It's arguable whether or not Blizzard has had some of this stuff in works for years, or things conveniently line up and the story writers go "... Oh snap! That works now!" ;D

@ Ebylon -

Agreed. *grin* Thing is, I'm a writer, so I know that either way is possible - they might have planned this long ago, or they might have figured out how to make it all work just for Cataclysm. Either way, it's pretty damn cool.

They're doing a great job of filling in the gaps, and any storyline involving the Old Gods is good with me. I do wish they had chosen a different Lovecraft character to name the new one after--Yogg Saron and Soggoth both seem to come from Yog-Sothoth. Wikipedia alone lists over 60 Old Ones, so they have a lot to choose from...

Anyway, I doubt we'll see an Old God as a final boss of an expansion simply because that's not their nature. They work behind the scenes. At first I was bothered by the fact that Yogg-Saron came before Arthas, but (1) I seriously doubt he's dead and (2) The Lich King was part of Yogg's machinations anyway. And that's what's so cool--even if other baddies take the spotlight, in reality it's almost always the Old Gods causing it all. We have our little victories each expansion, but they're still down there, plotting....

may i suggest instead that soggoth comes from shaggoth? seems a little more likely than yog sothoth