"We will soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four."
— G.K. Chesterton, 1926
The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your mouldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4.
— Antonin Artaud, 1956
I think it would be cool if blizzard did something like broken shore pre-patch scenario again, where horde and alliance are in the same instance but fighting on 2 other sides of the zone.
Like that one boss in broken shore scenario that was going from alliance to horde side and we killed it together, now it would be even more fitting, given that for now at least, horde and alliance have peace.
To be fair it doesn't matter either way. Shadowlands wasn't bad because it was cosmic stuff. It was bad because it was just written bad. And going back to the basics won't matter if it is written like the faction war in BfA.
Also the way I gather, nothing really points towards a simple expansion.
Earthen studying a weird fissure, caverns filled with the corrupted roots of an ancient world tree, a far away land covered by storm that dragons don't pass through, but night elf pirates do. Also, 5th old god stuff. This very likely won't be simple.
"We will soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four."
— G.K. Chesterton, 1926
The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it. The fault lies with your mouldy systems, your logic of 2 + 2 = 4.
— Antonin Artaud, 1956
I think part of the problem is that we're being given so many hooks, teasers, and setups for what feels like increasingly disparate settings rather than one cohesive world. I mean, let's just take one questline in 10.1.7. How many people have been getting excited over one line from Hatuun implying the possibility of playable Broken, or broadly some focus on the Broken or Argus? What are the odds that we see that actually return in 11.0? In 2 years, or 4 years, or ever?
The more they toss out intrigue in every possible direction, the more that an increasingly large group of people will be disappointed when things inevitably only move in one of those directions. I'm not sure if they understand that they're not exactly riding a wave of goodwill that permits them to keep stringing people along as they are now. If the Jailer had gotten years more foreshadowing and buildup, it still wouldn't mean much if the end product was the same. If Avaloren or Khaz Algar or whatever is underwhelming and disappointing, nobody will care that some lore books name dropped them in Dragonflight.
Personally I think she needs even more lovers. What is more "possibilities and randomness and change" than a life diety banging anything and everything to see what happens?! Them pesky titans and their "order" would be all "why would you mate with a deer and a woman? Surely nothing will result from that." And yet Cenarius was born from that deer sex! Jury is still out on whether or not Elune and Eonar banging could result in an equally "impossible" creature.
All I ever wanted was the truth. Remember those words as you read the ones that follow. I never set out to topple my father's kingdom of lies from a sense of misplaced pride. I never wanted to bleed the species to its marrow, reaving half the galaxy clean of human life in this bitter crusade. I never desired any of this, though I know the reasons for which it must be done. But all I ever wanted was the truth.
Well he isn't completely gone so there is hope he might come back. I have this half baked expansion idea in my head where Denathrius as a sword corrupts an alternate universe Genn Greymane and convinces him to turn the Gilneans into vampires instead. They use a portal of sorts to visit MU Azeroth to gather more converts, and shit happens.
In the end Denathrius escaoes the sword and takes the amassed vampire army for himself. In the ensuing struggle MU Genn jumps in front of an attack intended for AU Liam as a call back to the Gilneas starting experience.
D man of course does not die so that he can be the more visible and active main villain of the next expansion.
TBH, Magatha Grimtotem is probably the closest thing we have to a feeble chessmaster right now. And she's still on track (got access to the Maelstrom and Doomstone... SOMEHOW )
I dont really think you can really compare Legion to any "cosmic" stuff that followed.
The BL is different from all the other cosmic threats bc its the original big main villain (and has been for the majority of the franchises history) and was formerly presented as uniquely big and dangerous. It was the single enemy that operated at that scale, even when Warcrafts lore was far more grounded, way before they came up with the idea that its actually just one faction among many of comparable status. Its what made them so unique back then.
Last edited by Houle; 2023-10-04 at 02:56 PM.
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I mean to be fair every expansion since WoD has been "bunch of disparate shit barely tied together by a common thread" I mean Dragonflight is about literally anything that might have a connection to dragons. Underground void stuff, time travel and emerald dream in the same bloody expansion.