That is the question Archon should be asking but since Kyrians are Kyrians and because things happen in WoW because writers want them to happen and not because they make sense, Anduin just appeared in Bastion. The writers wanted a cool moment, it doesn't matter how they get there.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
Not even remotely a plot holes.
An inescapable prison is inescapable for the prisoners not the Guards
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A Mawsworn picked him up and yeeted him to Bastion. Then waited for Andiun to stab the Archon picked him up again and yeeted him back into the Maw.
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As others have pointed out, there are two likely scenarios. It's either we were tricked into "saving" Anduin from the Maw or he was carried out of there by Mawsworn kyrian. The latter hasn't been possible until recently, but I guess it is now with the Jailer gaining more power and the seal on the Maw weakening.
The story is still inconsistent though. Logically, all kyrian (pure and Mawsworn alike) should now be able to leave the Maw by going through the torn Veil to Azeroth and then accessing the rest of the Shadowlands from there. But in Bastion, we're told that they still can't escape the Maw without the Maw Walker's help. Moreover, there's a daily quest in the Maw involving a group of tortured kyrian who claim that they have no means of escaping.
I have another question for you , how did empowered Anduin one shot a "titan++" power level being, as blizzard called them at the launch of shadowlands ?? I know she is not dead just wounded but the way he did looked way too easy.
They can't activate the stone to get out without is, as seen in the into...
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That seems like the most likely scenario. I doubt Anduin is getting out on his own or with Mawsworn - it runs the risk of tipping their plan that way too.
It's safe to assume that he is being controlled by the Jailer, so it isn't about escaping.
Just tie him to a wall somewhere in Torghast, send Fordring a vision, have the adventurers walk in and "free" him. We bring him back to Oribos with us. He tells us he knows what the Jailer and Sylvanas are up to.
He still looks like himself, and acts like it. Any changes can be explained by trauma after torture and long captivity. In-game, all the key characters feom Azeroth love Anduin, so of course they're just happy he's safe and apparently largely unharmed.
If the Archon had given him the key, he could've dropped it off in the Maw and returned to us and we'd never have known, making him a perfect double agent.
I'm guessing a lot of the continued Maw / Torghast campaign will revolve around findkng a way to free him from the Jailers influence, there's no way the others are just going to turn around and immediately jump to "well he must be killed now, sorry kid"
Or he's bound to the Maw and cannot physically leave it. As in, if he tries something prevents him. Either chains bind him when he moves too far or he's just teleported back.
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You know Anduin would also have to explain why Sylvannas didn't stab him right? Like the last thing everyone saw regarding Anduin was Sylvannas pointing a mourne blade at him.
For the Alliance, and for Azeroth!
So let them think he got to her. In the chatter after that vision, they all seemed to have a great deal of faith in him, and that he'd be ok. Stick in another vision that has Sylvanas look doubtful about turning him.
They would absolutely believe that Anduin managed to, well, not convinve her to leave the Jailer, but to doubt.
Have him return traumatised-but-keeping-it-together, saying "I know what they're planning, we have to act fast!", and they'd probably go along with it.