The War Within 11.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Makorus]

https://x.com/that_kind_oforc/status...Z6FoSZuEQ&s=19

We have our next take on wows cosmology.

Is that not literally the old cosmology chart except it implies every power connects to every power.

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Pretty sure it has already been spoiled through datamining that Khadgar is not dead as he is MIA.

I don't think there is anything specific.

The closest thing is

Anduin: Alleria, what happened back there? This isn’t you.
Alleria: I had to take the shot! It was my chance to make up for Dalaran–for Khadgar!
Alleria: I don’t expect you to understand what I’m dealing with.
Anduin: But I do. I know all about blaming myself for things I couldn’t possibly control.
Anduin: Have you lost your–all right. Fine. Jumping it is!

which heavily implies is he actually dead rather than missing.

[Super Dickmann]

Anduin: Alleria, what happened back there? This isn’t you.
Alleria: I had to take the shot! It was my chance to make up for Dalaran–for Khadgar!
Alleria: I don’t expect you to understand what I’m dealing with.
Anduin: But I do. I know all about blaming myself for things I couldn’t possibly control.
Anduin: Have you lost your–all right. Fine. Jumping it is!

Jesus, even when he's supposed to be depressed and uncertain he's still there to reprimand these lesser mortals who actually have negative impulses for their sins.

Re: Khadgar, he's dead when I see the body.

[Makorus]

Jesus, even when he's supposed to be depressed and uncertain he's still there to reprimand these lesser mortals who actually have negative impulses for their sins.

Re: Khadgar, he's dead when I see the body.

At that point, he isn't "depressed and uncertain" anymore though.

[Super Dickmann]

At that point, he isn't "depressed and uncertain" anymore though.

Oh, nevermind in that case, it's just classic Anduin pouring wisdom into lesser mortals then. I was thinking they'd keep him depowered at least through the length of the opening storyline given how long his spiritual progenitor Thrall couldn't cast. But then being possessed by the Turbo Devil is a much lesser burden compared to being responsible for killing Garrosh.

[THEORACLE64]

https://x.com/that_kind_oforc/status...Z6FoSZuEQ&s=19

We have our next take on wows cosmology.

No, that’s literally just someone throwing a bunch of words together to sound like they’re being clever. Definition of word salad.

[Grazrug]

Jesus, even when he's supposed to be depressed and uncertain he's still there to reprimand these lesser mortals who actually have negative impulses for their sins.

Re: Khadgar, he's dead when I see the body.

Shock value is popular with Blizzard.

[Raetary]

Is that not literally the old cosmology chart except it implies every power connects to every power.

More or less.
It ties it into the First Ones geometry stuff.
And it basically drags the magic system back into being more soft rather than hard. (officially)

[Xilurm]

https://x.com/that_kind_oforc/status...Z6FoSZuEQ&s=19

We have our next take on wows cosmology.

Ok.... can someone explain?

I'd expect such words from Urianger from FFXIV, then another NPC asking wtf is he talking about because the devs know.

Gonna need a visual representation of this tetrahedron. Sounds like some hype-cube type stuff.

[Raetary]

Ok.... can someone explain?

I'd expect such words from Urianger from FFXIV, then another NPC asking wtf is he talking about because the devs know.

Gonna need a visual representation of this tetrahedron. Sounds like some hype-cube type stuff.

It's just the OG chart but now with everything being explicitly connected.

Spoiler: 

[Xilurm]

It's just the OG chart but now with everything being explicitly connected.

Spoiler: 

Wonder if Chronicles 4 will talk about this.

[Nymrohd]

Confusingly, i actually did get the option to download the beta a week ago. Which is kind of useless currently.

Saves you some time when you actually get in and want to play it. I don't know about everyone else but while I have no connection issues in game, downloading new builds always takes forever (and I've done all the optimizations suggested).

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Oh, nevermind in that case, it's just classic Anduin pouring wisdom into lesser mortals then. I was thinking they'd keep him depowered at least through the length of the opening storyline given how long his spiritual progenitor Thrall couldn't cast. But then being possessed by the Turbo Devil is a much lesser burden compared to being responsible for killing Garrosh.

I mean, this is just calling out Alleria for a horribly bad strategic call that could get them all killed. I'll emote a facepalm at her during that scene too (if only to keep growing my massive statistics counter on legitimate facepalm towards NPCs)

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It's just the OG chart but now with everything being explicitly connected.

Spoiler: 

Damn I guess I was wrong. Blizzard is not trying to copy a D&D orrery cosmology. They are trying to copy the Malazan Books of the Fallen. Multi-tiered interconnected aspected cosmology with overlaying pantheons.

[Super Dickmann]

I mean, this is just calling out Alleria for a horribly bad strategic call that could get them all killed. I'll emote a facepalm at her during that scene too (if only to keep growing my massive statistics counter on legitimate facepalm towards NPCs)

Chiefly this line:

Anduin: But I do. I know all about blaming myself for things I couldn’t possibly control.

In so far as it reaffirms they're nixing their one interesting idea regarding Anduin, which is that he on some level enjoyed not making decisions and cutting loose while possessed, and which moved his drama into territory that isn't just a much weaker rehash of any given undead character. Instead, it's about how he shouldn't blame himself that he was possessed, a plot point so trite that SL dismissed it in one line by having even he admit that no one else thinks he did anything wrong.

[huth]

More or less.
It ties it into the First Ones geometry stuff.
And it basically drags the magic system back into being more soft rather than hard. (officially)

It's basically an in-universe description of what we learned in SL with less details and an excess of technical language. Nothing about that is new, though, and the in-story writer doesn't fully grasp what's actually going on.

[Joshuaj]

https://x.com/that_kind_oforc/status...Z6FoSZuEQ&s=19

We have our next take on wows cosmology.

Btw, this take on the cosmology really isn't new, and it's basically just a viewpoint based off the already complex and developed cosmological pattern, where everything became intertwined, and more shapes and layers arose from the pattern, etc.

It ultimately does fundamentally return to the whole "6 sides" ordeal, but to the person that wrote it, just basing it off that simple notion is ultimately futile, which makes sense, as they both have a somewhat limited view of the Cosmos, as well as a viewpoint that really only understands the pattern based off its already complex and current form, hence why the form it takes is a hexateron and not a normal hexagon.

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More or less.
It ties it into the First Ones geometry stuff.
And it basically drags the magic system back into being more soft rather than hard. (officially)

It doesn't tie anything to that at all lol. Soft magic systems imply we know very little about it, which in WoW's case, we know a lot.

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Is that not literally the old cosmology chart except it implies every power connects to every power.

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I don't think there is anything specific.

The closest thing is



which heavily implies is he actually dead rather than missing.

To answer your first comment: Remember how Firim basically stated in his Tazavesh books that the Pattern alone ended up not being enough, and more shapes and complex variables arose from it til we got the cosmology we currently have today?

Well, think of this viewpoint as a double down on that notion.

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Everything is connected, the shape itself is a 5-simplex, and there are more lines and whatnot making sense of everything. The Cosmic Pattern in its original form by comparison is more simple and simply has 2 primary rings, a Cosmic ring and an Elemental ring, and it is possible the Elemental ring came after the Cosmic ring when the Progenitors were first establishing things.

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Harry Potter has a soft magic system. Warcraft does not.

[Ersula]

Is that not literally the old cosmology chart except it implies every power connects to every power.

Which has always been true. The Burning Legion literally has void creatures in it.

People are still trying to blame the cosmology itself, rather than the (lack of) details Shadowlands portrayed them, despite the wow cosmology chart being published in Chronicles 1, when Metzen was still in charge.

[Joshuaj]

Which has always been true. The Burning Legion literally has void creatures in it.

People are still trying to blame the cosmology itself, rather than the (lack of) details Shadowlands portrayed them, despite the wow cosmology chart being published in Chronicles 1, when Metzen was still in charge.

Chronicle and Grimoire weren't trying to explore connective powers though, they were just providing a run down on the fundamental powers that make up our cosmology.

Hell, Shadowlands and Dragonflight express more than once that forces of WoW and their magics can and have been connected and intertwined. That's quite literally why the Cosmic Pattern exists. Pretty sure I tried arguing this fact long ago but people either ignored me or just thought I was doing my typical "Cosmicpreds headcanon". Yeah, I don't seem so dumb now, huh?

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But, people will shit on Shadowlands for that even tho it's one of the only things it did right narratively.

[huth]

Which has always been true. The Burning Legion literally has void creatures in it.

And was led by a being of Order, which should be its antithesis.

So that has been a thing from the start. This writing adds nothing new except a whole lot of big words.

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Yeah, I don't seem so dumb now, huh?

No, it still is because you did the same thing the in-universe author is doing there. You're way overcomplicating things for no real reason.

[Ersula]

And was led by a being of Order, which should be its antithesis.

So that has been a thing from the start. This writing adds nothing new except a whole lot of big words.

People clearly need it stated because theres a post every week asking how a character can use one kind of magic but not be affiliated with that cosmic force. This is a text people can point to & say, "here, anybody can use any magic. It doesn't matter."

No, it still is because you did the same thing the in-universe author is doing there. You're way overcomplicating things for no real reason.

I think that's part of the joke. The overly semiotic writer is writing it in an overtly academic, complicated fashion.

[Joshuaj]

And was led by a being of Order, which should be its antithesis.

So that has been a thing from the start. This writing adds nothing new except a whole lot of big words.

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No, it still is because you did the same thing the in-universe author is doing there. You're way overcomplicating things for no real reason.

It's not overcomplicating if the fundamentals are the same. I'm basically expressing why the person in The War Within views the cosmology as such, which takes from past expansions regardless.

[Makorus]

People when in-game writing has character and isn't just a lore dump: