According to lore, the Titans created Azeroth -- they made it, left, it was taken over by Old Gods, and then the Titans returned. They couldn't rid the world of the Old Gods, so they merely imprisoned them. Evidence suggests that the Sha are part of that discovery. When Y'shaarj was killed, he didn't expire. His essence clung to the planet, manifesting as malignant creatures born of negative emotion. Because of this, the Titans realized the Old Gods could not be destroyed without destroying Azeroth itself, and they were unwilling to do that.
Let's look at the situation a little differently. Instead of looking at the Old God infestation, instead of looking at the pattern of the Titans, instead of looking at their peculiar unwillingness to destroy the planet once it had become contaminated, let's look at that one tiny phrase. "The Titans created Azeroth." There are actually hundreds of different ways that could be interpreted.
The Titans seem to be mechanical creatures, and the planetary systems that they implement are incredibly complex, like computers. I'd always assumed that they simply built the planet much like anyone would build a computer -- put the interior components in a nice case, check the connections, plug it in. But maybe we're dealing with something far more existential.
Quite some time ago, I wrote a piece on Lovecraft and the Warcraft mythos -- how WoW tends to reference the works of Lovecraft with all of the Old God mythology. In it, I suggested that perhaps Azeroth itself was a reference to Azathoth -- a mass of pure chaos at the heart of the universe from which all chaos originates. I pointed out that the planet Azeroth may very well be a prison for the heart of chaos.
If the Titans created Azeroth, then they may have been creating a cell, a physical thing to encase the chaos and keep it in check. Or maybe they created Azeroth, the center of chaos. The thing from which malcontent is born, the beast at the center of the universe. They didn't do it deliberately, they did it by the very nature of their existence.
Titans are innately creatures of order. They live to put the universe in order and set things into motion. But you cannot have order if chaos does not exist. You cannot make order out of something that is already ordered to begin with. By the very nature of the Titans' existence, chaos must exist in some form or another. The Titans created Azeroth simply by coming into existence as the beings that they are -- beacons of order.
And if you look at it this way, you can absolutely see without question why Sargeras was driven mad. It wasn't because of the constant presence of chaos in the universe. It was because he studied that chaos and he realized that this thing that he fought, the chaos he battled day in and day out, every horrific moment he experienced in battle, all of it was created by the Titans. It was a never ending cycle of chaos and order. His purpose was to defeat chaos. If he defeated chaos, he would no longer have a purpose. Therefore, chaos always had to exist.
A logistical paradox that would be more than enough to drive anyone mad. He could never fulfill his purpose, because as long as the Titans existed, that purpose would never end. In fact, the only way to remove chaos from the universe was to embrace it and use it to wipe the Titans out. If they were gone, there would be no more order. If there was no order, there would be no more chaos. In his warped mind, perhaps Sargeras' fall from grace was simply his attempt to actually fulfill his purpose.
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