, or whatever) if only because that would be comically repetitive.
The Grenedar and Exodar have a similar look. This crystal looks different. If you zoom it looks opalescent, it has a specific structure/detail, it’s not natural it looks created. It’s specifically refered to as a “star.” What a “star” means in WoW is different that irl. Planets in WoW have titans growing in them, stars could to. Maybe it’s a soul.
So was K’ara.
It being a Naaru would be incredibly repetitive.
But if there’s anything Blizz likes to do, it’s repeat themselves.
Sooooooooo…
It’s def either a Naaru thingy, or a primordial shard of Light.
And even then, there doesn’t seem to be much difference between the two.
Both are big crystals of Light that can shift to Void.
The only difference is one has a personality.
Here is a weird possibility for you. What if it is an Old God who went Light Mode before it reached a planet. That be neat.