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The True Nature of Azeroth's Worldsoul - Weekly Archive Quest Reveal
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After completing this week's Archive quest,
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, players are shown a message from the Titans that reveals the truth of Azeroth's worldsoul.
WARNING: Spoilers for The War Within!
The Message of the Archive
Archaedas says: The great titan Khaz'goroth, who granted me the gift of the forge, has relayed information from the Pantheon about our purpose.
Archaedas says: To create order from the chaos of the cosmos, the titans searched the Great Dark Beyond for the Prime Worldsoul.
Archaedas says: This Worldsoul--the most powerful in existence--they would guide to become the greatest titan of all.
Archaedas says: In time, they came to sense a mighty presence within the world called Azeroth.
Archaedas says: The Pantheon made their way to the nascent Worldsoul, hoping that their search was at an end.
In the wake of the message, we see the reactions of Brinthe and Dagran, who both express a mixture of awe and confusion at the Keeper's words.
High Speaker Brinthe says: Amazing... It's as though Keeper Archaedas was delivering the word of the great Khaz'goroth himself.
High Speaker Brinthe says: These logs must be the Architect's personal records of...everything. I wonder how many more we can recover.
Dagran Thaurissan II says: I know of Archaedas from my studies in Khaz Modan... but this Worldsoul he speaks of... here on Azeroth...
Dagran Thaurissan II says: Do you think that's what Gran'da Magni was hearing all those years when he was the Speaker?
High Speaker Brinthe says: I am not sure what significance this might have for my people--or my purpose--but I have faith in the titans' plan for us.
Azeroth: Not a Natural Titan?
This is far from the first time we have heard about Worldsouls, with the concept first appearing back during Legion with the first
Chronicle
book. According to
Chronicle
, worldsouls are massive beings of pure energy that were sent out into the cosmos in the wake of its creation. While incredibly rare, once a worldsoul found a sun to dwell near, it would form a planet around itself, nurturing life upon its surface while it slumbers and grows.
Prior to Dragonflight, the framing we knew was that worldsouls were specifically the slumbering soul of a nascent Titan, the beings that now make up the Pantheon of Order. During Dragonflight, however, it was teased that this may not be the case. In one of
Keeper Tyr's progress reports
, he denotes that the Halls of Infusion beneath Tyrhold existed to funnel the natural magics of Azeroth and infuse them with arcane energies.
While it came with the added benefit of offering the waters to the newly formed Dragonflights to infuse their eggs, its original purpose was unclear, but the implication was that rather than Azeroth naturally existing as an orderly Titan like we had been told, its worldsoul was something else entirely, and the Keepers were creating structures built to infuse her with the essence of Order so that she would one day awaken as a Titan.
This would mean that, rather than the framing we know of forces such as the Void Lords or the Burning Legion trying to insidiously infect a nascent Titan, the Titans themselves have acted in much the same way that the other cosmic forces have; they have taken a worldsoul with the potential to become a being of any force and nudged it in the direction of one day awakening as a Titan.
And now, with this message from Archaedas, this concept is only further given merit. Rather than describe Azeroth's worldsoul as a slumbering Titan, he describes it as something that the Pantheon would guide to
become
a Titan when she finally wakes. Essentially, this means that worldsouls are
not
inherently Titans like we have been previously led to believe.
The Prime Worldsoul
While the newly realized status may be a shock in and of itself to some, it is not the only revelation given in this quick message from the Keeper. The new concept of a worldsoul could apply to any across the cosmos, such as the premature Death Titan Argus who we fought during Legion, or the void-corrupted worldsoul that Sargeras sundered and eventually used as justification for his Crusade against all life in the universe.
For Azeroth in particular, there seems to be a much greater importance than simply her status as a worldsoul. Instead, she is 'the Prime Worldsoul', the greatest among them with the greatest amount of potential -- but what that potential is remains a mystery.
This is not the first time we have heard about Azeroth's grand importance. Before we even discovered that there was a soul slumbering inside the planet during Legion, we first heard echoes of the Pantheon's final message back during Mists of Pandaria. After defeating the Thunder King Lei-Shen, we brought his heart to the black dragon Wrathion, who after some thought, decided to ingest the heart and consume its power.
What the Black Prince did not know, however, is that Lei-Shen's immense power had been stolen from the Keeper Ra-den, whose last act before being defeated by the mogu tyrant had been to relay the message he had been sent by Aman'thul: that the Pantheon had fallen at the hands of Sargeras, and that they must rebuild "the Final Titan."
Credit to Nobbel87 for the footage.
While Wrathion and those who witnessed it didn't know it at the time, the Titan in question was the worldsoul slumbering within Azeroth, and with what we know now, she is not just any worldsoul, nor even the last after the Pantheon's defeat, but she seems to be the Prime Worldsoul.
On top of that, the phrasing of "the Final Titan" is remarkably similar to the name of our upcoming expansion,
The Last Titan
. With all this evidence of Azeroth's immense potential and importance, it is no surprise that all of the cosmic forces, from the Burning Legion to the Void Lords to the Arbiter of Death all wish to see her brought under their sole control, and it seems the Titan Pantheon are little different in that regard.
This is certainly not the last reveal we are expected to see about the planet's slumbering Worldsoul, but even these two short pieces amidst a small message offer a world's worth of clarifications as to where Azeroth fits in the
Warcraft
cosmos, and sets up just as many questions waiting to be answered as we venture further into the Worldsoul Saga.
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