Why does he need a link? He just learned the magic, or had someone empower him with it.
Monks are effectively a type of shaman.
Not really. Is like saying Demon hunters are a type of Warlock.
To a certain degree those two inter lap as well. I mean, hell Illidan has managed to enslave/compel demons to work for him. Both even had metamophosis in their tool kits(and if not for game play reason warlocks should probably still be able to use it)
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Both Monks and Shaman use the element of Spirit.
But Shaman use in general to communicate and bond with the elemental spirits, that grand them power.
While Monks can’t talk to elements, and use only their own inner spirit (inner chi), to improve their physical abilites, or to use the mist. There is some overlap for sure, but the idea is that the monk uses their own power while shamans “borrow” their power from the elements.
Not exactly true, especially for Misweaver, who use the mist(which just happens to be a form of water) to heal.
There is a monk trainer NPC, that said that tried to use water to heal, but settled on using the mist…
While, yeah… mist seems like water, i’m not sure there is any confirmation that mistweavers are using water in any form, just channeling chi in the form of mist.
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Arcane and fel magic, being the essences of the Order and Disorder that govern the systematic shaping and forming of the universe’s functions, are able to grab onto the other magics and shift them around, building them up and breaking them down. So among other things a mage or a warlock can use that to rearrange the energies of the elements or life and death, manifesting fire and ice or transplanting the souls of the dead from one place (or body) to another.
Additionally, the Legion’s magic is arguably an unnatural hybridization of fel and arcane, thanks to Sargeras and the eredar bringing their understanding of arcane Order and applying it to organizing and formulating their use of the fel’s Disorder. Consequently, it’s not that hard to conceive that the Legion’s knowledge of the arcane and fel - which explicitly fuels itself and myriad empowered mechanisms by capturing souls and either burning them right away or trapping them for later use - would allow the caster to potentially capture the souls of a bunch of dead warlocks and anchor them into new vessels in the form of dead Stormwind knights. Or for that matter, capture the soul of a certain orc shaman and bind it into the artifacts that contained the powers of the Lich King.
Chronicle Vol. 2 mentions Kil’jaeden teaching Gul’dan Death Magic which he resorted to using when Doomhammer banned Fel.
Gul’dan was rejected as a Shaman and turned to Fel as a result and through his and Kil’jaeden’s manipulations turned the Elements against the Shaman by having the Shaman attack the Draenei.
Once the Shaman were abandoned by the Elements they were ripe for being turned into Warlocks which became really easy when Kil’jaeden shoved the Spells into their heads.
Warlocks aren’t limited to Fel Magic by the way: Demonology Warlocks primarily draw on Void which they feed Souls for their Magics. Destruction Warlocks draw mostly on Fire from the Firelands(not only does the Scepter of Sargeras open a Fire Portal but the Conflagration Quest outright mentions that Legion Demons draw upon the Firelands).
Affliction Warlocks(who use Fel to draw on the Void which is the opposite situation from Demonology Warlocks) and Green Fire Destruction Warlocks are the ones who require Fel for most of their Spellcasting(and in the case of a Green Warlock it is a side effect of directly draining some Demon’s Fel out of him).
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The chart in Chronicles is pretty and appropriately busy.
It doesn’t bear up though. Arcane is shown as opposite to Fel when the first is usually a gateway drug to the latter.
They don’t repel each other like Light and Void do… Instead Fel overpowers Arcane and Arcane controls Fel.
The only things that repel Fel are Light and Void. Void because(according to the Shadowfel Amalgamation in Hellfire) Void is Nothing while Fel is Everything.
Void is technically just as opposite to Fel as it is to Light. It’s also opposite to Death in that the Void is Infinite Possibilities while Death is No Possibilities.
Life and Arcane are the only Cosmic Forces that seemingly aren’t opposite of the Void.
Ultimately the arcane-to-fel “gateway drug” relationship goes both ways. Mages who delve into the fel hunger for more of it, but at the point when they become sufficiently corrupted to actually become demons, they instead hunger for everything else, and fel no longer sates them. Because when it comes down to it, just as demons are creatures of fel, the denizens of the Great Dark are creatures of the arcane, be they actual mages or not.
Moreover, it’s not really so much arcane itself that leads to fel addiction; it’s exposure to fel that does, whether you’re a mage or not. The arcane-to-fel transition just seems to happen so often because concentrated manifestations of arcane Order on worlds in the Great Dark has a tendency to attract the denizens of the Nether, who in turn bring the fel with them and expose those worlds’ inhabitants to its corruption. Overindulging in either magic causes an addiction related to its nature, in inverse to each other. The Order of the arcane instills a need to keep imbibing more of it to maintain that Order in oneself, which is why arcane-evolved species who regularly imbibe arcane energy are so prone to aggressive deterioration in the absence of their “fix.” Conversely, overindulging in fel leads to an increasing need to consume more and more of everything else except fel, because while the arcane builds up more Order by accumulating more of itself from its own surroundings, the fel needs to devour and break down other energies to make more fel and propagate its Disorder.
Light and Void likely can adversely affect arcane and fel because technically the arcane is the manifestation of Order through Light and Void coexisting in balance (i.e. what governs the Great Dark), while fel is Disorder resulting from Light and Void violently colliding (effectively the perpetual storm of warring energies that governs the Twisting Nether.) Introducing too much of either Void or Light causes one side of the “equation” sustaining each Order/Disorder process to overpower the other, disrupting the reaction whether it’s the building up of arcane Order or the breaking down of fel Disorder.
Arguably arcane and fel are both inverted processes of Light and Void interacting in tandem, so the introduction of an agency of either pure Light or pure Void without its counterpart would be anathema to the continuation of either.
When it comes down to it, the Great Dark is the realm of Order and the arcane, while the Twisting Nether is the realm of Disorder and the fel. Both realms need a constant interplay between Light and Void to persist because that interplay is in effect what reality is. So as only half of the fundamental dichotomy that is the Order and Disorder of reality, raw manifestations of either Light or Void can readily disrupt the fel or the arcane; especially the fel, because by its very nature fel is volatile and prone to degradation, given that fel itself basically amounts to the magical essence of said volatility and degradation.
Fel even devours Souls to maintain it’s Disorder. The only other Cosmic Force that does that is Death which results from Anima chemical reaction/Destruction.
Arcane and Death are the Cosmic Forces that balance out Fel in non-Demons which is why Warlocks, Demon Hunters and Legion Ships use Souls for power since Soul destruction creates Death.