It seems that WoW will have the biggest change from its inception until now.
As of now we were citizens of Azeroth, adventurers of sort living in this planet in a definite timeframe (sort of with the allied alliances and new Kalimdor and EK), we livedfrom the end of Warcraft 3 till now, granted we have some time jump going forward or backward nut nothing special.
Now in Shadowlands (9.0) we will have a new meta, a new WoW game!
It seems that we create our chara and become a time traveler or a scholar of sort.
We begin our “life” not in the “normal” Azeroth as it was the common startup since WoW beginning until now. We begin in Stormheim (Why? Why not another zone? Why Stormheim is special?) from lvl 1-10, then we will run a “mini dungeon”, maybe some kind of test or final evaluation that we will pass and at the end Chromie will award us with diploma and a gift!
As a time traveler / scholar / Bronze dragonflight agent you will have to travel to the past, to some defined era and place to do some kind of job, pleasure trip or other kind of voyage!
We will go to:
Kalimdor – EK (Classic)
Outland (TBC, flavored for BE)
Northrend (WoTLK, flavored for DK)
Pandaria (MoP, flavored for Monks)
Kalimdor – EK after Deathwing awakening (Cataclysm)
AU Draenor (Warlords of Draenor, flavored for Orcs, Shamans)
The Broken Islands and Argus (Legion, flavored for DH)
Kultiras, Zandalar and other (BFA, flavored for Trolls and Kul Tirans)
And after that, maybe, you begin your “last” trip, some kind of special mission or your reason of existing…Shadowlands for a final battle between Life and Death.
I don’t know if this will be good or bad, but it seems that something in the meta or lore will change after 9.0 hits.
Will we become some kind of entity? After all we were advancing from, adventurer to commander to hero to head of our order to most respected or influential character in our faction!
What will happen after Shadowlands? Will we become some being that will travel across the other spheres of the WoW meta-universe?