"Were they truly ignorant of that which lies beyond the waves."Possible unknown continents confirmed?
"chained the five evil gods"Wait wait wait ? Five old gods ? Meaning Xal'atath or there's an unknown one ?Anyway, Neltharion seem a lot under N'zoths influence writing his notes
I'd be interested to see if this is before or after his corruption, because this certainly does not read the same as the Neltharion from the cinematics; there, he appears reluctant and almost desperate before he unleashes the power of the Void on the Primalists. If he was already enthralled by the Black Empire and the Old Gods he would have gone full Skeletor right away.My thoughts are: using that power for the first time planted the seed, and bit by bit it devoured him inside-out. These notes come off as a cultists ravings, not a scientific explorer or historian musing.
There is that mention of a fifth old god again…….interesting that they made a new book, wrote notes in it but left the mention of a fifth old god….will be interesting to see if this get changed before the patch goes forward more or it there is a bit of a surprise in our future. Perhaps Avaloren will be revealed to contain an old god or the dragon isles are hiding an old god jail and that’s how Neltharian discovered them and was the beginning of his corruption
I don't know if this is trying to be yet more of Danuser's "the universe is made up of thematic robots and 3D printers and it's all morally grey" recontextualisation of the cosmos... or if it's trying to be a self-aware satire of a redpiller Deathwing complaining about the matrix in a lore blog post (because that's how it comes across). Ah yes, the Old Gods are just misunderstood, going mad and killing your people and everyone is such a non-evil thing to do!
For anybody wondering about the "fifth Old God", it's G'huun. Yes, he came into being as a result of the Titan's experiments, but in WoW lore, G'huun is still an Old God. No mystery here, sorry to say :(
Also funny to consider that Kalimdor might have another name.
I disagree with the notion that this was written by Neltharion, the author of the notes clearly is speaking of events of the Titan attack on the Black Empire from the perspective of someone who was present. As ancient as the aspects are, they are not that old. Unless this is written through the hand of Neltharion while completely possessed by an Old God, which has never been suggested previously, then it seems far more likely that the author is an Old God or a top lieutenant and the book was given to Neltharion. The only line that reads like Neltharion is the comment on the first page about failing to see how they were being undermined by one of their own, which could be self referential. It seems unlikely to be a reference to Sargeras as he did not undermine them at this point in the history the book is talking about. So does it refer to someone else?
I hope that's not supposed to be Neltharion. The tone feels so petulant.
I'm loving these comments declaring that the 5th Old God must be G'Huun.A) G'Huun is a titan experiment, which means the Titans needed a reference to even make G'Huun in the first place to try and understand the Old Gods. Locking G'Huun away does not mean the usage of "chained" implies accuracy, and the fact that this is a recount of past events mentioning the citadels of the Old Gods ---> Black Empire. Not G'Huun.B) They clearly say "chained 5 evil gods". Do people not remember how both Yogg and N'Zoth were very clearly shown to be bound by chains/have chains in their prison shattered (I know C'thun didn't but it was vanilla, and we very clearly know he was in the same vein) and that G'Huun very clearly isn't?It's almost like we forget that Xalatath exists and we still don't know WTF she is.
Anyone confused about the fifth old god, it's just cuz Blizzard copied the text verbatim from Wowpedia, which was never updated to four old gods like the in-game version of the book was.As for the annotator, I don't think it's Neltharion, I think it's the person who was transcribing the book on his behalf.
