The Fate of the Titans

Back in 2014 I speculated that the reason we had not heard from the Titans on Azeroth (save for the bad one) was that they might actually all be dead. As it turned out, when Chronicle was released and later when Legion came out, I turned out to be right. The first act the newly-formed Burning Legion committed was deicide. What was left of the Titans was, according to Chronicle, sent to the Keepers - the highest-ranking Titanforged - but most of them were unable to understand what this influx of power meant.

In 7.3, this story becomes more complicated. Let's save it for a spoiler-break.


There are two elements to the events of 7.3 on Argus that have some lore-watchers scratching their heads, and they have to do with Titans and Demons.

First off: Sargeras has managed to resurrect some of the Titans. He has effectively brainwashed Aggramar to serve him, and his vision is to create a new Pantheon - bringing back all the old Titans (and Azeroth as well as Argus, though the latter is more complicated) but with all of them serving his will to scourge the universe of all life so they can begin again.

The question here, then, is where exactly he got the Titans' souls. In the Antorus raid, we defend Eonar as the Legion attempts to claim her for Sargeras. But last time I checked the only remnant of Eonar was stuck in Freya, who should be comfortably chilling in Ulduar these days. So first off, how is Eonar in enough of a state of life to need defending in the first place, and also, what happened to the fragment of her in Freya?

The other weird question is the role of Argus.

While Chronicle revealed that Azeroth is a nascent Titan living at the core of the world that shares her name, 7.3 reveals that Argus also has a World-Soul. Argus is, in fact, the final boss of Legion (apparently) but it appears to be a mercy-kill, as Argus has been used as a battery by Sargeras to fuel the resurrection of demons to keep the Legion's army infinite.

The thing is, Chronicle suggested that demons are inherently resurrectable, as their true selves reside in the Twisting Nether while the bodies we fight are only sort of avatars they control from afar. (To be fair I'm adding some of my own spin on it: they've only said specifically that demons' souls return to the Nether where they can form new bodies, but I think my version is a bit more elegant.) We know that demons, or at least Dreadlords, had this capability before Sargeras went evil, and given that Argus the Titan appears to be the price that Kil'jaeden paid Sargeras for his power, this plan to use Argus to resurrect demons cannot have been implemented before demons had that capability already.

So is this just Blizzard screwing up their own lore? It's possible, but there are also arguments that could be made, such as Argus greatly accelerating the process of resurrection (maybe it usually takes centuries for a powerful demon to get a new body, and this shrinks that down to a few days.)

But I think the other big question to ask about this is how the Titans were resurrected.

We actually get to see all of the Titans in the raid somehow (I assume: there are models for all of them) but the details on how much we interact with them remain fuzzy. Also how big they are (I really hope they're utterly huge and floating in space when we see them.)

The end of the Antorus raid appears to have the Titans and Illidan seal themselves away at the Seat of the Pantheon (basically Space-Olympus) with Sargeras to act as his jailor for the rest of time (there's that sacrifice that Illidan's been meaning to do.) This leaves a decidedly anarchic universe left, at least until we figure out whatever the hell Elune is.

So it sounds like the fate of the Titans, specifically Aman'thul, Khaz'goroth, Golganneth, Eonar, Norgannon, and potentially Argus and Aggramar, are going to be stuck keeping hold over Sargeras with some help from Illidan from here on out.

But that leaves Azeroth. As far as I can tell there's no indication that she is anywhere near emerging from the planet, but it does mean that she stands alone. And while the Burning Legion has been an enormous threat, we won't be able to use them as a fallback if we are unable to defeat the forces of the Void.

It's on us now. Age of mortals indeed.