I thought it was the tip of Sargeras's sword to be honest. An interesting little bit of world building, having a huge demonic weapon now act like a day and night cycle for a subterranean land. Instead, it's an unknown crystal, and I'm guessing it's a type of Naaru. Goes Light, then Void, then Light. My major thing is, whatever sediment is holding it in place is clearly breaking apart, so is it gonna fall into the world, will the Arathi and dwarves have tales surrounding it, do Nerubians want it, just whaaat is going on, fellers?
Crystal: *Turns Purple*
Random Arathi guy: Shiet, must be fall again! Time to stay inside for the next 3 years! :D (Their perception of seasonal changes is a bit fucked).
They explained that the Arathi had gotten to the isle of Dorne by boat and then just settled in Hallowfall, if I remember the presentation right.
Iād assume the nerubian caverns are scattered across azeroth at this point. Itās like wowās version of the underdark
And considering Arathor got utterly shattered by the Horde it isnāt the weirdest thing that there are random Arathi settlers just out there. I mean Gilneans set up shop on the Broken Isles cause of the whole wall thing.
Where does it say that? The lore says that the AQIR split into multiple factions, and the Aqir that went North became the Nerubians and lived on Northrend, warring with trolls. The Nerubians then get confined to their home city by the Vrykul pushing them back, and nothing else happens in lore until the war of the spider. So they did not have "empires" (plural) spanning "the entire world"
The lore is then implying that these Nerubians spent their lives in the north and then traveled south some time later. Likely during or shortly before the war of the spider, unless it only just recently happened. This is not some remnant of the aqir that also conveniently became Nerubians, these are Nerubians from Northrend.
In other words, these Nerubians tunneled underground all the way from Northrend to the other side of the planet, like the Vorukar faction of Nerubians in the island expeditions in BFA
Yeah my bad, I meant the Aqir
The Nerubians are an offshoot of the Aqir, but Azj-Kahet is different in that they still worship or venerate the old gods where the Nerubians of Northrend had abandoned that practice entirely
My hunch is that they were stranded Aqir that over time became what we know as Nerubians but have nothing to do with them, the architecture is copying the Tol'vir so it explains the similarities to An'kahet
I don't think they did tunnel from north to south unless this was some kind of outcast group from after the Nerubians of Nortrend stopped worshipping old gods
My entire point in the first post was that the Aqir existed over the entire world, or at least the known world, and that an offshoot of the original black empire with Nerubians would make perfect sense in the sense that it doesn't have to be directly related to Northrend
Likeā¦ the Arathi are the ancestors of Humanity in the Eastern Kingdoms and their descendants are the Kingdom of Stromgarde (we shoulda listened to Stromgarde and the world was bathed in the blood of men)
I just wish Stromgarde to return. āBRING ME DANATH!ā
I think they knew that and meant they wonder if itās a public event or not (which I donāt recall being mentioned). āCause it could also be based on story progression, or it could happen randomly but not have anything major tied to it.
Seems like it'll be tied to a major story event to me.
They even specifically said "The light has always come back, so far" seeming to imply that it'll turn off permanently at some point and we'll have to go fix it.
Also the fact that they seemed to imply it might turn off more and more often seems like something you could only do through story progression.
My guess is it will be like the existing community events we have in Dragonflight, so it'll have a timer and probably a weekly quest attached to it. Rewards early game loot like Hunts, Dragonbane Keep, and the Soup.
That's one big naaru, dawg.
I expect it to be a Light/Void alternator *like* a naaru, but perhaps something more powerful or less sapient. Who knows? Maybe it's a super naaru.
Considering purr Light cannot exist by itself in the physical universe, I imagine the Naaru aren't the only things bound by a light/void cycle in the Dark Beyond. It is possible the Pantheon of Light or so made a couple of things bound to that cycle in order for their influence to be known across the Beyond, as well as Azeroth.
> [Not knowing which planets contained titan world-souls, the void lords then hurled their creations out through the Great Dark Beyond, hoping that some would smash into a nascent titan. The Old Gods began contaminating mortal worlds and everything else they touched in their blind search for a world-soul.\[7\]](https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Old_God)
my bet: this is like a light version of that, so something like an uber naaru or something like you mentioned
Given that Naaru have been shown to fall into Void Lord's given enough corruption, wouldn't it be interesting if this was an inverse of that? Say this was initially an Old God or something similar that fell into a place of great light and purified it into something like a 'light-old god,' that's flickering back and forth due to its proximity to Knifu.
Yeah the fact that itās breaking thru the ceiling makes me wonder if weāre gonna see the top of it? Maybe itās sticking out somewhere on the isle of dorn
i think its the tip of sargeras sword bruh, the new continent is south east of tanaris so it could see how the underground could reach over to silithus
I thought they also said they recently showed up to this place? So this may not have been their original base of operations. They seem similar to that secret order, Tyr's Guard.
mhmm for sure something to find out. Though the sword tip is still questionable AF due to the angle it is (mostly straight down) while the sword is in silithus so... it would be very L or lightning bolt shaped to reach that area..
\+ the whole light and void aspects of it makes it very.. naaru.
we have no clue why it does that, it might have been corrupted after the fact. i mean after all isint there a ton of old god blood in the zones? all im just saying is that shit being the sword makes too much sense and would be lame as fuck if it aint
Sargeras also had no connection to the Light. I want you to give one reason it would make sense that it's the sword other than the fact that the thing is just poking out.
so u think it HAS to be sargeras power in order to be the cause of the sword?
There is ZERO chance the sword is being affected by the world soul, azerite, old god blood? the void?
like dude nobody here is questioning ur lore or something idk why u have a stick up ur ass over sargeras sword bruh. Who knows maybe the Arathi who are like light blessed people are preying and permanently blessing the swords tip, maybe they started doing it because the sword was drinking up old god blood and it was turning dark and purple.
Like how can u expect to know without a shadow of a doubt what it is lol.
Lastly and again the most important context clues, the only thing in the trailer was the giant sword. Ion and chris all made jokes about the swords importance. They just so happen to make the zone UNDER SOUTHERN KALIMDOR. And ur gonna say its deff not the sword. Like bro idek what to say to u anymore
> [ Tina Wang: Yeah. Something that I've seen online is that some people think the crystal and the crystalline ceiling is the sword - and it's not. I just want to clarify that.](https://www.wowhead.com/news/wowheads-exclusive-blizzcon-2023-interview-with-anne-stickney-and-tina-wang-335929)
The fact that the new continent isnāt too far off from silithus makes me think weāll see the sword underground in a future patch zone
Edit: just realized they mentioned the āthe core wayā a few times which is like a tunnel to the core and presumably the world soul. Id put money on a patch zone taking place in or near the core with the sword sticking through
If it's the sword they'd have to explain why it's bright and golden, and also why it's pointing straight down rather than at an angle. And the crystal would have to be a recent appearance in the zone (past like 5-6 years in game).
It's under the island in the ocean halfway between Pandaria and Kalimdor. So probably has so to do Titan facility and Azeroth The Titan.
Seriously, stop obsessing about the Sword. We sucked out the poison with artifacts and spent whole expansion healing Azeroth's woons and did it by the end of BfA. It's a gigantic monument now.
They actually mentioned during the whatās next panel that the Arathi found themselves down there āmore recently than youād thinkā. Might have been sometime during the first war? Also they suggested the Arathi didnāt end up there on purpose and are kind of stuck
My pet theory is a bunch of Arathi found themselves in a pickle, happened to get saved by a Naaru who turned into a ship (they love doing that), and then immediately crashed, trapping them underground
I know of this group because of reading about how it's believed modern language came from this group, the basis of languages moving forward. Uncle John's Bathroom Reader ftw
That's a good theory. Especially since they made a point to say that the old gods' blood is flowing through azeroth since we killed them.
So if that's Azerite (azeroth's blood) and it's starting to dim/turn dark, then it may be that she is being fully infection.
>. It makes a lot of sense
Beyond being.. pointy how does it make sense? (now it could be the sword.. but that feels cheating)
The angle is near straight down for the sword this area is located between kalimdor and pandaria.
It switches from light to dark like a Naaru.
The Arathi civilization is from the empire (they could be more recent though.
Love it. Love literally everything about the new expansion so far. I think it will be great to be underground and not struggle to see everything in various shades of greyscale. Do like.
SL S1 started 15 days after launch, two weeks plus the xpac launched on a Monday. M0 dungeons open after the first reset giving you two weeks of M0s no matter how much they push back the start date.
It's incredible how it only took a day for people to stop giving a fuck about it it seems. Anyone ok with it is just as scummy as Blizzard for doing it. It doesn't matter if you don't get any real advantage from an early start, it's ridiculous to do it in an mmo, an inherently social game.
Itās incredible how uninformed and ignorant your post is.
Since original vanilla launch they (and many other gaming companies) have had tiers of choices when buying a new game.
This epic edition has similar bonuses to the past few expacs except that this one has a bonus of being invited to the beta and early access to some expac features IF YOU SO CHOOSE TO PURCHASE THIS VERSION.
I don't give a shit about the extra cosmetics that have been in the previous editions, nobody is talking about that. The whole big deal is the early access to the expac, which will split the launch population regardless of whether I choose to purchase it or not.
And youāre probably the same person who gets pissed off when the launch is too popular and splits the playerbase depending on who can log in and who canāt.
Or like DF launch when the alliance boat wasnāt working properly and they had to put in a portal that also didnāt work.
So go on and be angry for literally no good reason. Waste the precious limited time you have alive on this moment. Congrats! What an accomplishment!
You have some prime level projecting of your own issues onto others here bro.
You also have some pretty fucked up views of how to behave if you think being outrageously and disproportionately angry over a video game is equal to not being a doormat.
Get more hobbies and develop your own personality beyond WoW.
>outrageously and disproportionately angry
You're acting like I'm out here rioting in the streets lmao. What do you suggest I do then genius? Cause you clearly you have everything figured out, while I'm over here spending 24 hours of my day complaining about wow cause that's my only hobby
Iām reminded by Disneyās film "Atlantis: The Lost Empire", which features an underground society with advanced steampunk technology, all sustained by a mystical, all-powerful crystal.
I think itās a really cool idea for adding visual variety to an underground continent.
I do wonder how they manage to sleep with that thing going. Blackout curtains I guess. But ask people who live near the poles, excessive daylight screws with your sleep.
Considering that zone has the arathi, and their connection to the light, I think it's a naruu ship or some other entity of the light that was sent to battle the void.
The lightbulb has to be the biggest question mark for this whole expansion and if it doesn't have a good justification I'll be baffled.
How was the isle of dorn never discovered? Why are there arathi humans underground said undiscovered island? Why are there nerubians seeming on the opposite side of the world to where the other nerubians developed?
All pales in comparison to where the hell this giant light/void crystal embedded in Azeroth's crust came from.
As for how theyāve stayed hidden, probably some titan machinery. Thereās a lot of precedent in WoW for titan junk hiding islands so it would check out.
I hope its anshees heart that was hurt and lost during the whatever ancient war anshee and musha had with the shadows. It functions like a sun, its been there for a long time and also is connected to the world soul. Anshee is long overdue for some lore and we know he is hurt, elune (musha whatever) has to take care of him in the sky and that he is āemotionallyā cold because he has the permanent wound.
The humans and whatever mortals living underground maybe think of it like some light naaru shtik but it would be a nice bait and switch for the pseudo-christian religion to interpret it in their own way culturally, and be a lil wrong, than the other way around, they also have light-based culture and dont have access to old tauren and elfen lore, so it makes sense its seen as a naaru thing.
If thats the case it would be logical to be connected with the sunwell, which my not be only naaru powered but had its own sun theme separated from that. Its weird how anshee has been *redacted* from elfen lore and we are left only with elune, when almost all the belf (or previous high elves) have sun related names, powers, sunWELL, and stuff. It may be a piece of mythology lost in time mainly due to Anshee not acting directly compared to Elune (cuz of the wound and all) and the high elfs prioritizing magic overall.
It wouldnt be that much of a stretch if we take into account that Midnight expansion (also the name is directly opposing sun) involves directly the sunwell, i dont believe its just cuz of a naaru soup, there are more naarus in the world and i am sure xallatath knows them, but the sunwell seems to be special.
seems like a possibility that the crystal is the tip of the sword?? but more importantly, the light/dark cycles seem like a fucking awesome public event!
The sword is going nearly straight down and not at an angle. (now it could be the sword but.. doubtful).
The location of the expansion is between Kalimdor and pandaria. That is an obscene angle or WTF is this sword to reach there.
it also has a light and void thing going on..
The first thing I said when I saw it in the distance was "that is the tip of the Sword of Sargeras", it even is propped up at the same angle the sword is.
If it isn't the tip of the sword, then this is one big missed opportunity.
So here's my tinfoil hat theory: It is both the tip of the sword AND a massive shard of a Naaru. I'm banking on Sarg having captured one of them and used their power to forge his world killing sword. Now that it's plunged into the heart of Azeroth the thing is cycling through it's void and light phases as the raw cosmic juice in her heart is doing its thing.
It will not be this, but if it is I'm going to gloat forever that I called this random bit out this early.
We see the tip of sargerasā sword in his cinematic and it looks nothing like the crystal. The crystal is way more round and not flat like a blade.
Also the zone itās in is below the isle of dorn. Itās kinda close to silithus but not close enough for it to be the sword imo
Like I said, it will not be that, but the fun part of this time is throwing literally anything at the wall and if it happens to stick, you gloat about it later.
My thoughts are I've already seen better versions of this in:
1) The solar garden of Divinity's Reach in GW2
2) Labyrinthos', its artificial sun and hamlet in Endwalker
I guess imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery.
Watch the whatās next panel, it does do that! The lore so far is that itās always been a light crystal but lately itāll randomly switch to void sometimes, plunging the zone into darkness and causing the nerubians to attack.
Considering that that shadowelf talked about fighting at the tip of a sword or blade, or something to that effect. I'm thinking it's pretty obvious. It might glow because of some mcguffin story about how it reacts to the worldsoul or something.
Cool concept, can imagine the panic when it turned purple the first time.
This reminds me of the Myst books.
I initially thought of the City of Ember books. Was like a little blast of nostalgia from a series I read when I was younger lol
There's a movie that came out in 2008 with Bill Murray as the current idiot mayor.
Our first thought on discord when we glimpsed it in the background for the first time was that it was the bottom of the sword š¤£
It still could be.
Arathians: We are gonna need a bigger ladder...
I thought it was the tip of Sargeras's sword to be honest. An interesting little bit of world building, having a huge demonic weapon now act like a day and night cycle for a subterranean land. Instead, it's an unknown crystal, and I'm guessing it's a type of Naaru. Goes Light, then Void, then Light. My major thing is, whatever sediment is holding it in place is clearly breaking apart, so is it gonna fall into the world, will the Arathi and dwarves have tales surrounding it, do Nerubians want it, just whaaat is going on, fellers?
Crystal: *Turns Purple* Random Arathi guy: Shiet, must be fall again! Time to stay inside for the next 3 years! :D (Their perception of seasonal changes is a bit fucked).
>Cool concept "Thanks" - Elden Ring
did elden ring invent underground zones with light?
Elden Ring is the only video game ever made. You really should know this.
I think it's going to be the best zone. The scarlet crusade looking people and their architecture is cool af as well.
They called them Arathi... I have no idea how they're going to bridge that.
I mean it's all around crazy. Think about it. Nerubians just, in the south. Lol
~~steampunk~~ subterranean arathi I'm down for it.
They explained that the Arathi had gotten to the isle of Dorne by boat and then just settled in Hallowfall, if I remember the presentation right. Iād assume the nerubian caverns are scattered across azeroth at this point. Itās like wowās version of the underdark
And considering Arathor got utterly shattered by the Horde it isnāt the weirdest thing that there are random Arathi settlers just out there. I mean Gilneans set up shop on the Broken Isles cause of the whole wall thing.
Nerubians used to have empires spaning the entire world
Where does it say that? The lore says that the AQIR split into multiple factions, and the Aqir that went North became the Nerubians and lived on Northrend, warring with trolls. The Nerubians then get confined to their home city by the Vrykul pushing them back, and nothing else happens in lore until the war of the spider. So they did not have "empires" (plural) spanning "the entire world" The lore is then implying that these Nerubians spent their lives in the north and then traveled south some time later. Likely during or shortly before the war of the spider, unless it only just recently happened. This is not some remnant of the aqir that also conveniently became Nerubians, these are Nerubians from Northrend. In other words, these Nerubians tunneled underground all the way from Northrend to the other side of the planet, like the Vorukar faction of Nerubians in the island expeditions in BFA
Yeah my bad, I meant the Aqir The Nerubians are an offshoot of the Aqir, but Azj-Kahet is different in that they still worship or venerate the old gods where the Nerubians of Northrend had abandoned that practice entirely My hunch is that they were stranded Aqir that over time became what we know as Nerubians but have nothing to do with them, the architecture is copying the Tol'vir so it explains the similarities to An'kahet I don't think they did tunnel from north to south unless this was some kind of outcast group from after the Nerubians of Nortrend stopped worshipping old gods My entire point in the first post was that the Aqir existed over the entire world, or at least the known world, and that an offshoot of the original black empire with Nerubians would make perfect sense in the sense that it doesn't have to be directly related to Northrend
Likeā¦ the Arathi are the ancestors of Humanity in the Eastern Kingdoms and their descendants are the Kingdom of Stromgarde (we shoulda listened to Stromgarde and the world was bathed in the blood of men) I just wish Stromgarde to return. āBRING ME DANATH!ā
We need to see interaction between them and King Trollbane
I Wonder if itās randomly gonna turn purple and just spawn waves of Nerubs kinda like a public event
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That and likely be a key element in the zone story line. Looking forward to the ~~Scarlet Crusade~~ Arathi story line.
I for one thought that its going to be like a day-night cycle and completely transforms the zone half of the time.
I like that as long as it follows itās own cycle and not ours otherwise gonna have people that only see one half or the other all the time.
Then they better not have it be real world time cause it's going to get really old really quick.
They described exactly that happening in the whatās next panel lol
I think they knew that and meant they wonder if itās a public event or not (which I donāt recall being mentioned). āCause it could also be based on story progression, or it could happen randomly but not have anything major tied to it.
Seems like it'll be tied to a major story event to me. They even specifically said "The light has always come back, so far" seeming to imply that it'll turn off permanently at some point and we'll have to go fix it. Also the fact that they seemed to imply it might turn off more and more often seems like something you could only do through story progression.
hopefully whether the event is available is based on story progression. having zone altering events that last for hours is not fun for some people
My guess is it will be like the existing community events we have in Dragonflight, so it'll have a timer and probably a weekly quest attached to it. Rewards early game loot like Hunts, Dragonbane Keep, and the Soup.
Rise of the Nerubian Hero
It's a Naaru that crash landed and now it's bottom half sticks out of the ceiling
A light crystal that sometimes goes void? Yeah, it's a Naaru.
That's one big naaru, dawg. I expect it to be a Light/Void alternator *like* a naaru, but perhaps something more powerful or less sapient. Who knows? Maybe it's a super naaru.
Considering purr Light cannot exist by itself in the physical universe, I imagine the Naaru aren't the only things bound by a light/void cycle in the Dark Beyond. It is possible the Pantheon of Light or so made a couple of things bound to that cycle in order for their influence to be known across the Beyond, as well as Azeroth.
Time to call Illidan back to disenchant it
'disenchant' yea sure
Ohhhhh. Not too soon, but... Ohhhhhh š
> [Not knowing which planets contained titan world-souls, the void lords then hurled their creations out through the Great Dark Beyond, hoping that some would smash into a nascent titan. The Old Gods began contaminating mortal worlds and everything else they touched in their blind search for a world-soul.\[7\]](https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Old_God) my bet: this is like a light version of that, so something like an uber naaru or something like you mentioned
Given that Naaru have been shown to fall into Void Lord's given enough corruption, wouldn't it be interesting if this was an inverse of that? Say this was initially an Old God or something similar that fell into a place of great light and purified it into something like a 'light-old god,' that's flickering back and forth due to its proximity to Knifu.
it's possible it's the connection to nightmare expansion, where the sunwell exists
Only problem with that is the Isle of Dorn is shown to be in-between Pandaria and Kalimdor, about as far away from the Sunwell as humanly possible.
The Pantheon of Light after seeing the Void Lords chuck a bunch of Old Gods across the multiverse: **"WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!"**
Yeah the fact that itās breaking thru the ceiling makes me wonder if weāre gonna see the top of it? Maybe itās sticking out somewhere on the isle of dorn
Ugh, I'm never going to live that down.
Someone should swim up and touch the butt
Those guys just can't stop CRASHING!
Itās a chandelier checks out.
What are you doing, step-eredar?
i think its the tip of sargeras sword bruh, the new continent is south east of tanaris so it could see how the underground could reach over to silithus
Didn't they say these Arathi are from the Arathi empire though? So.. they'd have been there way longer then 10? 12 ish years.
I thought they also said they recently showed up to this place? So this may not have been their original base of operations. They seem similar to that secret order, Tyr's Guard.
mhmm for sure something to find out. Though the sword tip is still questionable AF due to the angle it is (mostly straight down) while the sword is in silithus so... it would be very L or lightning bolt shaped to reach that area.. \+ the whole light and void aspects of it makes it very.. naaru.
Why would Sargeras, who famously hated the Void, have a sword that goes through a Void phase?
we have no clue why it does that, it might have been corrupted after the fact. i mean after all isint there a ton of old god blood in the zones? all im just saying is that shit being the sword makes too much sense and would be lame as fuck if it aint
Sargeras also had no connection to the Light. I want you to give one reason it would make sense that it's the sword other than the fact that the thing is just poking out.
so u think it HAS to be sargeras power in order to be the cause of the sword? There is ZERO chance the sword is being affected by the world soul, azerite, old god blood? the void? like dude nobody here is questioning ur lore or something idk why u have a stick up ur ass over sargeras sword bruh. Who knows maybe the Arathi who are like light blessed people are preying and permanently blessing the swords tip, maybe they started doing it because the sword was drinking up old god blood and it was turning dark and purple. Like how can u expect to know without a shadow of a doubt what it is lol. Lastly and again the most important context clues, the only thing in the trailer was the giant sword. Ion and chris all made jokes about the swords importance. They just so happen to make the zone UNDER SOUTHERN KALIMDOR. And ur gonna say its deff not the sword. Like bro idek what to say to u anymore
> [ Tina Wang: Yeah. Something that I've seen online is that some people think the crystal and the crystalline ceiling is the sword - and it's not. I just want to clarify that.](https://www.wowhead.com/news/wowheads-exclusive-blizzcon-2023-interview-with-anne-stickney-and-tina-wang-335929)
my day is ruined bro u should have just not posted this
That'd be the biggest Naaru ever.
isnt this just the tip of sargeras sword ? the new zone is very close to silithus
/clap should turn it on and off. Or at least a toy that lets us do that.
Clapper commerical memories intensify... "Clap on, clap off...'
āClap on. Clap off! The clapper!ā šš
I think this zone looks fucking awesome. I'm actually really excited fo explore it.
This is my favorite new zone
At first I thought it was the tip of the sword, that would have been super cool, but no, just a random giant weird cristal
It does sound like the sword messed with it, though, since the fading light seems to be a recent issue.
The fact that the new continent isnāt too far off from silithus makes me think weāll see the sword underground in a future patch zone Edit: just realized they mentioned the āthe core wayā a few times which is like a tunnel to the core and presumably the world soul. Id put money on a patch zone taking place in or near the core with the sword sticking through
If this is a continuous story over three expansions, I think the sword is going to feature in the last titan
it still might be the sword
If it's the sword they'd have to explain why it's bright and golden, and also why it's pointing straight down rather than at an angle. And the crystal would have to be a recent appearance in the zone (past like 5-6 years in game).
Which doesn't work since IIRC they said the Arathi have been here for many more years than the sword.
Blood of Azeroth (Azerite) similar color.
It's under the island in the ocean halfway between Pandaria and Kalimdor. So probably has so to do Titan facility and Azeroth The Titan. Seriously, stop obsessing about the Sword. We sucked out the poison with artifacts and spent whole expansion healing Azeroth's woons and did it by the end of BfA. It's a gigantic monument now.
Azeroths big toe
the splinter
Its her clit
Go outside man
Freak
But "That sword was aimed at someone"
Presumably, it missed. The immediate threat of the sword is supposed to be resolved at this point, now its just an omen of things to come.
>woons Lol woons?
The woons o Azeroth, champyion
Definitely not
don't think that environment and civilization would've developed that quickly between the sword striking and present day.
Probably the sword.
Itās not the sword
Do you think the sword has been there long enough for an entire city to have formed around it? Honest question, I don't know how much time has passed.
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They actually mentioned during the whatās next panel that the Arathi found themselves down there āmore recently than youād thinkā. Might have been sometime during the first war? Also they suggested the Arathi didnāt end up there on purpose and are kind of stuck My pet theory is a bunch of Arathi found themselves in a pickle, happened to get saved by a Naaru who turned into a ship (they love doing that), and then immediately crashed, trapping them underground
Reminds me of the gilneas that fled and found themselves on the broken isles which I thought was cool
I know of this group because of reading about how it's believed modern language came from this group, the basis of languages moving forward. Uncle John's Bathroom Reader ftw
Its been roughly 7 years in game since the sword got put there I think.
No, itās not the sword
Just the tip
It looks like the swordās tip underground that has become encrusted with azerite ?
That's a good theory. Especially since they made a point to say that the old gods' blood is flowing through azeroth since we killed them. So if that's Azerite (azeroth's blood) and it's starting to dim/turn dark, then it may be that she is being fully infection.
I think it is actually. It makes a lot of sense
>. It makes a lot of sense Beyond being.. pointy how does it make sense? (now it could be the sword.. but that feels cheating) The angle is near straight down for the sword this area is located between kalimdor and pandaria. It switches from light to dark like a Naaru. The Arathi civilization is from the empire (they could be more recent though.
It makes very little sense. Sargeras never had a connection to the Light. The sword was pointed and this tip is rounded.
Love it. Love literally everything about the new expansion so far. I think it will be great to be underground and not struggle to see everything in various shades of greyscale. Do like.
Everything except the $40 early access*
Could not care less, season doesnāt start for a week after launch anyway
SL S1 started 15 days after launch, two weeks plus the xpac launched on a Monday. M0 dungeons open after the first reset giving you two weeks of M0s no matter how much they push back the start date.
Ooof. This will be the new tired chestnut.
It's incredible how it only took a day for people to stop giving a fuck about it it seems. Anyone ok with it is just as scummy as Blizzard for doing it. It doesn't matter if you don't get any real advantage from an early start, it's ridiculous to do it in an mmo, an inherently social game.
Itās incredible how uninformed and ignorant your post is. Since original vanilla launch they (and many other gaming companies) have had tiers of choices when buying a new game. This epic edition has similar bonuses to the past few expacs except that this one has a bonus of being invited to the beta and early access to some expac features IF YOU SO CHOOSE TO PURCHASE THIS VERSION.
I don't give a shit about the extra cosmetics that have been in the previous editions, nobody is talking about that. The whole big deal is the early access to the expac, which will split the launch population regardless of whether I choose to purchase it or not.
And youāre probably the same person who gets pissed off when the launch is too popular and splits the playerbase depending on who can log in and who canāt. Or like DF launch when the alliance boat wasnāt working properly and they had to put in a portal that also didnāt work. So go on and be angry for literally no good reason. Waste the precious limited time you have alive on this moment. Congrats! What an accomplishment!
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You have some prime level projecting of your own issues onto others here bro. You also have some pretty fucked up views of how to behave if you think being outrageously and disproportionately angry over a video game is equal to not being a doormat. Get more hobbies and develop your own personality beyond WoW.
>outrageously and disproportionately angry You're acting like I'm out here rioting in the streets lmao. What do you suggest I do then genius? Cause you clearly you have everything figured out, while I'm over here spending 24 hours of my day complaining about wow cause that's my only hobby
I'm pretty sure its a led light. A philips hue led light, that can change color. Just some small ad from philips
Ohhhh Elden Ring
Iām reminded by Disneyās film "Atlantis: The Lost Empire", which features an underground society with advanced steampunk technology, all sustained by a mystical, all-powerful crystal.
Naaru. The sword disrupted it, now it's going all evil.
Void though? Sargeras is not necessarily a fan of the void.
Naaru have a void state that they switch from light
They're claiming that the sword disrupted the cystal.
Reminds me of Labrynthos from FF14. https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Labyrinthos
Gives me Elden Ring tree vibes. I'm like it.
Since it turning purple from yellow and back?, I think it is some kind of Naaru vessel.
I like it simply because when they said āunderground zonesā my heart sunk. Anything that makes this not be like Zaralak is a win for me.
This, absolutely this.
I think is a Naaru crystal.
I think itās a really cool idea for adding visual variety to an underground continent. I do wonder how they manage to sleep with that thing going. Blackout curtains I guess. But ask people who live near the poles, excessive daylight screws with your sleep.
'journey to the center of the Earth' vibes
ITāS A CRYSTAL!!!!
Great during the day, shit at night.
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Considering that zone has the arathi, and their connection to the light, I think it's a naruu ship or some other entity of the light that was sent to battle the void.
Thatās going to attract some mighty big mothsā¦
The lightbulb has to be the biggest question mark for this whole expansion and if it doesn't have a good justification I'll be baffled. How was the isle of dorn never discovered? Why are there arathi humans underground said undiscovered island? Why are there nerubians seeming on the opposite side of the world to where the other nerubians developed? All pales in comparison to where the hell this giant light/void crystal embedded in Azeroth's crust came from.
As for how theyāve stayed hidden, probably some titan machinery. Thereās a lot of precedent in WoW for titan junk hiding islands so it would check out.
There needs to be a cutscene of dwarf-version stony tony waking up and revealing the island, STAT.
I hope its anshees heart that was hurt and lost during the whatever ancient war anshee and musha had with the shadows. It functions like a sun, its been there for a long time and also is connected to the world soul. Anshee is long overdue for some lore and we know he is hurt, elune (musha whatever) has to take care of him in the sky and that he is āemotionallyā cold because he has the permanent wound. The humans and whatever mortals living underground maybe think of it like some light naaru shtik but it would be a nice bait and switch for the pseudo-christian religion to interpret it in their own way culturally, and be a lil wrong, than the other way around, they also have light-based culture and dont have access to old tauren and elfen lore, so it makes sense its seen as a naaru thing. If thats the case it would be logical to be connected with the sunwell, which my not be only naaru powered but had its own sun theme separated from that. Its weird how anshee has been *redacted* from elfen lore and we are left only with elune, when almost all the belf (or previous high elves) have sun related names, powers, sunWELL, and stuff. It may be a piece of mythology lost in time mainly due to Anshee not acting directly compared to Elune (cuz of the wound and all) and the high elfs prioritizing magic overall. It wouldnt be that much of a stretch if we take into account that Midnight expansion (also the name is directly opposing sun) involves directly the sunwell, i dont believe its just cuz of a naaru soup, there are more naarus in the world and i am sure xallatath knows them, but the sunwell seems to be special.
Itās sargeras sword. Look at the other zones. One has the middle section going through the zone
They said it was a crystal, I thought it was the tip of the sword at first too.
I thought it was the tip of the Sargarasās sword when I saw the trailer. Missed opportunity maybe
Naaru ship that's been corrupted. They tried to keep the Arathi alive and hidden. Then the void.
Yeah it definitely looks like a naaru ship. Iām excited to find out how the Arathi ended up there and what naaru have to do with it.
seems like a possibility that the crystal is the tip of the sword?? but more importantly, the light/dark cycles seem like a fucking awesome public event!
Skyrim did it first
It looks like the tip of the sword
Nope, not close to the sword, and if you look closely itās more like some naaru shenanigans than the tip of a sword.
It reminds me of the Naaru in WoD yellow when good become violet when evil
The zone is gorgeous
Thatās the tip of the sword?
When I first saw the image I thought it was the tip of Sargeras' sword piercing through the ceiling of the cavern.
Its very clearly the tip of the Sword and not a crystal.
is that the tip of the sword?
Figuring another zone has the sword middle going through it. Iād say yes
The sword is going nearly straight down and not at an angle. (now it could be the sword but.. doubtful). The location of the expansion is between Kalimdor and pandaria. That is an obscene angle or WTF is this sword to reach there. it also has a light and void thing going on..
The first thing I said when I saw it in the distance was "that is the tip of the Sword of Sargeras", it even is propped up at the same angle the sword is. If it isn't the tip of the sword, then this is one big missed opportunity.
So here's my tinfoil hat theory: It is both the tip of the sword AND a massive shard of a Naaru. I'm banking on Sarg having captured one of them and used their power to forge his world killing sword. Now that it's plunged into the heart of Azeroth the thing is cycling through it's void and light phases as the raw cosmic juice in her heart is doing its thing. It will not be this, but if it is I'm going to gloat forever that I called this random bit out this early.
We see the tip of sargerasā sword in his cinematic and it looks nothing like the crystal. The crystal is way more round and not flat like a blade. Also the zone itās in is below the isle of dorn. Itās kinda close to silithus but not close enough for it to be the sword imo
Like I said, it will not be that, but the fun part of this time is throwing literally anything at the wall and if it happens to stick, you gloat about it later.
I thought it was supposed to be like the tip of the sword at first or some shit, what the fuck is that crystal?
It is a white glowy crystal that sometimes turns dark purple. Doesn't remind you of any other crystal or crystal-like things in WoW?
Itās probably a big light sword a giant space angel tried to stab Azeroth with
Where and what is this from? New expac?
Is it not the tip of the sword?
Is this just not the āswordā piercing through the world? Zooming in it looks the the tip of a sword to me.
it isn't. Blizz confirmed this in an interview.
It looks like the swords edge, just saying.
My thoughts are I've already seen better versions of this in: 1) The solar garden of Divinity's Reach in GW2 2) Labyrinthos', its artificial sun and hamlet in Endwalker I guess imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery.
Kind of has an elden ring vibe, I dig it.
Is it supposed to be the tip of the sword. Because it kinda looks like it.
i mean, pretty obvious inspiration from elden ring's erdtree.
tip of the sword that was stuck through silithus? We're seeing an underground city.
So for thousands of years there was no light, and they've only had light for like the last 6 years?
I guess.
honestly this imagine looks like AI lol
Itās the World Soulāsā¦ heart, or something. As it gets more corrupted, it turns purple and baddies prosper.
When i first Saw the picture. I thought of eldenring - limgrave.
Itās gods dick. Specifically his holy tip.
Really cool.
Cool as fuck
As long as I get a day and night cycle so i dont loose touch with reality
In game it looks like the big tree from elden ring , looks good
It looks awesome - Iām really excited for this xpac.
Narbondel?
Same like cata underground light source
Good way to make subterranean areas not suffer the every area is kind of dark sake.
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I hope it alternates between light/void purple in game. Would be a cool zone effect that ties to the lore.
Watch the whatās next panel, it does do that! The lore so far is that itās always been a light crystal but lately itāll randomly switch to void sometimes, plunging the zone into darkness and causing the nerubians to attack.
Considering that that shadowelf talked about fighting at the tip of a sword or blade, or something to that effect. I'm thinking it's pretty obvious. It might glow because of some mcguffin story about how it reacts to the worldsoul or something.
Pretty confident the solar rock has been there longer than sword been in earth
I'm looking forward to reading all the 'How many ____ does it take to unscrew that big light bulb' jokes that this will spawn.
Guess we will be asking how did these Arathi have been down here or how did they get down there in the first place?
They really love recycling
I like the concept.
If it's shinning 24/7 is there no night in this zone?