Apologies if this has been asked yet, but- why the heck do the Necrolords exist?? What external threat requires the level of badassery that is Primal Scourge???
Apologies if this has been asked yet, but- why the heck do the Necrolords exist?? What external threat requires the level of badassery that is Primal Scourge???
The xel'naga, why else do you think the jailer influenced Arthas to raise kerriganslyvanas? She's the one who'd going to save us all.
Last edited by Saltysquidoon; 2020-07-09 at 01:01 AM.
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Well the Maw is spooky enough to want to defend oneself from, plus there's tidbits in the Alpha about the Light and Void invading the Shadowlands, and finally we know the Legion already invested the place since they stole (the plans to?) Frostmourne and the Helm of Domination from there as well.
Also, because the Scourge looks cool and having a playable Scourge faction is cool. I assume that was the primary selling point for them internally and the rest above came afterwards.
No problem. I had to go digging for the screencaps I saw.
This is the one that mentions the Light and this mentions the Void Lords.
Since the shadowlands seems to be kind of a fake afterlife I think them requiring a military force is not that much out there. I still wonder why incorporeal beings would shape themselves to look like undead corporeal beings though. That seems entirely nonsensical.
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
I can completely imagine the Burning Legion invading the Shadowlands to get souls - they had lots of Soul Engines and Fel consumes that shit like M&Ms.
They could easily explain the Helm of Domination's plot by saying that the 'Jaeden and the Dreadlord Gang invaded the land of the dead to plunder, were pushed back by the Necrolords but ended up with a funny blade and a pointy hat.
Necrolords fought both the Light and the Void to protect Shadowlands in the past. You can see those snippets in the epitaphs you explore early on in Maldraxxus.