{"id":153345,"date":"2022-11-08T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=153345"},"modified":"2022-11-08T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T00:10:07","slug":"dragonflight-tyr-galakrond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2022\/11\/08\/dragonflight-tyr-galakrond\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Galakrond be the Dragonflight end-boss? What we know about Tyr, the dragonflights, and Galakrond"},"content":{"rendered":"

With upcoming launch of the World of Warcraft:\u00a0Dragonflight <\/em><\/a>expansion on November 28, we’ve learned some new bits of lore, revisited the past, and had reason to be excited for the future of WoW<\/em>. The age of dragons ended at the end of Cataclym<\/em>, beginning the age of mortals \u2014 but now the time of the dragons has come again. The Dragon Isles<\/a> were shut off from the world \u2014 even from the dragons themselves \u2014 at the time of the sundering, 10,000 years ago. Much like Pandaria, magic made it impossible for anyone to travel to the Dragon Isles. The dragons were locked away from their ancient home… until now.<\/p>\n

The power to allow the dragons to return was tied to a beacon in Tyrhold<\/a>, and the mechanism to activate the beacon is Titan technology. When the stone watchers guarding the beacon awoke \u2014 at least, the only one that hadn’t succumbed to the devastation of the elements \u2014 it was time for the dragons to come home.<\/p>\n

We’ve encountered the dragons, especially aspects, before in WoW<\/em>. There have been references to Tyr, a Titan-keeper, in game, and his background with the dragon aspects is laid out more in the book Dawn of the Aspects<\/em><\/a>. So who is Tyr? What is their background? And would could this mean for the final villain of Dragonflight<\/em>?<\/p>\n

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The origins of the dragon aspects<\/h2>\n

In the beginning, there were\u00a0proto-dragons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, no, before there were proto-dragons, there were elementals, and some of them weren’t imprisoned on the Elemental Plane. Those that stayed on Azeroth gradually transformed into elemental drakes, and then<\/em> they transformed into proto-drakes. In Dragonflight<\/em>, we see proto-dragon leaders returning to elemental forms. The proto-dragons resided in the Dragon Isles, and were not, for the most part, the intelligent, powerful creatures we know of when thinking of dragons. They were more primal, closer to those as seen in Northrend. They came in varying colors, not just the five main dragon flight colors, but many other variations, like violet, ironbound, orange, and gold.<\/p>\n

Among the proto-dragons, one began to stand out and evolve above the rest: Galakrond<\/a>. He started to consume other proto-dragons. He grew larger and mutated, with extra limbs and eyes, transforming himself into what was basically an undead. He continued out into Azeroth, consuming life and creating undead dragon followers, called the not-living<\/a>. He became so hungry for life he would even expel the proto-drakes he had consumed, and then devour them again.<\/p>\n

Galakrond was a menace to the world who had to be stopped. Five proto-dragons \u2014 the only types of dragons at the time \u2014 stepped up. They were the most daring and the most powerful of their kind, and they eventually defeated Galakrond. They were the dragons that we would come to know as Alexstrasza, Nozdormu, Ysera, Malygos, and Neltharion.<\/p>\n

For their effort, they gained the attention and favor of the Titans, who charged them with protecting Azeroth. The Titans set each of these dragons with a task:<\/p>\n