The never-ending Burning Crusade

[Arrashi]

The Legion needs new blood. We had killed every relevant character of this faction (except Sargeras who God knows when we'll heard of him again). I'm open to new ideas (they're probably a thousand more interesting that the one that I wrote), but they're millions of Demons across the universe, it will be a wasted opportunity to not do anything with them; or shall we wait until a new Burning Legion with the same objective rises? Boring, factions need to advance and evolve.

No, legion needs to fuck off. For an unspecified amount of time.

[Darkarath]

No, legion needs to fuck off. For an unspecified amount of time.

Until Warcraft IV

[Arrashi]

Until Warcraft IV

And why would warcraft 4 (if it ever comes out) even need them ?

[Darkarath]

And why would warcraft 4 (if it ever comes out) even need them ?

Honestly there are so many possible plots in Warcraft without getting out of Azeroth that it might not needed. But the Legion has always been an important part of Warcraft, and I'm pretty sure that in a few years a LOT of fans will be asking for more demons.

[Arrashi]

Honestly there are so many possible plots in Warcraft without getting out of Azeroth that it might not needed. But the Legion has always been an important part of Warcraft, and I'm pretty sure that in a few years a LOT of fans will be asking for more demons.

Just like they are asking for more orcs ?

[Darkarath]

Just like they are asking for more orcs ?

IMO more like how they have an erection everytime Bolvar, Dragons or Old God related stuff appears. People have been asking for this themes for years and honestly we were there not long ago.

BTW I think that we wouldn't have as much Orcs hate as we have if WoD turned out to be a good expansion. In contrast, TBC and Legion are regarded as two of the greatest expansions.

[Deleted]

Without Sargeras, there is no Legion. He was the Damocles Sword above the demons, forcing all of them to work together as an army. Now demons will go back being demons, spreading chaos through the Great Darkness Beyond.

[Deleted]

Just like they are asking for more orcs ?

Well, saturation with a theme and abandoning it completely forever are two different things.

A story about, say, the Nathrezim wanting revenge for getting so utterly humiliated and starting some sort of shadow campaign of vengeance *could* actually have some potential... but yeah, this needs to rest. Which is just as well - next expansion is South Seas/exploration/faction WAAAAAGH! with some Old Gods, the one after next will probably be full on Void... after which we can probably play the "X comes back from the freezer" bingo. X being probably either the Scourge or the Nathrezim... or both, because why not, it even makes a modicum of sense. What if the Nathrezim run crying to the Void - they wouldn't be the first ex-Legion force to do so after their initial defeat, Azshara and Xavius did exactly the same after all.

Although it's certainly not so easy to see how this can be played to still be a semi-interesting story to tell after Azshara and N'Zoth bite the dust. Blizzard has some serious world building to do. Unless they want to end WoW in 2 expansions (BfA -> Void), which would be strange, because why would they willingly kill a cow they can otherwise still milk for fat fat millions of $$$ a year.

[osmo]

who cares.... after tbc 2.0 it will now be time for wrath 2.0 with loads of lich and undead

we'll know what happend with the bl in tbc 3.0 when subs are down to around 4mil again

[Rafoel]

Sargeras is gone. Kil'jaeden is dead. Archimonde is dead. All important generals of the Burning Legion, like Mannoroth or the dude we fight in Mac'aree, are dead. The high commanders of Antorus are dead. The Dreadlord Council is no more. The Shivarra Sect is destroyed. Aggramar, the actual 2nd most important being in the Burning Legion, is gone as well. Finally, and most importantly, the Argus soul is destroyed, demons will not get resurrected in Antorus after death, but in some remote corner of Twisting Nether millenia later.

Everything that held lesser demons in check was fear of their superiors. With superiors gone, and the threat of actual annihilation, they will spread all around and the army of Burning Legion will be no more.

[Obelisk Kai]

I think people are overthinking this.

The purpose of the Legion was to slaughter all life in the universe as a scorched earth tactic against the Void Lords, with particular emphasis on finding and corrupting World Souls to serve the Legion.

The vast majority of the demons within the Legion didn't care about that, they were simply too scared of Sargeras to disobey him...and what he wanted them to do they needed little excuse to do anyway.

With the deaths of the Eredar commanders of the Legion, and the most powerful generals of each race, the destruction of the Argus world soul and the fall of Sargeras, the Legion is done. The remaining Demons will factionalize under powerful Demon Lords and wage war against one another.

They may also attack mortal worlds for the hell of it, just as they did in the days before Sargeras. Each Demon is out for themselves now and we may see new demon factions under new rulers, but nothing that matches the unity or scale of the now defunct Burning Legion.

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Sargeras is gone. Kil'jaeden is dead. Archimonde is dead. All important generals of the Burning Legion, like Mannoroth or the dude we fight in Mac'aree, are dead. The high commanders of Antorus are dead. The Dreadlord Council is no more. The Shivarra Sect is destroyed. Aggramar, the actual 2nd most important being in the Burning Legion, is gone as well. Finally, and most importantly, the Argus soul is destroyed, demons will not get resurrected in Antorus after death, but in some remote corner of Twisting Nether millenia later.

Everything that held lesser demons in check was fear of their superiors. With superiors gone, and the threat of actual annihilation, they will spread all around and the army of Burning Legion will be no more.

Jinx But yeah these are my thoughts exactly. The Legion is done. Demons aren't done as potential enemies, but the Burning Legion is.

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For example, Kil'jaeden didn't shit-bombed Azeroth because Sargeras ordered him not to. Kil'jaeden, the number 2 of the Legion, was a bug afraid of his Titan master.

[Mitobunny]

Pretty certain Varimathras is a good example of why demons obeyed Sargeras... That being said whatever happened to Mal'Ganis? He just sorta said eff this and ran off.

[Rosefern]

If they ever get super lazy, they will just follow the Diablo 1 to Diablo 2 script where Illadin is corrupted as the jailer of Sargeras. The Pantheon gets corrupted as well and we replace all the Manaroths and Archimonds with Pantheon members.
Or we get un-corrupted Illadin falling from the sky burnt battered and dyeing to warn us that Sargeras is back in like 5 years

[Adoxe]

Think about it, a new hero (or antihero) raises to reform the Burning Legion. Something among the lines of what Kerrigan did with the Zerg in Heart of the Swarm.

That's how they're gonna bring Illidan back again, isn't it? 2-3 expansions from now, he's gonna swoop in with the demons behind him fighting against the void.

[DeicideUH]

For now, we shouldn't see demons so soon.

But eventually, the demons will war among themselves for supremacy, break into several minor groups or go rogue and act as individuals rather than a huge army. In the future, we may see more demon-related stories in which the demons are just going for personal power rather than serving a crusade. Maybe, eventually, new demonic armies/kingdoms/groups will surface, but none of them will ever have the power of the Legion.

[Halwyn]

Come to think of it... Who is the highest ranking demon right now?
Mannoroth, Tichondrius and Balnazzar are all dead, but they've died on Azeroth (with the former on Draenor), neither fel-infested world, nor the Twisting Nether.
And there's a multitude of demons claiming they'll be reborn (and, in a few cases, Tyralion claming that), even when killed on Argus, so... Kil'jaeden isn't truly dead too?

[Sigxy]

That's how they're gonna bring Illidan back again, isn't it? 2-3 expansions from now, he's gonna swoop in with the demons behind him fighting against the void.

Please no. ;_:

[The5thVegetable]

I personally imagine the Legion breaking up and scattering, leading to the more powerful remaining demons gathering whomever they can to form their own demonic factions, then ultimately going into the nether or the great dark beyond to look for worlds to have fun slaugthering, or fighting other demonic factions for dominion.

And on that note, I actually like the idea of non-demon factions going out there to fight and suppress the various newly formed demon factions, and maybe even some demon factions ending up on relatively good terms with Azeroth.

Another possibility is The Black Harvest rounding up as many demons as they're able, ultimately becoming the overlords of a new, possibly vast faction of demons and warlocks- especially so because they no longer have to deal with Sargeras' influence over the demons getting in the way of enslaving them.

[Darkarath]

That's how they're gonna bring Illidan back again, isn't it? 2-3 expansions from now, he's gonna swoop in with the demons behind him fighting against the void.

Actually I expected that Legion would end with Illidan being the new Lord of the Burning Legion, but now he is imprisoned so I guess that that won't happen.