Actually, it’s all about WoW Dragonflight and the five dragonflights and the Titans. However, there are always references to the famous Old Gods. But they are supposed to be ‘really dead’. What’s going on?
What kind of god is this? N’zoth was the big final boss of Battle for Azeroth and the last Old God left to fight after the previous expansions. In the last raid Ny’alotha, we finally extinguished his lights.
Back then, there was quite a stir about N’zoth’s end. Because there was no epic demise in the closing cinematic, but just a rather strange ‘Dragonball laser’, as MeinMMO demon Cortyn calls it.
Since then, there have been speculations whether the end might just be a farce, and N’zoth is actually still alive. After all, the Old God is the master of deception, and one can’t just dispose of him so thoughtlessly.
Where was the god found now? There are really no clear signs of Old Gods; there are hardly ever any unless you’re facing them directly. However, a player has found something remarkable on Reddit.
In the east of the Azure Mountains, there is a lava landscape where you already have to quest for the campaign. At first, it doesn’t stand out much unless you look at it from some distance.
Then it looks pretty much like N’zoth:
Old Gods – Actually all dead, but somehow not
Even if it may just be a coincidence, the image has sparked a discussion. The Old Gods are always a topic that players discuss because they somehow represent the unpredictable danger that no one can really assess.
Even before the release of Dragonflight, there were theories that the story of the Old Gods would somehow flow back into the expansion. Because some old prophecies from previous expansions now make sense.
But aren’t the Old Gods dead? In previous interviews, among others, the narrative director of WoW, Steve Danuser, confirmed that we really killed the Old Gods (via wowhead).
At the same time, he mentioned that Old Gods, just like demons and co., do not experience death the way we know it. Danuser implies that they might just return to the Void.
The story of the old gods is anyway a back and forth. In a thread in the lore subreddit of WoW, a user explains that it is changed over and over whether Old Gods are dead or alive.
Yogg-Saron, for example, whom we defeated in Ulduar (WotLK), was supposed to be really dead. However, in the latest supplementary book: “Exploring Azeroth: Northrend” it is only mentioned that the Old God is imprisoned.
Warning: But here follow some spoilers about the story of Dragonflight, specifically about the last quests of the campaign!
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As long as we live, Old Gods cannot die?
In the original thread that sparked the discussion, a user received particularly much support. AdamG3691 explains that we may have ensured in Dragonflight that the Old Gods can come back – or at least find a loophole.
The reason is one of the last campaign quests in Thaldraszus, where you must save Chromie from different timelines. One of them is Ny’alotha, where the Old Gods speak with you. Most of the time it’s just nonsense about betrayal and death – just not from N’zoth:
N’zoth looks into your mind and understands exactly which timeline he is currently in and speaks to you, tells you things because ‘he knows you… what you were, what you are, what you will be…’
By visiting this time, you have accidentally revealed to N’zoth how he will be imprisoned, freed, and ultimately die. And thus you have allowed him to start looking for a way out.
You are particularly important to him, because as long as you live, he avoids the greatest weakness of the Void: it sees all possibilities and considers them all as valid, at the cost of not knowing which one is the ‘truth’ (because they are all true in the Void). But as long as you live, [N’zoth] knows EXACTLY which possibilities are now more likely.
We may have shown N’zoth a way out by saving Chromie. Whether this will indeed happen is now being discussed by the players. Many already suspect that the next expansion will (again) revolve around the Old Gods.
Whether it will really happen, we will only find out in the future. At least we already know what the next patch is supposed to bring:
WoW: We already know the goal of patch 10.1 – Here’s how it continues in Dragonflight
