Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Raetary]

From when and where?

A fake leak from the pre-Dragonflight days.

[Wangming]

Can these be created without subbing to one of the AI-s?
I've been jobless since last november so it isn't really worth spending money, but I'm tempted to create my own fake cinematic shots.

Just please be surprised when I post them later.

[Paula Deen]

Can these be created without subbing to one of the AI-s?
I've been jobless since last november so it isn't really worth spending money, but I'm tempted to create my own fake cinematic shots.

Just please be surprised when I post them later.

Please dont fill mmoc with more ai slop. Atleast two of the three current Midnight Leak threads are obvious AI. Dont make it worse.

[13last]

Marlamin cited that the whiteboard leak came from several months ago. Unsure where the jailer thing came from but it was not originally attached to the Whiteboard at all, meaning it could have been attached as a troll.

And Hitei pointed out that the cinematic model is missing the Jailer's corpses signature golden chin.

https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/scree...al/1054995.jpg

Also that D are the end of Blizzard just looks off, like really off.

I think it's likely that Xal succesfully corrupts the worldsoul somehow even if she/the void forces lose, leading to Odyn rallying the keepers to summon the Titans back to do something about it (world reset likely, which would involve everyone but them dying). And as we fight against the Titanforged we find out more about the conspiracy including some things pretty obviously hinted at in the narrative (worldsouls not naturally being titans, titans imprisoned azeroth) and possibly some more outlandish crazy things (first ones are the titans, titans linked up with the Light to enforce their timeline, possible timeloop).

Honestly this sounds cool, I'm all for it.

[vintage79]

One more

It's all coming together


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[infinitemeridian]

Nothing will ever top this

[Padwarle]

Eye of Azshara login screen my beloved.

[Timester]

Doubt it.

The terms Thraegar, Valdrakken Accord and Awakened (in relation to Earthen) are all DF/TWW concepts.

Metzen has concepts drawn for years.

For exemple, this chart:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=htt...eb60157e7dbc6c


Anyway, with GPT-5, the next week will be full of AI slop "leaks" that won't be funny. The best is to wait for Gamescon promo leaks (which always happens one day before).

[Thomir]

The fake map was included with the Void J'Lor leak to discredit it. Don't let the Blizzard psyop work.

[Makorus]

Metzen has concepts drawn for years.

For exemple, this chart:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=htt...eb60157e7dbc6c


Anyway, with GPT-5, the next week will be full of AI slop "leaks" that won't be funny. The best is to wait for Gamescon promo leaks (which always happens one day before).

I mean, yeah, I dont disagree with that, however, the odds of the term Thraegar/Awakened/Valdrakken Accord all being on a map from 2001, and all of these terms also being used in the last two expansion are incredibly low.

[Wangming]

Anyway, with GPT-5, the next week will be full of AI slop "leaks" that won't be funny. The best is to wait for Gamescon promo leaks (which always happens one day before).

Counterpoint: We love our fake leaks. They are the beloved children of this series of threads.

[Timester]

I mean, yeah, I dont disagree with that, however, the odds of the term Thraegar/Awakened/Valdrakken Accord all being on a map from 2001, and all of these terms also being used in the last two expansion are incredibly low.

I wouldn't disconsider it, just old names that were never used. For years, Warcraft lore has been built like that, using some misused word or name and built lore around it. The Warcraft RPG is the main example of it.

Shadowlands was the first time that new worldbuilding lore was created.

[Cheezits]

The fake map was included with the Void J'Lor leak to discredit it. Don't let the Blizzard psyop work.

All my stonks on Wrath of the Jailer!

[Timester]

Counterpoint: We love our fake leaks. They are the beloved children of this series of threads.

I love good fakes, no AI slop. With AI age, it just lost the mystic of how someone wasted hours/days of his/her life just to create a BS fake leak.

Now? 5 second on GPT-5, no human imagination.

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All my stonks on Wrath of the Jailer!

Dude, you bet your stonks on every random "leak" that someone posts.

[Wangming]

I love good fakes, no AI slop. With AI age, it just lost the mystic of how someone wasted hours/days of his/her life just to create a BS fake leak.

Now? 5 second on GPT-5, no human imagination.
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Although frankly it would be interesting if someone were to fead the launch features of each expansion into AI as a reference and asked them to make a Midnight leak. What would they come up with?

[blaatschaap]

Still think about Wrath of the bolvar occasionally

[vintage79]

The one - and only:

[Ochinko]

All the leaks are fun in their own way. But there are some that will forever be remembered cause they touch that secret place of "what could have been". Like the Azshara log in screen.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

I pray.

[Khaza-R]

I wouldn't disconsider it, just old names that were never used. For years, Warcraft lore has been built like that, using some misused word or name and built lore around it. The Warcraft RPG is the main example of it.

Shadowlands was the first time that new worldbuilding lore was created.

Considering there's been quests about him turning into a diamond and even a whole comic on it, I really doubt "thraegar" is something they came up with 20 years ago and forgot to mention until TWW.

But really, whether that picture is authentic or not, you can very clearly tell it wasn't taken by a 20 year-old camera.