This might be a silly question, but stuff like this in the lore make me very curious. When a Warlock siphons your soul and then uses it for a spell, what happens to it? Is it fully destroyed into oblivion or it still goes to the shadowlands?
If it’s the former, would that even make the playable Warlocks morally grey when what they are doing is outright evil?
If it is the former (x2), how the Shadowlands did not see the Legion as a threat?
It it’s the latter, how would that happen? Do playable warlocks just grab a fragment of the soul? If so, can that soul be regenerated?
just turn your brain off like undeath lore and time travel lore (both incidentally connected to shadowlands)
shadowlands is gonna be retconned into a dream world like emerald dream or pull a draenor and never be referenced at best
did we ever learn why that thing in the maw reacted to the heart of azeroth? i doubt blizz even does but they should say its cause whole thing is azeroths dream
Everyone saw the Legion as a threat—We know the maldraxxi house of eyes were spying on them to ensure they knew what the legion was up to. It is just very few could do anything about them, is all. As far as we know the souls consumed by fel cease to exist; I would speculate that the ash that remains from consumed souls and soul shards likely goes to the nether and becomes part of the source essence that new demons are born from.
Warlocks have always been evil. There is a reason they traditionally hide what they are; few people are comfortable with being around those who will dissect your soul and use its agony as a power source.
From what I understand, warlocks draim the Anima from the soul. The core of consciousness and identity can still move on, but it does so in a horribly wounded and shattered state. Like Uther from Frostmourne but maybe even worse depending on how the soul was drained or consumed.
A lot of souls that happens to probably never make it. But I think Shadowlands and its take on Uther do at least leave the possibility open.
They burn them into nothingness. As dark as it is, true oblivion is now well established in Warcraft, as mortal souls that die in the Shadowlands cease to exist for all eternity. Warlocks just skip the middleman.
I think it depends, heavy warlock magics like powering up the Dark Portal requires actual souls and the process probably drains it until it is destroyed, but for the spells in-game warlocks use, they only need soul fragments as far as I know, which I have no idea how it affects a soul.
I find funny how all takes here shows Warlocks are, at best, extremely evil.
So the soul goes with misisng pieces to the shadowlands? Or recovers the soul part after being used? Imagine a soul without a leg because a Warlock used it for a Chaos Bolt…
Being this the case would make Warlocks the most evil of all classes, demons included. At least after the Jailer, as he tortured souls.
I find the idea of souls dying kinda silly, though. This part of shadowland was strange unless the soul returns.
No one has ever mistaken them for nice. But of late, I’ve been putting myself to a creative exercise of following Paizo’s lead of not using alignment terms to describe characters. It forces one to give more depth in analyzing characters instead of just cramming them into one of nine boxes.
Paladins can be just as cruel in their zealotry.
Destruction of the soul is one of the classic horror memes if you want to put a truly vile aspect to describe something, That’s why Stormbringer is feared…Not just because it can gut you, but actually eat your soul, damming it to an everlasting torment within the eternal blade. And it especially covets the souls of the wearer’s friends. Elric does not go through any major batttle without it eating the soul of a companion.
Sylvanas wasn’t missing a leg and her Soul chunk missing is bigger than Uther’s.
Matthias Lehner wasn’t missing a leg and he had most of his Soul hacked off(one chunk thrown into the Maw by Uther then ground down to almost nothing to create a Soul Shard powering Kingsmourne, another chunk carved off in Rise of the Lich King by Arthas’s autonomous Body seen in Edge of Night in Child Form and an Echo left inside Frostmourne’s Hilt)!
Matthias despite having most of his Soul cut away is in better condition than the Souls in the Maw that the Maldraxxi provide bodies for during their Assaults!
Since Warlocks are inferior to Frostmourne that means they do even less damage than what was done to Uther much less Matthias!
Something has gone terrible wrong in your setting when the people who torment souls with hellfire for fun and profit become the moral standard an entire playable “heroic” faction works off.
That’s… not necessarily what player warlocks are about? Warlocks come from across the moral spectrum. Some are terrible, working for the Legion, others are just Alliance and Horde members who use the Dark Arts. The latter is still a soldiers of their faction, not necessarily only in it for fun.
