This was a clever troll/conspiracy thingy. Well played, sir.
^ The above should be taken with two grains of salt and a fistful of "chill the F* out".
well done OP
Yeah, it could be a joke (definitely possible, maybe even likely, but with all the idiots on the net ... not convinced... surprisingly spelling error free though) but some people who don't know shit about the lore might actually take this for the truth, so....
The Maelstrom was created when the Well of Eternity exBOOMed. Easiest proof - not the only one, by a long shot - is that the Maelstrom was on WoW maps since launch, well before Cataclysm. And it has been an element in the lore, in novels, in WoW webcomics, in freaking everything for years.
To clarify. The Maelstrom, the giant swirly thing was created back then. Deathwing exploding through it - due to it being a weak point in the fabric between our plane and the elemental planes - just updated it with the "portal to Deepholm" feature, also known as "oh shit we're all gonna die, get Thrall!".
Before it was a worldsucking whirlpool and storm in the middle of the world (where exactly, good question. Just deep underwater, a "normal" whirlpool? Or, the source being the smashed Well of Eternity, a portal of some sort somewhere?).
After it was a worldsucking whirlpool and storm in the middle of the world that threatened the entire planet, and not just the few unlucky chaps who sailed/flew near it.
Done.
I am assuming OP is making fun of creationist in a parody manner. Mad props to you OP for coming up with a clever parallel between the arguments made in the real world vs arguments made from the same standpoints but set in the wow universe.
Oh man, this was a work of satirical genius!
Oh man, my lungs! Thank you, good sir. Anyone who honestly thinks this was real... Come on guysI call myself a Young Maelstrom Creationism Advocate (YMCA)
I am the lucid dream
Uulwi ifis halahs gag erh'ongg w'ssh
I'll be honest I haven't read it all yet, so I might edit this post with some other things later, but I wanted touch on this quote.
The Maelstrom has been there for thousands of years, however it has been stable and not in it's current state. The World Pillars is what kept it closed and stable, however Deathwing bursting through is what caused it to go into a flux and into a whirlpool effect. Is this what you are referring to what Deathwing created?
If it isn't canon, I'm sure it soon will be - this would be a highly amusing turn of events.
Well as I explained it earlier, Blizzard in its infinite corporate wisdom KNEW that they would create Cataclysm in late 2010. Vanilla was in fact Cataclysm alpha, but they did not want to destroy the landscape before it was created. Evidence points to this: the bosses are largely the same: Nefarian, Ragnaros, ZG etc.