Interlude
The sand spilled through his hand, and as each grain hit the floor the Sands of time shattered. Nozdormu, the Aspect of Time had finally failed in his task. Kintari watched the timeline unfold throughout all of time, for he watched it from without. Nozdormu had altered the natural fate of time!
The Titans, an ancient godlike race of beings that had brought life to Azeroth had left in their wisdom guardians, who would in their absence protect their creation.
Aman'Thul the High Father and leader of the Pantheon had charged Nozdormu with the protection of Time. However he charged another, Kintari, with the protection of time from outside of time.
Aman'Thul knew that the Old Gods, who the Titans had imprisoned within Azeroth itself had the power to manipulate even time, and would use their power given the chance to change time to break free from their prison. Knowing this Aman'Thule left Kintari to watch all timelines uninfluenced by their passing, so that he may watch all times as they unfold, for there are many, and while there is only one true timeline, the others may be used to affect the main, and Kintari must protect against this.
Aman'Thul had shown Nozdormu his death in the future, so that he would not think his powers so great that he was the master of fate, and time, but its protector. However the Old Gods had changed the fate of Nozdormu's demise, so great was their power. The future Nozdormu would fall to the corruption of the Old Gods and try to prevent his death by creating the Infinite Dragonflight to try and alter past events.
Nozdormu's failure however was not his fall to corruption. Kintari could only assume that seeing what the future held for Nozdormu, made Nozdormu try and change his fate, and had blinded him to the consequences.
Nozdormu's greatest failure was to allow his powers to end, so that Deathwing may be finally defeated. Anyone within the timeline would have seen the act as an honourable one, and a great sacrifice. Kintari knew it for the selfish act it was, as he watched from without. Nozdormu allowed himself to become powerless, for without the great powers Aman'Thul had given him he would be unable to become the corrupted Murozond, allowing Nozdormu to become mortal.
The timeline would have indeed followed this path, without the Old God's influence, Nozdormu would have given up his powers and died a mortal's death, but with the creation of Murozond, when Nozdormu allowed his powers to be taken he had caused a paradox, a paradox that directly affected the Aspect of Time and so all times. With all times being changed, the true and natural timeline would be shattered as a result; Kintari would finally be forced to directly interfere with the flow of time itself.
Kintari could not challenge and change the Old Gods manipulation directly; instead he would be forced to make a future that would deny the Aspects from surrendering their power to the Dragon Soul. However if Deathwing was allowed to live on he would destroy the Aspects and all life and if he was killed the Old Gods would be able to break free of their elemental imprisonment, for while the Old Gods manipulated Nefarian into becoming Deathwing, in his own twisted way he still seeks to protect Azeroth. Each of these two paths would be an end to the Natural flow of time. Only one path lay before Kintari, redemption. For the future of Azeroth of time to continue Deathwing must die, and Nefarian the Aspect of Earth must be reborn.
Kintari had watched the flow of time, and seen fates that would and would not be, and so for the first time he entered the shattered time.
Kintari sent out his sight, seeking he who would be the first step the Earth Wardens salvation. While he was now subject to time, he was free to view and appear anywhere in the present. Now he found himself deep within the temple of a shattered world, the planet much like time had been brought to such a state by the betrayal of one who should have known better. Kintari looked upon the face of one alien to this world, betrayer they called him now. He too had once held such hope and promise for his people, he too would become feared and hated, his body changed beyond recognition, and he too would find his demise at the hands of his kin.
Not only would he be his first step to saving the true timeline, but if he could save the Betrayer, his hope for redeeming the Earth Warden would grow that much brighter. Kintari knew that without a true timeline, all fates have become an unknown, and while his power maybe great, his too was now uncertain and he could not allow his presence be known to the world, or the true timeline would never be remade, instead he must remain a ghost to the Azeroth and his influences must never be known as the workings of a Titan.
Kintari had chosen this path, for much like his Kin Algalon, Kintari too had been swayed by the mortal races of Azeroth, and he knew that the path he had chosen would not only save the true timeline if he was successful, but also give the mortal races a fighting chance for the future. Kintari had seen what awaited Azeroth and the forces that are making their way to a world that had denied them too long.