New datamine details from the Midnight beta have surfaced, and they outline a controversial ending for the Midnight launch story. The files, dug up by posters on MMO-Champion and summarized on X by Ian “The Red Shirt Guy” Bates, describe a sequence that turns the Sunwell into a “Darkwell” and then reunites Elven tribes to create a “Dawnwell.”
The claims come from datamined assets in the Midnight beta and a long MMO-Champion discussion thread that users say revealed the ending. Ian Bates posted a summary of those discoveries on X and linked to the thread for context. The Midnight beta itself opened signups earlier this year and has been the source of several leaks and changes during testing, including UI and transmog work; CPG covered the beta signups in a prior report about Midnight beta signups.
What the datamine says
According to the datamine as shared on X and the MMO-Champion thread the sequence runs like this
- Xal’atath corrupts the Sunwell, turning it into “The Darkwell”.
- After the March on Quel’Danas raid, the Elven tribes – Blood, High, Night, Void, and Nightborne – come together and drop offerings into The Darkwell in an attempt to heal it.
- The offerings listed in the datamine include an Arcan’dor Fruit from Thalyssra, a Void Crystal from Umbric, a vial of Moonwell Water from Shandris, and a crown that Vereesa will offer that supposedly belongs to Anasterian.
- Those offerings create what the datamine calls “The Dawnwell”, which might have a rainbow color effect based on in-game assets and raid decor.
Why some players are unhappy
Reaction has been mixed; parts of the community have framed the proposed ending as a soft or sentimental wrap up. One commonly repeated phrase from players is “care bear stare” to describe what they see as an overly saccharine reunion for Elven factions who have a lot of messy history between them. Those concerns are less about mechanics and more about tone. A reunification moment that resolves corruption with offerings and a colorful well reads as conciliatory in the datamined script and that contrast with darker elements of the Midnight story is the core of the backlash.
Players on the MMO-Champion thread pointed to the beta animations and assets as the basis for the conclusions about color effects and the structure of the scene. The original discussion thread is public on MMO-Champion and was cited in the X thread summarizing the datamine. For readers who want to see the community conversation directly here is the MMO-Champion discussion thread referenced in the datamine. Ian Bates’ thread on X is the summary that brought wider attention to the leak and links back to the original datamine posts.
Below is a direct community thread on Reddit that has been collecting reactions and screen captures
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How certain is this
The details are datamined from the Midnight beta rather than delivered through an official Blizzard announcement. Assets and animations in betas can change before release and datamines do not always map 1 to 1 to the final product. That said, the specific items and set pieces named in the leaks give the claim substance beyond pure speculation. Blizzard has not confirmed the sequence. If the developer keeps these assets and the script intact for launch it will be the canonical Midnight ending, and if not those pieces could be remixed or removed before release. Community reaction will likely shape how that ending lands once more players see it in context and official confirmation arrives, and the debate is already active in forums and social hubs.
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