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The final Warbringers video from World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth has arrived, this time starring Queen Azshara. Many had hoped that her video would provide context for her part in Battle for Azeroth, but have found her origin story instead. This is, however, fascinating as it is the visual confirmation of her servitude to the Old God N'Zoth. What part the two will play in BfA remains to be seen.
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Like this secret toy in BFA
https://www.wowhead.com/item=161342/gem-of-acquiescence#screenshots
or the old god worshippers in BFA
All the old god signs in Legion and even older expansions
One of the biggest ones in Legion was priest's shadow artifact talking about their being much bigger battles than Legion and to hurry up and finish to focus on much bigger things
My guess, about halfway through an entire new land will open between Zandalar and Kul'Tiras (people discovered the old god resides right in middle of the two islands) and the black empire will be reborn. We won't defeat it, but almost certainly will kill Azshara and then next expansion is black empire expansion
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They need to use the Old God's carefully here to keep players from feeling like they were misled about the focus of the expansion lore-wise.
Even mountain of hints in BFA as well with actual old god creatures scattered around (not including worshippers)
And like I said above...priest shadow weapon artifact in legion all but gave it away with what was going to be in BFA
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However, you can't get around the fact that the hype of this expansion was focused squarely on how it would return to faction warfare. That's just readily apparent. From the now-famous BfA Human/Orc faceoff poster, to the pre-events, to the new mission table being faction warfare focused, to the entire reasoning for us doing ANY favors for Kul'Tirans or the Zandalari being to recruit them against the other faction.
That's why I said Blizzard needs to tread carefully with their role. If we once again set aside the faction wars to band together against the Old Gods, we'll definitely be feeling like Blizzard pulled the wool over our eyes in a less than exciting way.
But, I think old gods are such a big thing...probably 2nd to being that the light is actually evil and no different than the void...as seen by a naaru's treatment of illidan...
But old gods I think blizzard want(ed) to make a huge reveal out of and "surprise" everyone with it. And then lead to next expansion of old gods expansion, after battling and killing azshara.
I think that was their intent, is old gods being "SURPRISE! biggest enemy thus far of the entire game". And then they can probably say the old gods were heavily influencing the horde vs alliance conflict or the conflict was working in their favor.
Probably makes pvpers unhappy since its not a pvp expansion...but blizzard's intent was probably wanting to surprise introduce the biggest enemy of WoW thus far. And they didn't want to reveal it since they wanted it to be a "big" reveal.
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We could still be kicking each other six ways to sunday through the entire expansion, with the old god being the sort of dead mans grip.
After all the HvA conflict can´t have a clear winner.. That is the only real drawback with the online version of Warcraft in my mind. Not smart to paint half of your playerbase as having lost, having to eat that.
This have been a good conversation
My guess as I said in one of the posts I made above...old gods will continue to be a thing through next expansion and this expansion is when they (or at least one of them) awakens.
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I question the efficacy of their most recent lore-strategies. They seem content leaving huge plot holes in-game that require you to leave the game to read about and fill. They should've asked Bungie about that one and they would've saved themselves a lot of heartache.
If the Old God's end up being the focus of the expansion to the detriment of the faction conflict, it won't sit well with the general population who all went into this expansion thinking it would be the return to the faction conflict Blizzard had heavily made it out to be.
I dislike having to leave a game to understand the game's story or lore. It seems counter-intuitive to immersing myself. But again, Warcraft lore is very long in the tooth, so I can forgive it being confusing as times.
There'd be a losing side, most everyone would join the winning side and the faction imbalance would be insane. The cries of favoritism would be at an all time high. One side is gonna be filled with angry posts. And it probably actually really truly would kill WoW.
Or no one wins, and its a waste of everyones time and no one comes out happy either. Though 100 times better than a true winning side...just be super boring and lame when no one wins.
Hence why can never have a true horde vs alliance expansion...
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