Talk:Vaal Hazak

So I noticed a few things while fighting against Vaal Hazak and in the cutscene involving him. First of all in the cutscene he's not absorbing their life force rather he's absorbing the effluvian gas that's corrupted them. Apparently he absorbs enough of this gas that it kills them. Now another thing I've noticed is that the gas not only surrounds him but also flows inside his body as you can see inside his body as it has a glass like structure to it. Now after a certain point he'll do an attack where he'll slam his body down and leaks out a huge amount of Efluvian... but when he does this his body goes completely still. After a few seconds the gas will, quite literally, flow back into him and when it does he get's up again.

This connecting with the scene and what the Tracker said about a monster being at the center of the life and death ecosystem in the Coral highlands and Rotten Vale have lead me to hypothesize this. The elder dragon isn't an actual physical entity, Vaal Hazak's true form is the Efluvian Gas. The body that you fight is merely a shell or a vessel that it uses to defend itself. Now while it's true that the body can do quite a bit of damage nevertheless when you comebine it's glass like body, with the gas it leads up to that. What do you think?

Kentenko (talk) 02:25, February 13, 2018 (UTC)