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World of Warcraft: The War Within has a new cineamtic trailer featuring Xal’atath, the new Earthen Dwarfs allied race, and – through featuring Faerin Lothar and the Orwenya so heavily – very heavily hinting at Arathi half elf and Harronir playable options in the new WoW expansion. Taliesin and Evitel look at the new trailer and uncover the secrets within
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Azeroth looks like it becomes a sun.
"Azeroth isn't a Titan"
100% agree here. I think a "Titan" is a World Soul influenced by Order. The Cosmic Forces in WoW are just fighting over Azeroth trying to influence what she will be, and I think the ultimate story is Azeroth's push for self-determination.
The idea of Xal being Azerothian is interesting. It makes me wonder if she is a "champion" like our characters, but from the Black Empire days as opposed to the TItan days our characters come from.
If Xal is not a void agent/god/power, then she is for sure the dark side of Elune. Her dark half that was discarded by Elune in order to ascend to godhood. Classic mortal to god ascension story. Xal calls her an upstart goddess with disdain in her voice. Remember how the night warrior looks (has cosmic void tattoos all over).
She is using us to smack around her Void bosses, so she could dive ass first into the sunwell and turn it into the Voidwell .
Harronir, cross faction new playable race, with one new special class like the dracthir, based on life magic, would be amazing like, but do doubt thry would throw us that curve ball.
my first thought was "is blizzard implying that Xal'athat is the narrator for the first WoW cinematic????"
The Old Gods are the Old Ones.
The Void Lords are the Outer Gods.
Xal'atath is Nyarlathotep, imo.
They didn't give us Walrus boys when they had so much data already to make them. Why would we get these!
Im so glad i discovered you guys back in Legion, because your consistent joy over new WoW stuff mirrors my own, and that makes me happy. lol
And also you're a normal, not insane person on Twitter, which was a relief.
Wonder if we will help Azeroth choose which archetypal force (light, feel, arcane, etc) she will identify with. Perhaps she will choose to be one, or a combination of them. Maybe…all of them? Maybe she will chose one we don’t particularly like. Would be cool if the player could “choose” which she chooses, but impossible to implement that in game. Maybe the final raid is us fighting back the forces she does not want from reaching her.
Ok I’ll stop now.
“The drums of war thunder once again” is a maiev line from the original trailer! Missed that the first time
Arathi are for the horde calling it now…
What If.. All the forces of the universe COMBINE inside Azeroth?! And she becomes something New, something More?!?!
It means Asmongold lives rent free in this dude's head
I love the look of the warrior/paladin, her armour goes so well with her skin colour, and the artists really made her look like her 'disabilities' have only made her meaner. 🤣
My theory is that when Azeroth wakes up cause of all the forces fighting over her and putting their energy in her that she will have aspects of all of them and be balanced and none of them get what they want. That or she will wake up without being influenced by any of them.
let's just hope they won't drown it with boring "find your place, find your identity and frienship is maagic" crap like in DF
rat man
Xal'atath playing 4-d chess while Jailer playing checkers on a tic-tac-toe board
As cool as all of this is, I hope we return back to smaller stories that feel more personal. Tried and true fantasy stories of magical books, swords, kingdoms at war with one another, etc.
It's a question about who went rogue, I suppose. Did Xal'atath overstep her role to the Old Gods, and get punished for trying to claim what they were fighting over? Or did she serve the cause of the Void faithfully, and the Old Gods wanted to do their own thing? On the one hand, she always betrays her masters. But, if the Old Gods had worked together to corrupt Azeroth, rather than fight for dominance, they'd have succeeded before the Titans arrived. So were they actions against the Void's will… Or did Xal'atath play them against each other?
1 second into the video: Classic click bait Evi
10 seconds into the video: SHE'S ALIIIVE
You know… Anduin should marry this Lothar girl and take her surname 😂
Maby Azeroths world soul will be special like her denizens where unlike other worlds she gets corrupted by all the cosmos
Xal'atath is the wife of Locus Walker, the one that helped destroy their world.
One reason why Faerin might look diabloish, I'm pretty sure they used Prava's model from D4.
The Drums of War thunder once again. Callback to the vanilla trailer, incredible vibes
What if Xal'atath is azeroth sister. Xal'atath rule the void, and want to rule with her sister, but the titan are trying to turn azeroth is the light, and have her fight again her sister. 2 ex. Azeroth and Xal'atath teams with Iridikron to fight again the titan.
How is it seem everyone else gets to try war within but not me must be nice ive yet to get excepted to a beta been playing since BC and not a single beta .thats why im always behind evryone else they know already were to go wat to do were i have to gues
Psh… everyone knows Anduin’s going to end up Wrathion 🏳️🌈😍
Your obsession with race is kinda racist. 😅
Wait… Did Xal'atath narrate the original vanilla WoW opening? It's the same voice!
I almost feel like Xalatath is being set up to be so powerful she can break the fourth wall.
Learning that Claudia Christian is voicing Xal'atath may have just decided whether Im re-subbing for this expac or not.
Unpopular Opinion: Id rather Xalatath survive and be the final antagonist of The Last Titan. The last boss of The War Within should be Iridikron, her otherwise partner in Dragonflight.
I really like the release date. I'm going to be on vacation that week…and that week is my birthday, and Tactical Breach Wizards drops that week.
I'm going to be eating good that week.
Shadowlands is hot garbage but that trailer of the sky shattering still gives me chills.
I hope they dont make the one armed lady anduin's lady interest. I kinda of expect it as it ties the to people groups together and of course it checks political boxes. Just hope they do something else and they just keep them friends or even a mentor relationship.
I find it a bit disconcerting to hear evi but not see her anywhere.
WoW on Gamepass would be awesome. I'd way rather pay $16 or $17 a month for all of gamepass than $15 just for wow
Super crazy theory…Xal is actually the "Blue Child" and she finally gets to be among the mortals. 😅
Also. Azeroth herself is the child of light and shadow, a world soul that was exposed to all the cosmic energies who will bring balance.
In addition to the phases of the moon/eclipse vibes, cosmic cycles and orbits, I think the orbs at the end are also meant to evoke an imagery of EMDR, or even classic brainwashing techniques like we saw in Avatar when they got Jet in Ba-Sing-Se.
Xalatath is a tricky, psychic villain so using this sort of magic is a perfect fit.
Claudia has come a long way since her Babylon 5 days. She had the occasional monologue there, too. I'm looking forward to much more Xal'atath in the coming years.
Maybe Xal'atath is the Void incarnate, something beyond Void lords, Void gods, or the Old gods. Maybe she's got all eternity to wait for Azeroth's soul. Maybe this really is Azeroth's true Apocalypse between the Light and the Void.
Anduin’s gonna marry Wrathion
Anduin is not going to have her as a love interest, he is royalty in a midevil fantasy setting… he will marry a secret 1st cousin and make us all as uncomfortable as a human parent walking into Tauren Cheese shop with a female propieter and our child asking "Is this ALL yours!" aloud.