Madame Lazul is back in Hearthstone's newest teaser video for the upcoming expansion to be announced at BlizzCon.
Wyrmrest Accord and Northrend's flying Dalaran can be seen in the video. What else do you notice?
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The location is Wyrmrest Temple in Northrend, you can see Dalaran floating near the temple. So the snow and clothing is definitely due to the location.
It would appear that the community's thoughts since the first teaser for the entire year in April were correct: Dragon themed expansion to end Year of the Dragon. But what? What will be the story of the third set? Personally, I want to see something with corrupted Dragon Aspects. As in an alternate reality where they were ALL corrupted by the Old Gods, not just Deathwing. Not sure what the effects could be, but could be pretty sweet! We've already seen some potential alternate versions in WoW. Norzdomu has his crazy alternate version Murozond, Malygos went mad and had to be killed so a Malygos the Mad could be possible, Ysera was plagued with the Emerald Nightmare before her death in WoW... All we'd need is an alternate version of Alexzstraza. Maybe a more Deathwing-like figure where she really only brings death as opposed to life and death (as her current voice line suggests when played).
The snowy area shown in the picture is Wyrmrest Temple. It is an ancient meeting place for the five dragonflights. And the zone is called Dragonblight where you can find Shrines for all dragonflights. Even the remains of Galakrond ( the progenitor of dragonkind ) can be found in this zone.
My guess is that the snow is a sign of Northrend, the coldest continent.
Lazul is probably speaking from a tavern in there.
It's probably not a tavern, but her little cart we first saw in the trailer(s) for Rise of Shadows.
Yes, we are seeing Wyrmrest Temple, the headquarters of the Dragonflights in Northrend.
Maybe we get to see some dragons in the year of dragons?
Maybe the name of the year doesn't require all sets in that year to have Dragons? I know it's likely sarcasm, but these types of comments are a bit ridiculous as even if the first set had a lot of dragons, the second and third would likely not have. It would be terrible in a design sense to just push a ton of Dragon cards all year long.
That said, the name for the year was likely on purpose and leading to this final set. The community was mostly guessing something dragon themed in expansion three since the first teaser image for the entire year, and with Wyrmrest Temple in Lazul's crystal ball I'd say that a dragon-themed third set is all but certain now.
The main question to ask is what will we see? In the solo content for Uldum **SPOILER** there is a mention of a "final plague" that unleashes evil long since dead. In the solo content it puts the four old gods on the opponent's board, but could it be a reference to bringing Deathwing back to life? Elise already has three cards, why not Deathwing? He was serving the old gods in his attempts to destroy the world through the Cataclysm after all. Another option could be bringing the Crazed Aspect Malygos back to life. Or perhaps we'll get corrupted versions of all the dragon aspects!!!
Only a few days to find out at BlizzCon!!!
You'd be right if HS had any respect for stable/canon storyline
I just wanted to express my hopes and wishes. Why do you assume something negative?
Because the internet?! A place where the majority of things posted are negative. And to be fair I wasn't necessarily trying to be negative either. Sorry if it came off that way. But yes, DRAGONS!!
I think Galakrond is more likely to be raised. He's the big skeleton next to the temple and heavily tied into the origin of the Dragonflights themselves. Perhaps we'll get the past-versions of the dragon aspects when they fought Galakrond and get a version of Deathwing back when he was a good guy and protecting the earth. Would be different at least.
Galakrond isnt a wel known character in the WoW-lore, but he is very important. If the next WoW-expansion is about repowering the Aspects, a HS-expansion is a good option to retell that story. If Blizzard wants to go down that road.
Since both are announced at the same evening I hope this is true.
I also think we get to see another remake of Deathwing, maybe come connection to chromie/timelines.
I actually speculated on that a LONG time back earlier this year when discussing the possible third expansion with a friend. But at that time I was thinking Caverns of Time and maybe a trip back in time to stop the early aspects from defeating him, at which point the Old Gods would try to corrupt him to do their bidding. Which was my reasoning for why Lazul was brought into this mess in the first place: she's the real puppeteer, pulling the strings to do the will of her masters, the Old Gods! Rafaam was simply played to think it was all his idea, but he too has been manipulated by the whispers from the shadows. I mean, how could a low level villain like Rafaam steal Dalaran in the first place, if some influence of other powerful beings wasn't already at play? The Old Gods look to try and return in WoW at the same time they try to return in Hearthstone!
That was my theory anyway, and some of it still may fit.
There are new villians in WoW:
1 Mua'Zala, Father of Sleep.
2. Nozdormu seems to time travel, he seems corrupted as well as his alternate counterpart.
Just like all the ravens in the year of the raven.. but yes it does seem like a dragon expansion.
The only little difference is that "Dragon" is a tribe in HS, while "Raven", "Mammoth" and "Kraken" aren't.
God why is it so difficult for people to understand
I just wanted to express my hopes and wishes. Why do you assume something negative?