The Enigma Order

So they say that some events brought by patch 5.4 are supposed to set in motion what will later develop into the milestone for the next expansion. Bored as I was, I gave this some thoughts and it seems rather vague. The adventure with sha in Pandaria ends, the horde vs aliance aspect of it ends, so I expect something from a whole different department. At the same time, I personally don't think it's Burning Legion time, not yet. Then recently I saw the preview of this seemingly off-topic 5.4 quest chain - Visions of Time: Courting Destiny (it's still on the first page of mmo-champion, I only read the text, did not watch the movie). In a nutshell, we will be asked to do a little bit of farming of whatever and then we will visit different places weekly, completing some tasks to charge up a machine allowing for toying with the timeline (gross simplification).

Despite the name of the new, Timeless, Isle, this whole idea strikes me as so completely disconnected from actual 5.4 events, that I'd carefully place my bet this may well be the introduction to the next exansion. This would give them some much needed leeway lore wise, they could baically make us dow whatever and whenever they feel like and still argue it makes sense (which I don't mind). They also just about officially announced they will be bringing some old raids back, to let players experience them in a non-solo manner. The latter actually worries me, I'd hate if at some point Illidan would, again, be a villain we'd be focusing on.

Just my speculations with no impact at all, but I found it interesting.