Originally Posted by
Wildtree
In order to be awaken, one has to actually be asleep in the first place......
Bolvar doesn't sleep. He's the lich king now, and controls the scourge.
The story doesn't need any continuation at all. It has a "logic" finishing.
The Lich King was unable to break Bolvar. Despite of supernatural torture and pain, the will of Bolvar could not be broken. The Light protected him from that fate.
His body became almost useless, and definitely useless for worldly manners as a paladin. And yet it's still functional enough to serve it's masters mind.
Arthas lost that connection to the light, long before he was wearing the crown. Bolvar uses the crown to control the scourge, with himself being protected by the light.
Could the story be twisted around and make a 180 degree turn into the opposite direction? Of course, it's at the discretion of the story writers to expand the story.
But in a way, expanding the Lich Kings story to a return of the evil entity, that would probably be the biggest rehash of a content theme so far in the game.
And WoW offers plenty of story to be told, that hasn't been told at all yet in the game.
The game doesn't need a return of the Lich King as a foe.