Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Lore, Know your Lore, Cataclysm
If you"ve ever run the Black Morass in the Caverns of Time, you may recall Aeonus" memorable line upon entering the fray: "The time has come to shatter this clockwork universe forever!" A clockwork, as we know, is a precision instrument, an engineered and designed mechanism that proceeds along a rigidly programmed path. A clockwork does exactly what it was designed to do -- it ticks off the seconds in a preordained fashion.
I bring this up because of the revelation that the Titans, when they created the dragon aspects, seemingly knew that one of them would go mad and align himself with the Old Gods. The four aspects who remained seemed convinced that this moment, this Hour of Twilight, is what they were created to avert. The question then becomes, why would the Titans empower Neltharion in the first place if they knew what he would do? Why would they create a powerful entity like an aspect if they knew he would become corrupted?
The answer may be as simple as this: They didn"t know it -- they simply anticipated it. The mechanism was designed to accommodate a great many options.
Algalon the Observer
