So Have We Saved Azeroth (World Soul) In The End?.

So we imprisoned Sargeras, he decided to stab Azeroth with a gigantic sword and this caused a whole bunch of problems. Azeroth was bleeding, dying and really the entire story in the background of Battle for Azeroth was just us healing it and stabilizing the situation.

We have now defeated N'Zoth we are going into the Shadowlands but is Azeroth actually healed, what is going with the wound right now? As you might already know some planets in the warcraft universe have nascent titans within their cores - it is actually how the titans are born and created.

Azeroth, however, was never just a regular planet, it was believed to be potentially the most powerful titan ever, more powerful than Sargeras and his Legion and the only titan that would be able to counter the all-powerful Void Lords. Well, Azeroth almost fell to the void once in the far past but was saved by the titans and then when the titans got out of the picture there was this constant tension between the void and the legion on who would get to it first.

As just how the world soul can counter them it can also be used for sinister purposes by these dark forces. Sargeras was obsessed, to put it lightly with Azeroth for thousands of years which is why the legion was constantly bothering us and ultimately when the Legion fell and when he couldn't get to it he wanted to damage it so that if he can't get it no one can.

Well this giant stabbing ordeal created a massive problem for us. It got so deep that it really hurt the world soul and nearly killed it, creating a wound akin to the first well of eternity, just a different scenario this time. There were 3 problems actually.

First the wound and the fact that the sword had fel energies that corrupted it, second that it damaged our communication by rupturing the chamber of heart and lastly causing the bleeding of Azerite which soon enough became an overwhelming problem. Now Azerite is no new thing, we now know that the cataclysm damaged the world soul some years in the past and the goblins were able to start mining azerite which is said to be the most likely reason why their homeland was destroyed by that sudden volcanic explosion.

However, we know for certain that Azeroth was able to heal the wounds caused by the shattering. Sargeras' sword, on the other hand, was a whole different ordeal. First we had to use the artifacts in order to get rid of the poison which seriously threatened to corrupt Azeroth.

Then this whole connection with the chamber of the heart was a problem because N'Zoth was using the channel to corrupt the soul and bring back the Black Empire, however ultimately we defeated the old god and that was well fixed, through brute force but fixed.

Throughout the expansion we've been collecting Azerite, absorbing it with the necklace and then transfusing it back to the world soul to make up for the loss. In terms of whether it is still bleeding, we don't really know. My thoughts are that we did heal Azeroth but instead of fixing it up entirely we just bandaged it better, patched it up and stabilized the situation so now the world soul is fine.

As it is pretty obvious the sword of Sargeras is still there and I think it is actually a key factor in holding the wound in place. I think if we just pulled it out with no consideration for Azeroth this would either create a new 5 times larger well of eternity or it would just straight out kill the nascent titan.

Now since the last video I've made on this topic we do have a few small shadowlands spoilers. First the developers said that the sword will play a role in the Shadowlands so that kind of confirms that they haven't just forgotten about it and that it isn't just a loose end and that instead they are keeping it in consideration.

Also in the shadowlands, a certain person says that death will soon claim the world soul. What this means we can only speculate until we see the story development in the Shadowlands. Still, I think it is pretty certain that this will either involve the Jailer or the Void Lords in some way shape or form.

We obviously have no way to pull out the sword, so maybe a figure from the shadowlands will claim it or use the sword as a conductor to get to the world soul or Azeroth will wake up in some battle and utilize the sword for herself. All is very uncertain as we still don't really know what exactly is the connection between the death realm and the void lords and what they actually plan to do with Azeroth.

It wouldn't really be surprising to see the death lord wanting to use the nascent titan just like Sargeras or the void lords. Ultimately we did heal Azeroth, temporarily and I think a better word would be patched it up but all of this is definitely a set up for either the Shadowlands or the expansion after.