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

[Teriz]

One of the sticking points for me is the odd design of the figure in the background, which seems to have little rhyme or reason to it. I'm also a bit suspicious of the strange angle with the nostril of the figure in the foreground and the fact in itself that this was posted so early. I'm not going to dismiss it entirely, but I still need more to assuage my suspicions.

The character in the background looks like the character in the foreground, just with a helmet on.

[Sondrelk]

if u see fyrakk here....
Some charater with 2h weapon and horned helm

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Why would the artists make something that confusing though? Cinematics don't look that vague, unless you are going for a deliberately blurry shot it should always be clear what you are looking at.

Someone asked an AI art program to have a horned character in the background, and the program didn't think to have one of the horns actually attached to the head, or in correct proportions for that matter.

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This image leak, on the background character the things that people keep saying are artifacts or horns look an awful lot like sails in the distance to me? The background even looks like land/sea meeting..

Am I loosing my mind here?

That is some next level reaching to me. Sails don't look anything like that. Where are the masts for one?

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The character in the background looks like the character in the foreground, just with a helmet on.

It's mainly the horn-like growths—that have a very odd and undefined shape—that tipped it off for me. See Sondrelk's assumption, which is the same as mine:

Someone asked an AI art program to have a horned character in the background, and the program didn't think to have one of the horns actually attached to the head, or in correct proportions for that matter.

[Santandame]

Improvement as in it doesn't look like a nasty, slobbering monster. It still looks monstrous, but it looks less slimy and gross as Grom looks in the WoD cinematic.

As for why do I believe it's a cosmic force, specifically the light? Blizzard almost never gives us a left field expansion, they always leave clues and breadcrumbs that lead us to future expansions. There's no basis for a new subspecies of Orcs, and a new Azerothian race that looks like a warped orcs doesn't make much sense. The only known source for new orcs twisted or otherwise would be AU Draenor or Outland since that's where they originate from. Frankly, these being Orcs from AU Draenor makes the most sense, because the timeline between AU Draenor and MU Azeroth is not stable. Thus you could be pulling the Lightbound army from multiple points in time. For example, these could be Lightbound orcs being warped by the Naaru for decades or even centuries after we freed the Mag'har.

I could be completely wrong about all of this, but I do believe this is what we're dealing with.

You are almost definitely wrong.

There’s nothing there to indicate that the Light would turn something even more monstrous. If you want a read of what light “corruption” would do then look at Lothraxion.

The race in the image looks a lot more like a drogbar than any orc we’ve seen in a CGI cinematic.

[micwini]

It's mainly the horn-like growths—that have a very odd and undefined shape—that tipped it off for me. See Sondrelk's assumption, which is the same as mine:

The reason I think it is AI is because of the "orcs'" head. If you look at the front of his face, it looks like he's wearing a helm, obviously. But as you start looking more towards the left, the helm slowly fades into his body and then he suddenly also has 3 weird ear tentacles.

The closest I could guess would be those plant orcs from Draenor.

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You are almost definitely wrong.

There’s nothing there to indicate that the Light would turn something even more monstrous. If you want a read of what light “corruption” would do then look at Lothraxion.

The race in the image looks a lot more like a drogbar than any orc we’ve seen in a CGI cinematic.

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[Santandame]

The reason I think it is AI is because of the "orcs'" head. If you look at the front of his face, it looks like he's wearing a helm, obviously. But as you start looking more towards the left, the helm slowly fades into his body and then he suddenly also has 3 weird ear tentacles.

The closest I could guess would be those plant orcs from Draenor.

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Yeah not sure why, used a different one but it was official blizz artwork of the Drogbar from wowpedia.

[Sondrelk]

The reason I think it is AI is because of the "orcs'" head. If you look at the front of his face, it looks like he's wearing a helm, obviously. But as you start looking more towards the left, the helm slowly fades into his body and then he suddenly also has 3 weird ear tentacles.

The closest I could guess would be those plant orcs from Draenor.

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Also how the orc looks more like a generic fantasy orc, rather than the defined look WoW orcs have.
Even assuming corruption of some sort, why doesn't the orc look even close to the proportions we are used to? The face looks like a LESS exaggerated version of an orc, whereas corruption in WoW tends to make the character MORE exaggerated.

[username993720]

The race in the image looks a lot more like a drogbar than any orc we’ve seen in a CGI cinematic.

The nose, though.
Plus, ther armor is reddish.

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Even assuming corruption of some sort, why doesn't the orc look even close to the proportions we are used to?

Not to mention that the ears aren't even at the right resting angle and look far larger and more batlike. They also look much too high, but I'm having trouble finding a recent cinematic still that shows the side of an orc's head very clearly. There's also the lack of lips.

[Valysar]

Off topic, but I remember Blizzard saying we will have more CGI cinematics than before, was this a dream ? 0 during SL, 0 during DF, weird.

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The nose, though.

That has me sure it's not a Drogbar, along with the mouth being much smaller. The ears and tusks are fairly similar, but that's where the similarities end.

[Santandame]

The nose, though.
Plus, ther armor is reddish.

They can wear different armour though surely. The nose is the only feature of line whereas every other Drogbar feature lines up.

The character in the cinematic looks nothing like WoW orcs we’ve seen in CGI at all.

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That has me sure it's not a Drogbar, along with the mouth being much smaller. The ears and tusks are fairly similar, but that's where the similarities end.

Yeah, for the record I feel like it’s more likely to be one of Avaloren’s races.

I just don’t think it’s an Orc at all, they look nothing like the ones we’ve already seen in WoW cgi.

The nose goes against it for being a Drogbar for sure but I see it has having more Drogbar similarities than Orc.

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Yeah, for the record I feel like it’s more likely to be one of Avaloren’s races.

I just don’t think it’s an Orc at all, they look nothing like the ones we’ve already seen in WoW cgi.

The nose goes against it for being a Drogbar for sure but I see it has having more Drogbar similarities than Orc.

I'm personally sticking with it being AI-generated. If I had to assume it's real, though, I'd definitely lean towards this particular race being an inhabitant of a new landmass. It looks absolutely nothing like what we've seen before on every possible count.

[Darkarath]

I would discard the creature being a Drogbar immediately, because, why would anyone would want to see a Drogbar in a cinematic? They are irrelevant. I would rather see a Niffen.

[Sondrelk]

I would discard the creature being a Drogbar immediately, because, why would anyone would want to see a Drogbar in a cinematic? They are irrelevant. I would rather see a Niffen.

The only character i could imagine would warrant showing a Drogbar would be Iridikron,but the person in the back is so clearly not him.

[Santandame]

I would discard the creature being a Drogbar immediately, because, why would anyone would want to see a Drogbar in a cinematic? They are irrelevant. I would rather see a Niffen.

It would be fitting if it was a world revamp cinematic cycling through the various zones and the races that inhabit them.

[Polybius]

Looks like a cross between Orc and Botani. That chin looks morphed like Mephisto’s in Diablo. I tought the background object was a humanoid but on closer look it stands like a banner.

[micwini]

It would be fitting if it was a world revamp cinematic cycling through the various zones and the races that inhabit them.

Drogbar are not on EK/Kalimdor

[huth]

The nose, though.
Plus, ther armor is reddish.

Much bigger issue is the chin. That "leak" is super-spiky, Drogbar have a pretty flat one.

[Sondrelk]

Drogbar are not on EK/Kalimdor

They could be though.
Still, if we establish that they are Drogbar, then that leaves it open who the person in the back is that has a link to Drogbar.