Art, Design, and Technical Direction of Midnight Interviews with AlterTime

Posted 2025/08/28 at 7:41 PM by Archimtiros

Visual and Story Development

The main story arch of The World Soul Saga hasn't changed since it went into early development. The team already knows the big beats, where they will happen, and how they will end.

Smaller details have changed. They've shifted a few things around, thinking a piece might be better suited in The War Within or saved for later. Pacing and content releases are something they consider, so they do make some changes as they go.

The storyboard teams often work pretty far ahead of other development teams, sometimes even years ahead of what players see.

Production is already in full swing for Midnight, and even begun pre-production for The Last Titan, so the team is constantly looking ahead!

Reimagining Silvermoon City

On the art side, capturing the uniqueness and identity of Silvermoon was a major challenge. Creating a character in Eversong Woods and making the trip to Silvermoon was one of their first gameplay experiences for many players, so it was important that the city still feel familiar. They've strived to keep iconic elements, while adding more on top.

If you look at the original map, a whole half of it was destroyed kind of like the (second) Death Star. In the new version of the city, that part becomes an Alliance-friendly section, though the original footprint and volume still remain.

The main goal was making it a more pathable city, easier to get around. Now that these areas have become folded into the Eastern Kingdoms and players can fly in them, that has also become a big part of the design.

The "Alliance-friendly" section of the city is not Alliance excusive, it's available to both. Conversely, the Horde-exclusive part will not allow Alliance inside, with the statement that going there is going to kill them.

That friction is a part of the story they want to show players. Alliance Paladins showing up to defend the Sunwell is all well and good, but they continue to hang around a place in which many think they don't belong. It's one thing to help, but another to act like you own the city; as time goes by, they become increasingly restless and the friction between those factions increases.

Not entirely sure how new Blood Elves will level after Midnight, though Maria suspects they'll go through a section of the new Eversong and Silvermoon City or use Zidormi to experience the existing leveling questlines.
(note: this is Maria Hamilton saying she isn't sure, it does not necessarily mean that other more appropriate gameplay teams don't already have the mechanics worked out)

In order to make flying possible, they had to reimagine the zone, make space to ensure the mountains made a gradual transition up into Zul'Aman, so it isn't as easy as just plopping the old quests into the new zone either, but Maria doesn't believe they're rebuilding the starting experience, so they're probably just using Zidormi to level up in the old zone and come back to see the new one later on.

Arator is one of the best representatives of the conflict between the light and the void. Torn and trying to understand his place in the world, he takes a bit of a spiritual journey, which players can join him on, in visiting places that the path his father and other notable Paladins took. He'll hear from friends of his father, and learn more about what his parents were like.

Representing the Void

When we think of the void, it tends to be the absence of things, so trying to make a space that feels chaotic and doesn't lend itself to any particular aesthetic is a challenge.

Xal'atath is our current representation of the void, and she manipulates things a bit differently from enemies of the past. The Jailer's story was all about domination and it was a big theme throughout that whole arc, and so the team wants to ensure similar themes are carried across void architecture.

One of the these with Xal'atath is the idea of leashing. Instead of seeking absolute control, Xal'alath is more about harnessing energy, creating a tether and directing it towards her goal.

The Voidstorm is a real big problem during Midnight. We don't know how to get to it yet, and figuring out how to travel there will be one of the challenges players will face. We have to fend off the storm, keep the Sunwell pure, then figure out how to reach that place in the sky. You can't just fly there.

Ultimately, Umbric and the Void Elves will help with this, creating an opportunity for Void Elf players to get to explore their story a little better. While they're in Voidstorm, Void Elves are going to be in their element, so they'll have a little extra something.

The light is an especially big visual element in the Haranir home zone, and it will even show us ways in which the light can be just as dangerous as the void when left unchecked. There needs to be a balance.

Harandar has existed for a really long time, and roots from all the world trees are twisted and twined together in that place. Without spoiling anything, it's a very special place, which is going to hold an immense amount of power.

The fact that the roots are there is very important, and the fact that the light has gained a foothold in that area, tilting the balance, is important to the story. We'll learn more about the Light Bloom and what happens when that doesn't go very well.

Another thing players can do is visit the Den of Echoes, a place where the Haranir have recorded their memories, including some events that happened quite a long time ago. Players will be able to experience that, and seeing them from that perspective should be very interesting to them.

Orwena will help us reach Harandar, by opening a path through the rootways. She hasn't done what the elders wanted though, so going home isn't necessarily going to be fun for her.

The Call of The Light

When the light answered Liadrin's prayer, a call went out to many, many people. We saw the Army of Light respond, but it has also been heard by players and many others, including some creatures you might not expect. There's at least one in particular which is pretty baffled to be there, and doesn't know quite what happened... but is still there.

The cinematic was meant to show just the first people coming through, but when players arrive at the start of the expansion, the very first thing they'll do is appear in the light and join that battle.

There'll be a lot of heroes and faces that you recognize, a huge fight going on, with people to save and different places to see.

Max Customization and Player Fantasy

There are a lot of existing props and objects already present in WoW, so the goal is maximum customization. Don't worry, there are a lot of brand new objects too.

Mix and matching colors or styles is also a big element, it's all about player fantasy.

Art Direction and Technical DesignUniting the People of Azeroth

Players are going to experience the Amani in different ways. At points they'll be enemies, at others they'll be allies... ultimately there's a theme emerging in World of Warcraft of bringing the people and entire world of Azeroth together - uniting against the greater enemy.

Voidstorm is a great opportunity to show contrast between the Light that we're familiar with, which is well represented in the bright enchanted forest of Eversong, and the deep darkness of the Void.

Players are going to see and feel the predatory cannibalistic nature of the void all around them, both in the creatures and environment itself. It's a zone with aggressive terrain, and quite an impressive sky.

Artistic Vision and Technical Direction

When developing an early vision for the expansion, art and narrative leaders are all working in the same room together to deifine the direction, so ideas come from both sides. A level designer might come up with an idea for a creatures and raid boss inside their zone, so it's a very collaborative and symbiotic process.

There are a lot of classic zones that the team would like to tell stories in, so they believe more zones will be reworked in the future.

Ely actually worked on the original version of Eversong Woods ~19 years ago, so seeing it reenvisioned with modern fidelity is pretty amazing.

Likewise, Silvermoon is going to be the city that Blood Elves have always wanted and deserved. It's going to have a lot of content and culture, with many interesting places to explore.

No answer on whether the Battle for the Sunwell will happen during pre-patch or full launch, but we are going to see many clashes between the powers of Light and the Void. Certainly involving the blood elves, and the Sunwell itself.

No new blood elf customization planned at the moment, but it's something the team is committed to exploring more as they go.

Adding a new specialization to Demon Hunters made a lot of sense, given that they only had two, and with the emergence of the Void, these new Demon Hunter stories fit well into the ongoing narrative. There's no saying that there won't be more new specializations coming at some point in the future, they just need the right opportunity.

Plunderstorm 1 and 2 were limited time offers, and the team is listening to player feedback, but doesn't have any plan to go back for a third time at the moment.

Years of Housing Development

Housing has been a major technical undertaking, but the real challenge is in the scale of it. They don't just want to give players a house, they want them to see each other's houses, walk through their neighborhoods. It required a solid vision from the design and art side, for engineers to then figure out what the player experience was going to be.

Housing is one of the longest features ever developed for World of Warcraft, and has been in development since well before The War Within. They had an idea of where they wanted to go with it for many years now, and they began to solidify the technical design sometime in Dragonflight.

Watching housing develop from a PowerPoint presentation into a series of steps and challenges for the engineering team, then seeing it take shape as the biggest feature in World of Warcraft history has been really exciting. They really set out to create a space where World of Warcraft isn't bound by anything other than player imagination.

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Comment by SkySkySkyIs the void the reason why Xal'atath looks like a different person and age every time we see her? Or is this the design choice, and if so, can they clarify the reason behind it. Just asking for a friend.Comment by SharkestDo you guys think they will fix the bugs like in Dawnbreaker in the next xpack or how many years we talking?Comment by GuyKopskiImagine people coming to save you from being enslaved by beings that want to consume the entire universe and subject you and everyone you care about from eternal suffering and you're just like "Whoa whoa whoa, I don't want YOUR kind in MY neighborhood!"Comment by lunartempoMaybe my priorities are wrong, but man I'm bummed about no new Blood Elf customization lol. I wish they would at least update some of the older hair styles.Comment by 2550147Worse than tripe, but this nihilism is pretty on-brand for the game’s “message.” It’s the imperial religion of the dead empire in real life after all. Have to promote it in media as “lone wolves” act on it in person. Havel’s “power of the powerless” is exactly about this kind of thing and how is pervades the post-totalitarian anti-society.

As for this weird insistence on “balance,” I will defer to something someone I respect said recently:
“I don't want ANY bad. How about that? A bullet to the head "in moderation?" Let your children be [] "in moderation?" Murder in moderation? Let's balance some child trafficking. Let's balance some cannibalism.”

I censored the message so as to remove an easy excuse to have the message hidden from view to hide what is being said.

As for an even more apt quote, I defer to Hilaire Belloc from “the great heresies”:
“Now the Manichean was so overwhelmed by the experience or prospect of suffering and by the appalling fact that his nature was subject to mortality, that he took refuge in denying the omnipotent goodness of a Creator. He said that evil was at work in the universe just as much as good; the two principles were always fighting as equals one against the other. Man was subject to the one just as much as to the other. If he could struggle at all he should struggle to join the good principle and avoid the power of the bad principle, but he must treat evil as an all-powerful thing. The Manichean recognized an evil god as well as a good god, and he attuned his mind to that appalling conception.

Such a mood bred all sorts of secondary effects. In some men it would lead to devil worship, in many more to magic, that is a dependence on something other than one's own free will, to tricks by which we might stave off the evil power or cheat it. It also led, paradoxically enough, to the doing of a great deal of evil deliberately, and saying either that it could not be helped or that it did not matter, because we were in any case under the thrall of a thing quite as strong as the power for good and we might as well act accordingly.

But one thing the Manichean of every shade has always felt, and that is, that matter belongs to the evil side of things. Though there may be plenty of evil of a spiritual kind yet good must be wholly spiritual. That is something you find not only in the early Manichean, not only in the Albigensian of the Middle Ages, but even in the most modern of the remaining Puritans. It seems indissolubly connected with the Manichean temper in every form. Matter is subject to decay and is therefore evil. Our bodies are evil. Their appetites are evil. This idea ramifies into all sorts of absurd details. Wine is evil. Pretty well any physical pleasure, or half-physical pleasure, is evil. Joy is evil. Beauty is evil. Amusements are evil—and so on. Anyone who will read the details of the Albigensian story will be struck over and over again by the singularly modern attitude of these ancient heretics, because they had the same root as the Puritans who still, unhappily, survive among us.“

As usual, old evils get new labels as they are brought back. your curses are Consummately Returned!Comment by AthDravmages op againComment by Ovidiu30Worse than tripe, but this nihilism is pretty on-brand for the game’s “message.” It’s the imperial religion of the dead empire in real life after all. Have to promote it in media as “lone wolves” act on it in person. Havel’s “power of the powerless” is exactly about this kind of thing and how is pervades the post-totalitarian anti-society.

As for this weird insistence on “balance,” I will defer to something someone I respect said recently:
“I don't want ANY bad. How about that? A bullet to the head "in moderation?" Let your children be [] "in moderation?" Murder in moderation? Let's balance some child trafficking. Let's balance some cannibalism.”

I censored the message so as to remove an easy excuse to have the message hidden from view to hide what is being said.

As for an even more apt quote, I defer to Hilaire Belloc from “the great heresies”:
“Now the Manichean was so overwhelmed by the experience or prospect of suffering and by the appalling fact that his nature was subject to mortality, that he took refuge in denying the omnipotent goodness of a Creator. He said that evil was at work in the universe just as much as good; the two principles were always fighting as equals one against the other. Man was subject to the one just as much as to the other. If he could struggle at all he should struggle to join the good principle and avoid the power of the bad principle, but he must treat evil as an all-powerful thing. The Manichean recognized an evil god as well as a good god, and he attuned his mind to that appalling conception.

Such a mood bred all sorts of secondary effects. In some men it would lead to devil worship, in many more to magic, that is a dependence on something other than one's own free will, to tricks by which we might stave off the evil power or cheat it. It also led, paradoxically enough, to the doing of a great deal of evil deliberately, and saying either that it could not be helped or that it did not matter, because we were in any case under the thrall of a thing quite as strong as the power for good and we might as well act accordingly.

But one thing the Manichean of every shade has always felt, and that is, that matter belongs to the evil side of things. Though there may be plenty of evil of a spiritual kind yet good must be wholly spiritual. That is something you find not only in the early Manichean, not only in the Albigensian of the Middle Ages, but even in the most modern of the remaining Puritans. It seems indissolubly connected with the Manichean temper in every form. Matter is subject to decay and is therefore evil. Our bodies are evil. Their appetites are evil. This idea ramifies into all sorts of absurd details. Wine is evil. Pretty well any physical pleasure, or half-physical pleasure, is evil. Joy is evil. Beauty is evil. Amusements are evil—and so on. Anyone who will read the details of the Albigensian story will be struck over and over again by the singularly modern attitude of these ancient heretics, because they had the same root as the Puritans who still, unhappily, survive among us.“

As usual, old evils get new labels as they are brought back. your curses are Consummately Returned!Comment by YuffDarrowmerePlease for the love of everything good, NO MORE PURPLE!Comment by bynariWorse than tripe, but this nihilism is pretty on-brand for the game’s “message.” It’s the imperial religion of the dead empire in real life after all. Have to promote it in media as “lone wolves” act on it in person. Havel’s “power of the powerless” is exactly about this kind of thing and how is pervades the post-totalitarian anti-society.

As for this weird insistence on “balance,” I will defer to something someone I respect said recently:
“I don't want ANY bad. How about that? A bullet to the head "in moderation?" Let your children be [] "in moderation?" Murder in moderation? Let's balance some child trafficking. Let's balance some cannibalism.”

I censored the message so as to remove an easy excuse to have the message hidden from view to hide what is being said.

As for an even more apt quote, I defer to Hilaire Belloc from “the great heresies”:
“Now the Manichean was so overwhelmed by the experience or prospect of suffering and by the appalling fact that his nature was subject to mortality, that he took refuge in denying the omnipotent goodness of a Creator. He said that evil was at work in the universe just as much as good; the two principles were always fighting as equals one against the other. Man was subject to the one just as much as to the other. If he could struggle at all he should struggle to join the good principle and avoid the power of the bad principle, but he must treat evil as an all-powerful thing. The Manichean recognized an evil god as well as a good god, and he attuned his mind to that appalling conception.

Such a mood bred all sorts of secondary effects. In some men it would lead to devil worship, in many more to magic, that is a dependence on something other than one's own free will, to tricks by which we might stave off the evil power or cheat it. It also led, paradoxically enough, to the doing of a great deal of evil deliberately, and saying either that it could not be helped or that it did not matter, because we were in any case under the thrall of a thing quite as strong as the power for good and we might as well act accordingly.

But one thing the Manichean of every shade has always felt, and that is, that matter belongs to the evil side of things. Though there may be plenty of evil of a spiritual kind yet good must be wholly spiritual. That is something you find not only in the early Manichean, not only in the Albigensian of the Middle Ages, but even in the most modern of the remaining Puritans. It seems indissolubly connected with the Manichean temper in every form. Matter is subject to decay and is therefore evil. Our bodies are evil. Their appetites are evil. This idea ramifies into all sorts of absurd details. Wine is evil. Pretty well any physical pleasure, or half-physical pleasure, is evil. Joy is evil. Beauty is evil. Amusements are evil—and so on. Anyone who will read the details of the Albigensian story will be struck over and over again by the singularly modern attitude of these ancient heretics, because they had the same root as the Puritans who still, unhappily, survive among us.“

As usual, old evils get new labels as they are brought back. your curses are Consummately Returned!Comment by XaleaDid they reveal which generative AI did that Midnight reveal cinematic?Comment by arison255this whole "common foe" thing is getting so old...Comment by MyhaniWorse than tripe, but this nihilism is pretty on-brand for the game’s “message.” It’s the imperial religion of the dead empire in real life after all. Have to promote it in media as “lone wolves” act on it in person. Havel’s “power of the powerless” is exactly about this kind of thing and how is pervades the post-totalitarian anti-society.

As for this weird insistence on “balance,” I will defer to something someone I respect said recently:
“I don't want ANY bad. How about that? A bullet to the head "in moderation?" Let your children be [] "in moderation?" Murder in moderation? Let's balance some child trafficking. Let's balance some cannibalism.”

I censored the message so as to remove an easy excuse to have the message hidden from view to hide what is being said.

As for an even more apt quote, I defer to Hilaire Belloc from “the great heresies”:
“Now the Manichean was so overwhelmed by the experience or prospect of suffering and by the appalling fact that his nature was subject to mortality, that he took refuge in denying the omnipotent goodness of a Creator. He said that evil was at work in the universe just as much as good; the two principles were always fighting as equals one against the other. Man was subject to the one just as much as to the other. If he could struggle at all he should struggle to join the good principle and avoid the power of the bad principle, but he must treat evil as an all-powerful thing. The Manichean recognized an evil god as well as a good god, and he attuned his mind to that appalling conception.

Such a mood bred all sorts of secondary effects. In some men it would lead to devil worship, in many more to magic, that is a dependence on something other than one's own free will, to tricks by which we might stave off the evil power or cheat it. It also led, paradoxically enough, to the doing of a great deal of evil deliberately, and saying either that it could not be helped or that it did not matter, because we were in any case under the thrall of a thing quite as strong as the power for good and we might as well act accordingly.

But one thing the Manichean of every shade has always felt, and that is, that matter belongs to the evil side of things. Though there may be plenty of evil of a spiritual kind yet good must be wholly spiritual. That is something you find not only in the early Manichean, not only in the Albigensian of the Middle Ages, but even in the most modern of the remaining Puritans. It seems indissolubly connected with the Manichean temper in every form. Matter is subject to decay and is therefore evil. Our bodies are evil. Their appetites are evil. This idea ramifies into all sorts of absurd details. Wine is evil. Pretty well any physical pleasure, or half-physical pleasure, is evil. Joy is evil. Beauty is evil. Amusements are evil—and so on. Anyone who will read the details of the Albigensian story will be struck over and over again by the singularly modern attitude of these ancient heretics, because they had the same root as the Puritans who still, unhappily, survive among us.“

As usual, old evils get new labels as they are brought back. your curses are Consummately Returned!Comment by 80sBeholderEyesOver time hostilities increase between horde and alliance? Jeez, how boring. What a way to beat a dead horse. /snoreComment by 2550147Over time hostilities increase between horde and alliance? Jeez, how boring. What a way to beat a dead horse. /snoreComment by SylverbladeWorse than tripe, but this nihilism is pretty on-brand for the game’s “message.” It’s the imperial religion of the dead empire in real life after all. Have to promote it in media as “lone wolves” act on it in person. Havel’s “power of the powerless” is exactly about this kind of thing and how is pervades the post-totalitarian anti-society.

As for this weird insistence on “balance,” I will defer to something someone I respect said recently:
“I don't want ANY bad. How about that? A bullet to the head "in moderation?" Let your children be [] "in moderation?" Murder in moderation? Let's balance some child trafficking. Let's balance some cannibalism.”

I censored the message so as to remove an easy excuse to have the message hidden from view to hide what is being said.

As for an even more apt quote, I defer to Hilaire Belloc from “the great heresies”:
“Now the Manichean was so overwhelmed by the experience or prospect of suffering and by the appalling fact that his nature was subject to mortality, that he took refuge in denying the omnipotent goodness of a Creator. He said that evil was at work in the universe just as much as good; the two principles were always fighting as equals one against the other. Man was subject to the one just as much as to the other. If he could struggle at all he should struggle to join the good principle and avoid the power of the bad principle, but he must treat evil as an all-powerful thing. The Manichean recognized an evil god as well as a good god, and he attuned his mind to that appalling conception.

Such a mood bred all sorts of secondary effects. In some men it would lead to devil worship, in many more to magic, that is a dependence on something other than one's own free will, to tricks by which we might stave off the evil power or cheat it. It also led, paradoxically enough, to the doing of a great deal of evil deliberately, and saying either that it could not be helped or that it did not matter, because we were in any case under the thrall of a thing quite as strong as the power for good and we might as well act accordingly.

But one thing the Manichean of every shade has always felt, and that is, that matter belongs to the evil side of things. Though there may be plenty of evil of a spiritual kind yet good must be wholly spiritual. That is something you find not only in the early Manichean, not only in the Albigensian of the Middle Ages, but even in the most modern of the remaining Puritans. It seems indissolubly connected with the Manichean temper in every form. Matter is subject to decay and is therefore evil. Our bodies are evil. Their appetites are evil. This idea ramifies into all sorts of absurd details. Wine is evil. Pretty well any physical pleasure, or half-physical pleasure, is evil. Joy is evil. Beauty is evil. Amusements are evil—and so on. Anyone who will read the details of the Albigensian story will be struck over and over again by the singularly modern attitude of these ancient heretics, because they had the same root as the Puritans who still, unhappily, survive among us.“

As usual, old evils get new labels as they are brought back. your curses are Consummately Returned!Comment by snappersapperAh, now here is the information I was needing from gamescon! The real reason I play WoW.Comment by 2550147Worse than tripe, but this nihilism is pretty on-brand for the game’s “message.” It’s the imperial religion of the dead empire in real life after all. Have to promote it in media as “lone wolves” act on it in person. Havel’s “power of the powerless” is exactly about this kind of thing and how is pervades the post-totalitarian anti-society.

As for this weird insistence on “balance,” I will defer to something someone I respect said recently:
“I don't want ANY bad. How about that? A bullet to the head "in moderation?" Let your children be

Oh, Please. I would quote Kierkegaard eviscerating kant before I would ever think of that.

Not to mention the quote given is directly against moral relativism, of which kant is the modern “father” of.

The funny thing is that Belloc quote from the very beginning of the “albegenesian” chapter of “the great heresies.”

the symbol of the albegenesians (also called “tha carhari”) were “the flames of consolation” which was adopted by blizzard as the symbol for “the scarlet crusade” almost exactly. Even the origin of “the scarlet crusade” is remarkably similar to the real life albegenesians. the albegenesians believed that humanity was pure evil and so burned themselves alive in a ritual called “consolation.” the most popular form of it was when they would rip off the breasts and wombs of women before lighting them on fire while still alive as an insult to Life itself.

the lich king is remakably similar to the leader of the cathari army, peter of aragon. Beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed man who was the greatest fighter in the world and singlehanded lot reconquered Spain from under islamic control with an army of 100,000 of the world’s best mercenaries.

by the end of the war peter was a burned monster encased in black armor whose head was sliced off by Simon De Montfort III to end the war.

the death knights in fiction are directly referencing the diaries of Priests recording the albegenesian Crusade who described the 100,000 as being little more than permanenly-enflamed skeletons inside blackened armor animated by their damned souls.

Every “last stand” in fantasy directly references “The Battle Of The Maret” where the last 1000 surviving Crusaders killed the 100,000 without sustaining a single injury. That is the ones that aren’t referencing Lepanto in 1571 or Vienna in 1683.

The Argent Dawn isn’t even that far off from The Holy League called to perform the albegenesian crusade, with Tiron being the right age and look for Simon De Montfort III who led the Crusade against the albegenesians.

It’s quite a common theme in fantasy and sci fi. star wars for example is a remarkably close approximation of the albegenesian crusade, with Luke Skywalker being a dead ringer for Simon De Montfort IV, Obi Wan / Starkiller from the original draft was Simon De Montfort III, darth vader is peter of aragon with a very similar fall from grace (real one was never redeemed though), and the emperor is count raymond vi / the bishop of toulouse.

There IS a proper way to criticize “the light” as a masonic ideal (the cathari are the direct progenitors of the freemasons, and the five disgraced templar families that funded the carhari are still around today with very recognizable and powerful names), but I’d be shocked if there aren’t employees at blizzard who would get physically sick if they realized they were making fun of real-life devil worshipers when they come to beat on the “scarlet crusade” punching bag.

It’s like in ff14 I once mused how square enix must have had no idea that every single symbol and intent that the “heavensward” and “orthodoxy” in that game had or used actually kabbalic or masonic and not Christian (if anything, the dragons use more Christian symbols).

It’s pretty common in anime too, where every single bit of God-bashing involves beating up on buddhism, shinto, kabbalic judiasm, or freemasonry with vaguely-Catholic looking outfits or terms as a candy coating.

I don’t even think it’s intentional, I have had people gobsmacked when I told them this and thought they were “owning the trads” the entire time.

“But- but- I’m making fun of you!”

When one does not know who they are trying to mock, and especially don’t know where things come from, it invariably ends with friendly fire. It is “amusing” at least despite the intent.

It’s like jrpgs where you “kill God” and it’s literally you fighting the devil or the antichrist. Like what?

Comment by Oofa

on 2025-08-28T22:24:04-05:00

Amani culture has always had a distinct flavor, the fun part is blowing it up and brining bigger stories to fruition. It's been a long time since we've seen them, so there's a lot of new lore to discover. Creating an entire zone has given them a palate to do so.
Players are going to experience the Amani in different ways. At points they'll be enemies, at others they'll be allies... ultimately there's a theme emerging in World of Warcraft of bringing the people and entire world of Azeroth together - uniting against the greater enemy.

Perfect opportunity for playable Amani Trolls.

Comment by StandsInFire

on 2025-08-28T22:48:36-05:00

Hey wowhead "authors" you need to start labeling your articles properly. This is not LIVE wow, it's not even beta. I don't want to know about a video game that's coming half a year from now, I just don't care. What the hell is the point of having filters if YOU WOWHEAD AUTHORS refuse to label the articles properly?

Comment by Easo

on 2025-08-28T22:54:42-05:00

this whole "common foe" thing is getting so old...

We have had it since WarCraft 3, so yeah, a bit old - but it always has been about getting over the petty grievances and using your head instead against the big bad. Not that bad nor should it be.

Also, @Concerned - take your meds, please.

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