If this is supposed to go in campaign, please let me know, but after getting pumped again by the LotV opening cinematic with the ahkundelar, I got to wondering, what is an archon exactly?
Like I’ve read and reread the wiki page a bunch, but HOW does it disappear and leave a hole or mirror where it dies, HOW did Templar’s learn to do it, WHY is it more stable and not shimmery like a Templar, WHY doesn’t blizzard keep a list of Templar’s sacrificed by players who turn Templar’s into archons (jk, although it considering it the ultimate honor, sure happens a lot in GSL :P) , and just questions like that I guess.
Archons are pure energy and psionic power in a physical form.
Think of an archon like a mini star. That’s why they float and that’s why they are mainly shields in the game (they are just pure psionic energy)
It was fighting the ultralisk and getting damaged. When archons are starting to go out, they can go out like a star leading to a black hole like effect, collapsing the archon into itself while removing surrounding matter.
That cinematic kind of contradicts the previous starcraft lore anyway. In previous SC lore a zealot can kill an ultralisk in single combat. Meanwhile a newly formed archon has to take one down with it? Or maybe I’m missing something