They also are not going to get into the Light Afterlife for a while, considering we have yet to see the Void one and this expansion makes it clear that those forces of magic have their own planes of reality.
They also are not going to get into the Light Afterlife for a while, considering we have yet to see the Void one and this expansion makes it clear that those forces of magic have their own planes of reality.
The Void. A force of infinite hunger. Its whispers have broken the will of dragons... and lured even the titans' own children into madness. Sages and scholars fear the Void. But we understand a truth they do not. That the Void is a power to be harnessed... to be bent by a will strong enough to command it. The Void has shaped us... changed us. But you will become its master. Wield the shadows as a weapon to save our world... and defend the Alliance!
Is the light also not a threat to the shadowlands?
You get a follower of the light into Bastion and nobody is concerned that this might spread their beleaves and get a hold in the shadowlands.
The light like the shadow want to consume all after all...
I mean I kind of agree with Devos i.e. Arthas and the Jailer having agents outside of his prison-realm. It was kind of dumb of the Kyrians to ignore her very real warnings, but they're also pretty dogmatic and set in their way. This is a pronounced plot-point in the Bastion storyline.
"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
He's still a denizen of Shadowlands that directly interacted with the world. Likely, so is Mueh'zala, because someone had to ascend Bwonsamdi from a priest to a Loa. Then there's Helya and her squad.
Zalazane doesn't even get to lick Nagash's feet. Hell, even his dandruff.
What I'd prefer to know is when the fuck are they going to address Sylvanas' wrongful imprisonment in the Maw? I wouldn't be surprised if they never mentioned it again and instead claimed that Arthas was less deserving of eternal damnation.
"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
Is it explicitly stated like this, I mean is it directly implied that there were other souls and it wasn't just Ysera? Because if it was just Ysera then it's possible that it was Elune's intervention, after all - if Bwonsamdi can rescue Troll souls from the Maw, it's likely that Elune can too.
What I said previously - he was awful conciliatory towards Arthas - the man who killed him, killed Teranas, and destroyed Lordaeron. I thought that was odd even back in WotLK, but wrote it off as Uther being his Lawful Good self. In light of new information, though; perhaps it was because he wasn't himself either.
"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
As far as I'm concerned, this is at least the 3rd Arthas/Lich King retcon that has potential for ruining his character.
-1st was when they retconned the "Now we are one!" soul merger at the end of WC3. Their souls were described as merging and fusing into a singular new entity- The Lich King. Then Wrath rolled around and nope, they were just Jaegering the body together or something.
-2nd was in Chronicle when they gave the Lich King a "motivation". He was no longer just evil and out to amass power, now he was trying to save Azeroth from the Legion and from internal strife by forging the world into a single undead army. The same motivation they retconned onto Sargaras and Illidan and probably Sylvanas eventually.
-3rd is this, though I'll hold off on judgement until the xpac actually hits and we see how it plays out.
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It's also a cultural sign of the times. Back when the Light was much more a clear parallel to Christianity, the idea of ultimate forgiveness for someone as bad as the Lich King could be expected from THE paladin Uther.
But nowadays? Look at the fan reaction to Teldrassil. People would be shitting themselves if they tried pulling something like that today. There is NO way people would respond positively to Uther forgiving him.