Definitely interested to see the Horde counterparts, Ethereal or otherwise, Blood Elf reforgers were somewhat of a whoops moment.

My first thought was they could be Cross-Realm mail vendors. So people can finally send Heirlooms and items to characters of the same account on different realms. Would fit the ethereal theme (they come from and travel between other planes / servers). I wouldn't be surprised if this was implemented as a premium feature, however.

All three NPCs have jobs that are clearly magical in nature. We can certainly say that the "Void Storage" is some kind of banking system where items can be stored. My guess would be that it's an account-based bank meaning that all your characters can access this storage. It may very well be Blizzards attempt at rendering obsolete all those personal guilds we use as banks. Whether it's cross-server or not is anyones guess.

The "Arcane Reforger" probably has a similar job to our current reforgers but I'm unclear if he'd actually reforge our spells (similar to what some glyphs do). My hope is that he'll attach new cast animations to spells; that's just a pipe dream though.

The "Transmogrifier" is the most interesting one. I honestly have no idea what that could mean. Somebody pointed out that changing faces might be a possibility and since the advent of the barber shop I could see that happening.


And again, as Mr. Crow pointed out, this could be another item in line to throwing us off of the BlizzCon announcements. I put the tinfoil hat on last week when "Mysts" was uncovered and if I wasn't so intrigued with these names I might be strapping it on tighter and looking for accessories.

"Arcane reforger" is the title reforge npcs already have.

Agreed. I still vote for needlessly complex "Banker" for the first. The second being "Alchemy Trainer", "Enchanting Trainer", or even one of the specialized trade good vendors (vials, a couple strange dust and wood, or whatever).

New guys filling old roles (whether or not a playable race) seems a simpler explanation (Occam's razor) than brand new features. When they tease new features they tend to put up screenshots of that feature's UI.

It's somewhat dangerous marketing. Internet is abuzz with rampant speculation (picture's almost viral at this point). When our greatest dreams don't materialize, some folks will get upset, blame Blizzard and quit (these people are idiots, but still exist). If Blizzard has a new feature, advertise it and instead you get some folks thrilled and wanting to re-subscribe or at least stay subscribed (these people may or may not be idiots, and also exist). The screenshot we have could lead to some cancellations, but no additions. Screenies of a new feature could lead to either/both. The second is the better marketing to release.

To Crow - yeah, we really don't need new races at all. Unfortunately Blizzard has somewhat painted themselves into the corner of new X-pac must have new class or new races. Since last we heard they had no good ideas for a new Hero class (and balance issues for DK were/are a nightmare) it leans towards new races. Some segment of the playerbase seems to love leveling a new race - it makes some of the old a bit new again. If X-pacs effectively only carry new dungeon/raid content, what distinguishes them from patches in the eyes of the average player?

Shamelessly lifted from mmo-c

follow the wordgames here Void Transmogifier is an anagram

Just saying that while we're cool with the speculation on the image Blizzard posted on Facebook, let's avoid getting into conspiracy nut levels of analysis. The stuff people posted above? All cool. That stuff copied from MMO-Champion? Let's not go there. If you do want to do that kind of speculation I encourage you to do so on MMO-Champion, and if any of it turns out to be correct you're free to PM me it and I'll make a public statement here about how I shut down a valid train of thought about that image.

Basically: Anything that comes directly from the image? Cool. Anagrams, numerology and all that jazz? Skip it.

The true timeline but from the way he speaks of his use to Deathwing he seems to have not been caught yet which gives me hope that we will indeed see him becoming a traitor ingame.

Mostly I find it really odd that the security in the various Sanctums is so bad. After Ruby Sanctum in WotLK you'd think they would have pumped security up. Also can you go any more into detail about the Aspec of Earth business? Would it be appropriate to assume only dragons can be aspects?

Also should I find it amusing that Golden kills off one of the characters Knaak created?

The ruby sanctum is still recovering from the last twilight assault in the novel but yeah it's not really clear how they get in, although this Twilight Father chap has taken the reins up from Cho'Gall and he, his employer and co-conspirators are pretty powerful.

The way that the new blue is selected and the fact that the new aspect grows and becomes an aspect in the true sense and not just the leader of the blues seem to suggest that only a dragon could be one. Also Thrall has this internal monologue during the final confrontation about how he was not and could never be an aspect but he was able to help them due to his connection to the elements and thus to earth, like I said we'll see what Metzen has to say but Thrall himself does not believe he could ever be an aspect.

It is also suggested that the dragons were already here and were 'asked' by the titans to become the protectors of Azeroth (to be honest I have forgotten whether this contradicts the current version of the coming of the titans or not - having a hard time keeping up with which version is currently 'cannon'), Alexstraza after all that happens regrets her decision and feels she didn't fully understand what was asked of her and that it was too much for her to take on (she goes on a big emo sulk after the attack on the sanctums).


When it happened I did think of the Knaak haters and smile.

From the wowpedia page on dragonflights: And from the wowpedia page on dragon aspects: Adding that to the fact that proto-dragons were the "ancestors" from which the dragon aspects involved from I'm coming to the conclusion thatt either: a) the proto-dragons are native to Azeroth and the modern day dragons evolved from them and were around before the titans came to Azeroth and the leaders of the five most prominent flights were charged with their respective duties or b) the proto-dragons were created by the titans and the dragonflights evolved from their creation and later hand picked and charged with their respective duties. Both seem like plausible explanations but the titans usually create things that are iron and/or stone and the proto-dragons are kinda...fleshy!