The well-known Twitch streamer and WoW expert Asmongold is watching BlizzCon 2023 from his attic. He even recorded his reaction on video when WoW game director Ion Hazzikostas took the stage wearing a very special shirt and trolled Asmongold.
What shirt was Hazzikostas wearing? WoW game director Ion Hazzikostas welcomed the fans on-site and in the stream to the Feature Deep Dive for the new expansion World of Warcraft: The War Within.
After the first pan over the audience, he was shown for his welcome words in a wide shot. The saying on his shirt became visible: What Sword
. In German: welches Schwert
.
What sword is it about? What Sword
has been a meme in the WoW community for years. At the end of the 2016-released expansion Legion
, the leader of the Burning Legion, Sargeras, plunged his sword into the planet Azeroth.
However, the blade poisoned Azeroth, which was resolved at the end of the Battle for Azeroth
expansion in 2018: The players sacrificed their hard-earned artifact weapons to neutralize the poison. The sword, however, has remained motionless in the planet since and has not appeared in the story again.
Where does the saying come from and what does Asmongold have to do with it? Since the sword was not mentioned at all in the following expansions Shadowlands
and Dragonflight
, the community began to wonder: Did Blizzard simply forget that a huge sword is stuck in the middle of the planet? Should it stay there? Is it even a matter?
Asmongold, a Twitch streamer and WoW veteran and expert, also joined the discussion. Among other things, he mentioned that nothing would happen around the sword in the overworld: Asmongold expected at least that NPCs would investigate the blade or attempt to remove it.
In the official subreddit of the streamer, memes quickly gathered:
In fact, Hazzikostas has been asked several times about the sword:
WoW: Has Blizzard forgotten the gigantic sword? “No,” says the game director
How Hazzikostas trolled Asmongold
What happened between Asmongold and Ion Hazzikostas? In April 2022, Ion Hazzikostas visited Asmongold during his live stream. The two talked for about 30 minutes about the two expansions Shadowlands
and Dragonflight
.
The two also discussed the future of WoW Classic. Hazzikostas requested feedback from the community at that time. At BlizzCon 2023, the expansion Cataclysm
for Classic was announced.
Lastly, Asmongold asked: At the end of Legion, there is a cinematic where Sargeras, as you know, stabs the earth with his sword. And that was a long time ago, and I’m not quite sure where … where it’s going?
Ion Hazzikostas hears the question, has to suppress a laugh and responds: Wait – what sword?
Literally in English: Wait – what sword?
Neither Asmongold nor Hazzikostas can hold back their smiles at that moment. The Twitch chat is also spamming laughing emojis.
How did Asmongold react to Hazzikostas’ shirt? Asmongold followed BlizzCon 2023 from home. In his stream, he commented on the announcements and discussed them with his chat.
He started the stream for the Deep Dive
for the new expansion with a very serious expression. However, this quickly changed to an incredulous grin when Ion Hazzikostas’ T-shirt with the What Sword
saying came into view: You can’t be serious… No way! No, man, I have to get that [shirt]. Oh my God! Oh, damn…
You can watch the excerpt on Youtube here:
At the BlizzCon venue, Blizzard also set up a cardboard cutout of the sword. Below, several signs read the same question What Sword
. With this, the developers aimed to prove once and for all that they really haven’t forgotten the sword.
What do you think about it? Did you, like Asmongold, laugh at the shirt? Are you looking forward to the new expansions for World of Warcraft? We look forward to your comments.
MeinMMO demon Cortyn has gone through the different versions of WoW The War Within for you:
WoW The War Within: Base, Heroic, or Epic – Which version should you buy?
