Hello everyone!
The 8.2 ptr is live as well as being datamined and some juicy lorebits have come to the surface.
Some of you have asked if I could go over some of the highlights, so that’s what we’re
going to do today!
The war campaign left us with Derek Proudmoore being saved by Baine and returned to Jaina,
this betrayel was uncovered by the warchief who shot zelling and imprisoned baine.
News of his coming execution reaches both the alliance and the horde and they set out
to save him.
Even in before the storm we read about baine trying to keep negotiations going between
the factions.
His actions with Derek have some wonder if it’s going to blow up in his face later
down the line, similar to what happened with warning about the mana bomb, but i really
really hope not.
It would devalue so much of that beautiful mini cinematic if it turns out that he messed
up again.
So baine being baine has people motivated to go out and save him, The long awaited return
of Thrall is going to be a thing, he’s part of this rescue mission together with Saurfang,
Jaina, Lor’themar and shaw.
Baine is seen as some of the last bit of honor the horde has left.
If he dies, then the last of the Horde’s honor dies with him, murdered by the banshee
queen.
Surprise, surprise, Baine was being used as bait.
The warchief expected us to come for him.
Sunreavers show up, remembering the purge of dalaran and the innocent sunreavers that
were slaughtered by the silver covenant.
“There was more violence than I had wished, jaina replies, but it was the sunreavers who
betrayed us, first.
A few who were following the orders of their lawful warchief, as they do now.
Repeating the story of mists of pandaria while also referring to mists of pandaria, it’s
very meta.
Saurfang also makes a comment about the death of Rastakhan, something he’s not really
down with.
All the same, baine is saved but it will take some time for his rebellion to kick off, maybe
the spirit of voljin can give him some pointers.
In the meantime the leaders see that the alliance and the horde can work together.
A lesson that comes back nearly every single expansion and once more we’re going to put
aside our differences to focus on the big bad.
Our way there begins with Sylvanas learning something as they described it in the rise
of azshara content preview.
I imagine this has something to do with the new blade in her possession.
She prepares her most powerful forces and the fleet to go out at sea, the alliance spies
find out about this and plan to make use of the oppertunity.
On the open water the alliance vastly outnumber the horde, they could end this war once and
for all.
The horde thinks the same, the dark lady has devised a plan to finally put an end to this
ridiculous conflict.
But our journey out on the sea puts us in the domain of the final warbringer.
Azshara parts the sea, with the use of the tidestone of golganneth.
This was one of the pillars of creation we went after during legion.
The naga themselves also wanted it, were even kind enough to put it back together, we took
the restored artifact and used it to seal of the gateway at the tomb of sargeras.
Apperantly nobody really considered putting guards around the area as azshara says “They
seek the tidestone, but i will not leave it unguarded as they so foolishly did.”
With the waters parted our ships crash down, enter Nazjatar.
The first thing that immediately stood out while checking the eternal palace dungeon
journal was the name Lady Priscilla Ashvane.
Not exactly looking the same as the last time we saw her, that would be when the Horde broke
her out of prison, Tol Dagor, right into the hands of the banshee queen.
She used to run that prison, but her schemes against the proudmoore family were exposed
and the alliance imprisoned her.
The freedom given by the horde was done for an unknown reason as the warchief and priscilla
dont exactly let us in on their secret meeting.
They have mutual interests to discuss, next thing we know, she ends up in azshara’s
palace.
Now keep in mind as with all things we’re talking about today, this is datamined dialogue,
things are subject to change and some things might not work out the way they look right
now.
Ashvane: We had a deal, Azshara!
Give me the power you promised!
Azshara: Oh, I intend to.
I merely wanted our guests to bear witness to your glorious ascension.
Ashvane: You... the ones who thwarted my plans in Boralus.
But no matter.
A new path now lies before me.
A magical barrier surrounds ashvane, one that we shut down.
Without it, she’s not that much of a threat.
Ashvane: Alliance...
Horde... fools, every one!
Fighting each other, blind to the true powers at play.
But you'll learn soon enough.
Ashvane then demands azshara to hold up their deal which the queen of the naga does.
Not in the way that priscilla invisioned of course, but power is granted all the same.
How long I've waited for that.
Is this true power?
Puppets... fools.
The Banshee baited you... to your own slaughter.
Gave Azshara... what she wanted.
N'Zoth will rise... his madness... comes...
Ashvane spoke with a serpent's tongue, but... could she be right?
Were we lured to Nazjatar as part of some dark bargain?
Are sylvanas and azshara in league with eachother?
Is the warchief truly so desperate to succeed in her plans that she would be bargain with
an old god?
Perhaps... but like i said, the alliance and the horde decide to do the thing that the
old gods fear most, put aside their differences and focus on the real threat.
Make allies out of some of the denizens within nazjatar and siege Azshara’s palace.
Azshara does not seem to be too worried about us.
Anything we do in her domain, she knows about.
The heart of azeroth, she feeds upon to empower her spellwork.
The king of diamonds been made a pawn.
She shows us visions of n’zoth rising and there’s even a little recognition for shamans
that wield her artifact.
So the tidestone is what’s keeping the waters away and azshara will keep the water up for
aslong as we entertain her.
That’s not really a good position to find yourself in.
We need to get it back, but she was smarter then we were.
It’s encased in a magical protection which can only really be broken with the javelin
of suramar.
Heroes obtain it, alliance and horde working together to take it back and wield its power
to open the way into the palace.
Lor'themar: The Horde's champions will drive every last naga from the palace.
Azshara will pay for what she's done.
Jaina: Alliance heroes will dethrone the would-be queen.
We won't seek a fight with you, Lor'themar, but we will not abide interference.
Jaina: You can't stop us, Azshara.
We are coming to end your reign.
Azshara: Stop you?
My dear child, why would I want to stop you?
Azshara: Consider this a formal invitation.
My palace has been made ready.
Your presence is eagerly anticipated.
Azshara: So many wonders lie in store.
Such... magnificence.
For now the dungeon journal mentions that “Queen Azshara will use all of the forces
at her command to disable the ancient wards keeping us alive while attempting to override
the titan device keeping N’zoth imprisoned.
That seems to be the ultimate goal.
N’zoth wasn’t too worried about us during the crucible raid.
We seem to be playing into their hands, be it with the heart of azeroth turned against
us, be it with the conflict between the factions.
Azshara mirrors this, is also not too worried about our presence in her kingdom with the
end result of course not being revealed quite yet.
For now it seems to go towards N’zoth being released and being the next big bad.
Lor'themar: Our victory rings hollow.
Azshara's master will rise.
Nothing can stop that now.
Jaina: For all her lies, Priscilla Ashvane spoke one truth.
The war between the Alliance and Horde has kept us distracted.
Divided, we have no hope against N'Zoth.
Lor'themar: We may have found common cause here in Nazjatar, but the battle still rages
beyond these waters.
So long as Sylvanas holds Orgrimmar, there can be no lasting peace.
Jaina: The war needs to end, Lor'themar.
You know this to be true.
Lor'themar: I had hoped that reason would prevail.
But the time has come to finish this.
Lor'themar: I will tell my people what transpired here.
Of how Azshara fell because we stood together.
Of the threat rising from the depths, and all that is at stake if we should fail.
Lor'themar: Then I will take my place beside Saurfang and Thrall, and pray that the sin'dorei
stand with me.
I’m still keeping my fingers crossed for a nice surprise.
Maybe all the old gods rising up and bringing in the rise of the black empire, that would
be so cool as it could also play into sylvanas’ motivation of staying alive.
Being manipulated by the old gods finally revealed, now able to take a stand against
them, leaving orgrimmar to find her ultimate destiny.
The end of the expansion is still a mystery, but to see so much repeated from mists of
pandaria is really disapointing.
Ahwell not much we can do it about it now.
Atleast in 8.2 we get see the beautiful nazjatar, mechagon and some really cool small stories
attached to gathering new essences for your heart.
Some other nice tidbits from the datamining would be shandris feathermoon looking for
the spirit of her brother.
For those unaware, she lost her family during the war of the ancients and was then adopted
by tyrande.
Her family has never really been explored in detail, seeing the elves return to areas
where their lives began is really, really cool.
Same goes for Thalyssra who’s seeking an old pupil which turns out to be the first
boss of azshara’s eternal palace.
I wonder if Tyrande and Malfurion are going to make an appearance...time will tell!
For the last bit of the video I want to take a look back at the whispers of illgynoth.
A boss of the emerald nightmare raid in legion.
It had quite a lot to say to us, its whispers being pretty vague but now becoming a little
bit more clear.
Flesh is his gift.
He is your true creator.
The curse of flesh placed upon the titan creations
by the old gods to make them weaker and more volnerable to their corruption.
The king of diamonds has been made a pawn.
From the earth, he draws strength.
Our earth.
Our strength.
Repeated now by azshara.
Magni’s hard work at trying to heal the world with the heart of azeroth turned against
us.
The lord of ravens will turn the key.
Five keys to open our way.
Five torches to light our path.
Xalatath calls us the opener, the bringer of truths, the torch that lights the way.
I would still connect this with the events of legion.
Khadgar, the lord of ravens guiding us to gathering 5 pillars of creation.
These were used to seal of the gateway at the tomb of sargeras, but also lead into Illidan
opening up that massive rift.
Pretty much opening the door for sargeras to grab his mighty flamy sword and stab azeroth
causing azerite to pop up all across the surface.
This in turn lead the a rekindling of the alliance and horde conflict as well as Magni
having us fill up the heart of azeroth which is turned against us.
It’s a long road to be certain, but at this point in time I don’t have a better one.
The boy-king serves at the master's table.
Three lies will he offer you.
I think there’s little doubt remaining that the boy-king is Anduin.
We discussed this back then and some got really excited about anduin manipulating things and
working from the shadows, but it seems like the three lies are more in the direction of
him thinking something is the truth while it’s not.
Ogmot’s journal found on a rare spawn in silithus mentioned that the first of the three
lies had already been told.
“Bound by dat throne?
No.
Free.
Free!
Da next gonna come soon.
Maybe dey see dis one.”
Whispers and such are still very much up for interpetation.
Some suggest that this is about Sargeras and the pantheon, personally i think it has more
to do with sylvanas.
Maybe in the direction of believing her to be a warchief of the Horde where as she’s
more a free agent working for herself?
Who knows.
Turning in Xalatath has sylvanas mention how the boy king has lied to himself and his people.
The Alliance believes that by striking down Rastakhan and decimating the Zandalari fleet,
they have broken us.
That the Horde will soon crumble.
Fools.
He hasn’t the faintest inkling of what he’s truly up against.
war is a living thing.
It writhes, it grows, twisting and turning until its final form is revealed.
This war is about to shift yet again.
And it will be this blade that guides our way to victory.
So that leaves the question, has the third lie already been told or is that still to
come?
The serving at the masters table seems to be more about unwillingly playing into the
hands of the old gods rather then being one with the void.
To find him, drown yourself in the circle of stars.
At the end of the crucible raid n’zoth says that his dream has become our own.
The circle of stars made flesh.
There’s also the part in azshara’s warbringer where she’s slowly sinking.
To find him, n’zoth, we’re going to see the waters part themselves, drown ourselves
and make our way to nazjatar.
There Azshara wants us to come.
Come, heroes.
Prove yourselves worthy.
Find me... in the circle of stars.
Her heart is a crater, and we have filled it.
I’d say the corruption of the titan spirit inside of azeroth,the heart of azeroth.
Its surface blazes bright, masking shadows below.
Old gods imprisoned beneath the world.
At the hour of her third death, she will usher in our coming.
I was really hoping that this would connect to alleria windrunner, losing one of her family
members and falling to the void.
Now knowing that at the end of azshara’s palace there’s no stopping the return of
n’zoth...I wonder if they mean azshara.
There’s a line for Thalyssra in which she says: Azshara.
She sacrificed her people twice over.
Once to the Legion.
The second time to N'Zoth.
Maybe that’s what they’re going for here, or maybe the events in the palace are going
to mean another cataclysmic event for azeroth itself.
The sundering, the shattering, the nzothering.... but yeah always fun to look back at these
whispers and see how many ideas and theories have come out of them.
By all means if you got your own ideas on what they might mean or where the story might
go next, leave it in the comments down below.
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