Life endlessly hungers to grow, evolve and adapt. The essence of which is something that seems to be more chaotic and uncontrollable so much so that if left unchecked it will eventually consume itself to fuel more growth endlessly.
It is worth pointing out that we know about a certain other Endless Hunger connected with Galakrond and Old Gods… which is very interesting when you think about it…
This is why Life needs Death, it provides the boundaries which Life requires. If you then consider the Primal Forces if Spirit is the Primal essence which enables life to be created. Then Decay is the primal force which consumes life or more pricelessly the Spirits of Life to weaken them and it will eventually leave an empty husk that life can freely consume and will not retain the spiritual power it once possessed.
So you can kind of see that without Death and Decay as we have now Life and Spirit are essentially able to infinitely reuse spirit to fuel it’s evolution and adaption by creating more powerful entities that it wasn’t able to produce previously with the correct balance of Death and Decay in play.
This can also be tied back to Shadowlands and the concept of the devourers. When the universe is stripped down to it’s very bare bones prima materia, there are only Automa (Synthetic, programmed order) and devourers, (organic, chaotic agents of change) when the devourer eats the Oracle it evolves into something new, something that is a blend of both. This isn’t a struggle but a syzygy creating complex life. Which could be the root of organic change in the universe.
It raises interesting questions on where the Devourers came from, who created them? Why were they seemingly barred from entering the Shadowlands? It seems like a primordial struggle not between “good and evil” but authoritarian structured order vs. unlimited creativity and constant change.
You raise an interesting question about Devourers however, if you take the basis that Decay is a force that is designed to consume spirit then wouldn’t that just make the Devourers entities of Decay.
Devourers are aberrations that hail from the farthest reaches of the Shadowlands and feed on the energies they find. They crawl forth from the cracks between the realms, usually through glowing blue rifts, and have a voracious appetite for anima
The fact that they have a voracious appetite for anima is not by coincidence it is by nature. I would also suggest that the whole line about hailing from the farthest reaches of the Shadowlands is essentially a play on the fact that the farthest reaches of Shadowlands would be in essence the areas that still have contact with Decay but are locked behind something that prevents it from fully being able to influence and enter the shadowlands. This then also leads on to the line about them crawling forth through the cracks between realms… they are coming through the cracks from the Realm of Decay to enter Shadowlands a constructed realm of Death that is made through Life and Spirit and not Decay but must have some attachment to Decay and Death still for it to work and this is the basis from which the cracks form and the Devourers come through to consume Anima/Spirit (Life) doing what Decay does.
When Aggramar found Draenor it was being consumed by Life. A sporemoumd so enormous it was gonna break the planet in half. So he created a huge rock monster to beat it down and control it. It worked. Eventually it died, from its remains we got magnaron ogron ogres then orcs. So orcs are actually titanforged beings as well.
All cosmic powers go haywire and become destructive when unchallenged by other powers. The First Ones ordered the cosmos around an unending battle of balance between the Cosmic Six. Each one wants to rule. None can be allowed to reach that point.
But she’s been here the entire time as the other Old Gods, she’s not a new presence. As well that we see that the Old Gods work just fine, we’ve seen the worlds that were entirely corrupted with them, just not any that had World Souls.
The Old Gods not working is very specific to Azeroth, but she wasn’t sent here as a reaction to that. She was already here the entire time during everything that prevented the OGs supreme rise and corruption of the planet.
So every planet we see following the Argus encounter that is void corrupted is actually part of some titan conspiracy? What about the Old God the Arakkoa tried to summon on Draenor? That WE actually stop for good in TBC. Is that actually a titan conspiracy?
During the void elf recruitment chain, Nether-Prince Durzaan alludes that the Telogrus rift is what remains of the world Sargeras destroyed when he learned about the Void and the Old Gods.
Nether-Prince Durzaan says: Even shattered as it is, this place echoes with the whispers of the great ones who were slain… and the hatred of he who broke this world.
