Return of the Void Masters (Patreon)

Intro:

“It rips. It tears. It is boundless and eternal...the Void, it hungers!”

— Dia Darkwhisper

“In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war.”

World of Warcraft Edition (Warcraft LOGO)

We must start at an unusual place today, for our theory to make any sense I would like to take you to the world of Warhammer, yes, I know World of Warcraft and Warhammer aren’t the same game but the truth is, that before Blizzard made WoW they were set to make World of Warhammer but thanks to Games Workshop, some greed and bad judgement they decided to give the licence to Mythic Entertainment and Blizzard was left having to adapt their original idea which then birthed the World of Warcraft and StarCraft.

It should come as no surprise that the father of WoW, Chris Metzen was and still is a huge Warhammer fan, so the story has a lot of influences from the Grim Dark Fantasy.

“Death crept nearer, and the Void called out to Alleria, begging her to give over her soul entirely and become a manifestation of power even greater than her sister. It was tempting. Oh, it was tempting. Abandon your flesh, came the whispers. Abandon your flesh.”

— Shadows Rising

We start our journey in the Warp, the immaterium. The warp or Chaos as it is widely known is a realm that exist alongside reality but is largely inaccessible to mortals considering they are of the materium, and the realm consists of the immaterium. For a creature of the Warp to manifest it requires an incredible amount of energy and effort and the Chaos Gods rarely if ever find their way into the Materium realms, instead they use proxies, mortals who become vessels for their dark goals and schemes. You can already see the similarities to the void in the warp. For a mortal entering the realms of the Chaos gods is nearly impossible, they can fight the mortal beings within the warp, the demons and the fallen ones but to face a Chaos god would largely be folly. If even possible at all.

This again rings true for the Void of World of Warcraft, we can fight the creatures and machinations of the void but to face a void lord, inside the void would most likely be impossible. We are made of matter and the void made of nothingness; it stands to reason that should we enter the void with no magical protection we would simply disintegrate into nothingness.

In Warhammer, Chaos is inevitable, the void feeds on the emotions and souls of the Materium, all emotions, all actions, all souls upon death enter the Warp and it is here that the Chaos gods find their substance. Trying to stand against Chaos is therefor not a question of winning but rather of postponing the inevitable for a little longer.

The void I would argue very much operates on this very premise, it cannot be destroyed, it cannot be defeated, for the Void time has no relevance, it will beat us, or it will outlast us but, in the end, everything will return to the Void, or so they claim, the question I wish to ask the in-today’s video is, who created the void? Who are its masters and can we have any hope of standing against it.

"Five Lanterns Now Darkened, The Flame They Seek Shall Light the Masters Way."

Who are the masters of the void, in a word, I have a crazy theory and you’re not gonna like it. Let’s start by looking at the Infinite Dragonflight. A Peculiar Dragonflight indeed, you see the power of the Dragonflights are largely the knowledge of speculation, we know they are powerful but just how they control or amass this power is largely unknown, a popular theory for me is a sort of cycle, a closed loop that ensures the power is ever growing. The Aspect of a Dragonflight is powerful due to the blessings of the Titans, yes I have a problem with this theory but it’s not important now, the brood or the flight gains its power from the aspect, in turn their power again is transferred to the aspect, so the more powerful the aspect the more powerful the brood the more powerful the brood, the more powerful the aspect and so on and so forth. Destroying either the aspect or the brood will have dire consequences for the Flight as a whole.

I believe this to be the reason why Neltharion or Deathwing was so keen to experiment on the different Dragon Aspects including his own brood. He was looking to create a Dragon Aspect or Dragonflight that would be powerful, without the need for a brood or a connection to an aspect, he came quite close to this with the Chromatic Dragons, sadly their instability would be their downfall.

The Infinite Dragonflight is another, NEW Dragonflight whose origins are largely the stuff of myth, we know the father of the infinite is Nozdormu or Moruzond as he would become but this is where the time stuff gets rather weird. Moruzond has not been created yet, as far as we know but since Nozdormu has power over the timelines, he created the Infinite Dragonflight in the future and they have been traveling back in time to destroy and disrupt the timelines to snuff out all Dragon Aspects and to create a singular Dragonflight, the Infinite with their sole Aspect, Murozond. Murozond and his Infinite Dragonflight serve the Old Gods or the Void to be precise and it is here where our theory begins to take shape.

The whispers of Xal’atath and Il’gynoth provide quite a bit of clarity and more than a few questions around Dragonflight. According to the Old Gods

"Five keys to open our way. Five torches to light our path

"Five Lanterns Now Darkened, The Flame They Seek Shall Light the Masters Way."

We know that during Dragonflight the Aspects and the flights will once again seek to re-establish their connection to their ancient power, what if this is the moment of the creation of Moruzond? The void continually speaks of the Master, the opening of his way, now there is a play on words here, is it the Masters as in many or the Master as in one? It could be either but if it is Murozond, this makes so much sense, a creature set to destroy all timelines, to destroy all reality and bring about nothingness, a creature whose soul purpose is the destruction of material. The Dragon that feasts upon the world.

What if, the master of the Void, the creator of the Void, the Old Gods and the creatures of Shadow, is none other than Murozond? Obviously there are many reasons to doubt this theory and chief among them is that the Titans speak about the Void as a primal force of the cosmos, however like in Warhammer, the Warp wasn’t always hellbent on the destruction of the Materium, in fact for a long time, the Immaterium and the Materium coexisted quite peacefully, then came the War in Heaven which turned the Warp in Chaos and created the Chaos gods, so what if this too is true for the Void, at first the void was the simply the realm of nothingness, the realm the opposite to creation, when things died or ceased to exist it would go to the Void but the creation of Murozond turned the void into an enemy, into a force that sought not only to play it’s part in the cycle but a force which sought to overthrow it and subdue it, to ultimately consume it.

As with all theories this is mine and you will have yours, I would love to hear it in the comment section, thank you so much for watching and please remember to hit that Like button, hit the sub button and click that bell. To all the Patrons, Twitch Subs and YouTube members, thank you for your support, for exclusive behind the scenes content and podcasts, join Patreon today. As always, be kind to each other, be good to each other and I will see you all, in the next one.