Read and weep (or rejoice if Sylvanas is your thing):
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the ramblings of an ogre from the wound event is hardly confirmation of whats happening next expansion.
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Click-baity title and a link to something discussed to death a year ago?
You’re wasting your talent OP, you could be a WoW youtuber.
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Ogmot’s journal is vague and can be interpreted many ways.
There is no truth.
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This is also under the assumption that it’s even accurate. He was an ogre, a cultist, and absolutely insane. Why people take his writings as absolute, unquestioned truth is baffling to me.
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He seems to be describing what’s happening in BfA rather than what’s going to happen in the next expansion…
Again, this makes me believe the Shadow Lands is just Patch 8.3; BfA’s Argus.
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It’s just like a Nostraldamus quatrain in many respects.
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With the way everybody is obsessed with leaks you would imagine half of Azeroth suffers of incontinence lol
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No, the leaks always come from UN named sources. That’s what I hear when I watch CNN, and MSNBC anyways.
Why else do we have all those outhouses to help when we got to take a leak.
I normally wouldn’t give much credence to the ravings of an Ogre either but the old God whispers in the Emerald Dream are also coming true.
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Is buzzfeed still around? he could also write articles for them.
It probably is. I don’t hate it outside that the Alliance is once again used as a plot device, having Horde sack their capital without batting an eye.
They just don’t get that in a shared world, you have to be somewhat evenhanded. Whenever they do Alliance vs Horde, the writing team devolves into 12 year old Horde fanboys… To the point where the story on both sides is just embarrassing.
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This is my biggest complaint as well as the fact that all the players, who have spent the entire expansion hating Sylvanas are bound and gagged to her as her minions (Horde and Alliance).
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When Blizzard writes vague things like that journal, and cryptic whispers from bosses, they have no idea what they’re really eventually going to be revealed to mean years later.
Some of the ultimate “revelations” have been the most ludicrously tenuous links that have clearly just been tacked on just so Blizzard can pretend they were playing a very clever long game.
For example, take the Il’gynoth whisper, “To find him, drown yourself in the circle of stars.”
Back in Legion, players discussed this at length and in depth, speculating on what the “circle of stars” could actually be, whether the drowning was literal or metaphorical, and so forth.
As it turns out, Blizzard just meant N’Zoth, underwater, and in a crowning moment of last-minute laziness, literally just named the area “The Circle of Stars”, despite the lack of relevancy in the name.
It wasn’t deep, or clever, or meaningful; it was just a lazy, tacked-on attempt to link back to the whispers in previous expansions, and make it feel like those were always meant to mean something, instead of just being random phrases that sounded “cool” at the time.
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Blizzard’s writings very rarely has the nuance of taking into account the character of someone giving the prophecy.
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You know we all read that thing during Legion, right? You’re acting as if no one did that event when it was mandatory for Antorus progression.
Heck I think they write a prophecy for fantasy sakes, but never decided who to really do it.
So we end up with the end of the last raid saying: Haha, it came true.
It feels so darn forced in this expac. And this is coming from the guys that said… well you know that super prophecy? Illidan broke that one very badly. So ya… we’ll just force our new one to be somehow true, no matter how lame we do it.
They should really stop with the prophecies, imo.
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It also makes things predictable to people with decent inference skills, they should stop all the foreshadowing.
I mean, if you want an example of GOOD and CONSISTENT writing…
In the Tabletop RPG Pathfinder, in the distant past, prophecies were totally a thing. They weren’t often explicit, but all of them made via a proper ritual did eventually come true.
But then there was a prophecy that had a Major God living on to do something awesome, only for him to die before he could. This drove most of his clerics insane and literally breaks prophecies in the universe. Since one of the prophecies was wrong, clearly they all have to be now, that’s what consistency is.
Otherwise there’s no narrative point to prophecies, it’d be more honest with the reader/consumer if they were framed as characters guessing at the future.
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