What is the black blood congealing into

Where the black blood flows or pools it spreads a curse of flesh upon the earth. Where it lingers and pools in large quanities we see blood abominations arise. They share similarities with elementals but I believe are typed as Abberations.

When we arrive at the congealing pools (2nd boss area of Nerubar) the nerubians say that we are disrupting their operations which will cause the blood to become unstable. This gives form to the bloodbound abomination.

The bloodbound abomination summons forth faceless ones to aid it in battle. It reads that it materializes them from the unseeming, so out of nothingness or another realm.

Noggenfoggers notes in undermine reveal that for unknown reasons Kajimite stabilizes the black blood which not only makes it easier/safer to transport but makes it into dangerous munition for the weapons that would emerge from the Darkfuse Cartel.

And when we go to Horrific Visions in TWW S2, we are told that “the last time nzoth used the black blood was in his attempts to merge nyalotha with our reality.” (Paraphrasing.)

And in nyalotha the world is covered in his body and his blood flows.

From the bodies (and we can now assume blood) the canon lore says the Aqir and Faceless ones emerged or originated. Which we see examples of when the bloodbound abomination of the congealing pools summons or creates them from the unseeming.

Finally, we learn recently through (I think) lorewalking that nzoth was “building something under nyalotha,” that was so reprehensible that xalatath played her hand and attacked the old gods.

Another instance of Old God corruption analogous to the dream is the emerald nightmare where Ilgynoth, a tumorous growth of nzoth, was attempting to take over the dreams version of Elunahir to use its roots to burrow down to the core of the world.

Sooooooooooo, what is the black blood congealing into? What do these abominations become once they’ve hardened and emerged from the muck? Are they just blood infused elementals? Are they the fetus of the C’thraxi and Aqir waiting to emerge?

But more importantly, is the unseeming what Nzoth was building beneath nyalotha? Another layer closer to the dream of the world soul? Nyalotha is itself N’zoths dream of the world, his empire in past present future, so what could be deeper and even more damming than that? We know so little about the unseeming and yet I crave to know more.

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White blood.

/s


In all honestly though – Probably manifestations of the old-gods power.

You could also argue:

  • They might be able to act as vessels to heal the old-gods in times of need, like if they’re injured etc — they can grapple said vessels and reclaim it to help restore themselves.
  • Act as a soulstone for them to tap into if within distance in fatal scenarios
  • or even tap their minds into, so they may personally puppeteer a creation from such and enact their goals.

cool

all I can think of with black bloods is its linked to the azerite plot device since the sword will be a thing later. the old gods are all dead

The unseeming could be a adjacent realm for the Void to reside or influence Azeroth create by the Old Gods with their Blood, kinda like a wound that heals creates a carapace to develop new flesh…? Almost similar on how the Emerald Dream and Shadowlands work with Azeroth, but this would be a place where the Void forces could reside to try and corrupt or change Azeroth into a Void Horror of some kind or the Old Gods to just Ascend from their verming station as the Void Lord and its Herald say they are and become something More with Azeroth Awakening under their Influence.

Kinda like a parasite burrows into a host, then eats the insides only to rise out of the dead host shell to repeat the cycle… Reminds me a bit of Lavos of Chrono Trigger with its time attering or devouring plot and Jenova from FF7 with its taking over the Lifestream to use the World as its vessel to travel to other planets, who use and influence the World population only to consume it in an endless cycle of selfish self centered evolution.

But this is just my sci-fi speculation, it could totally be something else… One thing I like to point out that the only Cosmic Forces that have an intermediate Realm that interacts with Azeroth are the Life and Death Cosmic Forces… all others don’t so maybe the unseeming could be that intermediate realm so the Void could have access to Azeroth too, who can say? But that’s just me speculating and my coffee talking as I relaxingly read the Story Forums for inspiration! :smile: