Wrong. They are basically being puppets to the titans who imprisioned Azeroth and all Raszageth is trying to do is open their eyes.
The only thing that this deranged purple muppet-bird-dragon lady is doing is just showing us just how unnecessarily destructive elemental powers can be and why we needed someone to come along and put a clamp on it for.
In response to everyone saying 'egh this villian is meh'.This is the first reasonably scaled villain we had in YEARS; no N'zoth (whom we had a uber necklace for), no Jailer shenanigans, no Argus (Uber weapons) - this is the first authentic, normal threat we've had. Of course she'll feel downscaled for most as she's the first villain we had where she ISN'T absurdly powered; she's a big dragon with high control over lightning. That's it.And I love it.It's a bit too early to make any real judgement of the conclusion of Raszageth's tale, the expansion hasn't even been out for a week; let them tell the story, and we'll flame em' later if it turns out to be meh.
To be fair, every fight we've seen Alexstrazsa in she loses hard. Maybe we just need an aspect who knows how to fight. So far she's lost to Raszageth, Deathwing, The Orcish horde, and Hanzo (Heroes trailer). She is the life-binder that's like a healer choosing to be the tank.
Really good villain story. I like how she's not some all-powerful creature that just 'wins'. She almost took out an old lady dragon who has zero aspect powers, but Wrathion and us heroes were on top of things and she knew she couldn't win. So she left.Same thing happened in the blue zone, Kalec thwarted her off.She isn't fighting til her dying breath. When the odds are against her, she runs. She isn't relying on power she clearly doesn't have, but that doesn't mean she's a wimp either.Cannon-wise, most of our victories are won the same way. Someone else intervenes by giving us a boon or a boost. In the lore our raid victories are attributes, mostly, to either Alliance or Horde. Not Timtim the lvl 60 hunter.The player character didn't personally 1v1 the Lich King no Zovaal.If we killed a bear but died to a soccerball being kicked too hard to our head, it would feel lackluster but sometimes life is lackluster.Threat is real, regardless of perception.
We don't really need aspects to protect anything. So far they have failed at pretty much everything they did, so why restore them to anything? We owe the dragons nothing at this point in fact we saved the planet more times they did in their entire existence. so they can go retire on their islands for all I care.
About Azeroth's "original state", we can all guess it's not a titan, nor an elemental being, nor a void lord - but it could be manipulated to their ends.Clearly, for Azeroth to be immensely important to the First ones and feature greatly in Zerath Mortis (and likely the other Zeraths) as an important location, she is something special.Her namesake, Azathoth, is a sleeping god of primordial chaos that is dreaming all of reality, and once it awakens everything ends. We could definitely assume Azeroth herself is somewhat on a similar scale. She always features as the centre of the universe, quite literally.