Okay so lets say riftlands has a bunch of voidy rifts that lead to different places in the "veil". The main rift is one that is starting to drag "Bastion" (heaven?) into the Riftlands. And what we see in the white castle picture is just a bigger rift which is growing, questline to help/stop it or something similar.
What if shadowlands is just a revamped outland dragged into the shadowlands?
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So I should be doing an assignment, but I overlaid the cropped image with the full image in photoshop and the tendrils are different sizes. The castle lines up, and the dunes line up (mostly) but the actual blue glowy trails of light are different shapes and don't flow together seamlessly? Maybe someone more experienced with digital art could check that. If it means anything at all.
Imagine if both the shadowlands map and the Nortrend climate change map (not the one from ercaro) were real...
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Wait, doesn't the city inside the blue cloud remind you of Azsharas old city from her warbringer clip.
For the top pic, you would assume that the one in the Bastion/Kyrian-Leak would just be a crop from the full image right?
Then it's kind of weird that there are some weird inconsistencies especially on the left edge, see here: https://is2.4chan.org/v/1572484680170.png, the missing "Bulge" of the spirit mist/stream is my biggest gripe.
For the bottom picture, while this could be a Blizzard art work, it could also be a background of a SNES era fighting game. My biggest problem with it is honestly the bright blue skies with white clouds. That doesn't really fit with the "Bastion" art. Again, that's not "definitely busted". But especially with the inconsistencies of the top image, I'm not on board yet. (but I was wrong about the The Bolvar cinematic too)
Well, about 32 hours till we find out!
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I'll wager that the expansion will revolve around the dragonflights, time travel and a semi revamped Northrend. Blizzard loves their time travel, and it's been a while. They did it in Cataclysm and they did it in WoD. Does Sylvanas want to prevent herself from becoming a banshee? Will Galakrond play a role? Will we see Murozond? Who knows.
Dragons. Time travel. Lich King.
God, I hope I'm wrong.
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