Edit: Meh the headline should be "Sargeras last gift. A theory about Azeroth. "
Hey guys,
I am not sure if this has been speculated about allready or not but I thought about a reason for all of this that, in my opinion sounds rather cool and sheds a different light on the whole Azeroth stabbing thing.
Of course this is just a theroy and I can't really prove anything but wanted to share the idea and maybe we could speculate a bit about it:
So the big question is, why did Sargeras, in his last moment, decided to stab Azeroth with his sword?
Why would he even want to kill her in first place?
In order to answer that and his thought behind it, we have to remember that Sargeras itself is not a chaotic evil maniac. He is in deep fear the Void will end everything. That is why he betrayed tha Pantheon and created the Burning Legion. He needed an army that was able to end the Void in order to allow a new creation that will not eventually be consumed by the void. He just saw no other way than that. All his actions, all his planning was related to that one goal. He was totally convinced that this is the only way to save the universe itself.
So why did he want to kill Azeroth then? My answer: He didn't. It was never his intention to kill her.
Sargeras only had a few moments left, his crusade, the only way he could think of stopping the Void ended after his defeat, in this moment of "NOOOOO" he must have thought about how everything will end now after he and his crusade is gone.
So why did he stabbed Azeroth with the sword then, was it just an act of retaliation, some kind of hatred against us? I don't think so, it doesn't suite his character. He is not stupid.
My theory is he saw only one little fraction of a chance that the void lords could be stopped, the last hope for the existence of the universe itself is the last titan: Azeroth.
Sargeras only had a few seconds left to spark this one last hope that is atleast better than nothing: He gifted his sword as a heirloom to Azeroth. It was of course never his first plan or intention, but he had no choice and was his only action left he was able to do before being sealed away.
Why should he do that? Why that sword and why in such a brutal way?
Well why so brutally? It is Sargeras after all and maybe he even tried to forcfully awaken her. It was an All In situation, he didn't have the time left to do it properly. He just played the last card he had.
Why is the sword so important anyway?
That sword is probably Gorribal. Gorribal is one half of his original sword Gorshalach (http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Gorshalach) which broke into two shards and which can only be made whole again by a truely good being. This sword is known to be the most powerful weapon in the universe and whoever is going to fight against the Void will probably need that thing.
The other half is the sword if Agrammar: Taeshalach (http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Taeshalach) which is also now somewhere on Azeroth as we killed him in the raid and was able to loot it.
So both parts of the most powerful weapon in the universe is now in Azeroth hands once she awakens and she is, in Sargeras eyes now the only being left who could tak onto the voild lords. He stabbed Azeroth to make sure the sword is not lost and sealed away.
So in short: Sargeras didn't try to kill Azeroth, he wanted to make sure she has the ability to be the last being able to fight against the void. It is Sargeras last gift he was able to give reluctandly to her, some kind of a strange, demonic heirloom for her birthday.
Sargeras is of course so arrogant and beyond mortal thinking that he doesn't even think of us as being able to fight against the Void, in his eyes we might be mere insects, but Azeroth is called to be the most powerful titan ever to exist and he made sure to hand her over the most powerful weapon that ever existed.
What do you guys think? I don't know if that is what Blizzard will come up with, but to me it sounds rather cool.