I love these types of quests that leave the doors wide for speculation to run rampant!
When in the world does the interaction between murloc Alexstrasza and ours take place? I can’t believe I missed that. If it happens right after that quest is turned in then probably 99% of players also missed it because of how incredibly laggy and crowded the area was in the beginning. Yet another demonstration of how poorly implemented that entire event was.
The quest that Ellemayne gives has her say:"Nice world. No Legion. No fel. If you can, send help. Suramar, ask for Tyrande."That is, I believe she is directing you to her timeline's Tyrande at their Suramar, not sending you to our timeline's Tyrande.
I wish we got to actually explore the timelines a bit. I had hoped, when first hearing about the feature, that we'd go through a portal to Argus Portal style reimaginings of old zones redone to match the timeline - like Scourge Stormwind, Fel Barrens, Void Redridge, etc.Now I'm just hoping we eventually get an expansion agnostic "Timeways Torghast" roguelike that uses chunks of old dungeons, raids and zones and has us fight mobs related to each of those zones to earn cosmetic rewards, and hopefully a bit of alt timeline lore along the way.
This gives blizzard so much to work with, should they choose another WoD style expansion. If they do, I just hope they don't go about it in the same manner.
Some of the ideas I had from the rifts.Azmourne occurs because the Lich King wins atop ICC. He gets the world's greatest heroes to reach him, only to kill then all and raise them into the best death knights ever. The Player charater is one of them and gets a re-courrupted ashbringer hence why it's one of the bosses in the rift.Warlands books make me think that arthas is stopped at dalaran in Warcraft3. No legion summoned so the horde and alliance lose the most important team up in their history. Alliance probably has bigger holy light influences like scarlets/argents, as well as better relations with High/blood elves. Not sure what the horde does to fight against cenarius without demon blood.
Maybe it's too simple, but for ulderoth couldn't it simply be the case they didn't stop at pulling out y'shaarj and did the same with the other old gods, in that sense killing azeroth but solving the problems. Also love my ancient one hearthstone inclusions
There’s a bit of a pattern with all of the timelines: with the exception of Azmerloth, they are all showing symptoms of cosmic imbalance that has corrupted or killed the World SoulAzerwrath, Azmourne, and Azq’roth are all totally corrupted by Chaos, Death, and VoidA.Z.E.R.O.T.H and the Warlands aren’t as obviously corrupted but they’re showing evidence of an excess of Order (total mechanisation) and Light (the Great Glorious Alliance’s zealotry)And this would answer Soridormi’s musing about Ulderoth’s World Soul: Life has gone berserk in that timeline, and it’s either corrupted the world soul into a giant Sporemound, or it’s consumed it, similar to how Life acted on Draenor before it was ordered by AggramarAnd clearly, this all means the great cosmic threat of What Is To Come that the jailer warned us about is actually murlocs.
tbh the time rifts cannot have any lore implications, They are locked into being a fun activity of what if's and AUs, but can never touch the main story or else Blizzard has completely jumped the shark. You thought you were mad about Shadowlands retcons, just imagine what happens if there's actually 8 wrathions to deal with, or whatever. Never, never allow them to take any of this AU time stuff seriously. It's cool and fun, but the moment they try to fit it into the cosmology everything falls apart just like WoD.
TECHNICALLY, the proper name for the language that Murlocs speak is Nerglish, as it's an underwater tongue that's also used by the Makrura. It sort of functions like a 'Low Common' for underwater races, so it's possible the Kelfin, the Ankoan, the Sea Giants, and even some of the Naga can speak it to some degree. This is opposed to the upper class Nazja, which is spoken primarily by the Naga and descended from Darnassian, the language of the Night Elves.
If Azerwrath can happens it's either a retcon of the single Legion from WoD, or rifts are only gameplay mechanics with no canonic involvement. I'd prefer if it was a retcon, hence the Draenor from WoD wouldn't be a real timeline, juste a mere pocket inside our own, which would explain why it's the same Legion between our two universes.
Ulderoth might be a 4th Wall reference to us. Our world did, at one time, have large beasts ruling it similar to Un'Goro and Sholazar Basin after all. :)
Ulderoth's troubling secret is simpler than you guys are thinking, IMO: birthing the World Soul killed all intelligent life on Azeroth.
People saying murlocs are the seventh power of the cosmos, i disagree.. they are just tiny creatures and not representing any kind of new force and i personally find this kind of speculation just sad and pathetic.. they are clearly only in the official story for comical purposes. Like the pandas in Warcraft 3. Oh noo..
