I remember some very interesting speculation from BellularGaming and others about how the invasion of the light may be the next big twist. It seems they can get at least one expansion out of it, given all of the foreshadowing, from the turn Y’rel made on Draenor in the Mag’har Orc questline to Lothraxxion, the Nathrezim soldier for the Light in Legion and all of the Old God’s prophecies.
It seems that a new “balance” of light and darkness, which could play in with storyline developments like the resettlement of lands burned in the Battle for Azeroth, could wear well with the twenty-year storyline (thirty if you count the Warcraft RTS series) and keep it going for another expansion or two.
I want an invasion of the light expansion to happen too and it will happen, light vs void and us probably having to choose. But for 11.0 it seems a little too early.
I remember hearing blizzard wanting to continue stories throughout expansions that came from this one. Having a light will be a bit difficult to tell because Turalyon just became acting King of Stormwind, they’ll have to tell some story as his part.
If anything we could probably get a new world revamp in the next expansion, or maybe the emerald dream because there were hints of Azshara returning and Yogg’saron. Let’s not forget and hopefully it’s not one patch, Nozdormu could end up turning into Murozond and he’ll need a whole expansion for himself at least, unlike N’zoth.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see some lands resettled and rebuilt, and I’d love even more if the players got to take part. And I agree that the evil-paladin angle is coming soon. But I don’t really see how they’re connected to one another.
@Fortuna I didn’t see how they might be connected at the beginning of writing my post, either, but it dawned on me that the writers tend to look at events in the political / mortal realm of WoW as shadows on the walls of the cave, superficial reflections of much deeper undercurrents. Hence, my speculation.
Seeing as the void is involved in 10.1 with implications there’s still a living Old God due to the final boss of Aberrus, I’m going to go out on a limb that 11.0 will be the Void Expansion people have wanted. I assume 10.2/10.3 will be the remaining incarnates though.
It’s been in the cards since the end of WoD, and Legion gave us more info as Xe’ra tried to engulf Illidan and force him to serve the light, so we know the light isn’t the ‘good’ it paints itself as.
Have you done the Mag’har Orc allied race intro scenario?
Alternate Draenor, where we’ve built our garrisons, have been taken over by Yrel and the Lightbound, at the current point in time.
Eventually, they may rebuild the Dark Portal somehow, and once again invade, this time it’s not orcs, it’s zealot draenei.
Fun fact: Alternate Reality Garrosh has already been corrupted by the light, so maybe evil Paladin Garrosh at some point in the future?
23:30 - Look at that, who’s that outside on the glowy war elekk? You might remember her from WoD!
I liked Taliesin’s speculation from his Cinematic breakdown about how Iridikron’s powers look more Light based than earth elemental based. We assume the powers he made deals with were Void or Death or whatever, but what if they were the Light? Could Iridikron be the bridge to the Light invasion story?
You will fly through a blazing causeway like the run at the beginning of the Trial of Valor. From there, you’ll do an epic questline to imbue your abilities with “Light Drenched” power, and cosmetic alterations added hastily in a hotfix will have everyone crowding into barber shops to turn down the brightness a tad. Most players will earn the an achievement which awards them a new title “The Weeknd.”
They’re not going to do a whole expansion for Murozond. Firstly because we’re already in the dragon expansion and they aren’t going to want two of those back-to-back. But more importantly, if they say “expansion about a time-traveling villain” we’re all going to say “what, like Warlords?” and that’s going to be the end of that.
I’ve said it since Turalyon’s return to Azeroth in Legion.
He’s gonna eventually find a way from the Light to open some portal to AU Yrel where the Light is just massacring everything, and we’re gonna see a Scarlet Crusade 2.0 but this time with Turalyon in full control of the Alliance.
And it’ll lead to Illidan’s return after so long with the Titans themselves, with newfound Titan-like powers as they made him into a Titan himself to replace Sargeras, but with his Illidan “only we can save ourselves” personality.
For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, but want to:
Summary
The final boss of Aberrus is Sarkareth, leader of the Sundered Flame Dracthyr. But he’s been void corrupted. Which implies there’s still an Old God alive on Azeroth, or Xala’tath is making her move.
i want a light vs void expansion purely because usually such big culmination expansions are class fantasy expansions and i want some 3D remakes of old sets
But you’re not getting my point, no one wants only one patch of a huge villain that is probably the strongest one in the universe. This is murozond that could ultimately destroy all timelines. Yes, they need an expansion about different timelines and such. I don’t think they’ll be able to capitalize within one patch.
I’m not suggesting back to back dragon expansions, they already said they didn’t want to do that. But if they want to do us justice they’ll keep murozond longer than a patch. You seen what they did to N’zoth, the strongest of the old gods yet defeated within a patch. Murozond will need a much longer story than just one patch. Maybe we can get a start in 10.2 but leaks shown something about the green dragonflights. That’s why I have him turning into murozond at the end with the help of the primal incarnates.
Yes, he hasn’t been born yet - but we already saw his end. There is only one Murozond. Nozdormu is a Timeless Being due to his titan blessing.
This was further re-inforced in WoD, when Nozdormu himself locked the current timeway so no one can leave our timeline anymore.
The Murozond we kill is our Nozdormu. We know Murozond’s fate. We kill him. It’s the fate Nozdormu was shown at his creation.
I still suspect Chromie will become corrupted trying to save Nozdormu though - and we’re the ones who get sent back in time to kill her (in the Deaths of Chromie) because she does something unthinkable.
