The LIE Everyone MISSED! – WoW Dragonflight – Lore and Speculation (Patreon)

I think its fair to say that the Void in World of Warcraft has always been a bit of a mystery. Not just the void but the cosmos itself. We first learnt of the Cosmos in WoW Chronicles where the Titans gave us this MAP! It didn’t take long for me and others to start diving into theories of what it would mean for us on Azeroth, now having to contend with powers not only known but also unknown.

In a recent video I theorized on the possible master of the void, or the creator of the void and it’s fair to say that many people pushed back on this idea. I am not going to go into detail on the theory so for a complete overview I would highly suggest watching that video before diving any deeper into this one and because I am a nice guy, I will link the video in the top right-hand corner.

The theory is Simple, Murozond, at his creation in the future, goes back in time and creates the void, a power so incredible that it seeks to consume all life in the Great Beyond. This theory makes sense because the goal of the void is aligned extremely closely to that of the Infinite Dragonflight. Murozond, once Nozdormu has power over all the timelines of the universe and we know the infinite Dragonflight seeks to eradicate all timelines until Murozond is the only Aspect left.

So, we reach the first point of contention, Murozond creating the Void would diminish the void. To this, I think many people misunderstand how this creation takes place. In the video, I make mention of the Warp and the War in Heaven in Warhammer 40K as a reference for how this can happen.

To go further let’s first look at the Void. The Void sees all timelines, all events and unlike the Light views it as truth. To the Void, the timelines aren’t possible realities, they aren’t things that happen in isolation, they are all strung together and even if we stop them in most of the timelines all they need is ONE, if they succeed in at least one timeline then they will inevitably win in all of them, due to their power over the Timelines thanks to Murozond.

I wish to focus a bit more closely on this timeline business. I have spent so much time thinking about this and how to explain it, so here goes. The void claims that all truths are true, that they see all truths and believe all of them at the same time. This is a problem, what about conflicting truths, what happens when they encounter a truth that shows them winning but then also one that shows them losing? To any sane person, these two thoughts would not be able to exist in the same mind. I argue this contradiction stems from a misconception. We hear truth and we take it literally when it should be taken more broadly. The Truths the void refer to are timelines, they can win in one timeline and lose in another and so both truths are fundamentally true and since it doesn’t matter which timeline they win or lose in, it all ultimately work in their favour. The Void therefore isn’t limited to a single timeline but instead exist in all timelines simultaneously.

The Timeline in Warcraft can be viewed as a line, think of a string with two ends, one end is the beginning of all things, the moment of the creation of the Great Beyond. Before this point there was nothing and nothing had ever existed, after this point in the timeline we deal with known history. The other end is the End of all things, the moment when it all comes crashing down and the Universe returns to its state of Nothingness. I think you can start to see where we are going, can’t you? No, ok then, let’s keep going.

The Truths or Timelines lead to our next clue. In the beginning the Titans tell us that the universe started in an ocean of Light that expanded outward and that the Light and Void clashed to create the Twisting Nether. To understand this a bit better we need to go to the most recent explanations for the cosmos we got from the Brokers in their Grimoire of the Shadowlands. The forces of the Cosmos aren’t allies nor are they enemies, they are cogs in the machine of reality. They serve to maintain balance.

This Balance makes no sense though because the Cosmology Map is a LIE! The forces on the map are direct opposites of one another, Life is the opposite of Death, Order is the opposite of Disorder, Light is the opposite of… Oh no, wait, the opposite of Light is not Void, Void is simply the absence of something, Shadow is also not the absence of Light since Shadow is inherently made by Light. Void therefore can only be the opposite of one force on the map. REALITY! If reality is the existence of everything, all forces, and all beings, then the void is the opposite of that. Where all things go to be unmade.

To prove this then beyond any doubt, every force within the cosmos requires the others to exist. Without Life there will be no death, without Light there will be no Life, without Order Life would be chaotic and self-consuming and Disorder creates this natural de-evolution to create space for new life to blossom, Void then is the only power that requires none of the others. Without Light, Life, Order, Disorder and Death, Void can still be Void, in fact, the death of the other forces is a pre-requisite for the very existence of the Void. The only power that then stands in the way of the Void is reality. The actual existence of something means that there is no void.

The Brokers Expedition report states:

“These six forces existed in strife, well not strife in the way one such as you or I would see it. Opposition surely, but whether malignant of benign is unclear. There was imbalance, until there was a need for something more.

They came together (or were brought together, depending on how one interprets the fractal) and gave form to their design. Forged? Scribed? Shaped? The exact word is elusive. Each architect gave a portion of themselves, and thus the pattern was drawn.”

Based on this reading I find it wholly impossible to even grasp how the void fits into this. I can see all other forces playing their part but for Nothingness, its greatest enemy would be Something, the existence of something.

Now that I have explained how I view the World, let me explain why Murozond could have created the Void, without it downplaying the significance of the Void. We can all agree that there was a start to the timeline, a moment when it was all set-in motion and while this time would certainly be very long ago, its still a moment in time. Before this moment, nothing existed, it was empty, it was void. Then came the Clockmaker, they gave life to the cosmos, they created, in my view, one force, a force that would counter the Void, Reality. At first the idea was that reality would be the realm of existence and the void would be the realm of nonexistence. Once something has served it purpose, outlived it usefulness, it would return to the void. Xal’atath says that the Light will return to the Masters in time because the Void are the original masters of the Universe. They existed long before Anything else.

The Brokers confirm this theory in the Archaeological journal we found in Shadowlands. They speak of 2 forces that existed long before the creation of the Universe, they never gave these forces names, I don’t think they could ever begin to fathom their origins, but they did say that one force would ultimately split off to create the Great beyond and all its cosmological forces.

“There are references to forces so primal that we have no frame of reference for them. Roiling and Churning, or measured and deliberate? The words here have multiple meanings. I must set them aside for now.

What is clear is that great powers took shape. How many? There are numbers withing numbers, my friends. At first, I thought only two, until I perceived an infinite array –O, the terror of it! – but as of late I have settled on six. Possibly seven, but the last might be an artifact of geometry. A fractal.”

“Six Realms. Many intersections. Countless fractals.

In balance? Possibly. But that might be wrong. If six equals one, then what is the other? The one outside the pattern?”

I believe the Void to be the one, outside. It all fits. The Void is the only force in the cosmos that cannot exist within the Great beyond, it has agents, but the Lords of the Void cannot manifest without destroying and consuming the very creation. Every force in the cosmos has its place except for the Void, who seems to get along with no one and yet seems to believe that all Forces came from them.

The Void, then, in the beginning, were peaceful, they were inevitable and therefore cared little for the inner workings of the Cosmos since all things must eventually return to the masters of Nothingness. They presided over all timelines because all timelines ultimately started and ended with them. Then came Murozond, a Dragon, whose brood consumes entire Timelines, the Truth of the Ancient Ones. This drove the Void insane; their Truths were being consumed; their inevitability challenged.  So, when I say that Murozond created the Void, I do not claim that He created the Void Lords, or the realm of the Void but rather that he awakened them. He forced them out of the slumber and into action. Suddenly they had to awaken, they had to act, they had to actively work to consume all reality for it was no longer inevitable.

One could argue this was what led to the creation of the Cosmological forces, when the First Ones saw the Void Lords pushing to consume all reality, they knew that they would need an active force to oppose them. A Cycle that would exclude them from the system. They had become a threat that no one could deal with directly.

“Each architect gave a portion of themselves, and this the pattern was drawn”

As with all things, the Void Lords ultimately corrupted Murozond and where he once sought to consume all timelines until only, he was left, he now seeks to consume all timelines until only the Void is left. The question now becomes, who oversees who?

That Ladies and Gentlemen is my theory. You will have yours and I hope to read about it in the comment section below. Please hit the Like button if you liked, the Subscribe button if you want more of it and the bell, if you really care that much. To support this channel please visit my Patreon, become a YouTube Member or a Twitch Sub, the supporters of this channel make content like this possible. Thank you to all the Degens that already support. I love you. Peace out Fam.