You go back in time to assist Arthas with culling Stratholme, but fail. How does that not affect the timeline?
…or am I not clearly understanding how CoT works?
Didn’t we fail anyways? cause in the end there is that 1 demon which i totally forgot the name of come in and say something like “oh you’ve already failed” guessing he is talking about they’ve been already corrupted/turned and it’s too late and it will just spread. then chromie comes in.
my 2nd guess would be like how they often depict the ghost of christmas in the sense like they take the little kid or something into a alternate universe and show him the good/bad of both situations if they were to do something. i don’t remember if it was the ghost of christmas or some other ghost thingy but you see it often.
It’s an alternate timeline which doesn’t affect the main timeline, except for when it definately does, and also doesn’t because altering the past would alter the future and the old gods altered the future to alter the past but then Rhonin and Krasus from the future altered the past to unalter the future and thus altered the future but also altered the past and the past was altered by the future which allowed the War of the Ancients to be altered by the people from the future who also altered the past which would then alter the future but somehow not their past selves in the future because they were in the past.
I hope that cleared it all up.
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Your explanation made more sense in a different timeline.
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It isn’t exactly a novel revelation that time travel is a problematic device. But it can still be fun if your audience aren’t jerks.
I think what they went for in most of the CoT stuff (that i remember) was for your actions to offset the actions of others in a zero sum game of sorts.
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Raid: Fails on a boss
Healer: This is because we left that one zombie alive in Strat 11 years ago
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Time travel never works out in the end because practically every situation would end with a paradox scenario that both has to and cannot exist.
3 things can fix this
-Wrap it in a neat bow like Avengers franchise is doing with Loki (there’s godlike powers beyond our comprehension that control the timeline and fix paradox situations.
-It’s magic, and the magic self corrects, because it’s magic.
-Rick and Morty style, where you just call it another of infinite dimensions that usually don’t interact and that’s that.
And lastly we can just not think about it because its pretty much just a plot device to let players see old stuff from other games.
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It’s probably just as well the change failed.
Otherwise, the encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe!
Granted, that’s a worst case scenario - the destruction might, in fact, be very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy.
You…don’t fail though. The culling happens. Then we run through it, but just get stopped a few times via infinite dragonflight
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But didn’t the hulk say that if we go to the past, it’s our present and their future is our past. He said other stuff, I don’t remember.
looks at the undead swarming all over Stratholme
I’m a little fuzzy about whether that “culling” thing actually ever worked.
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I remember zombies and fighting malganis
That checks out with the normal timeline
We kept arthas alive too so he wound up becoming lk.
I forget why that was a good thing to keep still happening though
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The plot of CoT was that the infinite dragon flight was mucking with the timeline. We go in to ensure history plays out the way it’s supposed to. For example, we assist Medevh to ensure the portal gets opened, we assist thrall to ensure he escapes, and we assist Arthas to ensure that he sails for northrend to face malganis
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Nah they justified it more than that.
For example we help thrall escape because he redeems the horde, we help medivh bring the horde to azeroth which sounds bad becuase ya know murder demon orcs but the orcs are needed to fight the legion in wc3. They actually have text in game for those iirc.
I dont remember the in game reason of having arthas survive
All fiction and especially fiction in video games will have a million holes if you dig far enough.
Eventually you just gotta accept that imo.
That actually is the reason. There’s a whole intro to the caverns where it’s explained that your purpose here is to ensure the timeline is preserved the way it actually happened.
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Yea and there is specific reasons why preserving genocides and slaughter is good. Ive agreed with this
They explain it on a case by case. See my comment on the black morass.
I just dont remember why arthas’ murdering strath and wiling out the elves and his homeland and becoming lk is worth it is all.
I ASSume that it’s because if Arthas died then he never would have told Illidan how to kill Varimathras, who was apparently the only demon smart enough to check Nordrassil for traps.
So if Illidan hadn’t killed Varimathras, then Archimonde would have survived the wisp trap and he would have exploded the world or whatever.
No matter how painful the past it must not be tampered with. It is what shapes today and tomorrow.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide has it right.
The reason there are no time paradoxes is that whatever happens is the final version of what happened after all possible time travel mucking about has occurred.
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