Originally Posted by
Grocalis
Got a link? Never seen anything mentioning that. Though it wouldn't surprise me, the twitter account kind of goes off the rails sometimes and isn't really the will of the creative team.
My headcanon has always been that AU Draenor was ripped into our timeline, rather then us traveling to their timeline. Here are the base reasons...
1) It does a better job of explaining how the demons we fight are said to be "our" demons (AKA MU Archimonde), rather then the silly throwaway mention that demons somehow exist in all timelines. Shouldn't this mean there are like infinite Archimondes and such? demons don't start out demons, they become them, and thus if becoming a demon makes you now exist in all timelines, then they really would be infinite.
2) It explains why the orcs still ended up building the Dark Portal in the same exact spot in Tanaan Jungle as they did in the MU, as they are still utilizing the same rift that has existed in some form since WC1. They just hijacked it using Gul'dan's power, as otherwise they would have needed someone powerful on the other side (AKA Medivh) to complete the stable rift formation. They didn't need that since the rift was already there, and has been for a long time, even if weakened.
3) It prevents the absurdity of having "Alternates" of everything in the cosmos. By bringing Draenor to our timeline, they effectively are now part of our space, and thus exist in our space. We won't have issues of multiple titans, multiple azeroth's, multiple argus's, multiple void horrors, etc. Since our Draenor was blown up and flung into the Twisting Nether, the space it once existed is open for alternate draenor to just be plopped in and nothing needs to change.
4) It explains why they are still around at all. Let's be real here, as much as Nozdormu may have been weakened after the fall of Deathwing, we know he still has a ton of powers over time (as he later becomes an Infinite), and after the threat of the Iron Horde was ended, he likely would put all his power into severing the connection between our timeline and that of the alternate much like he did in the Thrall novel and it's alternate timelines. The fact that they keep implying that WoD Draenor is around to stay, makes me feel this is more then just a time connection.
In the end, it's up to Blizzard, but it just fits way better this way then much of the narrative gymnastics they attempted to explain away other oddities.
P.S. Ah I see it was mentioned by Alex. I love Alex, but one thing to note is that Alex isn't exactly the end all when it comes to the creative beats of WarCraft. Remember that scene in Stonetalon with Garrosh in which he is noble? That was what Alex wanted to do with him, but the other creative heads at Blizzard had other plans for him, and the disconnect has caused one of the most glaring mistakes in the game narrative.