Currently in order to do the crafted quest line for season of discovery epics you need to get a void shard from “The Box”
Part of the quest texts for this elude to Xalathath.
“Then she came.
She visited me in my dreams. Showed me… The Box. It changed things. Made them better, stronger. Such wonders… But The Box. It was… hungry. I… no idea the cost”
Eventually you meet with the elf herself labeled as “Shadowy Figure”
It’s an elf with almost identical face markings to Xal.
How is this possible unless SoD is actually an alternative Azeroth sort of like WoD was for Outlands.
Also does this confirm that Xalathath is a void lord? How else can she travel the cosmos and time space continuum effortlessly?
Whoa, this is getting interesting. First it was the time traveling tauren rogue who will be teaching shamans how to duel wield and now blizzard is adding more interesting lore? Nice. But I seriously doubt anything in SOD will affect the overall lore, but still cool though.
Metzen says this was the actual lore. Like discovering an old photo album. Your memories were hazy or maybe you weren’t there but you see them in the pictures and its undeniable what actually happened (these newly discovered photos are evidence of it).
I think SoD is basically Blizz getting to retcon anything and just about everything to their hearts desire. Anything they’ve wanted to try but were maybe afraid of the blow back from can do it now.
Personally, I liked Xal’atath and was not happy when she said she’d see me again and, unless I missed something, than was absent for the rest of BFA and all of SL and DF. I liked her character and she had me intrigued. Glad she is back and I like her model. VE tats when?
Feels like a bad retcon if you ask me. This would mean that some time between the Second War (year 4) and the start of vanilla World of Warcraft (year 25), Xal’atath somehow managed to escape the blade, only to be reimprisoned in it by the time of the Legion’s third invasion (year 32).
It could be that instead of her being freed from the blade, it’s a projection, explaining her being just a shadowy figure, or she could always inhabit mortal bodies like we seen in BfA, but couldn’t be without the dagger until N’Zoth severed that bond.
While it could be interesting, sometimes I think Blizz needs to just work with what they’ve already layed down instead of trying to hamfist new things in.
The last person to use it before Legion was Natalie Seline but that was during and shortly after the Second War.
So Xal’atath could’ve been anywhere. Although we do know that it was in the possession of the Twilights Hammer during Cata. Since Xal’atath mocks Farthling over the fact that the Twilight Father, aka Benedictus was not stupid enough to actually use the dagger for his own ends.
Xal’atath, Blade of the Black Empire says: Weak and pitiful! The Twilight Father did not dare wield me, for he knew the price of failure.
That’s huge. This basically confirms my theory that BFD being basically a low key old god raid with twilight cultists means they likely had possession of Xal’atath the entire time.
It is an alternative Azeroth. Maybe not in the sense that it actually exists in the canon though like alternate Draenor. Nothing about Xalatath existing in SoD supports that.
Then again there are infinite alternate realities in the game so it could be the idea of lore and canon sort of gets wonky when you throw out infinite parallel universes.
No, how do you know it’s not just an alternate Xalatath? Anduin is sitting in Stormwind in SoD right now but nobody is assuming that’s the same Anduin as retail.
Alternate timelines have their own alternate versions of major lore characters. This is demonstrated when we go to Azmerloth or participate in time rifts.
the idea of lore and canon sort of gets wonky when you throw out infinite parallel universes.