The Purpose of Azeroth's Titan Facilities - Weekly Archive Quest Story (SPOILERS)

In the second weekly Archives quest, Archives: Seeking History, players learn more about why the Titan Pantheon brought order to Azeroth, and the facilities they built to do so.

WARNING: Spoilers for The War Within!

The Message of the Archive

Archaedas says: On Azeroth, the Pantheon sensed a powerful source of corruption. To protect the Worldsoul, they sent us, the keepers, to lead the titanforged forces into battle.
Archaedas says: In time, we rooted out and defeated the threat, imprisoning its last vestiges in the deep places of the world.
Archaedas says: Then, led by Aman'Thul himself, the titans set toward studying the soul of Azeroth to determine whether it truly was the one they sought.
Archaedas says: To aid the titans, we keepers were tasked with engineering the Manifold--a vast, world-spanning complex of machines, forges and installations.
Archaedas says: Working in tandem, they would bring order to Azeroth, and create a means by which the Pantheon could examine the Worldsoul in depth.

As before, we see Dagran and Brinthe's reaction to the message from the Keeper, with Dagran explaining which bits of information we knew already, and which have a new context.

Dagran Thaurissan II says: That corruption the keeper's talking about… that's the Old Gods. That must be why they were here as well--for the power of the Worldsoul...
Dagran Thaurissan II says: Though I've also read that while the titans defeated the Old Gods, they tore a wound in the world. Always thought that was just a metaphor.
High Speaker Brinthe says: It seems clear now that Azeroth must be the Prime Worldsoul.
Dagran Thaurissan II says: That would explain why the Void, the titans… the Legion… every cosmological force… have sought to control it--or destroy it--over the eons.What do you suppose the titans needed to study about it?
High Speaker Brinthe says: We cannot possibly understand the intricacies of the titans' reasons. But that complex Archaedas mentioned--I believe I know Read more on wowhead.com