I hope so, I really do. I'm sick of characters returning again and again (with Archimonde being one of the greatest offenders). But even in that quote they said they might reuse him if they run out of ideas (which nowadays, sadly, happens way too often). Also, it's Kosak. I don't trust that guy in any lore relevant issue.
Given the Azgalor equation I'd say Mannoroth could return at some future point as death in HFC is not perma-death (except for Archimonde who rather foolishly teleports himself and the raid to the Nether in his Mythic-only encounter).
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Yeah, Kosak looks and talks like the most unstable source of information, and even he says it is a viable possibility they will retcon Archi.
Though, TbF the Archimonde story has ended so abruptly both times, i would have liked him to be way more prominant.
In wc3 he just got summoned, crushed fake Dalaran and got ghosted while trying to clime a tree.
And in HfC he litteraly just got summoned, fled to the TW when his hp got bombarded and killed without doing anything.
So sad.
Mannoroth is one of the reasons i fell in love with wc3 (well, more specificaly his demise cinematic)
I would love to see him again, but not as a short tempered, short sighted boss in a stupid ass story line that makes no sense...
I know we've seen him 3 times now, but maybe having him get on our side like those holy dreadlords... Sounds awsome to me.
Madness will consume you!!!
nobody dies permanently. anyone you think is dead really has a last minute plot device to save them, you just haven't been told yet.
this means the question: "where is mankriks wife?" is still relevant.
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Hopefully. We killed him like three times already
They regenerated in the Twisting Nether long before Sargeras went to Argus the first time. The Argus prototitan allows them to somehow regenerate on a fel saturated planet and allows to regenerate them at much faster pace. Killing him will only take that part away, but they will still regenerate in the nether.
Demons aren't really a problem on their own, they don't have brain power to lead strikes, they just rampage like headless chicken, sooner or later someone is going to take control of them again like Sargeras did though.
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They've backtracked that statement at least 4 times during the final tier of WoD though.
Mannoroth is not dead. May take quite some years for him to come back.
But Womannoroth is searching for him and the champions that made him vanish
Why would he be? Just like any raid boss you can kill him once a week.
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Which is actually ironically funny because Mannoroth was lauded among the Annihilans for being strategically-minded and able to use disciplines beyond the reach of most his kind (like simpler forms of Fel magic). None of them are really long on thought or much for planning beyond "crush, maim, kill, destroy."
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
It would have helped if you actually bookmarked it at the point they talk about it rather than the start.
The reason they ask is because even Blizzard doesn't really know. Half of them say yes, half of them say no. The most recent I recall was on the forums and they said initially they were going to have Mythic players say "Yes, he's dead since he's killed in the Twisting Nether". Then they said because of how the cinematic cuts back to him in HFC that it would seem like he isn't. That it was basically up in the air and there was no definitive yes or no and they would figure it out in the future.
Well he was forcibly resurrected there, that might have had some consequences.
Blizzard is actually lost in thier own lore.
Argus prototitan, demons regenerating in twisting nether etc. Actually i have no idea what version is true, and slowly don't care since.
If demons truely die in twisting nether, what you can say about Outland Shadowmoon Valley? Zone is saturated with fel like Argus.
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He is until they decide to arbitrarily rewrite the lore to say otherwise. At the end of the day any pretense of WoW's story being anything other than a means to drive gameplay is died with WoD.
They need to die in the Twisting Nether, like Archimonde in his Mythic phase. Fel saturation has nothing to do with it and the Warcraft Chronicle book confirms that.
Therefore Mannoroth and Tichondrius aren't dead yet, but Archimonde and Kil'jaden are. Unless retconned...