Do not fall prey to excessive posting in the (low content) HARTHSTONE?! thread. Move discussion of cards, pics, speculation, strategery, and lockbox here.
To the uninitiated...
Who are the Old Gods? It has always been debated whether the Old Gods, the Legion, or the Titans were the big bad of Warcraft. Until this week. It was just revealed that the Titans are dead, and the Legion was formed to have a faint hope to be able to defeat the OGs. (ps loyal shadow priests knew all along). In nerdspeak, they are pure Chaotic Evil. (Which surely depends on your frame of reference...shadow priests)
The Old Gods' influence and exact spheres of control over Azeroth is only speculated upon.
But wherever they show up purple tends to prevail. Here are the Twilight Highlands:
One of the first OP cards linked in the reveal is...
In the very, very black corner wearing the very, very black trunks...
C'thun resides in Southern Kalimdor and has an army of avatars known as the Silithid. The Silithid are very Starship Trooper-ish and not nearly on the awesome level as other OG minions.
C'thun was speculated as the only OG to ever be defeated but that distinction belongs to Y'shaarj.
Y'shaarj was killed by the Titans a long, long time ago when the saga began. He ended up corrupting the panda continent (that no one cares about and pretends doesn't exist) in death.
At the apex of the Warcraft franchise we have Arthas, who was indirectly a pawn of Yogg'Saron.
Yogg is my personal fave and I hope that Brody does him justice in HARTHSTONE. His minions are the Faceless Ones, and they reside in the icy continent of Northrend. There are also some death spiders and vikings if you're into that ****. GOAT VILLAIN.
The big dick daddy of this whole group is N'zoth, but no one knows anything concrete about him other that he probably lives under the ocean and has done a lot of naughty things.
We shall indubitably also see tons of Twilight Cultists (so, so many Cultists)
and an appearance from everyone's favorite apocalyptic ogre, Cho'gall.
It summary, the OGs are the equivalent of Lovecraftian Horrors in the Warcraft universe. Unintelligible, incomprehensible beings of madness and good times.
I'm realllly hoping there is a small chance that Blizz does something to make Shadow Priest viable in this expac.