Why can't we go back and kill C'thun and Yogg Saron?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

In the old lore, it used to be that old gods shouldn't be killed because they were so intertwined with the planet, that killing them would cause massive devastation to the planet.

Lo and behold, we have killed (or at the very least, killed his body) the ostensibly strongest old god, with no apparent old changing consequences. How about we go back and finish off his two weaker cousins? We're also far stronger. Should be a piece of cake, right?

[bmjclark]

Both Cthun and Yoggsaron are dead. They were also both more powerful than N'zoth

[kranur]

In the old lore, it used to be that old gods shouldn't be killed because they were so intertwined with the planet, that killing them would cause massive devastation to the planet.

Lo and behold, we have killed (or at the very least, killed his body) the ostensibly strongest old god, with no apparent old changing consequences. How about we go back and finish off his two weaker cousins? We're also far stronger. Should be a piece of cake, right?

N'zoth is the weakest.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Both Cthun and Yoggsaron are dead. They were also both more powerful than N'zoth

Ah so there are no more giant Cthulu monsters with their tentacles wrapped around Azeroth? Nice!

[Dastreus]

The old lore was never that killing old gods kills Azeroth. It was the Titans' fear of damaging the world because of what happened with Y'saarj. They ripped him out, themselves. Then the titan keepers were too cautious, and wanting to study, their prisoners instead of kill them. The manacles C'thun and Yogg were shackled in separated them from the world soul. Presumably, same with N'zoth.

[bmjclark]

Ah so there are no more giant Cthulu monsters with their tentacles wrapped around Azeroth? Nice!

I guess their corpses are still wrapped around Azeroth. I'd imagine that can't be great for the planet either.

[Tabrotar]

Ah so there are no more giant Cthulu monsters with their tentacles wrapped around Azeroth? Nice!

They said that we are just like antibodys aka very precise striking at the right thing (their brain) instead of what the titans did and just ripped them out in 1 go.

And yes they´re all dead, that was stated multiple times again and again bcs someone can´t accept that they´re dead bcs of their headcanon.

[tocoman]

World of Warcraft lore is dictated by real life politics and drama, they can't adhere to even the most basic of rules in the lore anymore. How N'zoth was handled doesn't make sense so I wouldn't try to make sense of it.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

World of Warcraft lore is dictated by real life politics and drama, they can't adhere to even the most basic of rules in the lore anymore. How N'zoth was handled doesn't make sense so I wouldn't try to make sense of it.

In what way is wow’s lore dictated by real life politics or drama?

[LionSinMaikeru]

They said that we are just like antibodys aka very precise striking at the right thing (their brain) instead of what the titans did and just ripped them out in 1 go.

And yes they´re all dead, that was stated multiple times again and again bcs someone can´t accept that they´re dead bcs of their headcanon.

Ehh, I don't think it was ever confirmed that we killed C'thun or Yogg Saron.

I think we just bested them.

[Zyky]

Both Cthun and Yoggsaron are dead. They were also both more powerful than N'zoth

Lorewise false. They are both very much alive, Yogg even makes a pseudo appearance in the BFA prepatch quest chain when you get sent to Ulduar with Magni and Brann summoning faceless with his iconic green mist.

Now to the OP if I had to guess, since Mythic phase isn't known yet and we know that Mythic is the only canon lore as said by Blizzard, I'd currently like to think that N'zoth wins and we actually die and that's how we end up in the Shadowlands in the first place to carry over into the next expansion. With the following expansion being a world revamp for old gods where N'zoth actually controls the world. Maybe a time skip or even WoW getting rebuilt on a new engine to make a carry over "WoW2" in a sense. This is what I hope anyway, I don't think it's likely, I just don't want to believe that Blizzard ruined the Warcraft franchise in under a month with 8.3 and Reforged.

[Tabrotar]

Ehh, I don't think it was ever confirmed that we killed C'thun or Yogg Saron.

I think we just bested them.

Nope several blueposts have stated again and again that they´re dead.

[Narwhalosh Whalescream]

The old gods are alive whenever writing demands it, one could call it schrödingers poopoopeepeelodo paradox.

[Varodoc]

Pretty sure N'Zoth's destruction didn't damage the world because:

A) He wasn't actually in the world but in an alternate reality.

B) We didn't just rip him off in a crude way like the titans did, but we basically used a clean and precise engine to fry his brain and consequently disintegrate his body without rippint anything..

[jam52090]

Nope several blueposts have stated again and again that they´re dead.

They also said BfA isn't an old god expansion.

[wargone]

I can understand why you are confused. FIRST they said" it actually not killing them , it was only a part of them" and then later, they went back to "oh yea that eye was totaly the whole of the old god"

[Linuriel]

In the old lore, it used to be that old gods shouldn't be killed because they were so intertwined with the planet, that killing them would cause massive devastation to the planet.

Lo and behold, we have killed (or at the very least, killed his body) the ostensibly strongest old god, with no apparent old changing consequences. How about we go back and finish off his two weaker cousins? We're also far stronger. Should be a piece of cake, right?

They are dead.

They also said BfA isn't an old god expansion.

Source.

[LionSinMaikeru]

Nope several blueposts have stated again and again that they´re dead.

If they need to state crucial information like that in dev posts, that's terrible writing IMO.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

If they need to state crucial information like that in dev posts, that's terrible writing IMO.

They stated it in a comic originally but that comic or atleast parts of it are non canon now.

[Kokolums]

In what way is wow’s lore dictated by real life politics or drama?

King Mechagon is clearly a Trump insert. "Once he was a visionary, now driven mad".

He has orange skin / well paint job, and blonde yellow hair / cap



Prince Erazmin leads the "resistance" which is a callback to catch-phrase of the democrats to "resist" Trump.

Infracted.