There was a few times I’ve read the question why is the jailer ignoring the way stone that gets us in and out of the maw. It’s probably because he doesn’t care who goes in and out, According to the patch video I’ve seen he’ll only have one more key then HE’S out of the maw. So I’m viewing the jailer more or less like someone who isn’t really even trying to beat us out of the maw. He’s just got to keep us occupied long enough to get that final key, then he’ll take off. All those animated suits of armor will probably fall lifeless as the day they were forged leaving us, the denizens of Azuroth blue (CENSORED). He’s gonna piece out and say see ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya. With the way everything’s been playing out so far I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it all ends this anticlimactically. Though I could be wrong, and I hope I am.
Denathrius = imprisoned: Who cares, I have what I need from that arrogant blob!
Sylvanas = Thanks for the help but I have no room for excessive baggage.
Anduin = Haha, Made you kill the Archon!
The champions of azeroth/covenants = Parties over and you’re the last ones here!
The maw = I didn’t like it there anyway.
So by and large I’m of the impression that he’s just keeping us occupied with endless toils in torgast, and remedial hum-drum in the maw.
Though like I said I could be wrong in all of this but this is the way it’s starting to look for me.
The Archon isn’t dead, that’s been confirmed. She’s injured and her key was taken. There are 5 total keys, of which the Jailer has 2, the Archon’s and the Sire’s. He says in the cinematic that 3 remain, not that there are 3 total. So we’re guessing the Primus had one that he hid, the Winter Queen guards one and the Arbiter is the final key.
Still a boring baddie so far.
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I think I may get it now too! He’s a heartless internet troll…a time bandit maybe but a troll most def.
So why did he say “3 keys remain”?
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just remember… go for the head. then he cant snap his fingers once he completes the infinity gauntlet
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He didn’t though. The Archon survived. Also, there’s still 3 keys left, not 1.
I just want to know if he needs any antibiotics for that hole
Because I couldn’t remember just how many he already had. Sorry.
Why not go for the fingers? Can’t snap without fingers.
head is easier to hit than multiple fingers
The Keys aren’t simply for his freedom. The Key he grabbed from the Archon is specifically for Korthia.
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The Jailer seeks the Broker’s Realm Korthia to locate the place that the Arbiter’s Key unlocks! The Key to the Maw is inside the Heart of the Forest. Get that and the Jailer can escape easily!
Blizzard has stated that Ardenweald is the next target of the Jailer aside from Korthia so his escape is indeed happening now that he has Korthia unlocked.
Once he has his freedom and the secrets of Korthia he is ditching the Maw for the other 2 Zones he seeks to gain access to!
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Why not go for the arm WITH the infinity gauntlet?
Here is a thought what if the Jailer was tricked into what he did that caused him to be thrown into the Maw.
Now here me out there is an item that ties the Dreadlords to Denathrius and the shadowlands . What if they convinced the Jailer to do something and twisted him like they did Sargeras.
THere is a prophecy in the Ny’alotha Il’gynoth fight where he says
Six Masters
The cunning ones kneel before six masters, but serve only one.
Also in BfA
This quote is another throwback to a past whisper from earlier in the expansion:
Six seats at the high table. Six mouths that hunger. One will consume all others.
The deceitful ones being the dread lords and the 6 master if you look at the main chronicle cosmology map their are 6 main forces Light, Disorder, Death, Shadow, Order and Life.
What if his getting out to break the machinery of death is to help the void possibly get through seeing how the void considers death to be the only true enemy and When Sargeras first encountered the dreadlords they were aligned to the void .
No, he’s just waiting to pull his Zanpakuto on us…
The only thing we truly know about what Zovaal did was that is was seen as a great betrayal to not only the covenants but all of reality and basically everything.
Based on this datamined spell from the Maw that was discovered back in Alpha, I think we can figure out what happened.
(FYI, “Progenitor” was the development name for the First Ones before they were actually given a real name.)
Zovaal was fed up with the First Ones and likely resorted to use one of the “secrets they sought to hide” (Domination Magic, a technique only entrusted to the Primus to use in the most dire situations) and killed a First One with it.
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Cool so alternate theory .
Say the 6 cosmological forces are the 6 masters from the Prophecy and the Jailer is the one the deceitful ones (Dreadlords ) serve . Order and disorder are pretty much out with the Titans (Order ) Babysitting Sargeras (disorder ) and if we stop the Jailer death will still be in the game but if we don’t that cosmic force is taken out. What if since he is using domination magic he is trying to bring all of the cosmology forces under his control .
THis is all theory .
Could be a good idea. Domination is a completely new form of magic separate from Death, Order, Disorder, etc…
We know Domination Magic was purposefully hidden by the First Ones for some particular reason. Likely because it has the power to topple the balance they created between the various cosmological forces. I think you have a great theory!
I’d imagine the waystone doesn’t react to him because his siblings made it. He seems surprised a mortal could activate it. Meaning something other than maw denizens like himself could go in and out. Why for I have no idea. To make sure he’s still in detention I guess.
If he could mess with it or destroy it, he very likely would have ages ago. So instead he’s using proxys like Arthas. When that failed he got sylvanas to break the barrier between life and death. Giving him a pretty big door to go out into Azeroth with once he’s out of The Maw.
It’s also important to remember he needed Mawsworn from Helya and that didn’t happen until Legion
Prob why Kel’thuzad had the Harvester of Dominion amulet to try and open a gateway into The Maw from Maldraxxus. I’m guessing that all of his soldiers can’t cross into other realms unless portals like that are opened. While the Mawsworn are still able to hop realm to realm due to being Kyrian.
The jailer is just the big dumb villain we are supposed to hate instead of sylvanas… that’s all he is designed to be…
unfortunately sylvanas is so big dumb evil that writing the jailer as even worse than her has sent him into the void of stupidity… his purpose cannot be understood because he is just THAT stupid of a villain.
The redemption arc for sylvanas requires him to be thrown under the bus so we can have the “”""""""“twist”"""""""" that nobody sees coming of sylvanas becoming a good guy because blizz thinks genocide is a cool thing to do.
The First Ones were the ones that made the waystones, Oribos, the Great Vault, etc. From what I’ve read, the land mass around Torghast wasn’t always there. It was from different “realms” that drifted too close to Torghast and pieces of the land masses broke off, and were chained and pulled in to form the land that we know now as the Maw. So the Waystone was originally not part of the Maw, and maybe the Jailer pulled that piece of landmass into the maw because it had a waystone, and he wanted to use it to escape the maw. That’s purely speculative though. Why it reacts to us, other than it needing to for the story, I have no idea, not even a theory.