Prelude to the Coming Storm

[Chris24601]

My personal fix for “The Coming Storm” would be to recontextualize it as not a single event with a singular Big Bad, but as a series of crises striking in close succession.

 

The Praetorian War would be the opening of the Storm. Praetorian Hamidon trying to merge with its Primal counterpart might be another. A fresh push by Rularuu could be a third.

 

The Battalion (who from a deep lore dive should strongly resemble the Rikti… as the Rikti had to adapt from being humans to their present form as part of defeating their dimension’s Battalion and their tech and forms were about adapting to Battalion terraforming) in this scenario would be just one of the many threats in this storm wracked age.

 

The main advantage is each threat can be built one at a time and largely from existing tech capabilities. It’s only the aggregate as endgame content (all at once in the “level=time” setup) that creates the perspective of a massive storm of threats all coming to a head at once.