When speaking of the alternate Draenor, a lot of people have claimed that the timeline is fated to eventually be wiped from existence since it’s not the main timeline. Where is this explicitly stated in lore materials?
In Twilight of the Aspects Nozdormu explains to Thrall that false timelines are all doomed to eventually collapse and cease existing, as only the true timeline is stable.
Which syncs with Murozond and his followers trying to alter history in various instances, then in End Time forcing a false Hour of Twilight to occur. Murozond so fears what will eventually happen in the true timeline that he and his Inifinite Dragonflight are willing to compromise it with the introduction of false ones, which threatens to destabilize the true timeline and in so doing, risks collapsing all of Time itself.
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Chronicle states:
Once an event happens, it cannot be changed. These events and choices, made up of all creatures and forces in the cosmos, join together like a river, sharing the same reality. Different choices and different possibilities naturally spin off the river of time like small creeks and estuaries, ebbing and flowing for a while. If these shades of what could have been are left alone, they will eventually dissipate into nothing. If efforts are made to preserve them (or alter them), they can indeed remain in existence indefinitely. They can even be made to feed back into the main river—dead creatures can seemingly “live again,” and the past (or future) may literally come back to haunt you. This is not a natural phenomenon, and the inhabitants of the main timeway will often find these experiences to be quite alarming.
Alternate Universes need effort to preserve. AU Draenor for some reason is dying either to Machinery, the Light or due to not having it’s intended history altered.
The fact that Kilrogg’s vision of his death was of us killing him it seems AU Draenor’s Timeline wasn’t altered like we thought it was. To make it permanent we have to go back to it’s past and kill/save someone who is supposed to be alive/dead in our present.
We can either kill AU Grom, Yrel or the Light Mother or we can save Durotan and Draka).
I don’t recall reading this! What passage is it? I’m quite certain I have only read Aman’Thul’s message to Nozdormu on how the True Timeline must be preserved despite there being those who would wish for another Timeline being the True Timeline! What passage are you reading!?!
It is only doomed once blizz can no longer use it
I always believed AU Draenor was stabilized once it linked up to our timeline via the dark portal & the shard Garrosh had of the hourglass of time Kairoz had us make back in MoP.
Even though we destroyed the portal on the AU end, the link is still there.
Aight, so I can’t 100% back this up, but I’m pretty sure AU Draenor is fine cause it’s not the same as those timelines Nozdurmo talked about.
Those timelines were altered versions of our own timeline, tied to our own and fated to fade away, where’s WoD’s Draenor is set in an alternate universe.
Both Mag’har and Lightbound accusing one another of killing the world was something I always thought was related to the war killing the land with machines and magic. Bronze can move through alternate timelines, but it required quite a bit of effort to reach AU Draenor.
I have had a theory for awhile alternate Draenor might be suffering from its prime universe counterpart—which is to say, Outland—sucking the life from it and thereby prolonging its own existence before it crumbles totally into the nether at the cost of alt Draenor slowly dying.
There is also the fact that we wrecked the Primals while leaving the Breakers in far better condition. Given the breakers are following a flawed version Grond’s original directive still and would now have nothing to stop them from continuing their errant programming to desertify the planet they may of done just that to the extent it has compromised Draenor’s ability to sustain life.
All that aside alternate Draenor is an temporal aberration to be sure… It is basically a tiny bubble inflated off the side of the main timeline. As such we cannot be sure how stable it really is, in the long run. It may be doomed it eventually fade away no matter what, it just is taking a long time to occur.
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The world link has more or less been severed. We managed to reopen a small one briefly during the mag’har recruitment quests, but it was mentioned in them that at some point in time the gate between the worlds had closed entirely.
And I think that’s why it’s dying too. AU Draenor is like a small pool of water that we dug out and connected to the main river through a stream. But when the portals closed we blocked the entrance so now the pool and stream are slowly drying up being cut off from the source. So the planet is dying and fading since nothing sustains its existence anymore. It’s not meant to be there.
And that part is true, the world is going down already on its own. The draenei and orcs aren’t aware of this so in the face of it they started blaming each other. But that’s just my take on it though.
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iirc, wasn’t that bit an artist having fun with it or something? We don’t actually know what Kilrogg saw.
Which makes no kind of logical sense and is basically Blizzard just hand-waving stuff that they don’t want to have to deal with.
Which is their prerogative as the creators, but this particular choice has always really bothered me. It’s basically just them saying “because magic.”