So it seems that the story behind Azeroth is a little clearer today.
While I don’t think she made them, it’s pretty clear that their agenda is her agenda. Or as Il’gynoth put it Her heart is a crater and we have filled it.
Odds on Titans having imprisoned both the OGs and Azeroth? If their purpose is to create order from chaos then this would do. After all the OG prisons are installations on Azeroth.
Also recalling Sylvanas on Icecrown stating This world is a prison.
So the World Soul saga is pointing towards freeing the rest of the prophecies of Il’gynoth which awakens Azeroth and manifests the true state of reality.
The War Within > Midnight > The Last Titan
Now this puts a little more on what these titles might refer to. Maybe TWW is referencing the failing locks somewhere internal to Azeroth. Midnight is likely referring to the final event (third death of Azshara). The Last Titan would be referring to potentially an already existing Titan who survives being destroyed by the OGs / Void / Primals and Elemental Gods.
This would conclude the entire period between the Classic game and the World Soul Saga.
That is the insidious thing, they tell half-truths. “The king of diamonds has been made into a pawn” is suppose to bring out paranoia in people that Magni is going to betray us , when in fact he was simply oblivious to what N’zoth was planning.
I do think it’s possible that, by the time the Titans discovered Azeroth, she was considered “too far gone” with Old God corruption to be saved. It may be the case that after the Titans ordered the planet and defeated the Black Empire, some of what they put in place was meant not to shepherd her soul into birth, but to prevent her from being born at all. The Titans (barring Sargeras) are canonically against killing World Souls, even those that might get corrupted, so it would make sense for them to put her in some kind of stasis or suspended existence if they felt she was beyond help. The fact Sargeras was so dead set on finding and conquering the planet of Azeroth shows that he probably has more of an interest in the World Soul than just “it might get corrupted by something some day.” He seems to believe it is already a major threat, which leads me to believe he thinks it is already corrupt and on the path to being some sort of “dark titan” or equivalent.
I do not believe we’ll ever get an “Old Gods were good all along” storyline, but there is a good chance the arc of the Warcraft universe’s story is that whatever we are, the flesh-cursed descendants of elementals and/or titanforged constructs, we represent a kind of “balance” of all forces in the universe. I think Azeroth herself is going to be a soul influenced by all the forces equally to some degree, and will be the divine archetype of what all the playable mortal races in the game are.
“Six chairs at the high table.”
“Six mouths to feed.”
“One will devour them all.”
The Legion (Chaos) has already been defeated. The realm of the Shadowlands (Death) is defeated as well. I think the realm of Nature was probably Dragonflight but who knows. It could still be in play.
So this is shaping up to be two chairs at the high table which is the realm of Void and the realm of Light. Of course we read into the characters that the light has abandoned them. So is the Light gone too? The prophecies come from the void so we should expect Light to fail too in the saga.
