Dragons would work perfectly with the light/shadow theme imo.
Dragons would work perfectly with the light/shadow theme imo.
You know, rather silly thought recently struck me -- what class is most associated with the First Ones, after all? It seems like the First Ones lean most toward Order out of all the Cosmic Forces, but they have also interacted the most with the Shadowlands, so it seems.
Jesus, no one is gonna drop expansion name or exact theme in side quest in Revendreth for you.
My point is SL has both light and void themes, just like BfA had death themes in Drustvar and Nazmir. Also there is Alleria and Turalyon, Xalatath, Yrel, etc. Focus seems to be split evenly between Light and Void and neither is presented as 'good' power. There is also still Battle of Azeroth main plot to resolve, we get rid of last (maybe) Azeroth Old God, but wound & sword is still there.
That's why I think clearly things are going towards expansion featuring both Light and Void wanting to take Azeroth, maybe Jailer/Death threat keep them from starting war, cause it's kinda stupid to attack first. Also I noticed last few expansions rhymes really well:
1) MoP and BfA - evil Warchief, Horde/Ally war, Old God themes in last patch
2) WoD and SL - going to alien world to solve problem threating Azeroth
3) Legion and 10.0 - cosmic threat attacking Azeroth directly, 'end of world' expansion.
Expac like this would be set on Dragon Isles (last major known piece of Azeroth land that would fit as continent), end with Azeroth awakening and coming out from Silithus wound (when we fight Argus we see planet in background more or less intacted). After this expac they would finally do major time skip and soft reset of WoW in 11.0 (that's where I expect revamp).
What do you think i meant by "old battles"? They're not particularly noteworthy, either. We know the cosmic forces are in conflict, and the Shadowlands have an entire realm dedicated to running a standing army.
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Sure, but these aren't really a bigger deal than the Void presence in Mac'aree. You're making a mountain out of a molehill.
Folks gotta stop trying to ham-fist everything into Light/Shadow. Seriously.
A Light/Shadow expansion is about Light/Shadow. It's not about Time Travel, it's not about the Faction War (though it probably will be and that's on Blizz's bad writers), it's not about the First Ones or whatever WoWHead datamined that managed to get Azeroth trending on twitter from the outrage.
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It was. Time Travel was the basis of how we did shit. And even then, you can do Time Travel and not force it as a main expansion plot. The Caverns of Time are a PERFECT example of that.
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I want you to read up on the Infinite Flight real quick. You'll soon learn just how wrong you are. https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Infinite_dragonflight
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Yes, but also need to realize just how massive the Light and Shadow shit is. From Il'gynoth's whispers, to N'Zoth's and Alleria's void whispers on Death being the main enemy to the Void, to Lothraxion and the current Dreadlord plot in SL (Which is also heavily linked with the Light), to Anduin, etc, Light and Shadow have a MASSIVE forefront on this expansion.
Life and Death just happen to be the priority focus of it. But reminder that every expansion is heavily linked with one another. Much of Legion was setting up N'Zoth and Azshara (As well as the faction shit with Genn and Sylvanas), much of BFA was focused on Sylvanas and her shit, and much of SL is focused on Light and Shadow connections. It's possible the Dragon Isles and the Infinite Flight could be but a plotpoint of the expansion, much like how the Nightmare was with Legion.
You can literally make the first raid based around the Infinite Flight, the Chromatic Flight, etc with Chromatus as the last boss of that raid.
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I would NEVER imagine Blizzard passing up the opportunity of giving us a fucking TIAMAT raid boss. Never. And they fucked up WoD...
That's how much I think this boss needs to happen.
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There is a datamined Maw Model where it looks Red and Purple. It's nothing crazy or anything like that. Lots of Sylvanas' Mawsworn are purple.
Bad examples. WoD was based around the savage world and the Iron Horde. Aside from Kairoz and a little bit of Chromie, the bronze dragonflight was not involved in the main plot at all. Same with the infinite dragonflight. Time travel stuff in WoD was just a Mcgaffin to take us to another planet and that's it. Judging by your logic, BfA should be Void based.
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No, it wasn't. You could have seamlessly replaced it with Kairoz creating a replica of pre-shattering Draenor and the story would have been completely unaffected. Time travel was irrelevant to the story. We never even traveled through time, we just hijacked a portal through an existing dimensional path.
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It was even less than that. Just a minor plot device that had no relevance beyond the setup. It's like saying Cabin in the Woods is car based.
Indeed. That's the distinction, I say -- it's a plot device, not the actual plot proper. An actual expansion focused of that theme would instead focus on it consistently throughout, serving not as a plot device to reach the story, but as a driving force all throughout.
But we didn't really time travel. That's the whole change they did during the Alpha. We actually travelled to an alternative universe Draenor that was like 30 years in the past of our current timeline. Our actions didn't change anything for our past, unlike for example the Caverns of Time, which made sure to tell us that the bronze dragons had to mind-wipe all witnesses after our actions there.
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