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I just posted the following text in a different thread with just a few additions and different wordings here and there:
I feel that it is made fairly explicit that the Xel'Naga are hostile. Zeratul, upon returning from a Xel'Naga temple, urgently told Raynor that he had "Tidings of doom" and that the "Xel'Naga are returning" in the same breath. This alone makes me feel that it's supposed to be clear that the Xel'Naga could be hostile this time around.
It is possible that since the Xel'Naga failed with both the Zerg and Protoss and were attacked by both they are now weakened somewhat, forcing them to accelerate the cycle. If Duran truly is working for the Xel'Naga directly, then maybe the spliced, sloppy hybrids that he's been working with are the only options for the Xel'Nagas' next generation. If so, the Xel'Naga would have no choice but to take the Zerg and Protoss by storm.
How exactly is the Xel'Nagas' supposed pacifism expressed in the Voice in the Darkness?
If it is that "Xel'Naga value life above all else", Although that's probably not the exact wording, the idea is that the Xel'Naga value life, it's not that they hate violence. It would be easy for the Xel'Naga to justify forcefully merging Zerg and Protoss, potentially eradicating both races to create a new generation of Xel'Naga, if the Xel'Naga just told themselves that they could create 100 times more life in the universe if they were just to kill off the Protoss and Zerg to continue their own lives.
Not having read all of the novels and comics that fill in so many of these gaps handicaps my knowledge significantly, but hopefully I won't sound stupid when I write these posts...
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It is possible that since the Xel'Naga failed with both the Zerg and Protoss and were attacked by both they are now weakened somewhat, forcing them to accelerate the cycle. If Duran truly is working for the Xel'Naga directly, then maybe the spliced, sloppy hybrids that he's been working with are the only options for the Xel'Nagas' next generation. If so, the Xel'Naga would have no choice but to take the Zerg and Protoss by storm.
Full of very common misconceptions. First and foremost that the Protoss and Zerg were failures. That was a error of the Protoss, which lead to the Aeon of Strife. Besides the Xel'naga being attacked by both their creations, the Cycle has pretty much gone as planned, as far as we know. They create one race with Purity of Form, and one race with Purity of Essence, then set your temples to combine and go to sleep until you have new kids and/or hosts. The energy creature (if you don't know about the energy creatures, look up their SC wiki article right away) on Bhekor Ro, hatched from a Xel'naga temple, absorbed Protoss, Terran, and Zerg spit out the Terran, and flew happily off to a wormhole. According to the Dark Templar saga, the temple on Nemaka looked just like the one on Bhekor Ro did after it had hatched the energy creature, but thousands of years had apparently passed since then. Spitting out the Terran it absorbed makes it appear that they're only interested in Xel'naga creations, considering that Zamara pretty point-blank stated that the Xel'naga combine species over ages, it's reasonable to assume they do so via the energy creatures, and have had it running for a very long time.
Zamara, which is the only source regarding the Cycle, certainly made it sound like a very good thing. Better than the hybrids anyway, which I'm really fairly sure are the threat here. The perversion of a Cycle "around which time itself has warped" (Zamara's words) can't be good. You also have to question if you want to potentially break the universe by stopping the Cycle, even if it is bad for our heros.
On Xel'naga pacifism:
+ Show Spoiler + To be fair it is debatable. An extremely-powerful-god-of-the-void-and-ancient-enemy-of-the-Xel'naga-dedicated-to-destroying-them-and-all-things-in-defiance-to-worshiping-it-in-the-form-of-super-enhanced-void-zombies told us so. The Voice is a void-entity who was apparently a big antagonists to the Xel'naga, and was dedicated to wiping them, and all their creations out. They could have killed it relatively easily, but instead put it in a prison, and locked the door. The reason the Voice cited for their behavior was that they refused to destroy any living thing, even something so clearly evil, and dangerous to them, as the Voice. Why it is so dangerous is made clear throughout the frontline comic. It's pretty much accepted though that Blizzard was just getting the point of Xel'naga pacifism across to us, which explains how primitive Protoss and Zerg were able to almost wipe out the entire Xel'naga fleet with no apparent issues.
I've only read a few frontline comics, Heaven's Devils, and the War Pigs comic. 98% of my info comes from the SC wiki.
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I can tell that you know significantly more than I do about this :p
I hadn't realized the totality of the Xel'Nagas' pacifism. I really wish I'd read the Voice in the Darkness, as it seems like that could clear up a lot of my misconceptions. I can't wait to go through the SC2 story when it comes out to see where it takes us, and to see if any of this speculation is particularly accurate. Thanks for writing that great article, regardless 
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Very intresting. It's nice to see some lore posts on TL
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On July 02 2010 11:10 im a roc wrote:I can tell that you know significantly more than I do about this :p I hadn't realized the totality of the Xel'Nagas' pacifism. I really wish I'd read the Voice in the Darkness, as it seems like that could clear up a lot of my misconceptions. I can't wait to go through the SC2 story when it comes out to see where it takes us, and to see if any of this speculation is particularly accurate. Thanks for writing that great article, regardless
To be fair you can make a decent case that the Voice was lying, and was just saying that to manipulate some of the Dark Templar, but a lot of people think Blizzard was just using the Voice story to make a few points about the Xel'naga for lore-fans.
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Good to see Roland's articles getting shown. They are very well done, and deserve the show.
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