Hello everyone!
Patch 8.3 has only been up for a little bit on the ptr but some delicious lore has come
from it so I figured to make a quick recap on some of the major stuff that happened,
since there’s already quite a bit of dialogue.
Do keep in mind that we’ll be talking about future patch stuff so if you don’t want
any spoilers, thank you very for much for watching so far and please turn off the video
right now.
Patch 8.3 continues our storyline.
In 8.2 we saw Nathanos, in order of his beloved warchief lead the forces of the Horde and
the Alliance right into a trap.
In his hands we see Xalatath blade of the black empire.
The being once trapped inside has been released from N’zoth.
Plans are made, plans to have us come down there and release the old god from his prison.
Yet throughout the adventure, the horde and alliance relearn that working together is
often in their best interest.
Together they end Azshara, but despite their best efforts, the old god is still released
from his chains and not quite done yet with the queen of the naga.
All the same, allegiances are formed between team red and blue as they know that N’zoth
is out there, but they first have to focus their attention on the warchief of the Horde.
Plans were made ready for another siege of orgrimmar until Saurfang decided that victory
could be earned with one single death.
He challenges the banshee queen to Mak’gora, a battle he knew full well he could not survive,
but perhaps he could win.
Playing on her emotions, striking her harder then any blade ever could, he has her expose
herself to the entirety of the Horde.
The whole world can see, knows now, that she does not care about them.
She only cares about her own plans as she blasts off and leaves them all behind.
Those that remained loyal to their warchief find her again at Windrunner spire.
“My bargain with Azshara will yet bear fruit.
The armies of Azeroth will fight her master, and he will line their streets with corpses.
In the end, he too will serve Death.
Enough reflection.
There are preparations to be made.
Nothing lasts.
When next you see me, you will understand.
”
So where does that leave the factions?
The Horde is without a warchief, the Forsaken without a banshee queen.
Loyalists are rounded up as they say their farewells to Saurfang.
The Alliance and the Horde are going to try and keep peace going between them after this
fourth war, but as we’ve seen so...so many times before, there are usually people out
there that are not so forgiving.
Genn Greymane couldn’t care less about who rules the horde.
Let them destroy eachother from within, he wanted vengeance for what Sylvanas has done
to him and his kingdom and he didnt get it.
Tyrande Whisperwind did not show up for the siege.
Instead she remained in kaldorei lands to reclaim it, get vengeance for the burning
of teldrassil and the genocide of the night elves.
She too couldn’t care less about the aftermath or the changes amongst the Horde.
The black moon still cries out for vengeance and no treaty will be signed unless it is
written in the banshee’s blood.
Not even her adopted daughter shandris can reach her.
She begs her mother to let go of the black moon’s rage and embrace the mother’s light
once again.
For Tyrande, her vengeance will not be sated so long as Sylvanas Windrunner remains free.
So long as she doesn’t know why Elune abandoned her children.
“I failed to protect my people, but I will avenge them.”
Sylvanas seemingly abandoned the forsaken and it appears that Lillian voss still feels
quite a connection to them.
The Forsaken are torn by turmoil and doubt.
Many still love Sylvanas, even after all she has done.
Other believe their home remains in the Horde.
Lilian feels loyal to the Forsaken.
To be raised into undeath is to be forever haunted by the ghosts of your past.
A caring hand can offer comfort through the pain.
Overlord Geya’rah asks her if she’ll be the one to pick up the crown for the empty
throne.
But she will not rule them.
She’ll speak for her people on their behalf while there might be another better suited
to that task...when the time is right.
The development they gave lilian in battle for azeroth towards the forsaken is quite
incredible considering where she came from.
The name she has in mind is most likely Calia Menethil as we do see a meeting go down.
Calia wishes to honor her father who gave everything for Lordaeron to prove she’s
of the name she was born with.
Help those that feel that they’re lost so potentially we’ll see Calia pick up that
mantle of leadership and take over from Sylvanas.
I do really hope that when the time is right means they’re going to give her quite a
bit more development.
Taking over from Sylvanas is a tall order to begin with and in the case of Calia, those
that don’t read the books don’t even know what happened to her.
How there was a meeting between humans and forsaken, how sylvanas shot and she was resurrected
by Anduin, Alonsus and Saa’ra the naaru.
Ingame you would only know about her as a priest in Legion and then in battle for azeroth
she suddenly shows up her.
Not impossible to give her that rol, i’m just hoping for a bit of development.
We also uncover that the Horde no longer has a warchief, instead they’re running with
a council led by Baine, Thrall, and the others.
Not entirely clear who ‘the others’ might be, how many of the other faction leaders
are taking a seat at the council or if all of them will.
Will it stick to the core races or are the allied ones invited as well?
Not entirely sure.
I do very much wonder how Talanji and the Zandalari are going to respond to this truce.
They lost their king during the battle for dazar’alor at the hands of the alliance.
Will they just be able to forgive and forget?
Hopefully we’ll see some datamined dialogue about that real soon.
Speaking of Dazar’alor, during the raid we saw that Gelbin Mechatorque, leader of
the gnomes took quite a pounding from the horde.
Forced to use an escape pod, his body was preserved by the mechanisms but it was unlike
any magic Jaina ever encountered.
His fate was uncertain.
Good news for you lovers of gnomes out there, the high tinker is just find, standing with
Prince Erazmin in Mechagon city.
Now crowned king of gnomes, it seems that saving his life is going to play out in the
recruitment scenario for adding the mechagnomes as a new allied race.
For the Horde, the new ones being added are the Vulpera.
So that’s where the factions stand, a bit of hostility still remains, but the next big
threat is going to consume most of our attention.
For the first time since the titans bringing order to azeroth, an old god is on the lose.
Visions of N’zoth will show the old god reaching out with his tentacles, plotting
and scheming, underming all that keeps us safe.
With it comes Nyalotha, something that has been mentioned as far back as the introduction
of the puzzle box of yogg-saron.
It was always shrouded in mystery, a land where there is only sleep.
In the sleeping city of Ny’alotha walk only mind things.
A city of old, terrible, unnumbered crimes...
Yet the puzzlebox was only the beginning as more and more references to nyalotha were
dropped.
Those of you that played during Legion might remember Illgynoth mentioning it upon its
defeat:
“N'Zoth...
I journey... to Ny'alotha...”
And here we are, Ny’alotha is coming to us.
Apperantly it’s this alternate world inhabited by the old gods and their minions.
It’s all around us, just on the side of a thin veil which N’zoth is tearing down.
The sleeping, dreaming city, is the domain of the black empire.
Basicaly it’s tentacle headquarters, the thing i would have loved to see at the start
of battle for azeroth rather then the faction.
Either way, we’re going to see N’zoth’s whispers and influence aimed at Titan facilities
across Azeroth, the keys to containing, controlling and understanding the power of N’zoth. the
titans have always been the worlds last bullwark against the assault of the old gods.
And so of course those facilities are being assaulted by the minions of N’zoth.
Assaults will take place.
One in the Vale of Eternal blossoms, which after the events with Garrosh and its destruction,
has finally healed.
A lot of fans really wanted to see the vale go back to its former glory and now we will,
only sometimes it will be a bit more tentacly and purple then we remember.
When all is said and done, the vale will remain healed and beautiful.
Going back to pandaria means running into some familiar characters like the august celestials,
the stormsouts, taren zhu and even Ra- Den.
Keeper Ra once fell to despair when the titans were struck down, something that the thunderking
took full blown advantage off.
The darkness locked beneath the world also did quite a number on the keepers mind until
many, many years later we showed up and found him chained in the throne of thunder.
Per usual, we smacked some sense into him, got some pretty loots and went our seperate
ways.
Now we apperantly disturb his peaceful exile.
He does come with friendly allied mogu, even female ones which is awesome to see considering
the twin consort encounter in the throne of thunder.
These two ladies were onces said to be the greatest of the thudner king’s treasures
and rumored to be the only known female mogu in existence.
No longer, perhaps a future allied race, who knows.
So here in the vale we strike back against N’zoths minions who are apperantly aiming
for the mogushan vaults according to the presentation.
Quite a bit of titan technology that we uncovered in mists of pandaria is spread out throughout
the land.
Their other major target is the land of Uldum home to the Forge of Origination.
In ancient times this forge was placed by the keepers to help the titan spirit inside
grow, but also as a failsafe mechanism.
Incase the old gods corruption became too much, they could activate this device and
purge the world of life, give it another try.
It can be modified to hit a smaller target as they did when Lei-shen the thunderking
showed up.
They activate the device to kill him transforming the land of uldum into what we see it as today.
This forge what we stopped Elgalon from activating in Wrath of the Lich King.
This is what deathwing wanted during the cataclysm.
This is what wrathion mentioned in his research notes, a weapon against the old gods and so
this is what N’zoth is after as well.
In the lands of Uldum we of course partied with the tol ‘vir before, but Sargeras’
striking the world unearthed new tombs, from one the Amathet emerged.
You might have run into them during your island expedition adventurers.
They believe that they, stewards of the titans, should contronl the azerite.
They’ve also been constructing their own, new keepers.
Are working on rituals and all kinds of things we don’t want to happen so they as well
as the darker minions we’ve come to expect from the old gods are our enemies in this
zone.
From the testing that I’ve done so far, it feels like these invasions are still very
basic and need a bit more of development time.
Ptr will be ptr, everything is subject to change, hopefully some massive developments
are still to come.
Now by By completing these assaults we’ll earn our way into N’zoth’s mind itself,
an alternate reality that he seeks to manifest across Azeroth.
Remember Garrosh during the siege where he saw stormwind burning, his enemies heads on
pikes...it’s similar to that.
It’s what N’zoth is dreaming about, what he wants reality to be, something that could
happen if we fail.
By assaulting these visions we assault the old god wich will definatly be beneficial
along the way.
Now going inside the mind of an old god has often proven to be quite a strain on the mind
to put it lightly.
Not many can witness the visions of the old gods and still remain sane enough to tell
the tale.
That’s where Mother and Wrathion’s research comes in.
The black prince is back, legendary cloak included, which reduces our sanity loss.
Something that’s not only handy for the visions but also our final raid encounter.
The materials gathered inside the visions can be spend on mothers research so similar
to things like the chromie scenario or the treasure hunting with mists, each time you
go in you come out a little bit stronger until you’re strong enough to complete the entire
scenario.
Visions of the vale and I assume Uldum, Orgrimmar and Stormwind.
In a party of maximum 5 or all by yourself, you get to witness what life on azeroth will
be like if n’zoth has his way.
Have a thrall that drank the blood of an old god or alleria completely succumbing to the
whispers and sacrificing her own son.
Visions of what might be, i personally enjoyed things like the chromie scenario and can’t
wait to play through this one as well.
All of this leads to a showdown with n’zoth as a brand new raid called Ny’alotha, the
waking city awaits.
The sleeping city has awakened.
For the first time in millenia.
N’zoth sits on his throne within the Black Empire.
His armies flood from their dark halls, once again wreacking havoc on Azeroth.
As the world shuddrs from these invasions, a desperate plan is hatched.
Champons from the Horde and ALliance are gathered to face this ancient enemy within his own
realm for one final confrontation that will decide the fate of the universe.
12 bosses with the first one standing out right away.
Despite all his research, wrathion was unable to avoid succumbing to the madness that claimed
his father.
His model looks amazing and not too worry.
We don’t have to put him down.
It seems to be more of a smack some sense into him kinda situation as he is mentioned
later down the raid during the Dark Inquisitor Xanesh encounter:
“Release me!
Only I possess the means of defeating N'Zoth!
Mind your tone, whelpling.
A queen keeps her promises.
Listen closely, as I will only say this once.
For all his bluster, N'Zoth was ever the weakest of his kin.
One vestige of their power yet remains that can be turned against him.
I would have driven this blade into his foul heart myself... had you not disrupted my plans.
No matter.
Xal'atath is yours, mortals.
Strike true.
Should your first blow fail, you will not survive to attempt another.
“
So the bargain between Azshara and Sylvanas had Sylvanas’ champion bring the dagger
to the queen of the naga who intended to use it against N’zoth.
When he offered her the deal to save her life, to turn her people into the naga, she didn’t
have a whole lot of choice.
It was more like a life or death scenario and apperantly she had no intention of staying
loyal to N’zoth.
In the raid she’s being punished for her treachery and now hands over Xalatath so we
can supposedly use it against N’zoth.
The emply blade once again turned into a prison, you have to wonder what Xalatath is actually
doing right now.
Poor Ra-den, somewhere along the way, gets taken into the black empire where he becomes
corrupted by N’zoth.
He now works to make his master’s vision of the black empire a reality.
Ill’gynoth’s travel apperantly went just fine as the corruption truly journeyed to
Nyalotha and then we face the carapace of N’zoth followed by N’zoth the corruptor
himself.
The raid looks absolutely beautiful and of course we’ll cover all the bosses in detail
once the raid is live.
I do very mcuh hope that there’s going to be a twist along the way.
As dealing with a released old god in just 1 single patch seems to be a bit disappointing.
It has such a huge build up and the dreams of the black empire just taking over the entire
world.
Us losing, the release of the other old gods...there are so many cool things they could unleash
for the future yet the dialogue that we have does suggest that we take care of him.
Alleria and Turalyon are talking too which the high exarch asks her if the downfall of
the old god brougth her at least a measure of peace?
The whispers did not end with his defeat.
In fact, it seems new voices have joined the chores.
When I think of the nightmares he forced into my mind...
Turalyon witnessed them too, but they didn’t shake his faith in her.
Not for a moment and then they go on their job of hunting down Sylvanas and make her
pay.
Of course the future is still very much uncertain.
Who knows how exactly all of this is going to play out.
How those encounters may end.
There have even been some suggesting that what we see in the final patch is all just
n’zoth taking over our minds and we wake up in 9.0 with a destoyed azeroth.
The things the community come up with are always freaking amazing, time will tell i
suppose.
The hunt for
Sylvanas means that the story of death, that side story that’s been going on throughout
the expansion will definatly still play its roll in the next one.
Vol’jin’s spirit was last seen going into the shadowlands trying to find more answers
after hearing from Eyir, the Lich King and Bwonsamdi that someone has been messing with
his spirit.
Something pushed him to make Sylvanas the warchief and something brought him back.
The dark lady wants to conquer death.
“Azshara: Treacherous Banshee!
Do you think I am blind to the darkness you seek to unleash?”
Before the last shadow falls, the Father of Sleep shall savor his feast.
Not to mention allied race death knight models...my my...a topic we’ll cover next week as i
had the awesome suggestion of talking about what bolvar’s been up too ever since he
took the crown and became the jailor of the damned.
That’s for next week!
We’ll ofcourse cover more details on 8.3 as they’re released.
If you wonna read up on more of the dialogues that have been datamined.
For example, there’s some juicy shipping going on, the end of the fourth war has everyone
feeling frisky.
I’ll link to a wowhead article in the description down below.
For now thank you very much for your time everyone.
I asked this on twitter and discord already, but my question too you is how would you like
battle for azeroth to end?
The majority i’ve heard so far actually wnats us to lose and crawl our way back to
glory.
LEt me know in the comments down below.
Until next time....see ya!