Every week we save 20 souls from the Maw. They are called “redeemed souls” yet we never know who they were or why they are there so how do we KNOW they are redeemed? Certainly we just grab whatever soul happens to be available without questioning why they were in a stone prison to begin with. What if they actually deserved to be in the Maw and we are, every week, releasing great evils into our Covenant lands?
For the Venthyr at least, Teneval has this to say about them: “A very good collection of souls. Not too broken, not too drained, and not too innocent.”
Who are we to play god with the fate of these souls!!! We are acting as a worse Arbiter than Zovaal…
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Warlocks don’t care? They make candy.
I could use some candy.
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Imagine if we accidentally saved one soul who was basically WoW Hitler and he went on a rampage with his new freedom, specifically targeting Azeroth as a twisted form of payback? That would actually be a cool story hook for the next expansion instead of this Sylvanas fanfic we’re trapped in.
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Because they weren’t Sylvanas
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It’s the Maw. I’d save them all if I could.
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Are we really saving them or are we just turning them over to be mulched for anima?
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Sylvanas did nothing wrong, and will be redeemed now that her fractured soul has again been made whole. Watch as she sacrifices her own life to take out Zovaal and save Anduin in 9.2 and the alliance realizes that hers was a noble cause.
Teldrasil was only a setback.
One would think being a Worgen kissing the Banshee’s butt would be the last thing you’d want to do considering she made your ancestral home a toxic swamp that may never be livable again.
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Would you save Sylvanas from the Maw if you could?
I’d feed her to Maw rats.
We do not, and it mattereth not.
With infinite potential afterlives and all souls damned to but one we are mathematically unlikely to happen upon an appreciable number of souls which thither belongeth if any.
I would harvest the evil portion of her soul and it bind to a chew toy for the hounds.
The “good” portion I would thither leave. Or escort to Torghast.
If your soul was fractured, can you be sure of how you would act? Even Elune allowed the burning of Teldrasil and she is a goddess. Why do we expect more noble behavior from those who are broken by undeath?
I assumed we were mixing them in with concrete or something.
There’s a lot of quests that deal with this question, it usually involves shooting it with some sort of beam.
Some times it’s a red beam, sometimes it’s a white beam, but that’s how we know if the souls worthy enough to build a mission table out of them.
We’re murderhobos, we don’t ask questions about the things we do.
We just do them for the lootz.
If my soul was fractured and I did the things she did once I got my whole soul back redemption is the last thing I’d be looking for. I’d go find a way to end my miserable existence.
Because it is in their name! Why would they lie about something like that?
Not an appreciable number, yet there will be some. And the nature of the evil in their past life is unknown to us.
Teneval says this: “Bring souls you rescue from the Maw to me and I shall see them put to better use. At least in Revendreth they have a chance of redemption.”
By his own admission, these “redeemed” souls are not all redeemable!
Perhaps it is the sacrifice of your miserable existence that is your redemption.