Thoughts about Life, Malfurion and the Dream

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The adherents to Life are the most insidious of opponents, perhaps because their nature is so antithetical to our own.

Still, we learned much from observing the link between their plane and Ardenweald, and we have high confidence that a vulnerability has been identified.

Our operative has already gained the trust of her target.

Malfurion is considered to be the Guardian of Life. In the vision of the future Arthas had in the epilogue of his titular novel, he saw Malfurion as this great horned beast that the Old Gods feared. I think this is important to how the Dreadlords, under Sire Denathrius were not able to infiltrate the pantheon of Life. They say that it’s because Life is the opposite of Death, and a being like Malfurion would be most powerful in a realm tied to Life, such as the Emerald Dream.

I think Malfurion taking Y’sera’s place in Ardenweald is a clever rouse to neutralize his power in the realm of Death. Danuser in a pre-Shadowlands interview made an allegory that Malfurion was like Persephone, and through his desent into the Underwold he would find a lot out about the Emerald Nightmare. Maybe it was forshadowing because Persephone was tricked to stay in the Underworld.

we learned much from observing the link between their plane and Ardenweald, and we have high confidence that a vulnerability has been identified.

They are going to use Ardenweld as a bridge to the Lifelands, or the Emerald Dream.

Our operative has already gained the trust of her target.

Their operative is a female and has gained the trust of someone important to infiltrating the Lifelands. I think this may be forshadowing that Y’sera is that operative. We saw Y’sera’s soul get taken by Elune in her death cinematic. It’s possible Y’sera never went to Ardenweald at all but went to Elune. This is purely speculation, But there’s another aspect to it. the Old God whisper, “The Vassel of Life disguises treachery. Beware the eyes of green.”

I think the suggestion by Y’sera to hide the seed in the Emerald Dream is setting up for it to be a scam to try and corrupt the seed.

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I wouldn’t take anything Danuser says in an interview seriously tbh.

As fun as he is as an “ideas guy”, he’s really bad at staying consistent when put on the spot like that and tends to give demonstrably false statements that contradict content in the actual game, including content yet to be released by those interviews’ timeframes.

See: His infamous rope allegory or his comments regarding the Jailer and Kel’thuzad.

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The Preface Book was early stages of Sire Detherius’ plans, all this happened before Sargeras even fell, before the Aspects were empowered.

Malfurion or Ysera probably didn’t exist when this book was written.

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There’s no timeframe on when this book was written. It could have been written millenia ago, it could have been written during Legion when the Dreadlords were planning and infiltrating both factions to start the 4th war.

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To our most wondrous and resplendent Master,

I am pleased to state that, after a lengthy study of our rivals, I have completed my observations.

Please accept this briefing in advance of my complete report, which shall follow forthwith.

We anticipate that certain of our targets will be more challenging to topple than others. But each is prone to manipulation in different ways, and our agents have already woven themselves into their very fabric.

This is, after all, the solemn duty for which you sired us. As you are fond of saying: Once a desire is understood, it can be exploited.

Enough prologue. Allow me to summarize our findings.

In many ways, the titans will be the easiest to manipulate. Their singular goal is to impose structure upon everything they see.

Show them a force that opposes their drive for Order, and they will be consumed by their urge to eradicate it.

Their pantheon, so seemingly united in purpose, is vulnerable to fracturing.

This Dreadlord talks in pretense.

  • *Show them a force that opposes their drive for Order.
  • The Pantheon of Order *is vulnerable to fracturing.
  • The deception you have architected *will bear fruit in the ages to come.

This isn’t the Dreadlord writing after Sargeras had already turned, otherwise they would have stated that Sire Denathrius’ plan had already produced results.

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I don’t think Malfurion is some sleeper agent or foe to be worried of. The book mentioning the one to beware likely is either scrapped content from Shadowlands that they didn’t follow through with, much like how Krexus seemed to have a far larger role with how prevelent in art and marketing he was, but then died off screen, or will be attributed to a yet unconcieved or unintroduced character.

I view it much like Illgonath’s prophecies, often being flexible enough to be fit into any context blizz finds fitting.

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This theory has several problems.

Firstly Sending Malf to Ardenweald only make him stronger. Like Vol’Jin sitting in a magic egg, Malfurion’s studing Life magic from the death side will make him come out even stronger when he swap places with Ysera again.

The second problem is time. The book was written before the fall of the titan pantheon.

Third. eyes color, only knowns character with green eyes associated with Nature is Malfurion. For now, I don’t see him betraying TeamLife, but if he finally gets his own story, he may start to doubt the teachings of druids, like Velen with the light.

We have two paths. Either Malfurion, like sylvanas, start’s to see flaws in creation of the universe or the traitor is still unknown character sitting in ED or Lifelands

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And how if you die in the shadowlands you die for real.
lol.

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Life hadn’t showed up yet so I will just wait how this all works out.

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This agent of death could be a Dreadlord disguised as a wild god. This is a typical tactic of these guys. They absorb the energy of one force to become as similar to original users as possible. What happens if dreadlord absorbs a lot of Life Essence? He will probably connect with the cycle and, like wild gods, he will be able to travel between dimensions.

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