Classic What if Elune is the fifth old god?

Okay, before I get slaughtered for saying something outlandish, let me preface this. I am NOT speculating. I am not saying it's the truth. I'm not even saying it's likely. In fact if I turned out to be right, I'd be the most shocked of all of us.I just had this random thought pop up in my head a few miuntes ago, and once it did, a lot of "clues" started coagulating around it to form a silly, but interesting idea. Here are the "clues" :- Despite having met, interacted with, or outright killed most of the divinities of the warcraft universe, be they Loas, Wild Gods, Titan constructs, Naa'ru, Demons, Eternal Ones, etc, we have yet to meet Elune, whose identity, origin or even likeness have never been revealed by Blizzard in any way. - Originally, certain books scattered in Azeroth (back in vanilla) mentioned the existence of 5 Old Gods, at a time before even C'thun was implemented in the game. We didn't know the names of the Old Gods, their locations (I still remember heated debates over the infamous "Old God buried under Lordaeron that Sylvanas definitely controls").- While these books were edited afterwards (in Mists of Pandaria I believe? Perhaps Cataclysm) to now only mention 4 Old Gods, the real-life reason for the change has never been explained by Blizzard. In my humble opinion, I would say it wouldn't be surprising, considering the time frame, that this is the moment Blizzard decided to start compiling the lore into Chronicles. They had already written about C'thun, Yogg-Saron, and Y'shaarj, definitely already had planned N'zoth, and they probably just didn't know what to do about that possible 5th old god. Since then, there have been partial, not totally valid arguments for the 5th old god, whether it's that the 5th old god is actually Xal'atath, or that G'huun, while artificial, is the one mentioned as the 5th. I personally believe that those theories are wrong, and the writers just wanted, at the time, to get rid of that "5th old god storyline". - HOWEVER, the vanilla book in question reappeared in 10.1, where it can be found in Zaralek, UN-retconned (meaning the text is the same as back in vanilla), BUT with additional notes written personally by Deathwing, meaning the reversion to the old, unedited text isn't just a copy/paste mistake, or the wrong database ID being used. Someone voluntarily retrieved that text, and wrote Deathwing's line as commentary. Surely the return of that 5th old god mention, isn't by accident.- The book also mentions something odd, but this might just be a writing mistake : if you read it word for word ... The book actually mentions 6 old gods. The book specifically mentions how the titans "Chained the 5 evil gods far beneath the surface of the world". Except.... Y'shaarj isn't one of those, is he. He never god imprisoned. In fact, it is precisely BECAUSE they didn't try to imprison him, and instead directly ripped him from the planet, that the Titans decided to imprison the others. Unless it is just a small mistake for the author of that text, it might be a genuine clue that there were actually not 4, not 5, but 6 old gods in total. This does not exclude however the possibility that G'huun or Xal'atath could be counted in the tally.- Now, to take a break from all the old gods information. While Elune has always been depicted as a goddess of "Light" (be it the actually cosmic force, or just a luminous deity), she is also heavily related to the night, darkness, and despair. Which is something that Blizzard seems to have been heavily leaning towards recently, with the Night Warrior storyline, notably. Which not only reminds a lot of the old gods themselves, another interesting bit in my opinion is the fact that all past warriors of the moon ... When mad. Started hallucinating. Seeing corruption where there was none, killing allies believing they're foes. Now, I do not wish to delve into a confirmation bias. Just because it makes sense, doesn't mean it's true. But a power of darkness turning its victim mad and turning them against their own kind ... It certainly sounds a lot like what Old Gods do, does it not?​Now, this is where I started thinking of a different detail of the Warcraft lore, something seemingly completely unrelated, but could have its important. Opposite cosmic forces, in the lore, tend to be more of a spectrum more than strictly different entities. Life decays and becomes death, and from death grows new life (literally the concept of Ardenweald). Many times have we seen mages and arcanists experiment on Fel and turn (not replace) their Arcanic fonts of power into Fel. Medivh, Sargeras, Archimonde, Kil'jaeden, Kael'thas, Illidan, all of those powerful masters of Arcane originally derived their power from the corruption of Arcane. And finally, it is widely known that Naaru, when they die, become an opposite, void version of themselves, which can then be purified and returned to their Naaru state.​This is where I combine all of these informations and formulate a hypothesis. Again, I need to reiterate the point I made in my introduction : I am not trying to convince everyone this is true, possible, or even likely. It is just a thought experiment I thought was interesting. Here goes : Elune was, eons ago, one of the Old God "seeds" sent to Azeroth to find out if it had a World Soul, and if it did, try to corrupt it. At some point, for some reason, she transcended her Old God form and became a "Light God" (terrible name, I know). If we want to go wild with speculation here, perhaps she too was killed by the Titans, but just like the Naaru, only turned into an opposite form. Maybe she got "too close" to Azeroth, and the World Soul "purified her", like an auto-immune response. Perhaps instead she was imprisoned and experimented on, similarly to G'huun. Perhaps, with all the infighting between the Old Gods, she was exiled or decided to rebel against the Void Lords.Whatever the reason we can imagine, this "Light God" could have taken the appearance, a visage form if you will, of a local mortal : a Night Elf, which would explain why the only depictions of Elune we have are of elvish traits. This might not just be antropomorphism from the Night Elves, it could be a legitimate apperance she created for herself after her "ascension".This idea I had would explain an astonishing amount of mysteries in World of Warcraft. - Elune is confirmed to be a divinity known throughout the cosmos and prayed to by alien races, yet has a deep, personal connection to Azeroth => This would be explained by this theory. As a being of Light, of the power level of the Old Gods, Titans, or Eternal Ones, perhaps she is free to roam the cosmos at will, but retains this emotional connection to Azeroth for the simple reason that it is where she was born.- The Winter Queen calls her Sister => This might be a little bit of a stretch, but, Old Gods, Titans and Eternal Ones are virtually equivalent in the cosmology, each born from a specific cosmic force. Perhaps this is why the Winter Queen calls her Sister, not to signify a biological bond, or "educational one" (as in, they didn't "grow up" together), but a social/hierarchal status. - Elune is a deity of both Light and Dark => Her being an Old God who "transcended" would explain this. Perhaps she is now on the "spectrum" from Light to Dark, and while she strives towards the Light, can still tap in void/darkness abilities when necessary, such as the Night Warrior. After all, the class/spec that is related the closest to Elune ... Is the balance druid.- Elune was able to save Ysera's soul from the corruption of the Nightmare => Well ... Who better than an Old God to know how to cure someone from the affliction of the Emerald Nightmare? While N'zoth is seemingly the one who started the corruption of the Nightmare, the power he used to do so is the same as any other old god. - Elune has been much more prominent and active in recent expansions => Elune, before Legion, had NEVER been implicated in quests and cinematics. Since Shadowlands however, she's been showing up through lending her power or even talking to the Winter Queen directly, in much more grandiose and recurrent events. What if the reason Elune was so discreet in the past, is that she felt unsafe with the Old Gods still roaming Azeroth? With the last one, N'zoth, being killed, perhaps she decided it was safe to act "in broad daylight" again.​I think that's pretty much all my point. Thanks for listening to my TedTalk, please don't roast me too much, I've only slept 8 hours in the last 4 days. Peace out y'all. via /r/wow https://ift.tt/a5eXYUK