Given that they've already used Tyrigosa ingame, I think Blizzard is pretty on top of these things.. and if they need any kind of mediator between the blue dragonflight and Dalaran, I doubt they'd skip over the opportunity to use Tyrigosa and Kalecgos.

I, for one, am looking forward to the Doom Lord Azuregos outdoor raid...

Not Doom Lord Azuregos dear Liebstod, Magic Emperor Azuregos!

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

Malygos isn't insane. I remember from one of the books that magic use draws "evil beings" from the "outer reaches" or something like but not limited to the Burning Legion to a world. Malygos wants to protect the world and the rampant magic use actually let's Azeroth be a glowing beacon in whatever spectral outside realm this stuff happens. So he tries to dampen the magic use and thus shield the world.

His motive is not evil, nor is he insane. Just his approach is a bit heavy handed and in direct violation of the red flight's prime motives.

I'm pretty much certain he can be reasoned with and does not need to be killed in the end, but we shall see.

At least that's what I remember from some hints in the books. I could be very wrong here though as my memory is a bit hazy on this part but I believe I remember having read something about magic use draws evil beings to a world.

Azuregos the Mad! Would be nice to see if he regains his sanity, though I did love his ramblings in the blue sceptre quest line.

Magic use attracts the Burning Legion, but it seems unlikely they would suddenly forget the position of Azeroth just because magic usage was reduced, so Malygos might be some thousands years too late.

Of course heavy magic use is also involved in actually brining the Burning Legion to Azeroth (like consuming the Sunwell to get Kiljaeden here in 2.4), so in that matter removing magic from mortal races might have a point.

Its like Illidans "Hey, if i destroy half of Azeroth maybe Ill kill the Lich King too!"

One interesting bit of information about Maylgos was that the nether dragons should have helped 'healing' him. But the nether dragons are also supposed to be leftovers from Deathwing, maybe it will turn out the netherdragons was really just his plan to corrupt Malygos

In the end, Ill have to see us not killing Malygos for epics before I believe it wont happen.

I'm curious though, if simply using magic attracts all sorts of nasties wouldn't bringing all of the world's magic fields to one place and blasting it into the Twisting Nether (where the baddies hang out) be even worse?

Or maybe this will be a plot point, that in his quest to get rid of the magic everyone is abusing Malygos is actually making the problem worse. *shrug*

And the time for Neltharion is overdue...

However, Blizzard hasn't really given a possibility for the world to survive with an Aspect's death. They are the pillars of Azeroth and I was under the impression that killing the Aspect's would spell doom for Azeroth. I took Nozdormu saying that he knows the exact moment of his death as being the exact moment of the death of Azeroth.

Eh, I think it's heavily implied that nothing would happen. After all, apparently a lot of people believe that Deathwing is dead.

Unless WoWWiki is mistaken, Anachronos is supposed to be the heir apparent to Nozdormu.

Believing to be dead and actually being dead are 2 different things. ^_^

But yes, for all intents and purposes the Aspects can die, and they have heirs to their respective flights planned out in case they do kick the bucket.

However while they're alive they can wreak havoc on the environment that they govern.

See: Deathwing's corruption and his affect on the Azeroth's Earth.

Well, yea, but presumably if it's commonly-held that the world would be destroyed by the Aspects dying, then we'd know they're not dead given the fact that the world hasn't been destroyed.

One could refute the "common knowledge" assumption, but that's a stretch. Oh well.. I think it's unlikely that you'll kill Malygos anyways, I think a dev said as much. Deathwing someday, maybe..

While they might have heirs, I don't think anything points toward those heirs being as powerful (given to the aspects by the titans).
When you make some beings guardians, one might assume they had to guard/protect something, and if they didnt, stuff would go wrong.
Maybe not the end of the world wrong, but wrong.
Like Deathwing being the Aspect of the earth, being killed, might allow the rest of the old gods get out of their prisons.
Deathwing being aspect of earth in the first place means him going insane actually makes more sense than in many other cases in Warcraft lore, since he was close to the old gods, whether that explanation was intended or not. Just like Malygos going evil would somewhat make perfect sense, since magic in Warcraft is always supposed to be corruptive. Which is why Azeroth need a guardian for magic in the first place I guess, and he failed quite terribly at it, even before he went insane.
Ysera dying would maybe up the rate of animals/wildlife going insane (the poor bastards might get nightmares :O), and who knows, druids too.
Nozdormus death might open up for random time issues (or maybe just more instances for us in CoT :P), like people popping up where they shouldn't be etc.

I guess you could say the death of an aspect would have serious consequences for Azeroth, IF the Aspects were actually doing their jobs. Nozdormu seems to be the only one doing his for the last 10000 years in the lore. All the others pretty much just watched while the Elfs started summoning the Burning Legion (partly due to Deathwing, but not only that, the dragons are throughout the lore shown as being very removed from the world they were meant to guard).
So the effect of a dead Aspect is probably how Azeroth is already, maybe just times two or something, since most of the aspects have failed so much that they might jsut as well have been dead
Pure speculation of course, havent seen Metzen state anything in that regard, but the Aspects being quite careless about the world seems to be intended at least.

Maybe the death of an aspect will be used as the lead in to the given return of titans later (When we finally do run out of other bad-asses). Their response to Azeroths current situation might make Malygos 'War on Magic' look friendly in comparison.

The sequence between Overlord Mor'ghor and Lady Sinestra on Netherwing Ledge proves otherwise though.

Lady Sinestra - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft

Actually, that's exactly what I'm basing my argument on. Obviously Deathwing is alive from what she says, but Mor'ghor is the only person so far afaik who's actually stated the belief that Deathwing was dead.

Vivendi press release

This is perhaps not that big of a suprise, but it's always nice to see some sort of confirmation that the expansion is, at least, scheduled for release before the end of 08.

"Blizzard Entertainment’s second expansion, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, is scheduled to be released in the second half of 2008."

No big suprise that Blizzard gives out so much news at this time. Age of Conan is starting and especially for lore-driven players that like an interactable and changing world quite attractive. Something aiming excactly at this target group is a good way to keep some of them from switching the game. From what I heard is that a lot of preorders for Warhammer already were canceled, most likely due to the arena system in WoW, Blizzard now heads out for RP & Lore. The next BlizzCast will have RP as topic.

So we may except some more on the lore stuff pretty soon.

Expect F&F Alpha to start late June early July.

Edit: Conflicting reports now hearing End of May, early June. >_>

Source please for the canceled preorders data? It's not that I don't believe, I simply just haven't heard that. I'd also be interested in seeing if the preorder canceling wave that you mention coincided with the time that mythic announced they were pushing back the release date a few months.

Edit: Malleus probably hit the nail on the head ;-)

I think it's more likely to have coincided with the beta test, reports from which mostly said "This game is fucking horrible".

I thought the F&F alpha has already started. Or maybe that's just some internal alpha?

Dev Alpha is going on right now.