A black forest
A city
A city sorrunded by a black forest
A land
A land with a black forest in it
A land sharing the name of the city in it
A land with a black forest around a city sharing it's name
Mankrik's wife
Other
It's been always used so far precisely because that's what was done to the Old Gods. Though I wouldn't be surprised if N'zoth found a way (possibly using the energies of the Sundering) to create a rift in his prison.
By the way, am I the only one who thinks the '-alotha' bit of the name sounds oddly trollish?
so, we shall spend most of our time in Mankrik's wife next expansion ? damn Blizzard has a weird sense of humour...
Elvish and Trollish naming conventions have certain similarities.
Normal is the name for the mental disorder present in the majority of humanity.
Xinjun
Perhaps Ny'alotha is the ancient-er than ancient, long-buried city of the Dark Trolls (predecesor to Night Elves).
http://wowpedia.org/Dark_troll
According to scattered reports, dark trolls have gray to black skin and lead a mostly subterranean existence.
Normal is the name for the mental disorder present in the majority of humanity.
Xinjun
Could be, though I was thinking along the lines of an ancient titan complex taken over by N'zoth, who then fused his own fleshshaping powers with the titans' machinery and created the trolls.
It might be plausible that the titans somehow managed to ward their cities against the mindless minions of the Old Gods, like some form of external shield that prevents them entry. However, if an Old God managed to infest the entire complex and create a new form of life, one that doesn't bear the mark of either the titans or the Old Gods (and thus be free-willed), perhaps this new race could feasibly be manipulated into doing something foolish and enabling the Old Gods to escape.
Perhaps that might be how trolls came to be.
Mind you, this is entirely my tinfoil hat speculation.
Everything can be consumed. Including Cities. We saw the Sha "consume" our hopes and dreams, and exhale fear and anger.
Maybe N'Zoth has consumed his prison. Maybe Ny'Alotha is a city inside the black forest... and the Black Forest is N'Zoth.
The Emerald Dream is the world before "us" ... a Green lush forest... maybe the "Black Forest" is the Nightmare. And the Nightmare IS N'Zoth. Also maybe this is why we cannot completely destroy the old Gods, it would leave a gaping hole in the center of the Dream (the blueprint for our world). Inside the nightmare lies Ny'alotha... Only sleep. Sleeping City. If a city is in a dream, its "body" lies in the real world somewhere.
Think of this. L'ghorek, Nespirah, ... Ny'Alotha?
Imagine what happens when something like Nespirah were to get mad\feel fear near a Sha. Can you imagine the horror of something Sha touched that is that large? What if it has already happened... How would we stop "it". What if it was asleep and this Old God Corrupted "thing" was at the center of the Dream.
Also, We have seen the inside of old gods, they look kind of Nespirah like... sort of organy and fleshy. But the Sha are very unalike that. the "breath" of Y'Shaarj is more ghostly... It could possess things. We see when C'thun died, he was able to possess Cho'Gall, making him very eyeball covered and weird. I almost wonder what the inside of a old god possessed thing looks like. Whats inside a sha?
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We think we climb so high, Upon the backs we've condemned ...We face our Conϛequence.
It's like shifting from Romero to Carpenter. Everyone physically mutating in nauseating Old God's abominations would be wonderfully horrific.
About Ny'alotha, the name to me sounds like a lexical reference to this, but I belive that the effective nature of it is a more substantial reference to Cthulhu's city, which is underwater (like this Ny'alotha) so is indeed some sort of Old God's city for me, N'zoth's one probably.
I'm pretty sure it'll just have ancient Night Elf architecture like Vashj'ir
They didn't get the mileage out of that sunken city anyway, and it would be amazing to see it in use.
We think we climb so high, Upon the backs we've condemned ...We face our Conϛequence.
Nyarlathotep is also mentioned in "The Rats in the Walls" as a faceless god in the caverns of earth's center.
Finally, in "The Haunter of the Dark" (1936), the nocturnal tentacled, bat-winged monster dwelling in the steeple of the Starry Wisdom sect's church is identified as another form, or manifestation of, Nyarlathotep.
Certainly fits the "leaked" descriptions of "the Dark Below"