Originally Posted by
Worldshaper
So here's a crackpot theory.
Yogg-Saron is the Old God whose domain stretched across the part of Ancient Kalimdor that is today Northend the Dragon Isles.
That's where Galakrond arose, as well as the Dragon Aspects. It's also where Yogg-Saron corrupted Loken, resulting in the death of Tyr, and afflicted the titan-forged with the Curse of Flesh.
The 5th Old God in Chronicles, is depicted as having skulls and stuff. But also leaves and vines. A sort of Death and Life kind of theme.
But Yogg-Saron is depicted with ice or saronite or something, which isn't really related to either Death or Life.
Yogg-Saron calls himself the God of Death. But notably, he's also responsible for giving the earthen life, through the Curse of Flesh. Northrend also, famously, has attracted the undead over the years. One might say it is the land of the dead.
Did Yogg-Saron usurp the 5th Old God once upon a time, thereby stealing its essence for himself?
Could he then create Galakrond, a sort of necrotic beast?
Did Iridikron lay claim to Galakrond's essence because it is really that of Yogg-Saron, or indirectly the 5th Old God?
"A hunger lost to the ages will be reclaimed."
"A dark heart left broken awaits the taking."
Both of these sound like part prophecy, part recipe for how to bake yourself a resurrected Old God.
Question still remains what the "dark heart" is. It might just be the husk of the dead 5th Old God that needs to be reclaimed.
We do know the Harbinger is gathering the Children of the First Flesh to reclaim what was lost.
We do know the Children of the First Flesh toil in the deep places.
Are they digging up the body of the 5th Old God, and is "what was lost" a reference to them as subjects, or to what they're digging for?
The earthen at Khaz Algar succumbed to a sort of primordial version of the Curse of Flesh, a great distance from Northrend. So did the 5th Old God, whose power was over life and death, reside somewhere far away from today's northrend where her power oozed up from the ground to affect those around her, only for Yogg-Saron to come around, kill and consume her?
One sort of logical location might be around what is today northern Kalimdor. There is a Tauren legend about the Earth Mother, who's essentially some primordial diety of life and death, day and night, etc. Could the stories simply be telling a romanticised version of the 5th Old God, who, like in the case with the earthen at Khaz Algar, might have one day given the tauren life?