Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Lorgar Aurelian]

That doesn't really fit the lore of Elementals. As when they died they would eventually materialize back on Azeroth. If the Lifelands is their source then wouldn't they go back there? The Titans created the elemental prison to keep the elementals contained because they were unkillable. Interestingly that regen capability seems to have been severed with the prison since Ragnaros is dead and Blizzard it is implied that he isn't just "regenerating".

Also the origin of Centaur have never been stated. Do you have a source for the rock lady? There was a Nigh elven "rumor" that they are bastard children of Cenarius but that was never a official source of their origin. The RPG had them as children Cenarius gave birth to but that is no longer canon. Or are you just mixing "head canon" in at will?

The plane of life could just be the great dark as we already have the elements stay in the great dark when they die and sprit which causes all life is an element as well.

[rhorle]

Chronicles tells us the elementals are one of the first forms of life in the universe and that organic life that isn’t made by the titans is from the 5th element spirit turning elementals to flesh, so while not quite “from the plane of life” it’s all been rather explicit since chronicles.

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Elemental_spirit

It doesn't say anything that spirit turns elementals to flesh. Only that spirit determines how aggressive or peaceful elemental spirits are. To little and they turn aggresive. To much and they turn peaceful.

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The plane of life could just be the great dark as we already have the elements stay in the great dark when they die and sprit which causes all life is an element as well.

The Great Dark is "outer space". If it is the plane of life then we are already in the Lifelands, right?

[Cheezits]

That doesn't really fit the lore of Elementals. As when they died they would eventually materialize back on Azeroth. If the Lifelands is their source then wouldn't they go back there? The Titans created the elemental prison to keep the elementals contained because they were unkillable. Interestingly that regen capability seems to have been severed with the prison since Ragnaros is dead and Blizzard it is implied that he isn't just "regenerating".

Also the origin of Centaur have never been stated. Do you have a source for the rock lady? There was a Nigh elven "rumor" that they are bastard children of Cenarius but that was never a official source of their origin. The RPG had them as children Cenarius gave birth to but that is no longer canon. Or are you just mixing "head canon" in at will?

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/The...te-Chronicle-3

As per Chronicle 1, the centaurs are the children of Zaetar and Theradras. Unless the book implies it isn't true, but I thought this was established lore.

Also if Elementals truly do respawn on Azeroth then it may lend to that idea that Reality/Great Dark is the Lifelands. I have always thought it was the Plane of Order though.

[rhorle]

It's implied through the Cosmology chart but I don't think anything has concretely said "Elements come from the plane of Life". As in the same place the Dream comes from.

Chronicles says that Elementals came from shards of light hitting planets and giving those planets the spark of life. So if they are from anything they would be from the initial battle between Void and Light that created everything else. The "Plane of Life" would have been created at the same time and not really the source of elementals.

[Cheezits]

Chronicles says that Elementals came from shards of light hitting planets and giving those planets the spark of life. So if they are from anything they would be from the initial battle between Void and Light that created everything else. The "Plane of Life" would have been created at the same time and not really the source of elementals.

Could they not be the Old God/Naaru/Nathrezim equivalent of Life that is shot out to planets to spread influence?

[ChairmanKaga]

Love seeing new models for DF. SL's aesthetic was mostly a miss for me.

[rhorle]

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/The...te-Chronicle-3

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Centaur#History

Implies that the offspring of Zaetar was only a specific group of Centaur as the Dragon Isles have Centaur that existed before his offspring were born. Chronicles states Zaetar and Theradras had children around 1,100 years ago. Where as the Centaur on the Dragon Isles are way older.

[Valysar]

Lots of new models I see, but not so many new skeletons

[rhorle]

Could they not be the Old God/Naaru/Nathrezim equivalent of Life that is shot out to planets to spread influence?

No. The shards that created elementals came from the explosion between Light and Void that is the "origin" for the universe and everything else. Could Blizzard change it to something like you say with out really doing a retcon? Sure because "legends" and the biased narrator. But it seems clear the intent is that nothing was behind their existence.

If something was going to be attributed to life it would likely be the Evergrowth or similar entity. https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Evergrowth

[Kiivar86]

Lots of new models I see, but not so many new skeletons

No need to reinvent the wheel. I never fully understood why some people (not saying you, Valysar, just in general) get hung up on skeleton re-usage. So long as the body around it is relatively different, what's the harm?

Only so many ways you can set up a bird skeleton or ground lizard, anyway.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Elemental_spirit

It doesn't say anything that spirit turns elementals to flesh. Only that spirit determines how aggressive or peaceful elemental spirits are. To little and they turn aggresive. To much and they turn peaceful.

it’s in chronicles at the origin of the proto drakes. sprit calms the elements and then an element at X lvl of calm turns to flesh, Azeroth eating up all the sprit stopped it from happening on Azeroth until the Titan showed up and fixed things.

The Great Dark is "outer space". If it is the plane of life then we are already in the Lifelands, right?

ya we’d already be in the life lands which makes a kind of sense when elune has so much stuff in the great dark and is apparently part of the pantheon of life.

If you compare say ardenweld for example the winter queen has servants (night elfs) a magic process for rebirth (emerald dream) and abunch of little pet races like the soul shapes and fairy’s (owl beast dyrads ect) only real thing missing is elune walking around like the winter queen does and she presumably used to given that she had time to shag malorne.

[Akta]

Lots of new models I see, but not so many new skeletons

We already have many so who cares ?

[Dancaris]

Maybe in 1000th time in this thread, but that datamining hits dreams about world rewamp nerve really hard.
New Fugborgs, gnolls, treants, ships, centaurs, stone giants, lightning lizards, mamoths, dragons (ofc), dryads even rumors about new throne room in Orgrimmar. All that stuff litterally calls for updating old world in future. Thay are even adding revenants, just from wc3!
And for that - it will be WoW 10expansion, it call to do some big and meaty dlc.

[Makabreska]

Love seeing new models for DF. SL's aesthetic was mostly a miss for me.

Ye, same here. I was excited for SL, but this otherworldly aesthetic quickly wore off for me. Primal, back-to-basic DF motifs are one of the biggest pros of the expansion.

also

Loving that Lost Dwarves are back in new Uldaman!

[rhorle]

sprit calms the elements and then an element at X lvl of calm turns to flesh, Azeroth eating up all the sprit stopped it from happening on Azeroth until the Titan showed up and fixed things.

Strange then that it doesn't state anything about spirit turning a elemental into flesh, right? It could have been for lots of different reasons. For example side effect of the Elemental Prison. A "curse of flesh" type of thing from the Old Gods. You are inferring something that isn't stated.

ya we’d already be in the life lands which makes a kind of sense when elune has so much stuff in the great dark and is apparently part of the pantheon of life.

The Great Dark is the "physical universe". Of course there would be a lot of stuff related to the different cosmic forces because that is what all the cosmic forces are fighting over. Your logic indicates that it could just as easily be the Void realm because old gods are every where, right? Or the Light realm because Naaru are everywhere. Or any other realm because of the presence of beings of those forces.

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All that stuff litterally calls for updating old world in future. Thay are even adding revenants, just from wc3!

Not really because every expansion sees updates to old content when they share models for the newer content.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Strange then that it doesn't state anything about spirit turning a elemental into flesh, right? It could have been for lots of different reasons. For example side effect of the Elemental Prison. A "curse of flesh" type of thing from the Old Gods. You are inferring something that isn't stated.

I mean sure it could have been any number of reason but chronicles only lays out one that actual fits what they tell us about elements and spirit.

that being, spirit causes the elements to calm or rage based on the amount of it, Azeroth’s world soul was eating most of it leading to no organic life as the elements raged to much, the titans brought the amount of spirit in line with what is normal for planets, after doing so the elements were calmed, the calmed elements turned to flesh.

And then of course in the 2nd vol they tell us that draenor was so calm that they had a extreme amount of organic life of every type, again caused directly by sprit.

The Great Dark is the "physical universe". Of course there would be a lot of stuff related to the different cosmic forces because that is what all the cosmic forces are fighting over. Your logic indicates that it could just as easily be the Void realm because old gods are every where, right? Or the Light realm because Naaru are everywhere. Or any other realm because of the presence of beings of those forces.

the old gods are not the pantheon of the void neither are the Naaru the one of the light, the void/life pantheon have never actually been present in the great dark like how the pantheon of death is in the shadowlands.

Elune on the other hand (and the titans) have been present in the great dark(shagging stags) and haven’t been limited to sending minions through various vails just like the winter queen and others are all present in the shadowlands and have shaped it in various ways.

So no not quite the same as the void/light.

[Nymrohd]

Maybe in 1000th time in this thread, but that datamining hits dreams about world rewamp nerve really hard.
New Fugborgs, gnolls, treants, ships, centaurs, stone giants, lightning lizards, mamoths, dragons (ofc), dryads even rumors about new throne room in Orgrimmar. All that stuff litterally calls for updating old world in future. Thay are even adding revenants, just from wc3!
And for that - it will be WoW 10expansion, it call to do some big and meaty dlc.

And 20 year anniversary, 30 for the franchise.

[boyzma]

Not to change the subject....but. Anyone else notice how the most optimistic bubbly poster on here just disappeared as soon as alpha dropped? Think his last post was something like "enjoy the alpha" and then totally gone. I think it's odd, perhaps he was a Blizzard plant, who knows?

[KOUNTERPARTS]

Finally the Infinite Dragonflight return in some capacity. Is that model just a random Infinite adult dragon or is that Murozond?

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Not to change the subject....but. Anyone else notice how the most optimistic bubbly poster on here just disappeared as soon as alpha dropped? Think his last post was something like "enjoy the alpha" and then totally gone. I think it's odd, perhaps he was a Blizzard plant, who knows?

It was the same exact way leading up to the Dragonflight announcement. Same M.O.


Everybody is privy to it… except that poster in question. Curious.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

I don't even know what to believe. I know Blizz would be self aware of MMO-Champion but enough to put a random user among us(How very sussy), I dunno feels too tinfoil.