![]() ![]() Where he comes from is as unknown as Vezax, although we may assume that much as Rajaxx in Ahn'Qiraj, both Vezax and Soggoth may have been shaped by one or many Old Gods to serve as a leader of unfathomable armies. Soggoth shares a similar form to Vezax and the faceless ones, a massive tentacled head and a loathsome, shambling body. As we discover through questing in and around his resting place in the Master's Glaive region of Darkshore, Soggoth at his full power defeated an army of over 20 of the Titans' greatest stone giant champions and was only rendered into his current state because one of them accepted destruction in order to be lifted close enough to bury a huge Titan-crafted sword in its head. While not an Old God itself, Soggoth the Slitherer is clearly meant as a major threat to all life on Azeroth, an entity perhaps on the scale of a General Vezax or Rajaxx (perhaps even more potent he's clearly larger than either of them) that even when only partially resurrected, required the aid of a veritable army of Ancients (the tree ones) to defeat. (Until I hear differently, I'm still assuming that Isorath is an actual Old God, because if not man, that's one really big mess of tentacles for a servitor.) But these are far from the only potential places where the Old Gods' presence can be felt. They're running excavations in Darkshore and the Twilight Higlands, their camps have sprung up on the shores of Thousand Needles' new submerged environment, and entities like Soggoth and Isorath have been discovered. So far in the Cataclysm beta, we've seen the Twilight's Hammer more or less in full on "Let's bring the Old Gods back!" mode. ![]() As we discussed before, the Old Gods are a universal phenomenon, spreading chaos and destruction wherever they go, whether they're being summoned into Outland's Shadowmoon Valley or having their servitors corrupt the former prison wing of the naaru vessel Tempest Keep. But they're far from the only Old Gods on Azeroth, and the Old Gods on Azeroth are far from the only Old Gods in the entire Warcraft universe. To date we've discussed C'Thun and Yogg-Saron, the Old Gods that have to date made an appearance in the game. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how - but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft. The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe.
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