We just got one of the new models for the Revenant Model from Warcraft 3 reforged.
It looks amazing.
~https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/887714.jpg
It brings to mind a old memory I’d forgotten, that before he claimed Frostmourne Arthas had to fight a free-willed undead called “The Guardian” who warned Arthas not to take the sword and that the sword was a dangerous item.
The Guardian: Turn back, mortals. Death and darkness are all that await you in this forsaken vault.
Arthas: I doubt there is anything down here more terrifying than what we’ve faced already.
The Guardian: Believe what you will, boy. You shall not pass.
Defeated:
The Guardian: Turn away… before it’s… too late.
Arthas: Still trying to protect the sword, are you?
The Guardian: No… trying to protect you… from it .
Makes you wonder. Was the Arbiter or someone else trying to protect Arthas from becoming the Lich King to start by having the Guardian protect Frostmourne? I hope we learn a little more about this undead character in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.
What do you guys think?
Revenants aren’t undead. They’re elementals.
Some of the models look pretty undead themed to me. Check them on WoWhead.
They look like some of the creatures we see in the teaser for Torghast to be honest.
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I highly doubt they planned Shadowlands 15+ years in advance.
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Those are called the Scourge.
Likely not, but that doesnt mean they couldnt have already thought of something and changed up the idea later on.
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Probably. After finishing Arthas and reading that he was capable of seeing into the future it wouldn’t surprise me if other entities could as well and knew what eventuality would occur if Arthas claimed Frostmourne.
On the other hand im fairly certain Blizzard wasnt thinking about this when they put those Revanents there and it was entirely for dramatic effect. From a literary pov pretty much a final warning that the sword will cause big spook and its super serious and scary.
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Yeah but that’s not what I’m saying. OP is making it seem that was the idea from the beginning.
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Well from what I gathered from Bellular the Lich King isn’t a natural part of Azeroth. Before Arthas and Ner’zhul there was no Lich King and seeing as how now we know that the sword and the helm were both stolen from the Shadowlands it would make sense that someone would try to protect the balance of things.
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Idk. Seems like it, but that’s just wording. I understood it as that could be how the idea is now, not that it’s been the plan since.
This is why I like J.J. Abrams as a writer. The Guardian is a neat little mystery box in WoW Lore that’s been all but forgotten for 17+ years. Yet his small part in the story is one that is significant enough, such that if his motives expanded upon, could change the direction of a story. Not by way of a ret-con, but rather by revealing facts unknown (both to the author at the time), and the reader until the present.
J.R.R. Tolkien also did this in his letters by always answering questions with:
“It could be. It’s possible.” but never “It is this.”
Also it’s a Revenant, even if it’s technically an elemental in this game the lore for the mythical creatures is very set in it being undead.
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