Titan Conspiracy Theory — Full Breakdown & Transcript

[00:06] right. The Jailer's warning is paying off. The Shadowlands actually did mean something, which is rather shocking. And you might be thinking, Michael, have you Blizzard's crack squad of elite men finally got to me and ruined my brain?

[00:20] No. You see, the biggest problem with Shadowlands is how so much of its story was told and some fundamental things it did, reaching back into Warcraft 3 changing things about. But here's the thing. It happened. The Warcraft verse

[00:33] has to deal with that and I think Blizzard are doing a good job at taking the cool lore and pulling it forward kind of just ignoring the stuff that we really didn't like. But what did I mean by any of that? Well, Sylvanas did say

[00:47] discover? Well, we discovered Azeroth chained at the center of our planet. That, at least, is all true according to Blizzard's current campaign to hammer Shadowlands back into Warcraft lore.

[01:02] You may be wondering what the hell I'm talking about. Well, pretty simply, it's this. >> My penance, my true work, has only begun, [music] little sister.

[01:14] The Shadowlands are not at all what they seem. seem. I cannot rest until I've uncovered the truth. Still, I

[01:26] Still, I hope to see you both again hope to see you both again before the end begins.

[01:39] the end beginning? What is the true nature of the Shadowlands? Why does post out us, and then run away for a bit? Well, Blizzard has clearly set Sylvanas on the trail of another conspiracy and it's one that goes back

[01:53] to what Metzen said was at the core of the world soul saga, a conspiracy orchestrated by the Titans. Now, that's the sort of thing that we've had at least some idea of really since Wrath of the Lich King. And even in the

[02:06] Shadowlands expansion, we were all speculating about Titan involvement because looking around the place, everything did seem to be kind of in their art style. Now, here's the short version. The Titans have totally wrecked

[02:19] how the universe works. They've been going about the place and changing turned the Shadowlands into a basically a power plant to fuel their ambition of ordering reality. But the problem is doing that had huge consequences, such

[02:34] as death kind of stopped doing its job. It stopped being the final barrier against everything in creation just being consumed by the void. And that is something we're seeing Xal'atath pursue literally as we speak in the Midnight

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[04:27] was on board leading the high elves to Silvermoon. Alleria was too busy chasing Xal'atath. And then, Sylvanas, the final of the three sisters, well, she refused to return. Well, at the very least, she refused at the time. But, she did tell

[04:42] Alleria something. She told him that she had noticed something strange going on in the Shadowlands. That it was too familiar feeling. That it was too ordered. Now, the word [music] ordered being used set off huge lore alarm bells

[04:57] in all of us, because that generally means it was built by the Titans. And what Sylvanas said is basically what loads of us thought when we first entered the Shadowlands and started speculating about what the hell all of

[05:11] at the end of the March on Quel'Danas raid to face down Xal'atath. That's when she reminded us that the Shadowlands are not all what they seem and that she needs to investigate further. And that somehow, what she's discovered is

[05:27] actually convincing her that the end is coming. Spooky stuff. Now, on this channel, on the other lore videos, we've established that the Titans' Shadowlands. Little things like how the

[05:40] souls seem to be used as a power source, which seems like a pretty awful way to handle death in your universe. Well, if it turns out it's the Titans being I guess that kind of works. And it all connects to some great lore

[05:53] hints that were there in the Shadowlands, such as us finding the core of a dead Titan in Korthia. We also fought a Constellar, and Constellars are typically servants of the Titans, but of course that was a Constellar who was

[06:07] dominated by your boy Zovaal in Torghast. We then saw that the Primus carried memories of Eonar, Norgannon, and Sargeras. So, those are all things we speculated about during Shadowlands, and we got really kind of disappointed

[06:23] that it just never really went anywhere. But now, Sylvanas basically agrees with our speculation. So, let's accept, at least for now, that the Titans ordered the Shadowlands. Well, we know the Titans are coming back to Azeroth in The

[06:37] Last Titan. It's the next WoW expansion, so this stuff is certainly relevant to where the story's going. Well, how the hell does this fit into a story that currently has Xal'atath basically as a villain who is finding herself on the

[06:51] edge of victory? And if you don't know what I mean by that, I'll put it pretty simply. At the end of the March of the Lich King, when she sort of zoops down well, that's basically taking her to the

[07:04] that's basically taking her to the prison at the core of Azeroth, where well, Azeroth herself appears to be locked up. Yeah, the world is a prison, just maybe not how Sylvanas thought it was. Now, this brings us back to what I

[07:17] said I would do earlier, Venari and what we learned when we recently met her in patch 11.2. So, at that point, we had just discovered the husk of K'aresh, and that was a huge moment for the lore because we've been wondering what was up

[07:32] with K'aresh since all the way back in The Burning Crusade in 2007. Now, when we were there, a alliance of convenience brought together Xal'atath, Locus Walker, and [music] the Naaru. Obviously, Xal'atath betrayed us. Quite

[07:48] naturally, everyone in the plot expected that she would. But, well, at the time, us, and we had a compelling reason to help her. And that reason was simple:

[08:00] death at the hands of Demetrius. That basically, if we didn't stop him, Demetrius would gobble all of us up anyway. Yet, the Naaru warns Xal'atath to keep in line. Now, that in itself is weird. How is the Naaru talking to

[08:14] Xal'atath with such authority? Well, because the Naaru's time in the Maw taught her about what the Void truly fears. [music] And based on her reaction, Xal'atath seemed pretty sure that the Naaru did know what the Void

[08:29] fears. So, that means the next step in today's video is figuring out what the today's video is figuring out what the hell the Void fears. to 2008 and Wrath of the Lich King. In that expansion, we discovered that the

[08:44] undead were somehow resistant to the Void. Now, that's why they could build their greatest fortress, Icecrown Citadel, out of Saronite. Why they could build their armor out of Saronite. You see, Saronite is the solidified blood of

[08:58] an Old God. Old Gods being Void beings. Now, for mortals, Saronite would quickly whisper the madness of the Void into wearing this gear, yeah, you'd be powerful, but you'd probably lose your

[09:12] just another set of totally sweet weapons and armor to use. Now, at the time in Wrath, the mechanism behind that was never really explained. And Blizzard did say in 2010 that there was more story to tell there, and they kind of

[09:27] regretted that they didn't really get to cover it in Wrath of the Lich King. So, that's one big clue. The next clue takes place in A Thousand Years of War. This is an audio book that's basically covering the story of Alleria and

[09:42] Turalyon from the point at which they leave the story all the way back in Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark Portal. So, you know, a 1990s game. And of course expansion. And in that audio book,

[09:56] Locus-Walker tries to teach Alleria how to essentially balance the void. And obviously, kind of just saw how that worked out for her. Anyways, he taught her about the duality of light and void. That fundamentally, light sees one path

[10:13] and shuns all others. But the void sees infinite possibilities, but doesn't really know what one is true. So effectively, they're extreme opposites of each other, yet they're also seemingly part of the same thing.

[10:27] Because if you look at a naaru, a being of light, it can turn into its void cycle. So, weird stuff going on there. Now, this concept was referenced once again in the Shadowlands expansion. And it was referenced when we found a

[10:40] dreadlord authored infiltration guide. And it stated that the void lords were And it stated that the void lords were preoccupied by their thousand truths. And the void likes possibilities. Okay. So, we put some evidence on the board.

[10:55] Now it's time to just go a wee bit deeper to really make the connections. On K'aresh in patch 11.2, we ran into two insane references to death and how

[11:09] it interacts with the void. First, an ethereal geologist sought to cleanse void corruption from K'aresh's earth. And by earth, I quite literally just mean the rock under the dirt. It was just full of void energy. We didn't want

[11:22] that. Now, nothing had worked so far. But this geologist had dealings with the Primus. Now, the Primus is one of the head honchos over in the Shadowlands. head honchos over in the Shadowlands. He's the leader of Maldraxxus. So, this

[11:37] geologist brings the Primus' sun lamp to K'aresh and uses the sun lamp to cleanse 90% of the void corruption from the soil samples. So, hey, great. You can go plant some flowers again. How's that

[11:52] relevant to our story? Well, actually, it's quite simple. It's death magic from >> [music] >> Okay, now we're beginning to see the connection, but we can go deeper still. There's a scientific paper authored by

[12:05] one of the brokers that is titled Murmurations Paradox, and it explains how they've traveled the cosmos. Long story short, when K'aresh was destroyed long ago, the native K'areshite were split into two factions. There were the

[12:20] ethereals. They escaped into the twisting nether and into real space. That's why we met them in the Burning Crusade on the broken fallen world of Outland, which was, of course, once home to the orcs. But, there's another group

[12:34] called the brokers, and they are the ones who escaped into the Shadowlands. Now, they explain that the forces of the cosmos and their realms are split into two categories. The two categories are high energy, which are fell, light, and

[12:51] life, and then low energy, which are death, decay, and the lowest of them death, decay, and the lowest of them all, void. And basically, you need more energy to get into the high energy realms. But, here's the key. The path of

[13:04] least resistance is going down the energy levels, down towards death, down energy levels, down towards death, down towards decay, but not void. And if that seems like total gobbledygook to you, honestly, that's kind of understandable.

[13:17] I guess I just tied it a little bit to say entropy. You know, like a high energy state, low energy state, that kind of thing. Now, the majority of mortals in the Warcraft setting, whenever they die, they end up going to

[13:29] the plane of death, right? Which of course we call the Shadowlands. Now, never reach the void. Death is basically, you know, the the lowest basement level they can go to. Or to put it more aptly, it's like a cosmic net

[13:44] that catches everything before it gets taken by the void. It's essentially the ultimate end for a mortal soul. No energy, no hope of getting back into the higher realms, yet unable to fall further, unable to fall deep into the

[14:01] void. Now, let's think about it this way, right? If the void represents all possibilities, then death represents the end of possibilities. Basically, death is the thing that is shielding everything from pure void, and that is

[14:17] everything from pure void, and that is what the void fears most, the surety of death. Because if something's dead, the void whispers ain't going to do much, right? So, perhaps that's what Ve'nari saw whilst she was in the Maw, and what

[14:30] Sylvanas is seeing there now. But they only saw it in the Maw because they got a glimpse of what true death looks like. Basically, they saw an ordered realm of

[14:43] the Shadowlands completely destroyed. They got to see what death looks like without all of the Titans' doing, without their conspiracy. What went wrong then? Why is death not doing its job such that now void is on the verge

[14:59] of just consuming the whole universe? Well, that is where we need to go back to the most controversial moment in the Shadowlands and the center of Blizzard's mission to drag it back from that controversy.

[15:14] You may know the moment. You see, the Jailer realized the Titans had broken Jailer realized the Titans had broken the universe before anyone else. Zovaal the universe before anyone else. Zovaal was right.

[15:29] me bring all this together for you, right? So, we were told the World Soul Saga is happening because of a vast Titan-led conspiracy that stretches throughout the history of the Warcraft setting. Now, this has already been

[15:43] decently hinted at really since all the way back in Wrath of the Lich King, arguably back even a little further. Now, in the War Within expansion, we discover that Azeroth had been imprisoned by the Titans in something

[15:56] called the World Core. Now, that's the first the most obvious part of this conspiracy, that the Titans went up to Azeroth, saw she was absolutely yolked and full of power, and thought, "I need me one of those. We need to turn her

[16:11] into one of us so we can win." That's the most simple version of the Titan's plan, right? Then, of course, there's Sylvanas telling us the Shadowlands is ordered. And that means the Shadowlands is also likely part of the Titan's grand

[16:23] design. But this is where things got a wee bit tricky for the Titans. In ordering the Shadowlands, so building all their stuff, making all of their eternal ones, 3D printing their gods, they actually cut it off from its

[16:37] they actually cut it off from its natural function. Its power no longer keeps the void in check, and now it looks like a power plant for the Titans' designs, right? So, it's almost as if the Titans redirected all that good

[16:51] into what they wanted, but really didn't think about the consequences. Finally then, we have Sylvanas telling us that the end is about to begin. And if I have to say that again, uh I swear I'll go mad. I mean, come on.

[17:04] I will see you in the beginning of the end of the middle. A little bit tropy, Blizz, but I do get what they're trying to say. Now, here's where it all locks into place for us. Everything we've learned about the Titans from classic

[17:19] Everything we've learned about our world soul from Shadowlands onwards. And finally, the Jailer's warning about it before he died. If you know the quote, say it with me. You preserve that which is doomed. A cosmos divided cannot stand

[17:37] what is to come. Usually, we focus on the what is to come bit and we think, "Oh, great. It's Blizzard vague posting the next villain, the super Jailer of the people before the Titans, the first

[17:51] ones, the before ones, or some silly gumph like that." But no, let's actually focus to the beginning. We're preserving a doomed system. So, in a way, you could say Morpheus showed up and gave your boy Sylvanas the red pill many years ago.

[18:07] Now, to understand why it's doomed, there's a final bit of context we need. The Jailer was the most powerful of a group that we called the Eternal Ones. Now, he was the original Arbiter. Basically, whenever you die, you go into

[18:22] the Shadowlands and the Arbiter sorts you out, you know, routes you to where you're supposed to go. A bit like the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter or just a Wi-Fi router. Now, if we believe that the Shadowlands were

[18:36] ordered, right, created by the Titans, then we have to believe it was the Titans who put Zovaal in that position. And that makes the theory that the whole First Ones thing was basically just a cover for Titanic activity in the

[18:51] afterlife feel a good bit more credible. Because while Zovaal, as the original Arbiter, was organizing souls into their various different departments at the the whole system was flawed. The whole

[19:05] thing was broken. Now, the official line on what changed his perspective isn't actually to do with Morpheus in the Matrix and a red pill. No, it's that through seeing into so many souls, he learned about people's lives. He learns

[19:21] how the universe works outside of the Shadowlands. Cuz of course, he lived in when he saw all of what was out there, he got really scared. He saw a flaw in the whole preserving that which is

[19:34] doomed thing that he said to us is basically about that flaw. That it's flaw and we don't really know what it is. And he basically said that this flaw in the whole universe has left all of us open to an unforeseen threat. And that

[19:49] open to an unforeseen threat. And that threat is the what is to come. And what if I told you that the what is to come has already came? Hmm, phrasing. Demetrius, the void, all that stuff getting consumed. Basically, it's these

[20:02] expansions. Now, during the Shadowlands, this could have been taken in many different ways. A lot of us in the player base mean concluded, we saw the player base mean concluded, we saw the idea of the first ones. That it wasn't

[20:15] there had to be another Pantheon above the Titans. And people just started thinking, great. Is it just Pantheons of gods all the way down until we're all 100 years old and World of Warcraft has been going on for 85 years? Yeah, it

[20:29] exactly. Maybe they wanted to keep their options open to have some new unforeseen evil for the Warcraft universe. But I think that story has been firmly axed

[20:41] under the new direction of the World Soul Saga. It's beyond obvious to me that Blizzard are clarifying the big question marks and confusions of the Shadowlands expansion using the Titans. And they're essentially using this trio

[20:54] of expansions to kind of just tie it all up in a neat bow. So that we and the Warcraft setting can kind of be done with it and turn over a new leaf whenever the time is right. So that begs the question, who or what could this

[21:09] threat have been? Well, what if the Titans created the flaw and the void is the coming evil? It actually makes Zovaal's words fit pretty much perfectly. Stick with me here. We know void is the only realm less energetic

[21:23] than death and that souls can't go there because of death. It basically just catches them like a big net. Now, the Jailer only saw everything happening Jailer only saw everything happening above, right? So, he saw the flaw from

[21:35] looking at all these different souls, but he couldn't see below. He couldn't see into the void and he couldn't see what was coming from the void. No information was coming from that direction. I guess you could almost

[21:48] think of it I'm playing so fast and loose with physics-y things, please don't kill me, but you could think of it as the other side of the event horizon of a black hole. And that's basically why he was so vague about the actual

[22:02] threat. He knew was broken, but just didn't have access to the information. Although perhaps Blizzard's original idea had something to do with the devourers, which let's be fair, were a really cool, kind of uncomfortable,

[22:16] weird, unsettling-looking enemy design. But to ram this home, this theory ties the Jailer's lore to every major threat of the world soul saga. An ascendant Xal'atath, an all-devouring entity that will literally end creation whether it's

[22:31] the afterlife or Azeroth. Xal'atath's goal is turning everything into a void that will then gnaw on itself for eternity. An endless just battle for dominance like what we see with the

[22:46] Dominar and all the fine folks over in Void Storm. That's the doom of the system and the only reason it's happening is basically all the Titans meddling messed it all up. And what's even more crazy is we can think about

[23:01] Nosdormu's warning whenever he died. Didn't we just hang out with him during Didn't we just hang out with him during Dragonflight? Yes, we did. But, remember he's a weird time dragon, and in Cataclysm, in the end time, well, we

[23:15] kill him. And his last words are so telling. He says this, "Aman'thul, what I have seen." And as it transpires, the thing that Nozdormu saw at the end of

[23:27] time, so crazy, so noble, whatever it is, that it literally drove him mad and turned him into, basically, his his evil self called Murozond. The question then self called Murozond. The question then is, "What did you see, Nozdormu?" Did

[23:42] you see that your bosses had wrecked the universe so thoroughly that the void would eventually rise and devour everything that they had built? And this goes even further, because that's also how Sargeras' villain arc started. He

[23:58] feared the exact outcome of the void winning so much that he created the Burning Legion in order to destroy all life just so the void could not consume it. Now, let's go out on a massive speculative limb here. Say Sargeras had

[24:14] a hand in setting up some parts of the vast Titan conspiracy. That wouldn't be surprising given he was a really important Titan back before he, you know, turned against us all. Now, when he realized that he had left the door

[24:26] open to the void and it was effectively something that he was powerless to truly stop via traditional means, well, he just decided to destroy the entire thing. Lore about Nathrezim lines aside, I think that's fairly compelling. Yet,

[24:42] as it stands, that bit about Sargeras and his motivations is just a theory, but it's a theory that brings together just about every single thread in Warcraft's mad, long, meandering history, including all that mad stuff we

[24:56] discovered in the Shadowlands and it brings it into one neat three expansion arc. A vast conspiracy orchestrated by the people we most expected to do something like this, the Titans. Now, I know to some people the Titans are the

[25:11] ontological good guys. They are true goodness. They are bros. That's never really been the case in Warcraft and if that's fully something you think then you have not paid attention and I don't mean you've not paid attention to the

[25:24] No, I I mean you didn't pay attention to Wrath of the Lich King and even some other lore before that. Like really Titan stuff has always been sus. Remember when Algalon talked about how he has like torched and ruined and ended

[25:39] countless civilizations. Like not just loads of people in one civilization, countless. Billions of sentient life forms have died because of the Titan stuff and we've literally known that since 2008. So, don't come here saying

[25:54] and that was never set up that they could be sus because that is flatly wrong and that has been wrong since 2008.

[26:06] So, if you stuck with me this far, don't let the tourists completely mislead you about some of these foundational Warcraft lore things because they have been well set up for years and years and years. It's just that Blizzard's

[26:18] storytelling in game has consistently betrayed the really cool parts of their lore. Now, as always with theories of everything, future experimentation may And by future experimentation, of

[26:33] course, I mean new wow content, new wow lore, new wow story. We will have to see how this all develops. And if you want to get into the real nitty-gritty of how Kael'thas launched us into the era of the last Titan lore, which is what this

[26:46] video has been exploring, then you need to check out this video next. It will answer lots of questions that have probably been floating around your head.