So, uh... What about the sword?

[Jastall]

The blade is much bigger than a "mere country" lore-wise...

I'm not saying it's Switzerland. More like China or US sized.

[cparle87]

There is still a sword sticking out of Silithus. It's the whole reason the planet was crying out in pain.

Are we going to.... deal with that?

We cured the poison and stopped the bleeding. We're not equipped to actually remove the sword and, as pointed out in other threads, removing a huge blade from a stab wound is not a good thing to do if you're not equipped to deal with the aftermath, which we aren't.

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If that were the case we wouldn't have bothered with BfA, seeing as we sacrificed our weapons in Legion.

Throughout the entire expansion we've also had Magni telling us how Azeroth is still crying out in pain as everyone essentially harvests her for her blood.

We also had to stop the rampant bleeding, which we now have. Removing N'zoth removes the last major threat to Azeroth, hence the name.

[Ghostile]

This is shitty storytelling. We gonna ignore that sword because Blizzard has no clue wtf to do with it.

What does an inert object sticking from the ground do?

We pretty neutralized it at the end of Legion.

[Amnaught]

What does an inert object sticking from the ground do?

We pretty neutralized it at the end of Legion.

Essences, when they were first introduced, were collected to heal azeroth's wounds. We havent healed shit. We released an old god and then killed him. The sword is neutralized, but the gaping wounds that Magni has been talking about all expansion have not been healed.

[Ghostile]

Essences, when they were first introduced, were collected to heal azeroth's wounds. We havent healed shit. We released an old god and then killed him. The sword is neutralized, but the gaping wounds that Magni has been talking about all expansion have not been healed.

The cutscene after Nzoth sure sounds like everythings a-ok now.

[huth]

so keeping the sword like that should lead to very slow painful death from bleeding

And pulling it out will lead to a quick painful death from bleeding, so it's not exactly an improvement.

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Essences, when they were first introduced, were collected to heal azeroth's wounds. We havent healed shit. We released an old god and then killed him. The sword is neutralized, but the gaping wounds that Magni has been talking about all expansion have not been healed.

So you haven't been doing your Magni WQs? Bad Amnaught.

[Mic_128]

That image you linked also showed Sargeras cleaving a planet, not stabbing it, so it's not the same situation (though, why wouldn't he do the same thing he did before?)

Because he wanted to use his sword to corrupt Azeroth to his side, while the one he sliced in half had been corrupted by The Void/Old Gods.

[gutnbrg]

The sword was N'zoth. We just killed him.

Anduin delivered the final blow with our player character.

Sylvanas divided her shoul in two pieces. One of the pieces was N'zoth.

She created N'zoth. She IS the Void.

That's why we must end her in Shadowlands, the realm of the Void Gods.

spoiler alert

[Adoxe]

I keep seeing this question pop up and I honestly have no idea where or why people got the idea that we'd be dealing with Gorribal in BfA. Never once did I even for a second think that Gorribal is getting removed any time soon, nor was it ever implied that it would be. It's gonna stay there until someone big enough to pull it out comes around, either Sargeras breaking out of prison or Azeroth herself.

[msdos]

I keep seeing this question pop up and I honestly have no idea where or why people got the idea that we'd be dealing with Gorribal in BfA. Never once did I even for a second think that Gorribal is getting removed any time soon, nor was it ever implied that it would be. It's gonna stay there until someone big enough to pull it out comes around, either Sargeras breaking out of prison or Azeroth herself.

Well aren't you intelligent and just too ahead of the curve? Wow. Did you goto WoW school too? Jesus christ.

[Dezmos]

we dealt with the sword already at the end of Legion when we sacrificed our Artifacts to make it powerless

[Rustedsaint]

It’ll turn into a wicked piercing (based on the location probably not one you can show in public) once Azeroth titanize

[KainneAbsolute]

Maybe when Azeroth is born, she will take Sargeras sword and she will use it

[Soon-TM]

We could send a raid to clip the equivalent of its toenails and pound on its jaw a little bit. That seems to work. Later on, probably a single hero could manage something.

This sounds about right

Still, this lil' sword in Silithus - the whole Azerite subplot, in fact - was cool at the beginning, and it showed great promise... if only writers knew to write something other than MoP 2.0: Purity Sue vs Villain Sue. It tried to be a lot of things at the same time, while doing none particularly well, and it was little more than Applied Phlebotinum... and was pretty much left in the cold halfway through the xpac. It was brought back in one of the most hamfisted ways imaginable, and it is doubtful it will ever happen anything with it at the end. And if it ever does, it will be offscreen, or on some cringey novel that only 5% or so of the playerbase will read (because getting the whole story in-game is asking too much, according to some folks in these boards) and will probably be retconned during SL anyway. BfA in a nutshell.

[Raisei]

I am at the moment assuming that the whole Azerite problem will be resolved during the pre-patch, but that does not necessarily include the removal of the sword.

I mean that thing is kilometers high and we are not even sure how deep it goes into the earth. I just have no idea how we are supposed to remove it. We would need another Titan to pull it out, but the consequences of that might be even worse then what the initial stab did. Much like when Aman'thul plucked Y'shaaraj from the planet, the devastation nearly destroyed Azeroth. The wound might get much worse from this.

It is possible that the Reorigination drive can do something about once we are done with N'zoth. If I understand it correctly that thing after all dissolves all kinds of matter and reshapes it. Maybe it can dissolve the sword. But the wound would still be there and we have no idea how to heal a Titan.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Check back in 10.0 for the continuation of Azeroth storylines.

[InfernalDark]

Maybe she just likes to have something dark, thick and big inside of her

[Garretdejiko]

We never saw Arthas actually die. He just vanished. Summoned by the Void Gods.

He's the Jailor. Sylvanas' master.

Arthas will smite Azeroth and kill Khadgar while he's at it. Khadgar will die and he will lose his life.

But the Shadowlands will be the key. Only there can we truly kill Arthas.

But not without Uther. His mentor. That's why we need Chromie.

We have to travel back in time, slay Arthas and save Uther so we can kill Arthas in current timeline.

That will be the final step of Malfurion's plan. He will unleash the Ancients and take over Kalimdor. The tauren will suffer.

Chuckled at the first post, this got old so quick.

[Monster Hunter]

There is still a sword sticking out of Silithus. It's the whole reason the planet was crying out in pain.

Are we going to.... deal with that?

Shhh. Just ignore it.

The druids are planing to hang planters off it so it's less noticeable.

[zlygork]

Sword? I dunnae what yer talking 'bout, champion! Azeroth's woonds are healed! Yer more than a champion to yer people, ye have healed Azeroth's woonds!