WARNING: MAJOR Midnight spoilers in this post!
Credit to DarthDecisive on BlueSky for the images from Midnight Alpha!
Lothraxion: Nexus-Point Xenas
The first notable boss is a character we haven't seen since Legion, the purified demon Lothraxion.
Lothraxion is one of WoW's more unique character concepts: a Dreadlord who serves not the Legion (or Death, as we have now come to know), but the Light. According to the dreadlord, he was purified from his dark nature by Xe'ra and the Army of the Light, and shown the truth of the Light's vision for Azeroth. Now, it seems that truth is putting him at odds with the players in the Nexus-Point Xenas dungeon... or is it?
Blinded by betrayal, Lothraxion storms the Nexus-Point alone. With its defenses shattered, he prepares to breach the Nexus core, risking a chain eruption that could annihilate Silvermoon and ripple across Azeroth itself.
Back during Shadowlands, we learned that the Dreadlords were not true demons at all, but servants of Sire Denathrius and the Jailer. Their machinations to control the universe brought them not only into the Burning Legion, but into the other cosmic forces as well. According to the book 'Enemy Infiltration - Preface' penned by a dreadlord, one of their agents infiltrated the forces of the Light under the guise that they had been converted. The question since then has been: is that agent Lothraxion?
Similar to the titans, the naaru and their keepers are singular in purpose. Their adherence to a linear path is an obvious shortcoming.
They savor nothing more than being proved right, so if they believe they have converted one of us to their precious Light, they will trust that agent implicitly.
We still don't know if he turns on us out of blind faith in the Light or the reveal of his true Dreadlord nature, especially with another boss from Midnight in mind. Later in the story, the Voidspire raid will feature a council boss called the Lightblinded Vanguard, with three paladins of different races facing off against us. Whether these are an indication of Lothraxion's similarly blind faith or his manipulation of the Light's army is a question to be answered with official testing.
Alleria Windrunner: Voidspire
In an even more shocking twist, it seems that the final boss of the Voidspire raid is not Salhadaar as previously mentioned: it is a Void-corrupted Alleria Windrunner.
Alleria has struggled against the Void since her re-introduction to the story back in Legion, where she consumed the dark naaru L'ura on Argus to gain a Voidform that she could shift in and out of at will. We haven't seen that Voidform since then, however. Alleria's story in The War Within has centered upon her willingness to fully embrace the Void, and what personal attachments she might be forced to give up along the way. While she may have debuted a snazzy new outfit, she has been rather sparse on her use of the Void -- until now, it seems.
What events lead to Alleria becoming corrupted by the Void and fully embracing her dark form remains to be seen, but in all likelihood we will not kill the eldest Windrunner sister so early into Midnight.
L'ura: March on Quel'Danas
Our encounter with Alleria will likely end with her pulled back from the brink rather than killed, and that's evidenced most clearly by the final boss of Midnight's third base raid, March on Quel'Danas. According to the dungeon journal, Alleria's connection with the dark naaru is severed in the wake of her fight, setting L'ura free.
Once a creature of the Light, L'ura fell to the Void long ago on Argus, her essence siphoned by Alleria Windrunner in the Seat of the Triumvirate. Freed from her bindings, L'ura's dark energies now threaten the very Sunwell itself.
Also mentioned in the text is the presence of the Darkwell, implying that the Sunwell will be corrupted during the course of the fight. Based on the overall title of the fight, Midnight Falls, it is likely that a simple fight with L'ura will not be all that concludes the story of 12.0. What twist do you think will happen at the climax in front of the Sunwell?
