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So had a 17 druid and a 13 orc shaman on the quest 'hidden enemies' alongside the one quest where you kill the lv 14 quest mob in the cave near orgrimmar. They were saying how I was probably too low level to do this quest while I was in there as we were clearing out the mobs along the way.

LITTLE DID I KNOW what would happen next.

They jumped onto the quest mob with 8 other mobs surrounding him.

Shaman was dead in less than 5 seconds

druid was dead in 12 seconds

and I was on the elevated cliff just staring jaw dropped in what I just saw.

There are many ways to go, but that one was 100% avoidable.

Ended up looping around the other way and got the quest done by clearing everything around him.

So as we approach the 2nd half of midnight, with the final patch more than likely being at the wolrd core against Xal'atath. *With her being sucked down into the sunwell and all* something came to my mind and that was 'damn we're going to the core in midnight? So Azeroth gets corrupted or whatever?"

But then I thought...What if Azeroth isn't corrupted, but we defeat Xal'atath, free Azeroth, and we're like 'hip hip hooray! Azeroth is free!' only for the context of '...Oh crap we free'd azeroth from her prison.'

Now why do I think about this in particular? Well since the start of War Within. There has been a bit of context clues being thrown around here and there.

The Rage of Azeroth

This has been popping up time and time again. Whenever you went into world soul memories in War Within. There has been a specific language used in Azeroth's memories when you are starting to get affixes. "Azeroth's rage, torment, anger, ect." and in every one of these memories, they're considered 'traumatic events in azeroth's memories.' to be remembered. So re-awakening those wounds causes her to lash out at you the player.

The discarded diamond king for the true speaker of the world.

In War Within, Magni is discarded by Azeroth in both a literal and verbal way. At the start of the expansion, Magni has made it clear that Azeroth hasn't spoken to him in quite some time since the defeat of N'zoth. Abandoned. So why would Azeroth just ditch him? Because he fulfills the titans wishes, he is a speaker of the world. But a flawed one at that. So who's the new speaker if not him?

Iridikron

When you fight Iridikron in the Dawn of the infinite, he somehow got in contact with the Infinite Dragonflight. When you fight him, he is for some reason the strongest enemy you've ever faced. Only able to merley stun him for a brief moment and not even hurt him for the most part. Getting hit by any of his attacks is instant death, to the point chromie has to speed you through expansions to even hurt him. Iridikron is the new speaker of Azeroth. Doing what she wishes, as he will break her chains, and gain the ability to kill the titans, an shared goal between him and the world.

The Rift of Aln and the violation of Azeroth

So from what is gathered of the Rift of Aln and the Undreamt god. The Removal of Azeroth from Harandir was violent. Traumatizing all the wild life and driving most people insane that go to the rift of Aln. To the point that when we kill the undreamt god, he is relieved that there is silence at long last.

The Betrayal of the Aspects

During the final battle with the Old Gold General with Tyr, there is a specific detail shown to the titan keeper. The corruption of the aspects. Neltharion becomes Deathwing. Ysera becomes Nightmare, Nozdormu becomes Murozond, Malygos becomes insane.

Alextraza...Becomes corrupted? Well that's oddly weird because it didn't happen at all during Dragonflight. But also, why is Alextraza not participating in the events of midnight and such? Because she heeds the call of Azeroth, not the titans. She is being told to wait for the final pawn to play.

Xal'atath: The final pawn.

She opened the way to where Azeroth lies. Now we rush in to stop her plan, I will not be surprised if Iridikron shows up to help us in this final moment. Only for the truth to be revealed that he just needed a way to reach azeroth. To break her prison once and for all, that will lead us into the Last Titan expansion. The cleansing of the planet. I will not be surprised if the remnants of the old gods/titans help us out in this expansion due to the fact all of us are going to be in danger of her.

Xal'atath made a deal with Iridikron. Just she didn't think that Iridikron would be the one getting the last laugh of this alliance.

So sharpen those axes, go full zug zug and for da horde. Cause much like all the other titans. They fulfill a aspect of creation in the Cosmos.

Azeroth will be the Titan of War

Context wise: I did the dungeon for uldaman and realized I got 0 quest objectives done. So I was wondering, if these quest weren't here. Where were they? Well I learned quickly they were outside the dungeon so I thought to myself 'why not just go inside?'

Spent a considerable amount of time down there *Wager an hour and a half?* and sweated bullets during the solution to doom quest down there. Overall left the mines with a hefty amount of XP.

It's a little funny. Got bored on retail one day and decided I wanted to give hardcore another go with the mental state of 'ima die eventually. Just here for the short time'

So I gave paladin a shot while avoiding it like the plague everytime I played.

Well..The paladin is now the furthest i've gotten healing/tanking dungeons and doing elite quest.

And now i'm about 17 levels higher than my previous character I had, slowly reaching the end game....And now I realize I lack knowledge.

So I am curious what situations I should look out for?

So recently i've been getting into hardcore, and i've been taking my time exploring the world of warcraft in its original form once more and I gotta say. For the need to want to put the WAR back in warcraft...There is no war in classic. Just a world that is living in the moment.

For me, the world feels like the world that came after the war. The scourge, the horde, alliance. All of it feels like people trying to live in the everyday after it all.

I think the thing I found most interesting is that most of the world is you reacting to the situations that have already happened, while in retail you are reacting to the situations in the moment.

There's something special walking through a place already destroyed by another faction. You aren't the village, you are there to clean up what's left of it.