I would hope the latter and that they are infact the Shards of K’aresh explaining the similar Radiant Song to Azeroth and that K’aresh is the Cosmic Realm of Light.
In otherwords I expect the Zone to have a traditional looking sky setting the stage for Midnight’s Zones.
The Crystals/Realms of Light in Midnight would be under Silithus(stabbed and corrupted by Sargeras’s Fel), Darkshore(slightly injured by the Black Blood spilling out from C’Thun’s demise and corrupted with Life from Elune, Ysera and Alexstrasza as well as with Xavius’s Nightmare), Kul’Tiras(injured deliberately by N’Zoth pouring corruption into it), Zandalar(injured deliberately by G’huun pouring corruption into it having succeeded with his goal by the time of his death) and Kezan(possibly being poisoned/corrupted by Kajamite)
While Beledar might be one of those crystals, I think it’s worth noting that while the ones Archaedas displays in the hologram look like raw gems with more asymmetrical facets, Beledar looks more regular, with symmetrical facets and embellishments like a fashioned jewel.
So it may be something different altogether, or by way of someone altering it.
4 Likes
Yeah, there’s some parallels with Azathoth going on as well. I don’t know if Azeroth dreamed reality into existence, but I vaguely recall some SL stuff that softly implied something along those lines.
It is kinda hard to parse what lore actually stands, as we have two distinct creative directions to reconcile.
I saw the third quest today on my Druid. I never got the second quest. According to Wowhead, they’re both calked “Archives: Seeking History,” but both artickes link to the same quest. I’m confused.
I wonder, do they have the same id, but play different recordings?
While there have been minor edits over the years, the basic “Chronicle Cosmology” has held largely the same. I have this bad feeling that it’s about to get completely gutted, undermining over a decade of work on it.
azeroth is da chosen one
yawn
2 Likes
Maybe instead of crash landing from space, it was launched from deep within upwards, and getting lodged in the cavern roof?
Than why is it facing downwards as if it fell from a tremondous height and got lodged within Hallowfall?
We shouldn’t be seeing the pointed end of it, if it was the other way around. Unless the topside portion of it is also pointed, than possibly. But there isn’t a whole lot of room down there to launch a crystal that large THAT fast to lodge within Hallowfalls ceiling
Why couldn’t Azeroth “spawning into existence” be the original source of the clash of Void and Light?
That could at least, in a video game world, explain these Light Shards projecting outwards? Tie in with Azeroth being the most important (center of reality) thing in the universe, and potentially tie into the Earth Mother story.
People always look at the Cosmology Chart and see it as the outside closing in on Reality, but what if it’s the opposite?
I honestly think this is the best option. I’m already up to my ears with titans crap
1 Like
i genuinly want her to represent every force so that she represents every being living on her
1 Like
My money was all on Worldsouls being total blank slates that represent no force at all, and that them being Titans (i.e., beings of inherent Arcane) was total propaganda started by Aman’thul because the forces of Arcane managed to get their grimy hands on his Worldsoul first.
Everything else is crap.
1 Like
theory: the crystal was an azerite crystal then the titans made it a light crystal
They did lay the groundwork for that already in SL, with all the First One, 7th Force, Forces in Balance, etc.
I’m really, really not a fan of the MacroTitans or the implied copy-pasting of pantheons across all Six (each with their own zereth, I guess).
1 Like
Circling back to this, after doing some rounds elsewhere, and I’m pretty sold on Xal’atath being one of two things:
-
A (possibly Elder, Void) Naaru. Given how strongly this game conveys hints through imagery, given the script tattooed on her face looks incredibly similar to the script hovering above L’ura (which looks somewhat inspired by Cuneiform), and given the fact that she crawls out out of a void portal that spawns directly centered on Beledar in the Nerubian mural…
-
A K’areshi survivor (Ethereal) who consumed a Void Naaru (like Alleria) but failed to balance the Void within herself (unlike Alleria). Or maybe she consumed a naaru crystal similar to Beledar on K’aresh. Specifics are unclear, but I think something along the lines of this theory have the most evidence: beyond the vague connection between the Radiant Song, Xal’atath, K’aresh, and Azeroth, Locus-Walker seems to actually know Xal’atath. There’s a Nexus-Princess Ky’veza infiltrating Nerub’ar Palace, seemingly to work against Xal’atath.
… I think this third Archaedas recording is setting us up for a rug pull. Identifying it as calcified Worldsoul seems like their best guess after first encountering Beledar, and I’m uncertain on whether it was a claim of the Titans or a claim of the Keepers. Either a subsequent recording might reveal that they were mistaken, or the recordings were altered/falsified for reasons. The Void/Light cycle just seems too on the nose and isn’t something we’ve seen associated with Azeroth. If the other crystals we encounter end up representing different cosmic forces, I’ll buy it, but not before.
Odyn did decree the Titan Keepers falsify their records to attribute all wonders to the Titans with the Cache of Cosmic Curiosities(https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Cache_of_Cosmic_Curiosities) practically revealing that they fabricated the “Titan” Runes being invented by the Titans when all evidence suggests they were invented by either the Nathrezim or the Black Empire or both.
If the fourth Archaedas recording pulls the rug out from under us(due to Odyn quitting his job over the Dragon Aspects being appointed by the Titans thus rendering his Edicts invalid) it may reveal the truth of Beledar as well as the truth of Azerite, Ulduar and the Halls of Infusion! A truth that will hit Brann hardest!
No doubt it will reveal that Beledar is not only not Azeroth’s essence but that Ulduar wasn’t Yogg-Saron’s prison(which will be revealed to be the Halls of Infusion on the Dragon Isles) and that he is infact the same as a certain other entity called the God of Death(Mueh’zala) thus explaining not only Yogg-Saron’s heavy associations with Death(besides his name Galakrond who was corrupted by him uses the same Necrotic Death Magic as the Maldraxxi) but also his supposed absence from the Shadowlands(in that it explains he was never absent but simply went by his other name).
Ulduar being a lie(and infact the actual name that Kil’jaeden gave Icecrown Citadel) will throw Brann off-balance as everything he knew is ripped out from under him! Magni won’t be hit hard by this revelation as all it reveals is that Azeroth seemingly subverted the Nathrezim’s tech to communicate with him…
…At least until it is suddenly revealed that there was a Light Realm Crystal under each place that Azerite manifested from causing him to suddenly question everything Azeroth supposedly told him and realize why Azeroth was so loud when she was seemingly quite before: Loud Azeroth is Real Azeroth while Not-As-Loud Azeroth is someone tied to the Nathrezim(who else has access to Ulduar if Ulduar turns out to be Icecrown Citadel?).
Cue Tyrande’s owl coming in with a confession from Sylvanas about how she had her Valkyr Reanimate him, directed him towards Ulduar so that she could redirect the Heroes of Azeroth to the Pillars of Creation as an excuse to head to Stormheim to get that Lantern from Helya and enslave Eyrir and latter taking inspiration from Azerite to send as many Souls to the Maw while passing it off as Azeroth’s Blood.
I don’t for one second buy that Beledar is Azeroth’s essence. Given the connection to the Arathi, the radiant song being the same as the one heard on K’aresh, Renilash (light vs. void), Naaru light/void states, Xal’atath calling naaru brethren, Azerite exhibiting none of the properties of Beledar (especially the void state), etc.
I think Magni’s entire ordeal, plus Azerite seeming to overpower Void (potentially overpower everything, but Void is the one we’ve seen) points towards this being misdirection of some sort. The reason Magni, the one person specifically empowered to hear Azeroth, cannot hear the radiant song is Azeroth is not singing.
1 Like