It's not a ship tho. It's implied to be a Worldsoul Crystal.
Honestly, the safe bet is to assume it's a Light infused Worldsoul Crystal. That part makes the most sense.
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And it would fit BOTH Archaedas's story, as well as the Arathi's belief
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Just like how Chronicle and the Grimoire are in regards to the Cosmic Origins, or how Velen and Tyrande are in terms of their beliefs of Elune, both can be right. Ya just gotta find a way to combine them.
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And trust me, it's VERY much possible.
Yeah because it's not like everybody has been speculating Archaedas had the wrong information or anything.
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According to Archaedas, which may or may not be true. Funny how quick everyone is to doubt the lore from Chronicles but are just as quick to gobble up whatever Archaedas says.
If it walks like a ducks and quacks like a duck... the Beledar is Naaru-affiliated, not worlssoul goo.
Bad information that contradicts precisely what the titans have told us before of course, revealing their plan for the worldsoul and revealing how they treated the earthens to the point where Dagran and Brinthe are shocked but obviously it's all fake because “titan”. By the way, the Threagar story is false too. You simply can't throw away elements of the ongoing story you don't want to feed your own theories. The Naaru ship story was one of the first Beledar theories since BlizzCon but it's factually wrong today and yet you persist with it. You may want to, but you might as well continue with the theories about Beledar being just the tip of Sargeras' sword in this case, because it's just as “relevant” as the space ship.
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Ok it's totally crazy if they keep this feature for the final version. I'm actually kind of relieved that there will be rooms in the houses, because most houses in WoW are just one big room.
Damn, I really hope datamined files are in the version that's going to be officially released.
What do you mean? I literally say in my post that I think the Chronicle mythos is true. I just think the Shadowlands mythos is also true, and both can easily exist together.
The same applies to the different theories on Beledar's creation.
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If anything, I think y'all need to look outside the box for once, and try to combine these different narratives to make a full picture, which I believe is Blizzard's intent.
Yes, but Archaedas worked for Tyr, who otherwise dissented from Odyn's whole fictional history.
From a storytelling perspective, it doesn't make sense to give us new worldbuilding they intend to immediately invalidate. The Titan disc questlines are presented as the real objective truth of Azeroth's history so we should treat it that way.
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I no longer reply to quotations beyond if you're asking a genuine question or have a non-confrontational stance.
We're still waiting for a vast Titan conspiracy to be revealed in TLT, so I'm not sure why we'd assume anything they say up until that point is necessarily true.
It's not like everything they say has to be a lie, but it's reasonable to assume their truth might contain sprinkles of lies or half-truths. It might all still be part of that ongoing narrative they've fed Azeroth's mortals since the Shaping of Kalimdor.
We already know what "calcified worldsoul essence" looks like. It looks like blue-golden or just golden chunks or rock. We've seen it in BfA, and we've seen it on Siren Isle. The Beledar looks nothing like that.
Why would a (somewhat) naturally formed piece of rock contain runes and geometric shapes to that degree?
Why would its impact on the roof of Hallowfall leave literal runes on the stone around it?
Why does it behave like a Naaru with its shifting from Light to Void, something we haven't seen in the worldsoul or any other pieces of it so far?
Why does it seem like it fell from above rather than being shot out from the core of the world?
Why would Voidy creatures in Hallowfall dwell below it and do not want its light to enter below the sea into their domain; if it came from below that wouldn't make sense.
I'm not saying it 100% has to be of Naaru origin, or that it definitely isn't a chunk of worldsoul essence. But it's still a possibility.
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He said he didn't know why he was putting it on record, didn't he. Perhaps he's being influenced to spread disinformation.
The quote about the "chunks" is as follows: "However, as we delved deeper, we encountered certain obstacles--colossal crystals which we came to realize were calcified chunks of the Worldsoul's essence."
Then the graphic shows a silhouette of the Beledar and other, more coarse, rocks.
Maybe they "came to realize" it incorrectly.
Maybe the other rocks are calcified Azerite while the Beledar is mistaken for one because it sits right among them. Like a disguise, almost.
It makes far more narrative sense to assume the archive can be taken at face value if you consider the purpose behind them, I think.
It's true that the Titans have turned out to be an untrustworthy source overall, but the archives seem to be the first hints we're seeing at the truth behind their big conspiracy. If it's just more lies or false information, then that kind of defeats the whole purpose here.
Even if you take it at face value, the quote "However, as we delved deeper, we encountered certain obstacles--colossal crystals which we came to realize were calcified chunks of the Worldsoul's essence" is still not very conclusive. The crystals aren't of Titan making, so they're just making observations that could just as well be wrong.
Blizzard seems to love throwing red herrings out there, just look at how often they've had characters mention things like "a torch" in reference to Il'gynoth's quote, not to mention Alleria's rather on the nose "sometimes I feel like I've died twice". Like, who says that.![]()
"He was being manipulated into spreading misinformation"
Or the Worldsoul took influence on him, which made him say things that were initially meant to be kept secret? Why would the Worldsoul make him say bullshit?
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The information given to us is meant to be important for the coming expansions. Why would Blizzard do things such as lie about the Worldsoul Crystals, yet reveal important things such as the Manifold plan?
Beledar can both be calcified worldsoul essence and a foriegn object.
Based on the art it defintely appears impacted. For all we know its actually a shard of K'aresh or something.
Important, or misleading? We don't know what Blizzard's intentions are.
Otherwise it's a bit dishonest for a lot of people on this forum to repeatedly over the years claim that the whispers of Il'gynoth were just a bunch of nonsense, and then just take this stuff at face value. Especially when the last three expansions have told us over and over that each cosmic force likes to share its own narrative, its point of view, rather than objective truth.
But anyway. I still think there could be some truth in there, even if the bit about the Beledar might be an incorrect guess by the Titan keepers. There may be calcified chunks of Azerite down there. That part might be correct.
But it's still entirely possible, for example, that the Beledar in particular is, I don't know, a Naaru vessel that crash-landed there and then got concealed by the worldsoul, or simply had a bit of luck when other crystals appeared around it, making its presence down there less suspicious. The Titans could simply be assuming that the Beledar must be calcified Azerite because the other chunks around it were.
It's also possible that the Titans are actively trying to cover up their tracks by giving us traces of truth with lies mixed in. So because most of it seems trustworthy, we end up accepting all of it as truth even though bits of it might be there to stop us from asking further questions.
Another possibility is that the Void has influenced Archaedas, distorting his memories or intentions. Heck, even the Light could be doing it as a way to conceal itself.