What are your theories? Is it C’Thun? Y’Shaarj? Where/who/what is it coming from? Was Sargeras stabbing the planet the reason for it to be coming out now? And what do you think Xal’atath has to do with it?
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Tin foil theory not being presented, instead I offer that Azeroth is a smoker and part of her body is tar which is where the Undermine zone will take place.
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Secret fifth old god.
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Could be blood for all of them. I’m just going with Jenova rules. The blood could be slowly trying to pool together.
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Most likely yes. The black blood appearing is a recent thing that seems to correlate when Beledar first went void.
Given the location of Khaz Algar relate to where each of the Old Gods were imprisoned / defeated, one leading theory is that it is C’thuns blood. Old Gods are massive in the lore. Yogg-sarons blood (Saronite) appeared in places like Duskwood and Feralas. Which are nowhere near Northrend. The black blood also turns Aqir related creatures, such as the Nerubians into humanoids. C’thun did the same thing with the Aqir that took over the titan facility that would later be known as Ahn’Qiraj. C’thun turned these Aqir into the Qiraji. Which appear more humanoid in comparison to the Aqir we encountered in BFA.
So factoring in the location of the Blood but also where Sageras stabbed Azeroth (Silithus, right next door to Ahn’qiraj), the timing of when the black blood stated to appear (Sargeras stabbing the planet) and the affects it can have (turning Aqir related creatures into humanoids), it is most likely C’thuns blood.
Also we know what Yogg-sarons and Y’shaarjs blood looks like. Yoggs is green and Y’shaarjs is purple. It could also be N’zoths but C’thun is more logical.
Although the Black Blood does make individuals see things that are not there, most of the time their deepest fears. And we know Y’shaarj was an Old God that loved to use peoples emotions against them. So it could be a mixture of various Old God bloods.
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I think so, I saw someone mentioned that they brought up the secret 5th Old God in Dragonflight recently, when before that it was just information from Vanilla with only 4 Old Gods presented since and forgotten about.
Seems like Blizzard wants us to remember there’s still 5 Old Gods, with one we haven’t seen yet.
There’s also that mural in City of Threads of a mysterious 5th Old God.
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It’s from the festering wound inside the planet that is Undermine.
I think you might be right, I looked up a picture of C’Thun dead after a raid defeated him and he’s bleeding out black blood of his corpse.
My personal theory is that the 5th Old God is Xal’atath, too, because there’s lore somewhere about the other Old Gods teaming up to kill one of the Old Gods. That would put the count at 5, then.
It’ll probably be explained through a $60 novel.
lmao.
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I doubt that given that the Undermine is the capital of the Goblin Cartels, which is under Kezan.
You think they keep that place clean and pollution-free?
my favorite wow trope. creating entire books out of events that SHOULD be cinematics while we meanwhile get high quality cinematics of people just yapping instead of those major events 
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Azeroth’s got hemorrhoids.
You know those big pustules you see everywhere in Azj’kahet?
…Yeah. Don’t poke them.
Yeah the discussion about the 5th Old God is weird.
So back in the WC3 manual, Blizzard said that the Titans imprisoned 5 old gods. In the War of the Ancients trilogy, three Old Gods plotted to use the Dragon Soul as a means to hijack the Legions portal in order to free themselves. These three ended up being Yogg-saron (first appearing in Wrath), C’thun (Vanilla) and N’zoth (First mentioned in Cata). So that left two Old Gods unaccounted for and more importantly, what happened to them?
MoP gave us the fourth one to be mentioned. Y’shaarj. However this Old God was killed during the Ordering of Azeroth. So instead of its full body being imprisoned, it was only its heart.
Chronicles vol 1 comes out and only mentions four Old Gods. The very four we know of. However it never says how many landed on Azeroth, just how many Aggramar and co. encountered. The Shadow Priest artifact lore book does give an ‘outlandish’ theory that Xal’atath is this 5th Old God. That was defeated by the others and imprisoned in the blade.
BFA gave us G’huun but all sources, whether in game or not says that G’huun was made accidentally by M.O.T.H.E.R, which happens after the Ordering of Azeroth.
What is weird is that in the annotated ‘Old Gods and the Ordering of Azeroth’ book we found in Dragonflight, the ‘author’ of the annotated version does not point out the contradiction that “one titan sources says 5, but another says 4”. The author makes the case that the book (which is copy and pasted from the WC3 manual section of the same name) was written by someone who favours the Titans, much like how Danuser said the same with the Chronicles books. Iirc Chronicles vol 4 does say that only four Old Gods landed on Azeroth though.
However it appears that Blizzard is making Xal’atath older than the Old Gods. Basically being the Silver Surfer to Dimensius’ Galactus. The current theory is that she came to Azeroth to get C’thun, Yogg-saron, N’zoth and Y’shaarj to corrupt the world soul instead of playing age of empires: Black Empire edition. They killed and imprisoned her in the blade as their response to her demands. With N’zoth only allowing her free once she gave him the three relics (Tempest Caller, Trident of Deep Ocean and the Void Stone) along with us, the PC.
Side note: I still want to know what happened to the Tempest Caller. The Trident and the Void Stone are items that can be looted off Uu’nat, but the caller isn’t.
Kezan is nowhere near Khaz Algar though.
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