Archaedas claims the Beledar is Azeroth’s coalesced essence though I suspect he may have simply been making assumptions out of wishful thinking.
I suspect that K’aresh(which had a Song similar to the Radiant Song) is infact the Cosmic Realm of Light(shattered by the Great Clash of Light and Shadow) and that Beledar is one of the Realms of Light that resided within K’aresh.
What is important is that there is more than Beledar beneath Azeroth’s surface which brings to mind the words of both Saezurah and N’Zoth:
Automa Oracle Saezurah: “Her dreams sing beneath the surface. Quiet now, but her voice will awaken the others.”
N’Zoth: “Her dreams sing beneath the surface. Our dreams. Our song.”
N’Zoth: “She is not the last, but the first. Drown her and you will see.”
Beledar is going to be the first of these Zones of Light we will visit with the rest of the Realms of Light being in Midnight.
Where are they? Considering Anduin connected Beledar’s Crystals to Azerite(which Velen recognized as being connected to the Naaru) I suspect there are Realms of Light beneath Kul Tiras, Zandalar, Kezan, Silithus and Darkshore.
In otherwords War Within is just the first of the Underdark Expansions with the rest of the World Soul Saga being the other 2 although I’m sure Blizzard will try to paint the Realms of Light as Surface Zones despite technically being Underground.
How do you even get this, or the second one?
I… don’t understand. While there are few things that are certain, I was 100% certain that Beledar came from space. It’s jutting from the roof, which is only possible if it penetrated from above at high velocity, for Thrall’s sake! I have never been more surprised by any reveal in the history of WoW, I can’t even conceive of it somehow originating from Azeroth itself. Beledar being light-conversion missile aimed at Azeroth is the only thing that even remotely fits into existing lore. And it fits so cleanly!
No, no, this isn’t right. I am in a state of true denial.
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It’s Archaedas who is in a state of Denial trying to convince himself that everything is tied to the Titans.
Ever second week or so, the Machine Speaker standing next to Faerin in Dornogal handed out a quest to collect 100 titan disc fragments.
Hand them in to Dagran and he and the machine speaker unlock a titan lore dump for your enjoyment.
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So Azeroth is a Light being then? Can all the people stop crying about Blizzard making some Light worshipers evil now?
Its dissapointing but i guess that’s the lore now
So, it’s basically just a massive chunk of super Azerite? That already exhibited some sort of light, not necessarily The Light. Maybe when we get to the next crystal we’ll get some more context here.
Question for me now becomes why Sargeras was trying to stab it—Xal’atath wasn’t active down there yet, so that pretty much leaves Beledar or the roots. I still don’t buy that Sargeras was trying to murder Azeroth. I think there’s more to his crusade than we’re aware of yet that goes beyond “kill everything so no void.”
Not gonna lie, pretty boring explanation of Beledar. Begs the question of why a mystery was built around it at all. After BFA you’d suppose someone in our squad of NPCs would know Azerite or a related substance when they see it.
It’s one of many large…cysts of Azerite. The Arathi revering that AP grind.
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You know all those Azerite-rewarding world quests that you let expire? Well this is where all that unclaimed Azerite ended up!
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It’s kind of goofy and recontextualizes BFA slightly. Is Azerite the actual blood of Azeroth, or did Sargeras’ attack fracture one or more of these crystal deposits.
There are undiscovered ones, even to the knowledge of the titans. Possibly larger than Beledar.
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Just sucks that azeroth meant to represent the planet is just the light and maybe arcane.
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Beledar’s light seems like it’s a Light/Arcane/Fire thing. In line with the Arathi world view of cosmic powers being a series of overlapping spheres of influence, rarher than clearly defined and seperate.
If Beledar is shifting towards shadow, we can assume all of these crystals are. And since they’re now directly affiliated with Azeroth’s world soul we can sort of infer that that too is being converted to shadow.
Why do people think Sargeras was trying to stab Beledar? He was trying to stab the world soul. Beledar =/= the world soul, even with the info we learned this week.
Anyway. WoWhead speculates that the light crystal seen in Season of Discovery, the one where you destroy the void box from the BFD raid is one of these smaller crystals Archaedas talks about. Given that the shadowy figure (most likely Xal’atath) shows up afterwards seems to support this.
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Mostly just hoping there is more to Sargeras than we understand, and killing Azeroth isn’t part of his agenda (absent her being consumed by The Void). Given it’s basically just a huge chunk of azerite, I’m not seeing that stabbing Beledar would have served much purpose, which leaves me hoping there’s something else down there he desperately wanted to get rid of and the crystal was just collateral damage.
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Killing Azeroth was his initial goal but following the War of the Ancients he had a different one. He wanted to corrupt her and make her part of his new Dark Pantheon. The stabbing was a last ditch effort to deny the void their prize. Given he was about to be imprisoned by his fellow Titans.
It was basically a “If I cant have her, no-one can”.
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The “Azerite” glow that we’ve seen on everything World soul related from BFA till now has been gold and blue. Arcane and Light.
I think one of two things is going on.
As the “Prime” World Soul, Azeroth embodies every cosmic force and the titans are trying to force her into a Titan shaped hole that she doesn’t fit in.
OR, she is a Titan, but she’s the Titan embodying creation itself, which would be Light.
It remains to be seen, which, if either, the answer is, but Azeroth having some sort of connection to the Light seems inevitable to me.
I know everyone is on a light kick right now… but do try to remember that the world soul is deeper in Azeroth, and that all of the “shadow”/void types keep digging down deeper to find that darkness they desire… which is also closer to Azeroth’s World Soul.
So far everything we’ve seen has been generally surface level. Basically, cosmic radiation on the skin of the planet. Now we are digging down and yeah there’s a bright glowing crystal there, one that also is shifting to a purple/shadow state, presumably it’s a new thing though we don’t actually know that because to be blunt 15 years don’t mean a thing on a planetary time scale, and the Earthen fully admit their memories are overwritten regularly so they can’t answer either, assuming they even noticed the difference…
Anyways, my point is in this place that has a strong element of light we sure do find a lot of shadow and while I’m sure to many that just means old ones (void things), and perhaps that’s what the Dev’s are intending, but that doesn’t mean that all things of darkness are of the void lords or their creations.
If I recall the creation myth correctly, it required both the light and the darkness to create the universe. Why would the prime be only the half that lost the war? Beyond some “Chosen One” bs that frankly is more overused than most any other trope.
There’s also the speculation that the reason Azeroth is a Prime Worldsoul is because she absorbed or always had portions of all six cosmic forces within her.
Even the dragon aspects, who are closely tied to Azeroth, didn’t recognize the exact power(s) she used to bless them. I think we all underestimated just how powerful Azeroth really is.
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Chronicle said that world-souls were born from shards of light that found their way inside planets at the beginning of the universe. I always figured that’s what Beledar was.