All I can predict is that the reveal will be severely underwhelming. That is unless it's Cairne revealing he's become an Ordos like god somehow.
All I can predict is that the reveal will be severely underwhelming. That is unless it's Cairne revealing he's become an Ordos like god somehow.
Well, some of Baine's dialogue in BFA implies pretty heavily that the Earthmother is literally Azeroth herself, as in the World Soul. And there's definitely some unexplored Old God stuff. There's also Ebonhorn, so maybe it'll actually be building towards new Dragon Isles lore rather than something related directly to the Shadowlands.
There's also An'she and Mu'sha, which aren't very well explored, so maybe it'll tie into Elune / Night Warrior / Light vs Void stuff?
That's what I've always thought, that the Earthmother was kind of the analog to the "Great Spirit" incarnation of the land itself, which would be the World Soul in the Warcraft universe's mythology. I don't think Ebonhorn really has any major links to the Tauren's backstory outside of his role with Huln and the Highmountain Tauren, though.
Mu'sha is basically the Taur-ahe title for Elune, though An'she is a bit more nebulous since the Sunwalkers' reverence for it does seem to bestow them with the Light-based powers, so it is possible An'she is indeed an entity of some kind.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead