So what happened to all the spirits that are stuck on Azeroth?

[Deathknightish]

Thinking about all those spirits, both malevolent and benevolent.

Did kyrians just forget to bring them to the arbiter, or is there some other force keeping them from ascending?

[Sorrowseer]

Thinking about all those spirits, both malevolent and benevolent.

Did kyrians just forget to bring them to the arbiter, or is there some other force keeping them from ascending?

They are still being taken to the shadowlands and are being dumped in the Maw, as shown during the Kyrian campaign.

[Sondrelk]

Presumably all the spirits stuck on earth are either there because someone summoned them from the Shadowlands, or because something is keeping the Kyrians from taking them, which we can likely assume to be the usual inscrutable cases of the spirits having unfinished business.

[faithbane]

They are still being taken to the shadowlands and are being dumped in the Maw, as shown during the Kyrian campaign.

Maybe at least read what he is saying before blurting out a reply..
He means all the "ghosts" that we encountered throughout the previous expansions on Azeroth. How/why they were stuck on our planet and not picked up by Kyrians?

[zhero]

because retcon

[Zyky]

Thinking about all those spirits, both malevolent and benevolent.

Did kyrians just forget to bring them to the arbiter, or is there some other force keeping them from ascending?

I would assume stronger tethers to the world, similar to the player character.

[Sorrowseer]

Maybe at least read what he is saying before blurting out a reply..
He means all the "ghosts" that we encountered throughout the previous expansions on Azeroth. How/why they were stuck on our planet and not picked up by Kyrians?

Thats impossible as i cannot time travel.

ofc there is no currentanswer to that question, why is Admiral Tailor a sentient ghost doing missions for you on draenor, shit makes no sense fam.

[Nagawithlegs]

Maybe at least read what he is saying before blurting out a reply..
He means all the "ghosts" that we encountered throughout the previous expansions on Azeroth. How/why they were stuck on our planet and not picked up by Kyrians?

Kyrians ferry freshly dead souls that are ready to move on, not souls summoned back by curses or left lingering due to something (which are the majority of ghosts on Azeroth). It's not their business to help out stuck souls and ghosts, they're just a taxi to the Arbiter.

[ohwell]

Kyrians ferry freshly dead souls that are ready to move on, not souls summoned back by curses or left lingering due to something (which are the majority of ghosts on Azeroth). It's not their business to help out stuck souls and ghosts, they're just a taxi to the Arbiter.

Not true. Kyrian campaign definitely says this is wrong as you help the guy in Redridge(I think it was) move on. Granted he was pretty much "ok sure" easy to convince, but he clearly still was trying to stay.

[bowlink]

Not true. Kyrian campaign definitely says this is wrong as you help the guy in Redridge(I think it was) move on. Granted he was pretty much "ok sure" easy to convince, but he clearly still was trying to stay.

and then his soul was promply sucked down the maw,

[ohwell]

and then his soul was promply sucked down the maw,

yes? Only after he was convinced it was time to go and he was taken to Oribos.

[MikeBogina]

Just did Asuna on an alt and the whole time im like... all these ghosts for 10k years and no Kyrian came to get them. In fact the whole night elf thing where they have ghosts all over, in Nazjatar, as whisps and everywhere else...

Makes you think if Blizzard wasn't preparing for Shadowlands, the burning of Teldrassil would probably be a haunted place with 1000s of souls with how their lore has been so far.

When it comes down to it, ghosts are around because that's the story blizzard wants to tell at that given moment, just more reasons why Shadowlands really shouldn't have been an expansion, because it shines a light on all the flaws of WoW's established lore.

[Vladier]

Just did Asuna on an alt and the whole time im like... all these ghosts for 10k years and no Kyrian came to get them. In fact the whole night elf thing where they have ghosts all over, in Nazjatar, as whisps and everywhere else...

Makes you think if Blizzard wasn't preparing for Shadowlands, the burning of Teldrassil would probably be a haunted place with 1000s of souls with how their lore has been so far.

When it comes down to it, ghosts are around because that's the story blizzard wants to tell at that given moment, just more reasons why Shadowlands really shouldn't have been an expansion, because it shines a light on all the flaws of WoW's established lore.

The ghosts of Aszuna are literally cursed and can't pass on. Likewise, most ghosts remain either after some magical catastrophe, or in some cursed ruin, or just cursed individually, or there's a dying naaru nearby, or a necromancer. Ghosts aren't a natural occurrence.