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Hello everyone!
Patch 10.0.5 brings us a new primal storm event called the Storms fury.
Brewing within the primalist future, their strongest forces are rallying to preserve
their plans to dominate Azeroth.
We need to gather our fellow adventurers to seal their portals and defeat their mighty
monstrosities.
Head into this alternate reality to earn ourselves some rewards, a timeline in which the primalists
have won.
This did get me wondering, what exactly do we know about the primalists so far as the
game hasn’t gives us a whole lot of story about them quite yet.
That’s what we’re going to talk about today.
“The elements have granted me the power I need.”
The primalists, short and sweet, are followers of the Incarnates and one interview even has
them described as followers of Galakrond, but I haven’t been able to find anything
ingame to support this.
To talk about the incarnates and their view for life on Azeroth, we’ll have to go way
back in time.
All the way to... well... the beginning really when a miraculous new world was taking shape.
Deep within this world’s core, the spirit of a mighty and noble titan stirred to life.
Azeroth it would one day be called.
As the nascent titan developed, elemental spirits roamed across the world’s surface.
They ruled the planet and loved keeping it in constant chaos.
The presence of the fifth element – Spirit – affects the disposition of these elemental
beings.
A world with an overabundance of Spirit may give rise to native elementals who are passive
and lack physicality.
On the other hand, a world with too little spirit may birth elementals who are highly
aggresive and incredibly destructive.
The growing world-soul was so vast that it had drawn in and consumed much of the element
of spirit.
Without this primordial force to create balance, Azeroth’s elemental spirits descended into
chaos.
Fire, earth, air and water – these were the forces that lorded over the infant world
with 4 elemental lords, Ragnaros, Al’akir, Therazane and Neptulon... powerful beyond
mortal comprehension, they reigned supreme over innumerable lesser spirits.
The elemental spirits appear in an almost infinite variety of shapes and sizes.
Each of these creatures has a distinct personality and temperament, traits that are heavily influenced
by a spirit’s elemental nature.
A shaman communicates with these elements and asks them or bargains with them for their
assistance.
On the other side of things, we’ve also seen the elementals abandon mortals due to
their actions.
Just think back to the orcs embracing fel magic and abandoning the elements.
It wouldn’t be until Thrall when the first orcs started to wield the elements again.
So the elements and the elemental lords partied upon the surface of Azeroth and life was good
for them for a while.
Yeah it was a bit chaotic, they’d fight eachother, it was a bit primal, keeping that
strife going... but they were free as huge mountains were crashed upon by massive tidal
waves.
Tornados and firestorms racing across the surface.
The world was their domain, their playground... until the coming of the old gods...
“Old god evil laugh”
These creaturse of the void had been send out by the voidlords across the universe in
the hopes of landing on planets which housed these titanic spirits inside to corrupt them.
A lot of the old gods landed on empty places, but a few of them hit the jackpot like the
ones that crashed on Azeroth.
After millenia of apocalyptic battles between the elemental lords, they now faced a new
war, one against the so called black empire.
For the first time in Azeroths history, the elemental lords pooled their powers together
to get rid of this invasive force.
Yet for all their fervor, the elementals could not topple the black empire.
No matter how many of their forces were slain, more and more would spawn from the old gods
putrid forms like larvae from a hive.
They enguled the land like an unstoppable pestilence, shattering the elementals forms.
In the end, the old gods enslaved the elementals and their lords.
Perpetual twilight descended upon azeroth and the world spiraled into an abyss of suffering
and death.
Or so the history books tell us.
Their freedom was taken away as now it was the old gods that ruled the world.
Not forever though.
Azeroth would eventually be discovered by the pantheon, other titans who were on a quest
of waking up more of their kind and in the process bring order to the universe.
Where as their brother Sargeras thought that there was no saving worlds infected by the
old gods, the pantheon were not ready to give up quite yet.
They went to work cleansing the world, their phenomenal cosmic powers being so great that
they could simply rip out the old gods and be done with it.
But that would also do massive damage to the titan spirit inside.
Instead they decided to work a bit more delicate through created keepers who would fight the
war for them.
The arrival of the titan-forged caught the old gods completely off guard.
They reeled in response to these stone and metal-skinned invaders, but they were determined
not to lose control over Azeroth.
To reassert their dominance, the old gods called upon their greatest lieutenants: the
elemental lords.
The enraged elemental lords and their minions beset the titan-forged on all sides.
Ever wary of fighting a unified elemental army, the keepers resolved to divide and conquer
their enemies.
Ultimately earning victory and although the elemental lords had been defeated, the keepers
knew that they could not utterly destroy the beings.
The spirits of the elementals were bound to Azeroth itself.
If they were killed, their corporeal forms would simply manifest again in time.
So instead imprisonment was the way to go.
Four interlinked domains within a pocket dimension known as the elemental plane were created.
The elemental lords and nearly all of their servants were banished to their own enchanted
prison realms.
Ragnaros to the Firelands, Al’akir to Skywall, Therazane to Deepholm and Neptulon to the
Abyssal Maw.
Then it was the old gods turn to be defeated and imprisoned.
Some machines were put into place to help the spirit inside grow and with that the titans
job was done.
Onwards to more adventures as the spirit would grow, leaving behind their keepers to keep
an eye on the planet.
So the elements moved from enslavement to the old gods to now banishment by the titans.
The domain of the void wanted to control them and so did the domain of order.
Not all the elements were neatly locked away though.
When the keepers had sealed off the Elemental Plane, some stragglers had escaped banishment.
The fury of these spirits had ebbed over time, and they had become creatures of flesh and
blood.
It was from these former elementals that some forms of wildlife, such as proto-dragons,
came to be.
The origins of a razageth, but also alexstrasza and the others lies with the elements which
brings us a bit closer to the story of Dragonflight.
One of these proto-dragons known as Galakrond drank from the forbidden bathwater and evolved
into a huge threat.
At the titan facility of Ulduros or Tyrhold as we call it, there are the Halls of Infusion.
We read that waters with the eternal essence of Azeroth flowed here and that somehow the
old god Yogg-saron managed to compromise the living waters which triggered the evolution
of Galakrond into the monstrosity that was puking up his own kind, spewing out necromancy,
growing a whole bunch of eyes until ultimately the union of keeper Tyr and the now Dragon
Aspects managed to take him out.
This opened Tyr’s eyes to the idea that the world of Azeroth could use more defenders
then just the keepers.
Alexstraza, Ysera, Neltharion, Malygos and Nozdormu were empowered to be the first of
Dragonkind with more proto-dragons to follow.
In turn, those waters were used by Tyr to infuse the dragons not with void magic like
Yogg-saron had but rather with Order Magic to keep the dragons neatly alligned with the
mindset of the titans.
So... similar how the surface was taken from the elements by the void and then the titans,
so too were these waters transformed in its purpose.
One has to wonder if the dragons actually know that they have been manipulated even
before they hatched...
“We need not fight another war.
THere is still time to see reason.
Time is precisely what you stole from me.
Thousands of years, rotting in that prison.
I failed then to restore peace between us.
Too many paid for that.
SPare my your sanctimony!
You forced the titans edict upon us all.
You betrayed the world that gave us life and when we dared to resist, you cast us out.
NEVER AGAIN!”
Not all the proto-dragons embraced the will of the titans and that’s the root of the
conflict we see in Dragonflight, the history between the aspects, the dragons, the incarnates
and the primalists..
“When you think about what the primalists are driven by, they have a valid point.
THeir entire phylosophie is rooted in the idea that dragons should not be touched by
outside influences.
They should be free to be their own beings and not be changed by the magic of the titans
for example.
That was a disagreement at first and disagreement lead to conflict and conflict lead to war
and what makes someone a villain is not necesarly the idology they have all the time.
Sometimes it can be the actions they will take in service of that ideology.
So with the icarnates, even though they started in an understandable place, they’ve done
some very nasty things throughout history and we will learn more about that as the story
unfolds and we will see that they started out with those relatable intentions but ended
up in a place that the aspects really had to fight against them for the sake of preserving
not only their own kingdom but azeroth as a whole.”
Those chapters of history between the primalists and the dragons have not been transcribed
and so far we’ve been getting little bits and pieces with details but still a lot needs
to be fully explained.
We know that where the dragons joined team titan, the incarnates and the primalists did
not.
And who can blame them?
We’ve seen that Keeper Tyr was not opposed to experimenting with proto-dragons, trying
to find a way to bring them in line.
Perhaps Tyr was even responsible for giving Galakrond his necromantic powers, but regardless...
no was not an acceptable answer to him.
The might of the incarnates was so great that not even the so called empowered aspects were
able to take them on.
Neltharuon had to rely on his mindcontrolling gauntlet and dracthyr forces until those failed
him and he had to fall back on the powers of the old gods.
In turn, the incarnates allied with the Djaradin and seeing how they were able to give the
empowered aspects such a fight, you have to wonder where all that power came from.
Is this just what proto-dragons are capable of without the influence of order or did they
find their own sponsors to help them out like the elemental lords perhaps?
“Of the three that remain, Vyranoth and Fyrakk were ever loyal to the Incarnate’s
ideals.
But it was Iridkron who truly embraced the war.
The last captured and the most difficult to contain.
At the end, he struck terrible bargains to keep their cause alive.
His violent desperation makes him dangerous.
I believe the other incarnetes never knew the true depths of his depravity.
“
With the terrible bargains kept in the shadows and the details of the war still unknown,
all we can say for certain is that the incarnates and the primalists were a huge threat for
the dragons.
So much so that 3 of them got their own prison balls within the vault of the incarnates and
then Razageth, the youngest of them within the froststone vault on the Foribidden reach.
All of this took place over 20.000 years ago and to the question...
“if they were so dangerous, why were they not destroyed?
I hadn’t the heart to do it.
We were once as clutchmates.”
The queen of the dragons had hoped that time would quel their fury, but instead Razageth
and their kind spend the years that followed seething, burning for revenge.
All that was unknown to the rest of the world though, this history was kept between the
dragons.
No chronicles, no ingame books, not a hint or whisper of the incarnates being out there
and yet we see the primalists lead by Kurog Grimtotem instantly rise up and know exactly
where to go.
They know exactly what to do in order to unleash Raszageth which is interesting.
Perhaps what ever surge of elemental power which awoke the dragon isles also gave her
the power to communicate with Kurog.
She wasn’t entirely cut off from the world after all.
“The brood of neltharion, I felt his demise reverberate through the earth...and reveled
in it.
”
We also know that Kurog was once the prized pupil of Magatha Grimtotem, and Magatha is
the murderer of Cairne Bloodhoof but also a follower of the Farseer during the events
of Legion and an incredibly powerful shaman in her own right.
She’s managed to not only manipualte heroes but also the twilights hammer and last we
saw of her was in the fascinity of the doomstone.
An magical device capable of absorbing and amplifying elemental power.
That’s quite a while ago by now, the worlds been stabbed, healed and we partied in the
afterlife.
Now we see the rise of the elements and no magatha to be found anywhere yet her student
leads the way for the primalists.
“Ow mistress of the storm, the primal powers have risen to set you free.”
After partying on the Forbidden reach and liberating Razageth, they move out across
the Dragon isles.
At the waking shores they’re busy infusing dragon eggs with primalistic might and trying
to stop the black dragonflight from depositing their eggs at the ruby life pools.
Even going as far as infiltrating the ruby life pools themselves with the aim of stealing
their eggs and infusing them with their own powers.
At the Ohn’ahran plains they’re lead by the night elf Koroleth and they’ve teamed
up with the Nokhud centaur to bring down the green dagonflight and gain entrance to the
emerald dream where sometime earlier, Tyrande, Malfurion and Merithra hid away a seed infused
with the spirits of the fallen kaldorei.
Uncertain what the seed will grow into, most likely a tree but we don’t know quite yet
or what the primalists wanted it for, but safe to say that it holds great power.
Koroleth is slain at the end of the zone, leaving us to wonder what her story was and
how she got to be with the primalists.
She has a scar on her face, perhaps one from the burning of teldrassil, but as I said,
we can only wonder.
In the Azure span they’re after the magic wielders, those that throw around the powers
of the domain of order, something the primalists can not abide.
All of that came together at Vakthros where Razageth herself tried to rip all arcane magic
out of the tower so she could destroy it.
We stopped her and yet the storm still lurks around the place.
I imagined that she wanted to destroy the tower to deal damage to all of the azure span
and yet Kalecgos and the other aspects wonder what else she could be after considering the
prison of her kin does not lie within the Azure span.
Perhaps the tower will play a more significant rol in the future.
Then the infiltration in Valdrakken and THaldrazsus.
Not just outside forces that have made their way to the dragon isles team up with the primalists.
Right here we realise that those who have called the isles home for millenia while the
aspects were away, do not rejoice at the return of the titans minions.
They too want to see the incarnates released and get their wish fullfilled.
At the end of the vault of the incarnates, after pushing our way through more primalistic
forces, including Kurog Grimtotem himself...Razageth is defeated but her siblings are set free.
“Sister, what have they done to you?
Her death demands vengeance!
All who betrayed dragonkind to the titans will face our wrath.”
And that’s pretty much where the story of the primalists left us so far and as you’ve
probably picked up by now, there’s still a bunch of gaps and history left to be explained.
At face value things are pretty simple.
The world of azeroth has changed over the years and the primalists want to return to
the days of old, the days in whcih the elements ruled the world and yet the details, why certain
characters want this to happen.
What about the elemental lords.
What about Magatha Girmtotem.
What about the shamans of the earthen ring and what kicked all of this of?
Those details still need to be explained and while I doubt the storms fury event will do
so, i’m still hoping that somewhere in the future we are getting that story.
At the same time there is an interesting discussion, an interesting point of view story being build
up.
While their methods might be questionable, there is definatly an argument to be made
in the favor of the primalists..
From their point of view, from the elemental point of view, how much different has existance
been between being enslaved to the will of the old gods and being shackled by the will
of the titans.
More and more information is revealed which shows that the keepers don’t always share
all information, like the advancements of the black empire being scrubbed from the history
books.
Dragons are being manipulated even before they’re hatched, do they know this?
How do they feel about it.
Somone like Wrathion, who was also planned to be used even before being hatched, could
sympethise with the viewpoint of the primalists.
Going fully back there is doubtfull.
The world has evolved over the years, but perhaps a compromise can be found instead
of just wiping one force off the battlefield and the world turning as it always has.
That’s future story though, for now you’re up to speed on the story of the primalists
so far so thank you very much for watching everyone!
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