I sincerely apologize for the very text and image intense post guys. I get a little carried away with these type of things.
This is purely speculation, but I've been thinking, which has led me to being a little more hopeful. Despite the fact that the Greater Gorms using the G'huun skeleton, I've done some thinking. So I wanted to present a relatively formal case for our big friends in Ardenweald, and present my thoughts alongside some ideas to maybe get these guys into our stables!
We can safely assume that the Wasps are tamable;
Based off the assumption that the wasps are tamable, we know that to some extent, the species of Gorms can be domesticated. So how does this have any correlation? Well, the Silithid
appear to have a lot of similarities to the Gorm. To what extent? I'm not sure. We don't know too much about them, but I'm only going purely off of what I'm seeing and gathering from the datamining. But don't we notice something here?
The Silithid also have wasps that are tamable. Aside from just using the standard wasps, we can use a more formidable set of examples:
Ayamiss
Princess Huhuran
Although the Gorm and Silithid are not the same, we notice that there are similarities with their species just off of this alone. That there is still some overlap, and from what we know from canonical lore, the Silithid are a very intelligent insectoid race of non-sentient beasts created by C'Thun. The fact that we can domesticate Ayamiss, Princess Huhuran, two iconic centerpieces of the Silithid, we know that our reach of domestication goes farther than it appears. If we can tame the Gorm Wasps, then why not the Greater Gorms?
Considering the new presence of the Silithid after the events of Antorus, this indicates that despite everything that has happened, they are still a very prominent force within Azeroth. More specifically, let's build our way up and compare the Gorms before we jump into the focal point here:
Whilst not directly, these appear to be workers of some variation, whether they are, or serve a different purpose, we can loosely correlate them to a few Silithid creatures, first and foremost, the workers:
This doesn't seem nearly as likely, but it's a possibility, and still, the correlation of structural hierarchy is there, and considering how intelligent the Silithid are made out to be, these guys aren't unlikely candidates to see our stables. Especially when we look towards the Sand Reavers:
Not much is known about the Sand Reaver, or if they are even directly apart of the Silithid hierarchy. (If you know more about these guys lore, please share!) I feel the correlation is slightly stronger here, but without knowing too much about the Gorms or the Sand Reavers, it's tough to say. Going off of what little I know, it appears that they are defenders, to some extent, of the Silithid, as indicated of what we see in Ahn'Qiraj. I would feel that the Gorms presented above, could potentially be defenders of the younger Gorm larvae, and considering all of the examples that I've presented so far seem to be tameable. They aren't larvae themselves, because the Gorm already have a confirmed larvae model:
This leads me to believing that we will see the the medium Gorms tamable. If not for the larvae, from what we know that the wasps are tameable. This leads the medium Gorm to be likely candidates, as they are more in-line with a median level Silithid to an extent. So, with that being said, let's move on to the elephant in the room:
The Greater Gorm
It would seem that, judging by the teaser footage that we got to see in the Shadowlands expansion reveal, that the Greater Gorms are relatively common. Although I don't know for sure, I can safely assume that the Greater Gorms are just fully grown, or a variation of the Gorm that we aren't aware of at this time. They seem to be the protectors of the species, and possibly even the leaders. So where does that bring us?
According to what we know, the Colossi are known to even take leadership roles within the hierarchy of the Silithid species. They are the apex of the Silithid species. We know that they are formidable, they are strong, and we know that they are intelligent as well. There is a lot of overlap between these two, just based off of appearance, and what we can gather from the short little bit of footage that we gathered of Ardenweald. I would safely assume that the Gorm are not direct products of an Old God, let alone a higher power, besides maybe the Jailer, but they seem too fae and nature based to be direct products of the Jailer. Which even then, we were able to tame Silithid, which are intelligent species, and part of an effective hive mind, alongside being direct creations of an Old God, in such close proximity too. We know that Hunters are capable of capturing and taming intelligent and powerful beasts, based off of that alone, and then the fact we can tame the Gorm Wasps, it leads me to the belief that Greater Gorms are not out of our scope.
Please tell me what you guys think, I know it's frugal. I just care a lot about these type of things, and I want to put forth all of my effort into getting my hands on these guys. With a little bit of hope, and hopefully some notice from the Blizzard developer team, maybe they'll be kind to us and let us tame these.
