You're confused, and clearly didn't play in Vanilla. So actually - Shadow was one of the higher single target specs in Vanilla - the issue was that we were so gear dependent that nobody was willing to carry a spriest to full BiS in Naxx to see them leap up the meter (we were pretty terrible damage at lower gear levels). Shadow was also a very very potent PvP spec in Vanilla, one of the best PvP specs in the game if played right. I don't think the argument that because Shadow wasn't perceived as being competitive for MC and BWL, that it wasn't a spec - it certainly was and people played it. Link me to whatever WoW card you think proves conclusively that Warlocks hold a patent on "dark" magic, that Shadow is somehow infringing upon. Lots of the older WoW cards aren't even canon anymore, but I don't think even they suggested that warlocks have some sort of monopoly on all things 'dark'.
Entropy insofar as it refers to thermodynamics, is only measurable when particles decay - whether its fruit, or atoms, or quarks, or quanta. Within a true physical void, there exists Nothing, this is why when people ask what was before the universe - it cannot be answered to their satisfaction usually. Before the universe, there was a void, absent of all things, in which Nothing was - not even Entropy -
not even Time. Entropy is just our description for the result of the second law of thermodynamics that you brought up - it is a metric of time, like seconds or minutes. I don't know what kind of social entropy you're talking about - but it sounds like some misappropriation of terms by humanities majors.
They don't "want to", they always have - you originally said that warlocks were giving void to us (you meant devs I suspect) - void is shadow, fel is warlocks - I said that, I am more than happy to
admit that
I'm confused why you think that Warlocks have some claim to knowledge of darkness and the void, which could be possibly superior to a
living shadow. Put what you are saying in context here, warlocks are mortal beings - they have flesh and blood, they decay with age - they are from a material plane. Warlocks command demons, who also have flesh and blood, who also grow and decay with age - they may come from the Abyssal Plane - but it too is
a material plane.
I am a living, conscious,
absence of light. I have no flesh, no blood. I do not grow. I do not decay. The parameters of my form are defined by where light
is not. I am not a material being - I am darkness itself - made manifest - imbued with a conscious will - the last vestige of a priest's pure soul lost to the pursuit of power over the Light. No part of that priest remains, no phylactery or horcrux,
this is not a parlour trick.
Just as I am shaped by the
non-existence of light, my very soul - the words I speak - are a mock fascimile of a once conscious mind. Perhaps this voice, these words - belonged to a priest you once met - and you contextualize the overwhelming oddity of encountering such a malevolent
shadowy non-thing - by anthropomorphising this Shadow with the kind words and soft voice of that priest you once met. For how else does a warlock, who knows so much of the commonly forbidden magic - come to understand the grim visage before them. I am not a demon, nor a priest - you perceive me to be the form of a night elf, to have her soft voice - but you know also that I am not the priest you once knew: I cannot be, for she is long dead.
I am the void incarnate, and I am toying with your memories.
If you start with bad assumptions, the conclusion is often bad as well. We aren't guinea pigs for warlocks, our identity is not snatched from warlocks - warlocks have plenty of Hot Topic identity with their demons and their fire and their blood sacrificing. Warlocks are Metal - they're straight from a Dio soundtrack or more like a Tenacious D song:
Shadowpriests are more like
Moonlight Sonata, we're a different character entirely. Also, please source the Shadowform originally being a Warlock spell bit - I've never heard that before (especcially since Shadowform was in WoW Beta, and there are Shadowpriests in the original warcraft games).
I don't even really know how to respond to this - warlocks are way over-represented in lore - everyone is a warlock in WoW history. By contrast, Shadowpriests are unseen and unheard of -
but that's how we roll. Warlocks have tons of conceptual room in the lore to be sorcerers and demon-summoners and mages-gone-bad - they make Faustian bargains and perform blood sacrifices. Darkness and the Void really aren't all that much a warlock thing - that's Shadow's territory. Shadowpriests for example, wouldn't summon a black hole to consume a town - that kind of showboating is for warlocks.
We might subvert the will of the township to our desires or push them into a spiral of depression whereupon they all find themselves hiking the winding mountain path to the Lumber Mill above town - and then walking off one by one in a fit of hysteric sorrow. When SI:7 comes to investigate they do not find a crater of devastation - but merely an unanswerable mystery of mass suicide: that is the difference between us.
We were intended to be that way - bust out some of your lore that says we were not please. The Warlock community is not obsessed with Fel Magic -
that is the defining obsession of Warlocks - it is what separates them from the Mages who eschew such magic. You seem to just have Spriest-envy, I think?
Join us young warlock, give up your mortality - find solace in dark places