See, I don’t think glow crystal is natural to Azeroth, because of how it looks. Specifically how it looks within the cave ceiling. Where it meets the ceiling, everything around it is shattered, like the glow crystal was forced into there. It’s definitely not looking like something that was supposed to be there.
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Suggestion, what if the titan machinery in that area was meant to do what the old god complexes were—suppress the impact the Giant Light Crystal would have on ensuring Azeroth became part of Team Order.
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One small detail, but the latest canon detail regarding World Soul origins is that the Soul predates the World, which grows around it.
In the Thousand Year War story that came with Legion, Alleria communicates with Argus. And in her vision, she sees Argus existing a raw energy spinning through the cosmos.
The energy finds a comfy spot near a star and settles. The planet then forms around it.
I suppose the crystal would be the “raw energy” in this theory. But instead of the shard striking Azeroth and bestowing a soul, the entirely of Azeroth would have formed around the crystal.
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I don’t think it’s literally a naaru – it looks too big to be a piece of one – but I mean it has very naaru looking markings on it, it’s absolutely related to them.
I agree with the sentiment that it was probably meant to light corrupt Azeroth like apparently every magic type wants to do (all of them being the same thing with different coats of paint is so boring).
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Well we know the Naaru are only middle management so to speak, so it is not so much it is related to them perhaps, so much as they are related to the upper mangement that made the big crystal as well.
Time to introduce the Light Lords.
Or as I reather, the Shining Host. Much cooler name.
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I’m guessing it fell around the time of the Arathi Empire, which is why humans were drawn at that time. Which would explain why the Titans didn’t do anything, wasn’t there yet.
Also what’s the indication the sword is by the crystal? It is by an island east of Kalimdor.
Assuming it isn’t a Naaru, my theory is it’ll be some other related Light entity.
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Yes but not raw energy. Conciousness. This is based on esoteric cosmology. The War Within is going to take a very metaphysical bend. It may retcon previously established Titan lore.
They want to expand the World Soul being Ein Sof, a fragment of the greater cosmic conciousness. Aman’thul and the Titans are lesser gods. Azeroth isn’t a Titan at all.
Also the Arathi use this crystal as a sun. A star-sun. A Crystal Sun like Robert Temple’s book that says inside the sun crystal is the home of the Demiurge, and contains universe. Someone writing the WoW story is well versed in alternative science and mysticism.
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Yeah this. They showed on a map at Blizzcon where Khaz Algar is, it’s between Tanaris and Pandaria. Completely different side of Kalimdor from the sword.
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When you’re a giant demon guy the size of a planet with a very big sword that kind of distance isn’t much.
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I am pretty sure he was aiming at the chamber of the heart and just narrowly missed. Which is a super secret place even most keepers were never told of that somehow acts as a seal on azeroth’s spirit.
with a more up to date interpretation, it may more be the seal that keeps her contained. It is possible in those final moments he opted to destroy that seal and let her go free if he could not have her. basically one final act to spite the pantheon by undoing their work.
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It’s probably not mentioned anywhere, but I just always assumed that worldsouls are always at the center of the planet, and the chamber of the heart is basically just a borehole to the core, and the only access point that currently exists. I’ve never even harbored the thought that Azeroth wasn’t at the exact center, I didn’t realize anyone thought differently.
You don’t have to aim if you’re just looking to get to the center.
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in regards to the crystal, if you zoom in on it in the screenshots, it has glowing Draenic/Naaru glyphs all over its surface
Also I think it is worth mentioning the Arathi dont worship the concept of the Light itself, they worship what they call Holy fire (which they no doubt get from the light/naaru crystal in the ceiling)
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Arathi sound awesome but should be alliance only
I am excited to join Arathi on my BE paladin. If they become a Horde allied race, that would not bother me in the slightest.
The Harbinger speaks of a primal power that seeks the end of Order. Such rage can be bent to serve our ends.
A hunger lost to the ages will be reclaimed.
A dark heart left broken awaits the taking.
When these things come to pass, the Harbinger will fulfill the final prophecy and complete the awakening.
Only then shall our Queen return to reign over sea and sky and earth. We must make ready.
Rise, rise! Soon all that was hidden will be revealed.
I have ideas of who is the Big Bad of the War Within:
“The blind queen wields a scepter of bone. From the deep, she calls forth doom.” - Il’gynoth
“The Drowned God’s Heart is Black Ice.” - Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron
“She is not the last, but the first. Drown her and you will see.” - N’Zoth(Uu’nat Encounter)
“With their dying breaths, they cursed the world.” - Gloomseeker Yarga
“The cries of the drowned are getting louder.” - Gloomseeker Yarga
“There are many things darker than night.” - Gloomseeker Yarga
“Her dreams sing beneath the surface. Quiet now, but her voice will awaken the others.” - Saezurah
“Her dreams sing beneath the surface. Our dreams. Our song.” - N’Zoth
“The fall of night reveals her true face. She will bring only ruin.” - N’Zoth
“Her whispers echoes loudest of all.” - Barrowknoll Cemetery Whispers
“Night falls. Her song will end.” - Barrowknoll Cemetery Whispers
This Blind Queen of Night must be in the Crystal and in my opinion can only be the Earth Mother… She must be a sleeping Void Lord(with her true Void State being the 7th Architect of the Pattern opposing the 6) with Xal’atath(who has a Moon Symbol on her face) being one of her Eyes: more specifically Mu’sha the Moon.
Of course it leaves questions on Elune: We only assume that Elune is Mu’sha because WoWpedia(and not any official Lore Sources ingame or out) says so(despite the Tauren only saying that Mu’sha and Elune are similar in that they are Moon Goddesses) and because the Night Elves and Tauren both claim Cenarius is their specific Moon Goddess’s Child.
Hopefully The War Within when giving details on Mu’sha and the Earth Mother gives us the identity of Cenarius’s Mother so that we can settle matters. If Cenarius is unlucky than WoW will have 2 Evil Matriarchs in it’s ranks(the other being Lady Waycrest).
As for the other Void Lords the fact that the Expansion is called Midnight and Gloomseeker Yarga states there are many things darker than Night suggests that Night and Midnight are separate Void Lords.
Nightfall has been used to refer to Death and since the Murlocs Necromancers in Nazjatar use Orbs of the Drowned and since our drowned singer is Night herself… I strongly suspect we are facing Death herself. Yogg-Saron is merely an Avatar of her power.
We are going to kill the first of the 6 ending the Song keeping them all asleep. The 6 singers deny the awakening of one because if one singer awakens they all awaken.
So… we first fight Night the God of Death in The War Within followed by Midnight the God of Shadow in Midnight followed by facing the God of Order.
We are taking down all 3 of the bottom members of the Cosmology in the 3 upcoming Expansions leaving the 3 on the top!
No, devs have said they worship the Light.
These guys are a splintered group from that kingdom that received a vision about a falling star, and it took them to Harrowfall. And when they found it - you guys saw the key art for it, it’s huge, gigantic - these guys are super devoted to the Light. They’re like uber Paladins, and it just made sense that if we were going to bring in a group devoted to the Light, to that degree, why not bring in those ancient tribes of humanity that maybe we haven’t seen in a hot minute, or heard of in forever
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Possibly related but in the Traveler series Aramar Thorne has a compass with a shard of a fallen star. It was previously speculated/assumed it was a shard of Ka’ra like the Ashbringer but this new lore could recontextualize Ashbringer and Aramar’s story. With the timeskip Aramar would be 23. I hope we see him on our adventure to Hallowfall.
Aramar Thorne is being set up narratively as the next Ashbringer.
I’m pretty sure the third Traveler book already wrapped up that story mate. It’s done, Aramar reforged the crystal sword and saved the naaru in Outland. https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Voice_of_the_Light
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I can hope.
His story with Mueh’zala seems unresolved to me.
Don’t forget that Christ Metzen is back in the driver’s seat. The clash of Light and Void was his vision for the origins of the cosmos, and EVERYONE knows how poorly the, ‘First Ones,’ went as a concept. It’d be madness to try to keep up Shadowland’s disastrous retcons.
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