Game news Have WoW players unknowingly helped one of history’s greatest villains?
With a universe as vast as that of the MMO World of Warcraft, many theories are regularly born thanks to fans. This is the case of an Internet user who wondered if the players had not helped one of the greatest villains in the history of Azeroth: N’zoth.
Summary
- Who is N’Zoth in World of Warcraft?
- The doubt that hovers around the death of N’Zoth
- Players helped N’Zoth?
Before going into details, it is important to know what are the elements evoked in this theory. N’Zoth is an Old God. In other words it is an evil monstrosity which, like its congeners, has a direct influence on the World of Warcraft named Azeroth. Powerful and manipulative, these nefarious beings are among the fiercest threats in this universe. Players were able to defeat some, including C Thun in the Temple of Ahn’Qiraj in 2005 (or in the World of Warcraft Classic version), Yogg-Saron in Ulduar during the second expansion (World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King), they could see the curse of Y’Shaarj via the Sha in Pandaria and finally defeat Nzoth in Ny’Alotha (during the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth expansion). He has therefore officially been defeated, but doubt continues to hover in Azeroth, where the clues accumulate.
The doubt that hovers around the death of N’Zoth
Defeated during the Ny’Alotha raid, N’Zoth does not seem dead. It’s not even a fan theory, but clues and details left in the game. For example, it is possible to see a conversation between non-player characters in a town that insinuates that he is not dead. What has heightened the doubt of the fans concerns the answer of Steve Danuser, Narrative Director at Blizzard. He remained very evasive, but didn’t seem closed to the idea that N’Zoth was still alive. In the latest expansion (World of Warcraft: DragonFlight), the player finds himself teleported back in time to when the Old Gods ruled Azeroth. At this point, N’Zoth whispers to the players that he knows the fate that awaits him. A clue that players interpret not only as proof that he is currently alive, but in addition that he allowed himself to be defeated voluntarily.
Players helped N’Zoth?
What if players accidentally helped N’Zoth thinking they’d defeat him? It’s a theory that doesn’t seem so far-fetched to fans of the World of Warcraft universe. A Reddit user’s comment gained huge popularity after posting his theory. In the latest expansion, the player is teleported back in time to rescue a character named Chromie. As mentioned earlier, this Old God whispers a few sentences to the players who insinuate that he knows what happened to him, when he is supposed to be in the distant past, long before his now supposed defeat. This return to the past would have given a way for N’Zoth to know his future by reading the mind of the player, and therefore to rectify it. This simple time travel to save Chromie may have disastrous repercussions on Azeroth.
Here is the message posted by the Internet user on Reddit named AdamG3691:
What’s particularly concerning with N’zoth is that we may have accidentally done a time loop that got us in a bit of a mess with him.
Have you ever wondered why he was so interested in you? Why did he constantly regard you as the harbinger of his victory? Why did he consider you special?
Because even if you didn’t know it during the BFA, you met before and gave him very valuable information.
When you go back in time and witness the original Ny’alotha, the old gods seem to just whisper their usual grim but meaningless talk about betrayal, death, etc… but not N’zoth.
Instead, N’zoth looks into your mind and realizes exactly what timeline he’s currently in, and starts talking to you, telling you things, because “I know you…what you used to be, what you are, what you will become…”.
By visiting this time period, you inadvertently told N’zoth how he was going to be imprisoned, freed, and ultimately how he was going to die… and thus, you allowed him to begin to research how to avoid this.
You are special to him because as long as you are alive, he bypasses the greatest weakness of emptiness: he sees all the possibilities and considers them all valid, at the cost of not really knowing which one is “truth” (because as for the void, they all are), but with you, he knows EXACTLY which possibilities are most likely to occur.
By saving Chromie, we gave N’zoth a way out. Once again.
