Xalalatath crawling out of the wall like the ring lady yelling IM HERE TO ASK YOU ABOUT YOUR AUTO INSURANCE POLICY
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Xalalalalalalalalalatath: âWonât you take a poor sinnerâs hand?â
Also are my ears deceiving me, or is Spider Azshara voiced by Janiaâs VA?
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Gosh, credit where itâs due, that was pretty good.
It told me way more about the story than the actual cinematic did. It had a believable, human motivation. It was a great twist on the tired Blizzard favorite of âempress soandso went berserk and now sheâs leading us to ruinââthough, Iâll point out itâs basically just the same trope with extra steps.
Still, those extra steps made a difference.
I canât help but notice that âhot elves are ruining my lifeâ is a constant theme in WoW.
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I mean, credit where itâs dueâŚwhile we as the players know the new Spider Queen is being played by Evil Elf Lady, she actually does have a point with all the Nerubian peasants we see suffering.
Spider Queen Mom was being sensible in wanting to âendureâ, but I canât really fault Spider Azsharaâs motivations when theyâve established this civilization is hurting.
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So youâre saying sheâs making Nerub great again.
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Gonna build a wall. A big beautiful wall. And make Arathi pay for it!
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It wasnât bad. Better than the Thrall/Anduin cenimatic. Still, it does feel like a retread of several plotâŚthreads⌠(a-thank you) that theyâve done before. I actually expected them to say âWhat are you doing?!â âSucceeding you, Mother.â
Edit: Also, where is my arachnophobia safe version? This is very upsetting.
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What was particularly noteworthy for me was just how horrifying Xalatath is, when not smirking like the sarcastic, bemused, aloof antagonist she appeared to be. Her eyes are haunting.
Granted, this is a cinematic. But I hope they keep that effect. I donât want Xalatath to be Celaena Sardothien. I want her to be creepy and evil.
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Iâd follow her into Hell, I would!
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I will never forgive Xalâatath for ruining a perfectly good Monster Girl to make the âEvolvedâ Neruwubians!
Gotta really rope in the fan art sites⌠and the other fan art sites.
Huh.
Accepting outside help that transforms your people so that you may achieve your destiny as conquerers.
The uh⌠irony is not lost on me.
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Remember that time in that WoW expac that it turned out the big bad was akshully being controlled by a different big bad!?
How many expacs has that been the premise now?
Glad Iâm here for the hats.
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The Orcs at least have the distinction of not having been led into corruption by an elf. Not many can claim that these days.
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Yet another reason that I prefer dwarves. Theyâre not âhot elves ruining livesâ.
I love how unhinged Xalatapdat looks.
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Put some respect on Xalamanderâs name when you say it.
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Adored this cinematic. I do hope there will be more!
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I thought the void was all about tentacled monstrosities why does it make spiders more conventionally cute? Not that Iâm complaining Iâd rather be cute than a writhing incomprehensible mass of some description
Hereâs the thing, and itâs a Game Theory 
so take it as such, but the Old Gods were forced into our reality, and as we saw in Shadowlands, it takes a tremendous amount of power to breach the barriers between Dimensions.
We only went to the Shadowlands because Sylvanas opened the Rift between the Material Plane and the Shadowlands.
The Dreadlords had to be specifically engineered and created to be able to enter other planes of reality.
The Light was able to just âinvadeâ Maldraxxus, as was the Void, despite the fact weâre told that the Void is so blocked from our reality they have to engineer a End-of-Days Event just to open the door wide enough for them to come through.
Dimensius was only able to manifest a mere fragment of itself into Outland, and that was only because the planet was partially phased into the Twisting Nether and there was a tremendous amount of Arcane Energy for it to feed upon to power said fragment manifestation.
So we can assume that entities of great power require larger and more permanent âGatesâ between the Dimensions to fully manifest into the Material Plane, and if they do it wrong, as we saw with Sargeras and the Sundering, their corporeal forms can be destroyed or heavily damaged to the point it can take thousands (or tens of thousands considering how time works in the Twisting NetherâŚ) of years and absurd amounts of energy to reconstitute their corporeal forms.
The Old Gods, and this is from the Chronicles so we can assume its either an outright lie, a half-truth or, at best, slander, had to be forced into our Dimension, the Material Plane, and were forced to be thrown at random due to this barrier that protects the Material Plane from wanton invasion by extra-dimensional entities like the Demons, the Void Lords, the Realms of Death etc etc etc.
Our view of the Void might be horrors, tentacles and sentient cancer because ⌠the Old Gods were damaged.
The festering body-horror poster-children of the Void might have been irrevocably damaged by being forced through this barrier without something on the other side to open the way, as we saw with the Legionâs preferred method of invading a planet, and Sylvanas atop Icecrown, and because of this, their âhigherâ functions were almost entirely ruined, leaving only their most basic and ânaturalâ functions able to limp along, either because they were simple enough for âfield repairsâ, or were so entwinned with their nature that it couldnât be permanently damaged or suppressed.
Weâve seen that Old God âremainsâ are still, even when dead or fossilized, super-charged with Void energies or only need the slightest touch of Life energy or Void energy to become âactiveâ once more. Why both with the Elementals of Azeroth when you could just create more Kâthraxxi or other, loyal servants that donât need to be constantly suppressed and enslaved? Why enslave the Mortal Races of Azeroth when the Old Gods were able to produce the Aqir directly from their own flesh?
Weâve never seen the true power of the Void. Weâve seen damaged, broken, ruined things trying desperately to fulfill a function theyâre neither capable of when challenged by any reasonable threat or able to use their Temporal Sight adequately to overcome 40 kleptomaniacal omnisexual murder-hobos whoâd beat each other to death with a coffee mug for a piece of loot.
Xalâatath might be our first real look at what the Void, undamaged, focused and with full support from the Voidâs rulers, is capable of, and sheâs just one servant, far older and more successful than the Old Gods to the point they either tricked her, or were given her, in the form of the Black Blade to fulfill their mission and still failed catastrophically.
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