I’ve always assumed that playing characters were not part of the lore, we always were part of the “war effort” that helped killing the antagonists of the expansion but never the stars of the show. Who “killed” Illidan was akama and maiev, Arthas was killed by the souls inside frostmourne that was shattered by Tirion, Thrall shoot the kamehameha that brought down Deathwing and so on.
But now, being the “maw walker” it wouldn’t be possible for the heroes to escape the maw and continue with the story. Are we part of the lore now then? Also, are we all maw walkers or are we all playing the role of one character that has this distinction to be able to escape the maw?
Pretty sure the player-characters have always been part of the lore. Just not “us” specifically. Instead, we’re referenced as a group of champions/heroes (or wielders of the various artifacts in Legion).
The Maw Walker stuff is a bit less clear, but I think they establish that the player-character isn’t THE Maw Walker. Especially when other living lore characters start showing up in Oribos.
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I’m inclined to believe the fluffy Pokémon on this one
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SL is non-canon, just like the past couple expansions as well.
Try not to think about WoW lore too critically, Blizzard certainly doesn’t
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If you want to know why you feel so disconnected from the world writ large and the overarching storyline, it’s kind of this. Since the game makes no real effort to integrate the PC’s action and existence into the story at large, it really does feel like you can just slot in any random adventurer into the shoes of the PC and nothing about the story changes.
Say what you want with the pains of FF14’s MSQ, but it at least had the decency to make sure the PC was part of the main cast instead of an omnicidal guest character the hero-NPCs deal with outside of cutscenes. It FEELS like ‘yes, I am the main character, and the world literally ends without my help’ instead of ‘gotta back up Thrall/Jaina/expansion NPC here and do the raid for them until they’re ready for the killing blow’.
He is wrong. Look, the Mawwalkers/players are “canon” in so much as a bunch of no name individuals can cross the Maw at will. As far as we know the named character like Thrall Baine or Jaina are NOT mawwalkers.
Actually i am a maw rider now since i can mount
I suspect Bolvar will eventually be credited with everything we did,
I really would not mind spinoff comics, but it is best some player characters remain non-canon. I do like to speculate what if scenarios. For example, if Deko’ron is canon, it opens a can of Worms on an HP Lovecraft level.
If Deko’ron was canon, that means the Cult of the Crimson Shroud is canon, it also means the Naaru he corrupted and subjugated and experimented on going by the name of H’Shur also canon. It also means the interdimensional Crimson deity where Deko’ron draws his power from by the name of Marwo’laeth also consider Canon.
Fascinating it may be for Warcraft to have it’s own equivalent of the Cyttorak/Scarlet King which both also created unstoppable creatures, most are kind of burned out about the Cosmic Horror narration.
Upper management always taking credit