The Story of Ny'alotha, The Waking City [Lore] 

Doubtful that it's us, but there is someone I have a theory will do just that. It was her purpose from her creation.

We do get our own whispers in the raid I've noticed, which is awesome. Things like "Topple my underlings, assume their place at my side" and "All eyes are opened, yours were the first."

@@HavocHounds1988 Dont certain npcs still speak of whispers after his fall?

@@kevinsullivan5091 I believe so from what I've seen that was data mined.

@@HavocHounds1988 In all honesty, I thought so as well...she's definitely a lingering plot thread, and N'Zoth wouldn't have released her without a purpose.

Let's hope it's like that - I really wished for a black empire expansion (where we can play as servants of the old god or rebellion? Since horde and alliance are working together most of the time anyways)

What if he let us "kill" his body on purpose so his mind can occupy our body, like the titans occupied the bodies of the keepers after sargaras killed them, so he can travel with us to the shadowlands and spread his corruption there.

@@CB-nz7be yeah true ;) let me keep my hopes until it's over !

you guys are giving blizzard's writing too muh credit lul the story was mediocre deal with it

@@emetsalt2678 Story was legit trash, they're all about the pick-up-and-play EZ VILLAINS now, don't expect another Illidan or Arthas. Now players just shit on Old Gods like they ain't shit. All of the original writing talent has long gone.

Apparently lmao.

Activision Blizzard

they done my boy extra dirty! Shamefull shit blizzard ;(

I think this is a bad comparison, although i do agree that Nyalotha should have been an entire expansion. In most fact and fiction stories, beings of influence and corruption gain most of their power from whom they can corrupt. Deathwing may have been the most powerful physical being on Azeroth, but his mind was weaker than N'zoth's. And so he became the weapon in which N'zoth used to wage his war on Azeroth. N'zoth is the type of being that needs other more powerful beings that can execute his will.

@@EmilKlingberg The dude is big as few zones, tell me how is there anything physically more powerful than him aside from other old gods or Sargeras?

"How does this guy come up with this stuff?!" *Applause* "It couldn't possibly backfire or disappoint the player base in any way." *Applause Continues*

"Whoever first came up with the re-usable laser concept was a genious!" "Give the man a raise!" "Infinite solution!" "Thank god for GoT season 8 for an example how to drive years of developement into the ground within few moments!"

“Thank goodness for this Giant lasers never get old!” “ this Will surely make them forget about that giant blade in the planet “ “Bravo!”

@@zacharyortopan5645 "What if we had the giant blade also shoot giant lasers?" "Whoa, let's not get crazy here"

Special....beam.....cannnooooooon!!!

And so nobody would complete the end raid, since your character would be useless for a year....

@@EmilKlingberg According to Ion, players that die in Ny'alotha cannonically would be dead for good. Possibly not even going to the Shadowlands because it's an entirely different plane of existence than that of the Great Dark Beyond.

OMG YES I WOULD HAVE LOVED THAT!

@@HavocHounds1988 Ion says a lot of thins that do not hold water.

Honestly they should just had done the battle for Azeroth campaign differently. After the loss at Battle for Dazar'alor Sylvanas should had lost some grip on the horde. Sylvanas whould then made a deal with Azshara, when she noticed other leaders questioning her rule. Then we whould have no Nazjatar... instead we whould get the return of Thrall and Saurfang and ofcourse rescue Baine. In a act of desperation Sylvanas launches a attack on Thunder Bluff making the horde playerbase unite against Sylvanas(and one of the emerald nightmare dreams come true). But Instead of Siege of Orgrimmar 2.0 we whould get remade zones; Mulgore, Barrens and Durotar with some campaign stories and a raid leading up to Saurfang challenging Sylvanas at the gates of Orgrimmar. Sylvanas then spills the beans and flees. In the 8.3 patch, instead of N'zoth we whould end the expansion with Azshara invading and launching a massive attack on Azeroth, ending with a massive Naga raid on Stormwind. Essencialy ending BfA with a invitation from Azshara to her domain. Then instead of Shadowlands we whould get a whole new expansion called Rise of Azshara. Then they could really had made a better job at fleshing out the Wrathion stuff, given us a more indepth Nazjatar with properly fleshed out zones around it. If Rise of Azshara whould then have a N'zoth final boss they could properly fleshed it out with more then one patch.

N'Zoth: "Ny'alotha was only a setback!"* *Just as planned(?)

@@jtr7377 well he did leave roots of corruption on the emerald dream, and that is aparently conected to ardenweald in the shadowlands, woulld not be surprised to see him back.

@@tiny_tony_gaming4326 I hope so, killing him off like this feels like wasted potential.

@@jtr7377 I can hear Warhammer fans crying in the distance, but also sharing the solidarity of being disappointed by terrible writing. But truly, it was *just as planned.*

Krel Dear god yes! It’s basically that lol

I dunno man, I loved it.

I don't know, I think it was pretty baller! But then again, I just can't bring myself to actually care about N'zoth or the old gods, and thus didn't care when the events of the cinematic happened.

And I just realized I replied to you two months ago. My bad, ignore my previous comment.

@super batarang The Activision Blizzard merger was 13 years ago, stop acting like they're still 2 separate entities. It's not that Activision did X or Blizzard did Y. This is entirely the fault of Acitivision Blizzard, the Blizzard of 13 years ago died 13 years ago.

Satan is mocking you people, through games. Wake up while ye can, time is at hand. JESUS is returning to harvest the wheat. I was an atheist in 2019, I know what I am talking about, God revealed me the lies of Satan(angel of the botomless pit), which is the father of lies and deceit, Satan is not a red mosnter in hell, Satan is a spirit, like all the other fallen angels(demons). Hell was made by God to punish Satan and his corrupted angels. God revealed himself to me His Truth. Who has ears to hear, shall hear. Humble thyself, for pride comes before destruction. Do God's Will or perish, for this is what Satan tells to the sheeple: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law".

@@JoyDaz00 Fucking Lunatic...

@@vaperking1503 Satan is mocking you people, through games. Wake up while ye can, time is at hand. JESUS is returning to harvest the wheat. I was an atheist in 2019, I know what I am talking about, God revealed me the lies of Satan(angel of the botomless pit), which is the father of lies and deceit, Satan is not a red mosnter in hell, Satan is a spirit, like all the other fallen angels(demons). Hell was made by God to punish Satan and his corrupted angels. God revealed himself to me His Truth. Who has ears to hear, shall hear. Humble thyself, for pride comes before destruction. Do God's Will or perish, for this is what Satan tells to the sheeple: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law".

Truth In Plain Sight No, I’d rather perish into an infinite void than exist eternally in Heaven or Hell thank you very much

@@MidraLOFF God's Kingdom will be on earth, we will be able to be with all kinds of animals(sharks/lions/etc), there will be no more pain, lies, death, sin, or corruption, we will have a glorofied immortal body like Adam and Eve had in the beginning, before the curse of God upon mankind, as a punishment. Heaven is not a boring white place full of clouds, heaven is this life but 10x better, and God even says that no one can even imagine what he has prepared for the elect.

Hopefully we can do something about that in War Within

Lol when Magni said We don't do caution at the same time the random nelf died i died inside

@@benjamingrant6203 It was like right after, but who's checking...

he did not proceed with caution

The Remnent he’s more sphere like

It is not a story activision-blizzard is likely to tell you

@@nickc6374 he was a old god so powerfull that he could be hyped up 4 expacs and then die in one patch

@@Codexter1 He wasn't just hyped, he did a lot of shit from behind the scenes during those 4 expacs.

maybe he should have stuck to playing behind the scenes...way more menacing than what we have now...rekt in one patch by a final flash -.- talk about anticlimatic -.-

Eh, he could mean it as a figure of speech.

Children you adopt are still considered your children.

No matter the race Azeroth is the players home now

@@jase_allen big fat thumbs up for you

#racist

Well Azshara is still out there

I mean, in the WoW universe as a whole, the old gods are pretty small fish. The void isn't defeated yet, all the madness etc that the old gods bring is still around

Yea, it was fine before because we thought we had something to look forward to. now its just "Is this it? is this what i've been waiting for?"

Of equal power? They might not be...

If you can sleep through the ads Maybe😹

Bailey Gregg theres literally barely any ads tf unon

@@tristamfs3542 well I love him enough to complain about it. In my opinion you should be paid enough to not even have to get ads. Look at the company he has to put up with to put out things about their art

@@baileygregg6567 pro tip, skip adds to last 5 seconds or so of video, let it play an end, press replay, easy life. Make sure auto-play is off. Works every time lol

Ily'gonoth is N'zoth whispering

@@endofexistence2149 No, he serves N'zoth, but he's his own entity. He refers to N'zoth in the second person during the Emerald Nightmare raid.

End Of Existence you would know

He really looks like Kil'jaeden with a new skin

Satan is mocking you people, through games. Wake up while ye can, time is at hand. JESUS is returning to harvest the wheat. I was an atheist in 2019, I know what I am talking about, God revealed me the lies of Satan(angel of the botomless pit), which is the father of lies and deceit, Satan is not a red mosnter in hell, Satan is a spirit, like all the other fallen angels(demons). Hell was made by God to punish Satan and his corrupted angels. God revealed himself to me His Truth. Who has ears to hear, shall hear. Humble thyself, for pride comes before destruction. Do God's Will or perish, for this is what Satan tells to the sheeple: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law".

forreal....

Forreal...

As far as I'm concerned this expansion ended with 8.2 and the end of the war.

Agreed

Stupid weeb.

Agreed

I agree, for what it's worth

You can tell? With his extremely forced "gotta sound at least slightly cool" voice? I'd believe you if he sounded at all genuine.

He's not exactly an impartial commentator is he? Sounds so bored.

Prince?

@@samtemdo8 The musician dude; Prince Rodgers Nelson.

ReconCrusader Why? 😂😂

The black Prince indeed

Wrathion: you mad bro??

N’Zoth: *Booms*

bear asses

All the more sad that preparing has kind of been his thing for the last 10k+ years lol

Technically we only beat Azshara. The Dragon Soul and Aspects beat DW. The Heart of Azeroth and Titan tech beat N’zoth.

They do a lot of good stuff here

Blizz have always done voices so god damn good My morning alarm is Yogg'Sarons screams 10/10 alarm. would shit my pants in bed again

that was where i had heard it before. thanks

Pretty much. Magni also says Azeroth is healed an dont feel the pain anymore, which makes me wonder; did he forget about that humongous sword sticking out of her?

@@Sky_Marshal "Azeroth is a nascent titan, or world-soul, growing within the core of the eponymous planet." - wowhead. Azeroth can be healed even if the sword is still penetrating the planet. The world soul is like an unhatched chicken inside of an egg. The egg shell may be partially broken, but I believe that Aezeroth-- given that she is conscious of her existence(talks to magni, is scared of sargeras & void etc-- is ready to "hatch".

I think that's only cause they literally ripped that one old god out the planet.

Yeah, what happened with Y’shaarj was a HUGE ASS TITAN reached down to Azeroth and grabbed the old god with his THICK, MEATY FINGERS and ripped the thing out of the ground like a goddamn daikon radish. This created the well of eternity, an enormous bleeding hole in the planet. With N’Zoth, the idea is that we burned the old god down to its roots using Azeroth’s own power, simultaneously destroying N’Zoth and healing the planet without creating a GAPING WELL OF GOD JUICE.

I think that part only matters if you kill the old God on azeroth, they are too deep rooted to azeroth. but nzoth "died" in some other pocket dimension?

hajas ádám That doesn’t make sense though, just because Nzoth died in a “pocket dimension” still means the physical manifestation and imprisoned body of the old god on Azeroth has been killed. The whole point of the old gods corruption to my knowledge was that they were all so deep rooted in Azeroth physically that killing them ruined the actual planet intrinsically and not just because of being ripped out.

@@xaoc6084 the whole point of this patch was he escaped to an other dimension, the waking city? his physical body was not on azeroth? unlike other old gods he was freed from the prison

was the best raid I've played yet

The writing staff actually believed that GOT S8 was masterfully done. And you can see the paralels.

Pelagion Is that true? Because if so then... my god.

I think bringing Yogg and C'thun back _with_ N'Zoth would be an even smarter move... :)

id want to believe that,but the writers arent anywhere near clever enough for that

First of all I think it was a vision as well but I gotta say, I DONT get how people say "all those years of build-up", he has been doing shit since Cata and even WOTLK and even earlier, he has been moving things since AGES, how are people only now noticing his moves? Also Deathwing having more of a prescense actually makes sense, Deathwing has strength, A LOT of strength, thats what he relied on, Nzoth is the exact opposite, in the Shadows scheming.

Ádám Ördögh it would wild if Blizzard actually does something like that, but let’s be real; it ain’t gonna happen. N’zoth went out like a punk-bitch and that’s just how it is, as disappointing as that may be.

Yeah except the titans had been wiping them out for eons prior to even finding Azeroth, and the keepers have been studying them since they imprisoned them. Heck most of the info we have on the Old Gods in the game is provided by the keepers and their allies. And Wrathion who somehow learned more about them in like 5 years than the Keepers and Titans ever did through all of existence. And if the only reason Y'shaarj tainted the land upon his death was because he was literally ripped from the world, then maybe they could have, I don't know, had the keepers use the delete button we use on N'zoth themselves instead of just putting the tentacle bois in boxes and thinking that was good enough. Not to mention C'thun and Yog got retconned to death, literally. Meaning the keepers could have just poked them with pointy things until they died. Heck, the only reason they even killed Y'shaarj personally is because the Old Gods were beating the pants off of the Titanforged. And if N'zoth was in another realm then how did the titans imprison him beneath the sea. Where we know for a fact he was until he wasn't anymore because Blizzard takes to consistency like a cat to water. And if the Old Gods are supposedly on the other side of a veil on an already corrupted Azeroth then why not just, you know, use that one to bring about their Void Titan? Even if it does make sense in the case of the canon, the retcons and just poor handling of it make for an honestly pathetic end for the last big lore villain WoW had. Until Sargeras inevitably breaks free or we learn something about the Void Lords beyond 'they exist and they made the Old Gods'.

F to *BOW DOWN BEFORE THE GOD OF DEATH*

She's there for taking us back stronger after Shadowlands to fix the "oops we thought a vision was real" mistake people are making now...

@@backtrakk2121 This would make a bit more sense than..oh yeah old gods...all of them even though we only dealt with one this patch..yeah they're all gone after we 'kill' Nzoth.... I mean hey if it's more like we put the guy to sleep.. go to shadowlands become gods ourselves and then Chromie sends us back and we beat the ever living hell out of N'zoth for real then that's not so bad. Go to Shadowlands only to come back and find out oh hey that was all a vision... Old gods are still here Azeroth is in grave peril Old God expansion for real to follow afterlife then... yeah alright that works..I guess... and if not then idk anymore. Old Gods especially N'zoth are good at lying after all... how exactly do we know he's truly going to die... maybe Mythic will add something extra?

Grey World I dont see any threat going further than a raid and some cutscenes, but they should probable get their lore right 🤣🤣

I mean N’Zoth is akin to C’Thulu... the weakest in raw power of the old gods, does his damage through corruption and insanity... C’Thun is a far stronger old god than N’Zoth

N'Zoth is the weakest of the 4 Old Gods that were sent to corrupt Azeroth, but that doesn't excuse how bad the raid was.. He deserved an expansion at least