We've had four Old Gods named so far: C'thun, Yogg-Saron, N'zoth, and Y'shaarj. We know that they've been trying to take over Azeroth since it was created (Kil'ruk the Windreaver believes the Old Gods got there first, but I'm inclined to think that what he thinks of as the invasion of the Usurpers was actually when the Titans came back to visit a second time, only to find their creation infested with Eldritch Abominations.)
We know that they've been in conflict with each other - sending their Faceless Ones against each other in many wars, though this may have not been because of any actual disagreement, instead being their nature as creatures of chaos.
Anyway, Y'shaarj did not survive that encounter with the second arrival of the Titans, leaving the Sha behind. If he was in that part of the world for a specific reason, it probably had something to do with the waters of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms - which I've speculated is either a back-up or remnant of the Well of Eternity.
If I recall correctly, during a lore panel, Blizzard said that Ahn-Qiraj was actually built by the Titans, though we can also probably guess that it was heavily modified by the servants of C'Thun. The most important thing we know of existing in that part of the world is Uldum, and specifically the Halls of Origination.
Yogg-Saron is way up in Storm Peaks, and Ulduar does serve as his prison, but I also think that the facility was there more as a monitoring station for the planet. Ulduar was, I would guess, the main Titan headquarters on Azeroth (it's certainly the most opulent.) So there's an obvious reason for the Old Gods to want a presence there, but if we also assume that the Storm Peaks are where the first Earthen, Mechagnomes, and Vrykul were created, it would imply that this is where the Titans made their sentient constructs - and thus Yogg-Saron could have been the one most responsible for the Curse of Flesh (ignoring my earlier article about how that curse may have actually been a blessing.)
We don't really know where N'zoth is, but we do know that his influence is very wide, and that he is responsible for the Emerald Nightmare. It would not be too far-fetched to imagine that N'zoth is, actually, in the Dream as well.
And that means the N'zoth is a freaking genius.
The Titans knew that Azeroth may have gone wrong somehow. It's an important project for them, for reasons that we do not yet know, and so a lot of safety features were built in. One of these features was the Emerald Dream - a back-up of Azeroth in its natural state, before sapient beings are introduced. The other is the Halls of Origination - this is the big red "Abort" button that the Titans can push if things go wrong. If the world is compromised and cannot be salvaged, the Titans can hit that button and the whole planet gets broken down to the atomic level and rebuilt from scratch.
The blueprint for that re-build? The Emerald Dream.
So let's say that C'thun and Yogg-Saron rise from their prisons and Sha start running all over the place, and just for good measure the Scourge, the Burning Legion, and the Murlocs are overrunning the place while what's left of the Alliance and Horde are either zombies, insane, dripping with ingested demon blood, or all three? Algalon comes down, says "whoa damn! Time to hit that button like a mofo!"
He hits the button, and poof! Reset. All's well, except... No, the planet's totally overrun with Nightmare and N'zoth cackles to himself and then thanks the Titans for building him such a lovely home.
N'zoth's running a classic Xanatos Gambit. Even if the Titans manage to use their doomsday device to stop the Old Gods, he still wins. The only hope, then, is for heroes like us to beat down those Lovecraftian beasties the old fashioned way.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker!
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