That makes sense, except for the part where he divided his army and attacked both Stormwind and Ogrimmar at the same time. -_-

I think it will be good if it just happens and we're devastated and left piecing together what actually happened and why during the expansion.

But yer, Old God power up is the most likely. I got the impression from the comic previews and bits of spoilers posted on Scrolls of Lore and here though that it was never named as C'thun powering up Cho'gall, despite the proximity of his corpse. I wonder if we might not see a 3rd Old God appearing. Perhaps the one from the War of the Ancients that attacked Nozdormu/Naga'd the Highborne.

I like that idea. It is so much better when you have to actually think about a story and decide what happened for yourself then when the creators just come right out and say it.

There is another possiblility that I have not seen. Everyone seems to think that Deathwing causes the cataclysm. But what if he is simply taking advantage of the situation? So instead of Deathwing's awakening=Cataclysm it is Cataclysm=Deathwing's awakening.

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Looks like the patch is going live today, so with any luck we should get some answers. Unless of course Blizzard has waited to put in the later boss encounters until they are playable.

While in lack of leaders, you have to remember Scourge casualties aren't actually that big a percentage of the whole army. As I've pointed before, we've fought the Scourge through "take out the head" operations, so most of the army is still alive. Plus, there's casualties on our side every day, corpses still ripe for raising, etc. The last Scourge frontal assaults were Quel'thalas and Dalaran, and we know how those went - downhill steamroll. And it's now significantly bigger, even without the Lich King (which wasn't present at either of those battles, as well).

Are you completely sure Varian would rush to stop a Scourge invasion on Horde territory? I know he's not a monster, but it wouldn't be the first time a general considered letting another army serve as speed bump for a common enemy - of course, without the other knowing. As to the inverse situation, I do think Thrall would like to go to the Alliance's aid, but there's the question of Garrosh's growing influence...

Honestly, I can't find a suitable explanation for Arthas' "holding back" attitude. Yes, it could be explained by his regal background and education, him raising a kingdom before taking on the other races. Yet the minute we get to Northrend, it's already full of camps and bases of the Horde/Alliance and we pretty much plow through every Scourge operation. No, it's...really not working. It doesn't make sense. As a general, you do the best you can with what you have. If your troop numbers vastly outweight you opponent's, you use that, period, unless they have something that nullifies that advantage. As long as Arthas doesn't just send his forces towards the front gate and waits to see what happens - and we know both him andNer'zhul to be good strategists - he should be able to take any enemy base in Azeroth.

There's a great difference between "divide the army in two" and "divide the army into thousands of tiny sub-units that attack every living sentient on the planet", which is what Uther says would happen.

There's also a difference in attacking two heavily fortified, fully manned strongholds and attacking every single undefended town, homestead and farm across Azeroth. Undoubtedly, the latter would cause a lot more long-term damage, even if it would be a lot easier to defeat by any organized band of heroes. It would be especially worse if this would all happen suddenly and simultaneously, meaning that there's hardly going to be any chance of defenders being around when it happens.

Everything is in except anything dealing with Arthas which will be patched in when hes about to be opened.

It would certainly be an interesting twist if we had to do battle with the Ashen Verdict at some point in the Arthas encounter.

Will see i guess.

I just realized something. Orgrimmar stands above network of volcanic caverns - Ragefire chasm. How the hell it is going to survive Cataclysm?

It's possible, though improbable, that this ties into Bolvar's expected sacrifice. Remember that most people involved in the game are not following this thread and are getting all of their lore from trailers and in-game sources. Blizzard may be building a unified sense that the Lich King is sure to fall, only to surprise us when his continued existence becomes a necessity.

Again, possible, but Blizzard's past storylines places some doubt on the idea of them intentionally deceiving us in this manner.