Hello everyone!
The question on everyone’s mind, one of the questions i’ve heard the most during
stream, the question i’m asking for my give away over on twitter which you can enter until
the 5th of october... who is going be the big bad for Dragonflight?
Who is going to be the end boss that we face and for now we have no clue, but we can guess.
We can speculate and that’s what we’re going to do today.
Do be warned, there will be spoilers for the upcoming expansion so if you don’t want
any spoilers, this one won’t be for you.
“HEre the new age of dragons shall begin.”
Out of the replies that I got for the give away, it seems that most eyes are turned towards
Galakrond.
Gala who I hear you ask?
Gala what now...Galakrond, those big bones that you can find within Dragonblight.
Those are the remains of Galakrond and once upon a time, he was described as the progenator
of all dragons.
The one that came first, for ever resting within the dragongraveyard of dragonblight
where during wrath of the lich king, the lich king tried to bring him back.
We now know that that was a lie, continued by the aspects.
In truth, Galakrond was never a dragon...he was a proto-dragon.
Born from the elements, they were a lot more primal and less intelligent then the dragons
that we know today with something quite extrodenary happening to Galakrond.
He mutated and grew so big, so hungry that he started to eat his
own kind and in turn started to puke them up, bring them back as zombie proto-dragons
or in some cases just eat them up again.
Quite the threat as described in dawn of the aspects which we also have a machinima for
up on the channel.
To fight back and save the world, ALexstrasza, Ysera, Neltharion, Malygos and Nozdormu teamed
up with titan keeper Tyr and their union was able to overpower and end the threat of Galakrond.
In turn this opened tyrs eyes and he realised that the world could use more defenders.
So galakrond was not the big daddy of all dragons, rather he was the big threat they
overcame and in turn were empowered to become the dragons.
Our aspects with a whole bunch of their kind touched by the titanic magics, the domain
of order to safeguard azeroth.
So that threat coming back.
The thing that caused the aspects to begin with could be a very poetic ending to them
or just the expansion Dragonflight.
The beasty has been described as just being the biggest thing ever.
No dragon that kalec knew could be compared which welll....can you just imagine the room
they would have for a spine of deathwing kind of fight if Galakrond is even bigger?!
There’s also the idea of not just bringing Galakrond back, be it with a resurrection
or timetravel shenanigans, but rather deal with the thing that caused him to become so
big and necrotic and full of growths to begin with.
There are some vague lines in the dawn of the aspects book that hint at Tyr and the
keepers being responsible for this path of evolution....
We never intended this path.
Galakrond should never have journeyed in the direction he did, and we did not prevent it.
Now...now this young world faces annihilation.
It was clear that there was some tie between galakrond and this thing.
The keeper knew why galakrond had become the monster, and felt some fault at that happening.
In our seeking to guide azeroths growth as a whole, we have been too long removed from
the daily aspects of the world, too long from interacting with the life of that world.
Without guidance, events somehow brought us galakrond.
With guidance, we and your kind might be able to set kalimdor back on its destined path.
The keepers were keen on using areas like Un’goro Crator or Sholazar basin as their
experimenting grounds.
Perhaps they accidently caused Galakrond to happen and if so....could that something still
be out there?
Could we see the war between dragon and proto-dragon escelate, perhaps a whole army of Galakronds?
Honestly, I feel like this has a poetic sense to it all and could be really cool to see
play out in game but there are other options ofcourse!
The second name that I’ve heard pop up the most is Moruzond as well as time travel if
not alternate realities.
As it stands right now, Moruzond is the bronze dragon aspect Nozdormu’s future.
When he was given his powers over time, he was also shown his moment of demise to make
sure that he wouldn’t start thinking that he was above the laws of time himself.
He was forbidden to prevent his own demise to keep the timeline pure.
Someway, somehow, the tormented Nozdormu was tricked by the Old Gods into doing just that,
trying to subvert his mortality.
AS a result, Nozdormu shattered the timeways and created the Infinite Dragonflight...jeaopardizing
the very future of Azeroth.
Our infinite friends have shown up a couple of times, like when they tried to stop Medivh
from bringing the Horde into Azeroth or stop Thrall from escaping Durnholde.
They even tried to stop Arthas from going to Northrend and showed up to help Garrosh
bescape his trial and make his way to alternate Draenor.
I don’t believe they’ve given a clear purpose or motivation to the infinites, but
for a while it seemed like they were trying to prevent critical moments in relation to
stoppping the old gods.
No horde or no thrall would severely weaken Azeroth and the war againt C’thun in Silithus
would have played out completely differently.
No Arthas to northrend might have meant that yogg-sarons escape would have gone unnoticed,
but that might be looking for patterns where there are none to be found anymore.
What we know for sure is that they have no problem messing with the timeways where as
the bronze dragons, they re meant to keep the timeline pure.
You could argue that Murozond is an alternate version of Nozdormu, a future or possibility
that could happen in a timeline but wont happen to our Nozdormu.
The problem is the end dialogue they give us when we defeat Moruzond and re-open the
timeways that he had locked.
“Amenthul what I hhave seen...
Atlast it has come to pass, the moment of my demise.
THe loop is close.
My futureself will cause no more harm.
Still in time i will fall to madness and you heroes will vanquish me.
The cycle will repeat.
So it goes.”
The loop is closed, this is the moment of his demise.
The future that was shown to Nozdormu, the moment he is not allowed to change.
Which means that we still have some awesome stuff to look forward too.
Not so awesome for Nozdormu, but at some point he’s going to find himself in a situation
where the old gods get to him.
You might ask, how is that still possible?
Didn’t we cleanse the old gods of azeroth which is true, but we do have the power of
timetravel.
During one of the better leveling quests, we’ll actually go back in time and see the
moment in which the old gods ruled the world so they could use that or they could use old
gods not from azeroth but from somewhere else.
And yet...if we have already defeated Moruzond back in the cataclysm, what kind of threat
could they offer us during Dragonflight?
Well if we’re going to power Nozdormu and the other aspects back up again and if Nozdormu
does indeed fall to corruption then he would be an extremely powerfull foe with the powers
over time at his side.
Moruzond also dropped this little gem:
“Crawl unwitting like a lbind writing worm to endless madness and despair.
I have witnessed the true end time.
This?
This is a blessing you simply cannot comprehend.”
A time which was worse then the timeline in which we failed to win the cataclysm and the
old gods broke out of their prisons.
That timeline was nothing compared to the one moruzond had seen.
Was this just old god trickery, or is there an awesome, dangerous ,messed up reality which
he could take us in?
I’ve always said that even though warlords of draenor dropped the ball, the concept of
alternate realities and showing worlds with minor changes is really awesome.
Imagine seeing a world where we’re all Murlocs or the Horde never invaded or the draenei
never crashed on draenor.
This concept has been used in the books and i would love to see more of this while dealing
with Moruzond.
Personally I feel like it could be more of a beefy patch, closing the loop, securing
the timeline for us as well as Nozdormu but who knows!
Who cares, seeing the birth of the infinite dragonflight would be awesome.
As a third one and my final one for today, I want to throw out something a little bit
more random and a bit more of a stab in the dark.
If I have to compare dragonflight to previous expansions so if we link Legion to the burning
crusade or the Shadowlands to Wrath of the Lich King, I’d say that Dragonflight is
linked to the cataclysm.
The elements play a big part in the story.
Plenty of dragons going around while they’re adding a whole lot of previously unknown lore
in the gaps where it can be filled.
That bit as well as the dragon isles being hidden away since the war of the ancients,
that bit reminds me a lot of Mists of Pandaria.
Sticking with the cataclysm, we’d see a big bad dragon end boss fight like a Deathwing,
like a Galakrond, but pulling the line further into a mists of pandaria...then we’re looking
at a faction war, at taking down Warchief Garrosh Hellscream.
“Get into politics they said, it will be a fun new challenge they said”
Turalyon has been sitting on the throne ever sinde Anduin Wrynn was kidnapped at the beginning
of the Shadowlands.
They’ve decided to go with a little timeskip this time around.
Going through the shadowlands took us 2 years, similar to how long other world threats and
expansions took.
Then they’ve added 3 years of peace on Azeroth, 3 years until Dragonflight kicks off.
They don’t do this to have any major events happen offscreen, rather the idea is to give
azeroth a bit of a breather.
Not have another world ending threat immediately follow the last and maybe even have some new
characters grow up a bit and be introduced into the story.
Anduin hasn’t returned in all that time.
The effects of the jailer dominating him still linger on but the kingdom has been in good
hands with turalyon leading them.
The alliance has grown stronger, potentially strong enough to start another war.
The kick off for such a war seems distant considering theyve been at peace for the last
5 years, but just look at the history between the factions.
It doesn’t takle them much to get back at it again.
Seeing how our turalyon is alligned to the Holy Light, this could even be used as a way
to bring in Yrell from alternate draenor, continue the holy crusade story that was build
up with the mag’har introduction.
In turn his wife Alleria Windrunner is deeply into the void, perhaps a gateway for the return
of Xalatath.
Seeing how khadgar re-enters the story where as he previously dipped out because of the
horde and alliance going at eachother again.
Wouldn’t it be poetic to see Khadgar on the battlefield once more, this time to stand
against one of his oldest friends, maybe even make the ultimate sacrifice.....
I dont know, at the end of the day I just wanted to throw something else out there besides
dragons and to see the alliance fullblown kick off a faction war...
I think it’s about hightime but what about you?
What would you like to see as end boss for Dragonflight?
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