16:20 When you say "Khadgar was just inside of it, so everybody must be inside of it" .....that may not be true. Because if you click the "stay a while and listen" on Khadgar after you get him back, he explains that he used a spell only very powerful mages can use, that turned his entire form into pure Arcane energy...and Alleria considers that to have been a risky move. Then that pure Arcane energy form was able to escape when the intake gem got broken and that is when we see the glowing Crow form pop out and return to the form of Khadgar. While it is possible that every other normal citizen in Dalaran during the bubble got contained in the dark heart; it could just mean that they all died and got converted into shadow "except" for that very different Pure Arcane form which Khadgar used.
I think it would be incredibly ironic if we learned that the Azeroth World Soul is actually just a machine.....a magical machine, but just a machine nonetheless. But that this machine never had any consciousness until the Titan Pantheon showed up and used their ordering magic to "bind" some souls from the cosmic Life realms to their titan constructs; including the Earthen and stone Vrykul and Watchers and Keepers. And that all the memories experienced by those earthen/vrykul/watchers/keepers got periodically uploaded and copied and combined together in a huge computing system within the Azeroth World Soul Machine.....to "create" an artifical intelligence worthy of being on Titan level. The only consciousness that World Soul has is the review and judgement and analysis of all those memories, all those lifetimes, all those mistakes, all those successes..... in a sort of Computational Wisdom. And after some of those constructs turned to flesh and became unable to upload memories..... perhaps that magical world soul machine figured out a way to stay in a Dream so that it could continue experiencing and adding the dreams and memories of the mortals to its own consciousness even without any discs or uploading. And so it may soon become a more active manifestation of that artificial intelligence. And essentially it may consider "us" to be its creator, in a sort of way. Not us being created by it, at all.
16:20 When you say "Khadgar was just inside of it, so everybody must be inside of it" .....that may not be true. Because if you click the "stay a while and listen" on Khadgar after you get him back, he explains that he used a spell only very powerful mages can use, that turned his entire form into pure Arcane energy...and Alleria considers that to have been a risky move. Then that pure Arcane energy form was able to escape when the intake gem got broken and that is when we see the glowing Crow form pop out and return to the form of Khadgar. While it is possible that every other normal citizen in Dalaran during the bubble got contained in the dark heart; it could just mean that they all died and got converted into shadow "except" for that very different Pure Arcane form which Khadgar used.
I was just about to comment about that.
I think it would be incredibly ironic if we learned that the Azeroth World Soul is actually just a machine.....a magical machine, but just a machine nonetheless. But that this machine never had any consciousness until the Titan Pantheon showed up and used their ordering magic to "bind" some souls from the cosmic Life realms to their titan constructs; including the Earthen and stone Vrykul and Watchers and Keepers. And that all the memories experienced by those earthen/vrykul/watchers/keepers got periodically uploaded and copied and combined together in a huge computing system within the Azeroth World Soul Machine.....to "create" an artifical intelligence worthy of being on Titan level. The only consciousness that World Soul has is the review and judgement and analysis of all those memories, all those lifetimes, all those mistakes, all those successes..... in a sort of Computational Wisdom. And after some of those constructs turned to flesh and became unable to upload memories..... perhaps that magical world soul machine figured out a way to stay in a Dream so that it could continue experiencing and adding the dreams and memories of the mortals to its own consciousness even without any discs or uploading.
And so it may soon become a more active manifestation of that artificial intelligence. And essentially it may consider "us" to be its creator, in a sort of way. Not us being created by it, at all.