Why would he? He's knows nothing beyond the nature of Time as it exists in his own mind - he doesn't have a choice, he like Nozdormu is locked into living out his fate as it's written. Acting outside of the true timeline as he knows it would open the doors to a universal chaos, which is something he warns Nozdormu about when Nozdormu is granted his powers as the Aspect of Time.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Thanks for the heads up!
https://twitter.com/burnzerker/statu...769998849?s=21
Blizzard is in the wrong here. The Blizzard Defense Force needs to give it a rest.
Being sold as the legit source of info on favorite setting, its laws, rules, historical events and character.
Turned out to be just the compilation of Titan's tales.
Thats fucked up actually, especially since its used as justification for creation of new expansion.
In fact with this Blizzard literally invalidated its value. If id knew it would be just a compilation of official fiction stories with pictures, id think twice before bying it.
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Personally, I don't really care. Regardless whether Chronicle are written from the Titans or the developer's point of view, it'd still be canon - and later canon, if contradicts Chronicle, would still override it nevertheless. Keep in mind, though, to override Chronicle, later canon need to outright contradicts it without any possible explanation. Argument like "this contradicts my assumptions of events in Chronicle" doesn't count.
It's the same as any other books, basically - it's just that instead of telling any specific story, Chronicle serves as a series to sum up (or using Blizzard's words, "codify, tighten up and clarify") the stories told in them. Let's be honest, did someone actually think events in Chronicle was meant to be immutable and later canon can't override it before? If so, I'm sorry to say, but I doubt that ever was the case.
Je veux le sang, sang, sang, et sang
Donnons le sang de guillotine
Pour guerir la secheresse de la guillotine
Je veux le sang, sang, sang, et sang.
Blizzard fumbled hard with it. They should have just released another one to fill in the gaps and say they were saving it to not spoil. Making it from the titans perspective just makes fans feel cheated.
Nozdormu probably has it worse, all told - Aman'thul has probably always been a veritable slave to his foreknowledge. Nozdormu was just a normal dragon before becoming an Aspect, completely ignorant of how his own timeline would play out and thus free to act pretty much of his own accord. Now he's shackled to a predestined fate completely, and even worse he knows he'll become a corrupt abomination in the future and be put down by the ones he was originally entrusted to protect. Even moreso, Murozond is nuts and kills a number of Nozdomu's own children and peers - which means that's Nozdormu's fate as well, to turn on his friends and loved ones in his own madness.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
It's amazing that the day before the announcement if people were asked if they thought the Chronicles were canon and reliable they would have responded that that was a stupid question and now afterwards a lot of people are saying "Of course it was always from the Titan's perspective, I totally always thought that guys.". Funny is all I'm saying.
Personally, I've always had the impression that the WoW books rarely have any value both lore and consistency wise considering how often they regularly retconned them or re-contextualise events whenever it suits the writers afterwards and as such reading them would generally be an exercise in futility. Frankly though I never expected that they would retcon the one series of books that they made the adamant case was to be the definite and official source for WoW's lore and story explained as much as feasibly possible and existed as the source from which anyone who had a major question about any aspect of WoW could refer to and get a clear confirmed answer from the Writer's themselves. Now that the Chronicles have been retconned to be an in-universe perspective of one party and could deliberately be said to contain "bias, incorrect or missing information because of the character writing it" absolutely diminishes it's worth and value as a source of lore. Because it's writer can just as likely be someone who has been writing bs all this time. Amazing.
On the plus side, I feel vindicated that I called bs on Sargeras' transformation and the description of the Titan so called "weakness". Now the bias/incorrect info on that event can be directly called out because Chronicle "is from the Titan's perspective".
"I call BS on Sargeras' Transformation and the Titan's weakness" Why?
Everyone complaining about this really didn't actually READ chronicle.
Using this knowledge re-read the preface in the first book. Using critical reading skills the way the preface is written alludes to it being from a perspective.
Because it's laid out in Chronicles that the Titans were weak to Fel and explains the reasoning for why they were hunting down Demons and detaining them was the risk they posed to the Titans and their survival. In other words, the cosmic balance of WoW makes the case Titans die to Fel. Sargeras being a big brain settles on the Void being a bigger threat than the demons and decides they could be his own personal army. He then cleaves the prison planet where the Demons are being kept and is completely submerged in an explosion of Pure Fel Energy but rather than dying he just ultra upgrades into a Demon Titan. He then proceeds to use his new army of Fel Creatures and new Fel Powers to wipe out the rest of the Titans for good (although not really as shown by the game changing the fact they didn't die permanently but instead became Titan spirits and Sargeras just didn't know that was a thing that could happen at the time).
That's why.
Yeah the perspective of the writers.
You are asking for impossible.
Vast majority of people bitching here are simply bitching for the sake of bitching, you have these threads pop up every now and again regardless of whether they actually have any sort of real reference going on and you will always have circlejerk forming around it.
People here don't really care about this, just another opportunity for some to start swingin'.