Warcraft FINALLY Has An Exciting Villain
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Iridikron is cooking hard - and by diving deep into WoW's latest lore, I've worked out what he's up to. If you've had big questions about where WoW's going, this is the video for you.
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To answer the question as to how Iridikron plans to bring the Titans back for his showdown with them, I think that's where Xal'latath fits into the picture. While operating as a blade for the priests, she was able to access the Seat of the Pantheon and achieve what other void beings had failed to do. Whatever the Seat of the Pantheon is, its clearly more than simply a floating councilroom because apparently its defenses are strong enough that they've remained impenetrable up until, us, the player, with Xal'latath's blade, take down Argus & activate the Pantheon's leash upon Sargeras.
She remarks with the following line: "Long have we sought entry into this realm! To think we have a mortal to thank for giving us our foothold. Your service will be remembered!" when we visit the Seat of the Pantheon with the blade within our hands.
Whatever it is that she's learned from seeing the Pantheon, she's clearly the key to Iridikron's plans.
Speaking of lines, its a stretch BUT there is a similar line that IS in the game that Xal'atath's blade whispers to the player that might be of interest.
"A corrupted corpse of a dragon... How dangerous could that be?" (at Nythendra and Dresaron). This is taken from the Emerald Nightmare raid. As an added tidbit, studying the whispers that warlocks get from the Skull of the Man'ari gives us this line when a player is within the High Mountains: "Strong, powerful, cunning. Dragons would make ideal minions if they were only more... subservient.".
Iridikron is exactly what we needed. A baddie that is smart but not arrogant.
And his main trait isn't nipples
@@Iceburg2355 *Zovaal's nipples joins the chat* xD
Who said he is a baddie? 😅
Ehhhhh i din't know if i start calling him smart yet since his plan is to fight the titans
He'll probably be the final boss of The Last Titan.
Now I need a video of the theory that has emerged lately: Xal'atath is gathering the essence of the already dead Old Gods for an unknown purpose.
The theory is that Xal'atath is gathering essence from the Old Gods, but like most of them they are currently dead, she is using other resources (time travel) to collect that essence at key moments.
- The essence of N'Zoth was collected in Battle for Azeroth, specifically at the time the dagger (Blade of the Black Empire) was used against Carapace of N'Zoth (the dagger disappears after that encounter)
- The essence of Yogg-Saron was collected in Dragonflight, specifically in Dawn of the Infinite. According to Dragonflight, Galakrond's corruption was due to the Order's powered wells being infected by Yogg-Saron.
- The essence of C'Thun is in the process of being obtained in Season of Discovery. The appearance of Shadowy Figure could be a fragment/projection of Xal'atath that traveled from the future to the past to recover the essence when C'Thun has not yet been defeated.
- The essence of Y'Shaarj is in process and we may see it in Patch 10.2.7: Dark Heart. With the theme of Timerunning: Pandamonium, it would not be unreasonable for us to return to Siege of Orgrimmar to prevent Xal'atath from obtaining the essence from Heart of Y'Shaarj.
This sounds exciting. Something that Chris might do. Let's just hope Dan Theloser don't fnck it up for him.
that would be so freakin sick
they could even tie it to the ancient one heartstone card, which was already mentioned to be canon in azq'roth.
Could it be that Xal'atath have to travel to SoD because she couldn't claim C'thun in the present due to a certain object stuck in the middle of Silithus?
I think it was clear by what blizz said that its not timetravel, its telling stories of the past that were lost. So it happened at that point, not a timetravel thing.
"please send help, I've been here for days". In the corner cracked me up.😂
If you go to Old Silithus, talk to the guy from the Thunderfury questline in the northwest corner of the map, he speaks of the Titans and the Old Gods. How the Old Gods were the creators and Titans basically cursed the land. Looking at some of the old vanilla dialogue might be worth your time.
so many years later and we're still thinking about il'gynoth's whispers. so damn cool.
Not going to lie here. I thought the fact that the Heart of darkness, and the "key" were the same thing, was pretty obvious.
I've assumed such for a majority of the lore drops but if you take Twitter seriously, the lack of reading skills becomes noticeably painful.
Are you telling me the obvious macguffin was actually a macguffin all along?
Great video, thanks! The lore of Dragonflight has gotten alot of flak but when it's framed like this and all the threads are woven together, it's shaping up pretty damn cool
I like that all the whispers and phrases about a dark heart were actually "just" about a trinket. Which is cool thats core fantasy stuff, trinkets,artifacts and weapons who are then used for something greater after infusing them with power X or who are already powerful by nature. I also quite like that Iridikron is able to disguise himself as a part of a Mountain in the new cutscene, imagine how often he was able to spy on us and others.
26:30 Titans doing Titan things, a better explanation is Giants do not recognize the concerns of ants.
Iridikron may not care he being used by the Void as tool, as long as he gets what he wants, the destruction of Titans at his hands.
You know who's the most exciting villain still alive? It's trucking Sargeras. I can't believe how they wrote him off.
From what i've gathered from Blizzcon till now: Tww: Chasing iridikron, opening a portal to the void (he succeeds) - Midnight: Void comes to wreck Azeroth, final patch: azeroth is a titan - TLT: Titans come to azeroth.
It's always really fun to look deep and speculate in rumors, hints, ingame, in books, on forums, but in the end it never comes to the complexity the lore fanbase wants it to be. It's always a blatant and easy plot blizzard chooses.
This is their fault for not including all lore IN THE TRUCKING GAME ITSELF AND part the players fault for expecting too much.
Iridrikon is unlikely to die until TLT, given his entire lifegoal is to make the titans shows up again so he can heem them personally
Iridikron does call the essence from Galakrond, “A hunger lost to the ages.”
Why do I get the feeling that Azeroth is getting pissed off at all the ruckus in her drive way and is gonna wake up and find out.
Again, you are on the right track.
Essences of the old gods is what is being collected.
Quick list of last known locations of the essences active.
Nzoth - blade of xalatath as the husk was stabbed consuming some powerful essence.
Yogg Saron - died in ulduar.
Cthun - died in classic
Yssraj - the heart being consumed by garrosh in siege of org.
How she will obtain them.
Nzoth - knife is missing, presumed to be in xalataths cult or control.
Yogg - consumed from galakrond.
Yssraj - Timerunning PANDAmonium, time walking siege of org raid in 10.2.6
Cthun - xalatath uses time travel to go back and get Cthun essence from season of discovery ( void night elf talks about her experience in DF)
I think the darkheart as it was said it older version of Dragon Soul. We know dragon soul consumed some power of the apects as a weapon againts legion. So what if darkheart is just like that but it is meant to consume old gods essence. In 10.1.5 Iridikron got the essence of yogg'soran out of Galekrond. And maybe he is going to pandaria in 10.2.7 for the essence of Yash'araj. And Xal'atath dagger has the essence of N'zoth already. So maybe she is just gathering all of the old gods essence and well as their blood to do something. It's most likely she is going to start the midnight void invasion
I believe Iridikron is gonna be "Bringer of Midnight" - and with the Harbinger (Xal) they will bring back a "New Black Empire" somehow, all out OG, Void, Disorder all bad. An army of Nerubians old and new type.
With how much stuff Tyr did with infusing dragons with various magical energies, I'm surprised he never infused a bunch with Light magic, like golden/silver radiant dragons with holy laser breath seems like an ideal weapon against Void
Abberous was not just a distraction. Iridicron sent us there to destroy any chance that he would be imprisioned again. And, we did a pretty good job.
one of the things that really stuck out for me in DiabloII was with the addition of Act five where you face off against Baal and the Archangel Tyreal had to destroy the "World stone." Would be a twist if suddenly the world of warcraft was infiltrated by the demons of hell, Mephisto, Bilile, Baal wondering if he was truly defeated, and having to repell diablo him/herself from the World of Azoroth. And if i'm understanding the lore correctly, Activision/BlizzardEntertainment could have the entire invasion of Diablo end with that similar of "it was just a dream" as while you and the forces defending Azoroth from the invasion it took another instance of the "World Stone" to be destroyed for it all to seemingly disappear without a trace.
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During legion I mained a shadow priest and I love the void and old god storylines, but two of my favorite quotes from her I only heard one time were:
"Have the naaru told you about their servants before the draenei? No? Curious."
And her mentioned the sundering, shattering and THE SCOURING which I feel hasn't ever been brought up anywhere.
My guess is that we will see both the Primus from Shadowlands and Iridikron again. The Primus had way too cool of a character model to have been a random side character.
Btw, my speculation about how Iridikron want fight Titans. Iridikron is literally the EARTH Incarnate. What surrounds the World soul? Earth. My guess is that he will somehow be able to absorb/attach(?) this earth to himself, which will allow him to increase in size to fight the Titans. By removing the "shell" we will see imprisoned Azeroth, what she is, and what to do now. Anyway, this is just my theory, let Chris cook :)
Maybe Galakrond was infused with the void by Tyr through the trinket. The void consumes and consumes without ever being satisfied, imo the big G was a void infused Proto-drake and they realized the power and size of the void after only a short immediate “whoopsie-daisy” experiment . The rage the void has against order is being reclaimed and The harbinger is now in possession of the Dark Heart and the OG essence of the void that was originally in the trinket.
Nope, you should do more reading. Loken created Galakrond at the behest of Yogg-Saron, Tyr never had anything to do with that. Tyr, in fact, was able to cleanse the water and remove that corruption....... which led to Loken trying to get rid of him.
Maybe YOU should do more reading. The reason for thr corruption of galakrond is still unknown @laertesindeed
@@KC-py5vq False. It has literally already been described in game that Yogg-Saron is the source of the corruption for the water that turned Galakrond into his monstrous form, and Tyr figured out a way to cleanse that water to prevent it happening again.....but since Loken was his supervisor and already in league with Yogg-Saron....he tried to kill Tyr and chased him south, but failed. There is literally no mystery, and no doubt, and no denying it.
@@laertesindeed All your ranting in that other thread about Iridikron being arrogant, but here you are displaying absolute unchecked arrogance yourself.
@@laertesindeed are you an absolute moron? There is zero confirmation on how galakrond turned into what he did lmao.
Xalatath chilling on the other end of the portal as he goes through,like yeee boi welcome to the dark side we got cookies.
wows lore is like having an autistic friend who goes on for 20 minutes about the process of making parmesan cheese, but you listen anyway because he's the homie. i lost interest like 10 years ago but i keep up because of my undying nostalgia for back when it was still good
Xal'atath mentioned being sacrificed once. Was Aberrus the altar? The boss room platform looks a bit like the key too.
My boy Iridikron
editor with these note :D
Really hope theres a huge lore mission line that lets me recap everything. Havent followed the story since WC3 lol
OK, somebody needs to call the police in Ireland for poor John. Apparently, Michael is holding him captive in the editing studio and making him work to hard. Better yet just call John's union rep. 😆
God I hope Iridikron pays off. PLEASE write a good villain again.
Dang, now I see that Iridrikon has the old Vykrul rigging -- makes him look too hunched for how he looks in the cutscenes 😅
a corrupted earthwarder dragon? so basically deathwing 2.0?
The fact that we have to constantly fill in the blanks in uninteresting ways and make assumptions and guesses constantly still shows me that blizzard has a long way to go before in regards to storytelling.
I think, name notwithstanding, that the Harbinger is actually Alleria Windrunner. Sleep well.
She will use the essence of the four old gods to form a new vessel for a void lord.
So Galakrond is a Primal Zerg.
16:45 what is this cinematic? from where is this cutscene?
it's not real, if you watch bellular's lore videos regularly, when talking about events not explored in-game, past or future, confirmed or hypothetical, he has a team that runs a wow private server to create and record those machinima-style cutscenes as a visual aid for the viewer
Was it void before they got all the zombie dragon energy? been seeing a lot of "Rune blade" runes around lately. Primus has some explaining to do. That thing has a soul in it for sure.
Runes are not merely connected to domination magic, just for you to know...
It's just one way to tie some kind of magic effect to an Item.
What they're referring to are the specific runes tied to necormancy and fundamentally, to dominion magic. Runes can be used across the board by different magical forces but each of them have their own markings. Its rare to see Blizzard use the language of runes from a particular cosmic force as mere decoration. Its why every new zone or magic type that gets introduced has their own design. Even within the Shadowlands, each of the zones and their population utilises different stylings for their rune workings. If you paid attention throughout Dragonflight, you can see what's Titan related and what's solely the stylings of Dragonkind, with an example given in this video where the sigils surrounding the artifact that Iridikron reveals in the cinematic are quie clearly of Dragonkind design. @@francescoporcari8597
@@francescoporcari8597the concept of a rune blade doesn't NEED to exist though. Not say8ng every example is domination magic, but the increased focus on this stuff does seem to imply a level of importance.
Imagin that Xal'atath is in reality Azeroth's dark side.
... and now I know that Bellular's name is Michael. Interesting
Rip John the editor
I’m just here for the rock dragon mount skin
The Titans are the true villains. They are attempting to order the entire Universe. Xal'atath is trying to stop them!
God, I hope they keep Xal'atath around either through the entire Saga or even beyond it.
We need long-lasting villains, not ones that keep dying after a couple patches. Gul'dan could have been amazing as the new 'fel' villain. Iridikron getting to hang around beyond this expansion sounds like it'll be really good for the story, but I'd love for other villains like Xal'atath and Azshara and Denathrius to form a sort of rogues gallery where we can do stuff unrelated to them for an expansion but also have in the back of our minds, does this fit into one of their plans?
Bell cool it a bit on that gal essence plz. After all gal was defeated by few proto-drakes who clearly couldn't even beat that one infinite dragon in that damn dungeon 😅😅
Does it?
How many of these "trinkets" did Neltharion have, that he was just using one as the key to Aberrus? Was he aware of its true potential or did the Old God taint purposefully prevent him from putting two and two together? Did he use another such item as the basis for the Dragon Soul or did he build the Dragon Soul all by hims little lonesome after using the Dark Heart as the access token for his prized lab? Was the Dark Heart tuned only for Aberrus, or would it grant carte blanche access to all of Deathwing's naughty nasty nooks? Is the Harbinger just using the Dark Heart to seek out another target cache of Aspect-level WMDs, or will it grant something more -- like pulling back Old Gods from the abyss faster than they would otherwise be able to return normally?
its me im the villainm
Is that night elf female shadow figure in the bottom right as he walks into the portal the same night elf female related to the void touched armour in SoD?
void elf, (night elf in SoD because blood elves didn't exist in-game yet) and they are both Xal'atath
I'd like to see if old gods have actually visage forms ! Lol that would be good
Really wish the DK's were involved in the decay storyline
What did we use the dragon soul for
This item is the same except it's not for the aspects of the dragons it's for the aspects of the void
the same thing void aspecs
The old gods
The thing that bothers me about WoWs story are the things in it that they clearly could make better, but they don't. Who knows why exactly, but the story of Decay and Order were very clearly in the narrative of Dragonflight, and barely glossed over. It's pretty apparent that Tyr was experimenting with the dragon's ability to take in magic and somehow he accidentally created Galakrond, or if it wasn't Tyr who did it, the Old Gods did by putting their magic into Galakrond. However, either way they never explicitly say it. Look at the crafting materials; earth, air, ice, fire, order, and decay. Decay is the opposite of order.
The motivations of the villians all make sense, they just don't tell the story that well.
Exciting isn't the word I would use. He is interesting and the potential is there but it would require post Legion wow to do something it never has done before: deliver a satisfying payoff to an established villian. If iridikron starts and ends at "ohh I hate them Titans!" And his last words are some vauge "Argh but I was good the whole time there is a truer enemy!" Then It will be very disappointing.
I wonder in shath yar if xalatath translates to the harbinger will test later
yeah this guy is cool and so was fyrak even though ppl didnt like him
Top tier wow lore content
What if xal'atath wants to use Azeroth as bait to get the titans to come back so that she can corrupt the titans
The writers accidentally made a cool and intriguing villain with Iridikron (i have no hope it was intentional). He by all accounts won DF by diverting our attentions to Fyrakk while he hanged out with his void waifu, and i hope he will be a player in the endgame expansion of TLT, give he hates Titans and the recent lore tied him with Icecrown.
Corrupt the titans with galakronds essence to make them weaker and killable?
I still don’t understand how Iridikron seems to know so much, but everyone else knows so little
Do the video on Il’gnoyth sayings
Ah yes, the story has been following a pattern since BOA.
Disc power, fill it up, fight.
ok so if you pause the cutscene at 4:26 you see in his portal a shadow of a female night elf; who would that be? its not a person from inside the cutscene'
That's xal'atath.
Not a night elf at all. It is the dead void elf body that xal'atath killed and possessed to walk around in like a puppet.
Garrosh was their perfect villain. And he was the best villain for a very, very good reason - A good number of players sided with him.
Great vid
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dont we need balance in all things? so void/light order/chaos life/death, its always that we defeat someone/thing that wants to disrupt this balance... maybe azeroth is balance and we must keep it that way... thats our job. i think...
Order is balance, and balance is order.
Seems to me Iridikron and Xal'atath are both using each other for their goals.
Soooo it's an ancient af USB?
Loved it!
Do we? Illidan was a cool bad guy. Gul'Dan was a cool villain. All Gul'Dan's chronies were pretty cool villains.
All this void / dragon / time travel / titans / old gods shit is about as interesting as elmers paste. They're like soft pastels of villainy. Every time Farak opens his mouth it's like a children's cartoon villain. I'm just not feeling it. It doesn't help that I hate the art they use for the titans. They all look like childrens toys
At least hes not just an all powerful god like being that we need stupid plot contrivances to even remotely justify the fact that we have any chance agaisnt any one of the bosses. Like im sorry but there should be no way that we kill argus or aggamar without dumb plot points and deus ex stuff
iridikron is great, yes. but we still have that shitty identity project going on over there. you know, the one that made waking shores into a disneyesque railroad of token characters and enemies turned bestest best buddies
The Jailers plan is coming together nicely
lol!
Personally, my theory as to how Iridikron plans to take down the titans is to have the void and the titans battle it out. And when both have worn each other out. Iridikron will swoop in and take them all out.
That would be even more stupid than just think that the void might consum the weakend Titans.
Fighting a cosmic force is insane, fighting two is far beyond that.
You overall can't even destroy them without also destroying reality.
So, Iridikron using the Void's own arrogance to his advantage?
Clever Boy.
To be honest its maybe better than be a slave of the titans.
24:53 "So, what does that say to me? I don't really know!" Sums up this whole video nicely for me.
I just hope Iridkron will turn anti hero recurring character in future expansions and not just "another raid boss or in some bad cases a final boss to a five man dungeon".
I hope you're right, but problably not😢
Dawn of the Infinite was just a set back!
@@Conorp77 And Shadowlands NEVER happened! NONE of my characters know anything about the Shadowlands (except for Ardenwield), and that's that!
9:57 Okay, I like Alextrasza’s new outfit, but it’s annoying that they’ve insterted it retroactively into the lore. I feel halfway like I’m being gaslit. “What bikini? She’s always worn this outfit!”
😂 It's still Danuser's writing, and he's notorious for gaslighting
Were you crybabies and social media clows who went batshit crazy about stuff office games like cubicle crawling and how sexist the game is. Then they reacetd to that, but of course you crybabies just keep crying and the social media clowns are only intereste in fake drama anyway, even if they have to make it up.
It's not that deep, it's just a more modern approach to the story telling using the current design.
@@206Zelda i dont think danuser was in charge of the design department for what Alexstrasza was going to look like in Dragonflight. his storywriting is shit but now you're just blaming him for things he literally did not have influence over as per his (seemingly former) position in the dev team
I saw iridikron walking through the portal many times and just now i saw the elf shape on the right when he walked in.
I can se Iridkron attempting to betray the void or F them over just so he can eventually kill the Titans.
Yea thats his plan, he does everything he can to bait them down to azeroth. He hasnt any allegiance with the Void.
My visions are not like the others... I see the images of the fifth old god: Bell'u-lar.
The more I learn about Azeroths ancient past and the different forces like the Titans and the Void, the more I feel like world souls are naturally, without any interference from others, elementals that contain all the the element at once. In other words, Azeroth is the avatar.
the 'Dark Heart' looks a lot like an evil version of the Heart of Azeroth
Actually it's been stated it's like a dark and more ancient version of the Dragon Soul
I’m calling it!
Azeroth is actually twins.
One corrupted and one not yet.
Why are you wearing a jacket inside?
20:10 Just casually getting a recording of the TLPD
Bro all we got was one cinimetic between then and now with this guy and we barely know anymore than we did then. Why is everybody so hyped for this guy?
They're not hyped per say. It's just that WoW has had no good villain's since Arthas and everyone is hoping he fills that role for a while.
Because it's not an immediate one-and-done villain that gets introduced and killed within a single expansion
After this video, I get more Illidan vibes from Iridikron than actual baddie vibes. Illidan was willing to embrace Fel powers in order to destroy the Legion. Iridikron is willing not necessarily to embrace, but at least use Void powers to destroy the Titans. He seemed to be genuinely disappointed that Vyranoth was no longer with him and their cause.
Is he though ?
What about Azshara? After we saved her in BFA she went throw a void portal. How can that be completely forgotten?
long as iridikron dont miss leg day like fyrakk did lol PS i love theses videos i love the lore of warcraft thank you for your research and lore studying keep theses videos comming thanks again happy new year
finally? lol.
"Plz send help, I've been here for days." Lmfao
I just still don't get why the Titans didn't just kill the Old Gods. In the old lore I know they said it couldn't be done without killing the planet. But now in new lore its confirmed we killed the three Old Gods that the Titan's forces didn't. So why didn't they just do it and save everyone the trouble.
what if azaroth was ment to be an old god. like for the fact azaroth is legit just a play on azanoth. an old god in cathulu lore. what if the titans come to this planet and whent.
you know what. lets try clensing and converting this old god to order. :P