wow Empire of Dragons 10.0 WoW Expansion "Leak"

[Starym 3,800]

 

We're back with round 2 of the season of leaks (with round 1 being over here), and this time around we have some visuals to go over! There's actually a pretty solid logo, the only visual "leak" we've seen so far, with it coming from "a discord group", but it's looking pretty good aesthetically. It's the Empire of Dragons and it seems to be suggesting a combo of Dragon Isles and the Void, at least based on the background:

Source: iExtrordinary.

The logo itself got plenty of comments on the font of certain letters, the fact that "of" isn't centered on the above graphic element, the TM and C copyright logos that we haven't seen since WoD, and so on, but all in all it's looking pretty decent. I also wanted to dive into a whole discussion on the name itself and how generic and simple it is, but the last time I did that, I went all out saying that "Battle for Azeroth" is the dumbest and most simplistic name for an expansion ever and there was NO way Blizzard would ever use it, so I think I'll pass this time.

As for what the logo implies it does fit VERY well into expectations and what we know so far, as a Dragon Isles Void themed expansion is right on the money both with other leaks/theories we've seen and fits thematically into the flow of the story coming out of Shadowlands. It could be a direct continuation from the SL story as we come back to Azeroth to see either all the Old Gods resurrected or even a new one arrive, or maybe we even meet our first Void Lord directly. Perhaps some players' dream theory of us waking up in N'Zoth's boss room after Shadowlands ends and the "it's all been a dream/N'Zoth manipulation/vision" will become real? This theme would still be very epic and cosmic, which many players have recently been criticizing with Shadowlands being so over the top, but it would also bring us back to Azeroth, so it's a bit of a mix. It would certainly make up for the sad and quick presentation of N'Zoth we got in BfA, and combined with the Dragon theme would make it fresh enough to not be too soon.

I won't dive too much more into this one as our friend MrGM has already done that, so you can check out his video for more on the subject instead.

You can check out some of the other leaks we've talked about over here as well.

[Arcling 898]

Isn't this one of the fakes? Logo looks like a color swap of Cataclysm, with a broken planet.

[Teufel 331]

1 hour ago, Arcling said:

Isn't this one of the fakes? Logo looks like a color swap of Cataclysm, with a broken planet.

Nah, the crack is in the wrong place compared to Cata one and the side ornaments are different.

[Starym 3,800]

1 hour ago, Arcling said:

Isn't this one of the fakes? Logo looks like a color swap of Cataclysm, with a broken planet.

I mean it's most likely fake, they all are. It's more about the idea of it, and this logo looks pretty solid.

[Beyonder 0]

The bottom of the C spacing is not centered.

[Arcling 898]

On 1/25/2022 at 8:45 PM, Teufel said:

Nah, the crack is in the wrong place compared to Cata one and the side ornaments are different.

You are right, it looks different, although it isn't hard to modify a logo. There were many fake ones before.

[Calorat 78]

This is such a dumb idea I feel like it's probably real.  It would follow Blizz's behavior of back-tracking.  1st they depower all the Dragon Aspects and send em off to retirement, then they bring em back in an attempt to capture the 'good ole days" except now the Black Dragonflight will be the good guys because the Black Dragonflight being evil was a racist caricature since anything with black in the name being evil or entire races being evil is considered a racist trope now and there has been a loud push to change it in various fantasy role-playing settings, so I can see the people in charge doing this in hopes of winning some easy brownie points trying to get people excited and then falling back into the awful writing and decision making that was Shadowlands

[Sixheadeddog 0]

5 hours ago, Calorat said:

except now the Black Dragonflight will be the good guys because the Black Dragonflight being evil was a racist caricature since anything with black in the name being evil or entire races being evil is considered a racist trope now and there has been a loud push to change it in various fantasy role-playing settings

Literally no one has ever said that black dragons being evil was racist. And the groundwork for redeeming the black dragons was begun several expansions ago, so the idea that this is suddenly happening now because the SJWs are coming to ruin all the video games is just utter nonsense. 

Of course, this is end-of-expansion leak season, so part of me is thinking *maybe* this was a troll post and it's not actually serious.