This has been popping up in a few threads lately and I think it warrants a thread by itself to knock some sense into peoples' skulls.
This issue first started after the Quests & Lore panel at BlizzCon this year where Blizz gave us this quote:
From this quote, some jackass came up with the conclusion "ZOMG Thrall is going to become the New Earthwarder!?!?! NOWAI!!!! derpderpderpderp" After that a bunch of lemmings then followed to spread the new rumor and the dumbness just cascaded from there.Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
To set the record straight, there is NOTHING in this quote that says Thrall is becoming the new ANYTHING. All it says is that he's going to help the Aspect family back together by using shaman earth powers in relation with the missing Earth aspect. From that, we can speculate a whole bunch of shit. One might say he teaches the uncorrupted black dragon we get out of the quests in Badlands and teaches it shamanism. We can't really rule out the "Thrall is Earth Warder" possibility either, but both ideas are just speculative theory. I'm saying that dumbasses need to stop saying "Oh yeah thrall is going to become the next dragon earth aspect and bite off the heads of Chynn and Garrosh and we'll be living in World of Thrallcraft"
Really? C'mon people, it's time to grow a brain and stop being foolish. :P