No one dared collect the small fragments of loot dropped by the destroyed Obsidian Destroyers on the battlefield without permission.
Herad had described these servants of the Old Gods as more terrifying than ravenous beasts!
According to Herad, every unpurified item carried a curse that would make eyes and tentacles grow on anyone who remained in contact with it for too long.
Although his claim was rather exaggerated, the Dragons all agreed with it.
When the Titans infused the Dragons with guardian power and appointed them the Keepers of Azeroth, they had also imparted some information about the Old Gods.
Rampant expansion and the corruption of mortals were both traits the Titans had attributed to the Old Gods.
The Dragons had never dealt directly with the Old Gods.
But judging by the information the Titans had imparted, eyeballs and tentacles growing on mortals matched the characteristics of Old God corruption.
Seeing the Anubisath and Obsidian Destroyers corrupted into defecting to the enemy made them deeply wary of the Old Gods' corruption.
These Titan-forged were no mortals.
If even they had been corrupted, what could possibly be immune?
What the Dragons did not know was that, while the Old Gods were indeed skilled at corruption,
their powers of corruption differed greatly.
For instance, the weakest, Sargeras, could only twist mortals' values.
He had tricked Troll priests into resurrecting a Faceless Ones General, then used the strength of the Troll Empire to wear down and kill his rival's Faceless Ones General.
If Xal'atath's powers of corruption had been strong enough, controlling the entire upper echelon of the Troll Empire would have been enough to achieve the desired goal.
Of all the Old Gods on Azeroth, N'Zoth was still the most formidable.
That fellow had already escaped the prison the Titans had built.