So Wild Gods usually go to the Ardenweald, and if the Loa aren’t exactly Wild Gods, they’re certainly very close to it.
Which means that Hir’eek is in the Maw now.
Hir’eek is one of the Loa we’ve known since vanilla and I for one was really mad about they way he was used and discarded. He’s why troll druids can fly! And they never gave us any proper explanation for him. Was he corrupted? Did he willingly turn bad? What was he doing?
Can we please, please get Hir’eek back in SL or at least find out what happened to him? He’s got a place in a lot of troll players’ hearts and the way he was treated was bs. Torga and Krag’wa, who we’ve never heard of, had big long stories and Hir’eek got just dumped.
Players kill Hir’eek after making their pact with Bwomsamdi according to Talanji’s words which means he is in the Other Side.
Hir’eek is not in the Maw neither is G’huun and Zul in there. Bwomsamdi has everyone from the Zandalar Questlines even up to the Battle of Dazar’alor which is why he was able to control Grong since Horde Players killed him.
First off, this is the Azeroth afterlife, and they’ve confirmed that Draenor has its own. That means the old gods, not being native, wouldn’t go here. They probably have their own afterlife or just snuff out. Maybe they become one with the void.
Plus, I completely doubt any old god “death.” They’re just sleeping.
Also, people are able to bring corpses back to life and pull them back out of the Maw if they’re strong enough. Sylvanas made a bunch of new Dark Rangers, Bolvar is making a bunch of new DK. Of course Bwonsamdi would be able to snag Grong right after he died. He’s a Loa.
Not confirmed but there are some minor indications that Wild Gods/Loa aren’t effected by the whole “everyone goes to the maw” thing.
Torga also died not long before Hireek yet Bwonsamdi was able to fetch his soul for us to communicate with. We know that (at least til we go in 9.0) nothing can leave the maw, so the fact that Bwonsamdi was able to bring his soul for us to speak with indicates that it was not in the maw.
Additionally Vo’jin’s spirit also (possibly) hints that things might work different. We know from the vol’jin quests in BfA that there were two forces “tampering” with his soul/death. One was a “dark” force (most likely the Jailer) that whispered for him to select Sylvanas as well as stopped him from reaching Bwonsamdi and the Other Side (mostly his soul was being taken to the maw like the rest).
The second force was a “righteous” one that, in Eyir’s words “doesn’t scheme for mortal thrones”. This force (I’m guessing it was the Arbiter or maybe the winter queen) changed his Vol’jin’s soul into something more which ended up preventing him from ending up into the maw and gave him more freedom when it comes to traversing the shadowlands and mortal realms.
Naturally this is just a theory but if Loa/Wild Gods are indeed not subject to whatever is causing the maw to take all the souls then that could explain how Vol’jin was spared. If what happened to his soul was him being made into a Loa (something that does happen with trolls on occasion) and he was linked to Ardenweald then he’d have side stepped the maw.
Like I said nothing concrete but there is a chance that some of the recently killed loa and wild gods won’t be in the maw. We’ll have to wait and see though
Also I’m pretty sure they confirmed the opposite. Shadowlands is for the whole universe.
I do imagine Old God deaths probably work differently, but that’s more based on the fact that they’re manifestations of the void, not because they’re not Azeroth natives. It’s more likely similar to demons, beings of pure fel/chaos that return to the twisting nether, or elementals that return to their plane.
If being foreign made it so you didn’t end up in the shadowlands then we wouldn’t see Orcs, Draenei, or Ogres there, among other things. And they’ve already confirmed that we’ll be seeing at least 1 orc (thrall’s mom) and hinted that we’d see Garrosh.
“Shadowlands” is, yes, but not the part we’re in, this is the Azeroth part.
The orcs are a good point. It’s sad to me they don’t go back to their original world’s afterlife, but maybe they get the afterlife of the planet they die on. That would cancel out our Garrosh tho. I would also guess that the ogre population and quite a few orcs are born here. Not Thrall’s mom, of course.
Except the stuff that got resurrected like the Dark Rangers.
Which legit breaks my heart, because they must have seen the endless dark void of the Maw and honestly thought Elune abandoned them. Finally, them accepting Sylvanas’ offer and being mad at Elune makes sense.
If we see Garrosh it’ll be confirmation that it’s not restricted to Azeroth but MU Draka died on Azeroth, not Draenor. It’d make sense that her soul would’ve gone to the Azerothian afterlife (if they are separate).
This is the five most important realms of an infinite number of them. There aren’t any planetary distinctions, as we’ve seen in Bastion demo gameplay where there are aliens without designs that are just represented by spirit particles.
We don’t know if Rezan is anywhere. His essence is what animated Dazar, and he’s still un-alive and in King’s Rest to the best of our knowledge.
