What do you think? So The story could have largely remained the same. However, we are trying to discover who is behind what is happening. We zone into the Maw and see this massive army. We see generals and commanders, but no big bad yet. All the scenes with Sylvanas and the Jailer just dont have the Jailer. Instead she talks about “Our Master”.
Oribos and the covenants, seem sure it couldnt be one of their own and must be some other force. Through the covenant campaigns we follow breadcrumbs to discover who the threat is, only to be lead astray. It could be the Drust, The Primus, The Foresworn. All the while, the Jailers forces gain in strength. The attacks increase. Anduin is corrupted. The assassination happens. Still we havent learned who is truly behind everything.
Patch 9.1 is our big Sylvanas showdown. The pre-patch video shows a vast army of the jailer’s forces. Legions of Mawsworn are shown flying these giant chains out into the ether. They dissappear, pulling the chains into the distance. Then you see the Tarragrue and other giants like him, just not as big, begin pulling the chains back. You see Sylvanas standing on a ridge shouting to “PULL!”. Then as they stall while pulling. Sylvanas looks down and says “We are not yet strong enough for this. Master we need your power.” Then Glowing chains shoot down from Torghast. They wrap around Sylvanas’s Arms and shoulders. She becomes all glowy and empowered. Then Chains shoot from her hands and attach to all the other chains attached to whatever is in the distance. She does her scream, and pulls. Big cinematic moment as Sylvans, empowered by the chains, drags a new landmass through the clouds with the aid of these chains of power around her.
The story still largely remains the same, but we still dont know who is doing this. But we are learning why. That whoever is behind this, aims to shatter the barrier and merge the realms of the living and the realms of the dead.
That leaves the Torghast Raid and end boss Sylvanas. The second to last boss, is Anduin. We fight and free him of his armor. We almost kill him. Then we fight her and all of her new powers. As she starts to falter she calls out for her master’s help. Cut to cinematic. Chains fly in from the sides of the room. They bind Sylvanas’s arms and legs. Then one of those shadow rifts opens. The cinematic shows first a foot, then arms, chest with a hole, then head. The Jailer is revealed. He raises his hand and immediately binds the whole raid in chains. He strolls over to Sylvanas. Says “You have done well. You have but one last purpose to fufil.” He touches the empty hollow in his chest. Then says " It has been milenea since my soul was split. One half destined to be imprisoned in this place. The other to sit in Oribos and cast judgement of every soul to pass. It can rot there for eternity now. I have found a better half. And one needs to be whole to rule over the realm of the living." Fear on Sylvanas’s Face as the Jailer’s chains glow. Sylvanas begins to scream in pain. The jailer tears her soul away and it flows into the hole in his chest, where it materializes into a new glowing orb/heart. Sylvanas’s body hangs there limp and grey. No longer a banchee. Just her former self. A lifeless husk.
The Jailer then turns to us. “Maw Walker. You have proven worthy become my herald to the realm of the living. Where we shall take my army, and conquer it.” Then a bright white light engulfs us. Tyrannde in full raging Night Warrior shatters our chains. She sees Sylvanas’s body hanging there. She then screams to the Jailer “You will not rob me of my revenge! As long as her soul resides within you, I will not rest until it is destroyed!” She begins to charge the Jailer, When a portal opens, Jaina, Thrall Bolvar exit. Thrall and Bolvar attempt to restrain Tyrannde. Then Anduin comes to. Does his light bubble. That stalls Tyrannde enough for Jaina to portal us and them to Oribos.
9.2 The Jailer wages war on all covenants and Oribos. The covenants merge in defense. The Jailer has pulled all the zones together with his chains around a new zone which will be his bridge into the realm of the living. (All Zones are now linked and you can fly from one to the other directly) Our raid is a final winged raid, where 3 bossesare in an area of each covenant zone. With the 13th encounter being the jailer in Oribos. Even after defeating the encounter we still lose.
So then for 9.3 we now know the extent of his plans and have failed to stop him. So in 9.2 The Jailer’s forces have Conquered Thunder Bluff, Stormwind, and several surrounding zones. So now we must use the Jailers connection to bring our Covenants and their forces into Azeroth to defeat the Jailer’s forces there. We must marshal all of Azeroth to help defeat the Jailer. Maybe we find the Primus and through him and the Runecarver we create a vessel similar to Xal’atath, that we must use to cut out the Sylvanas soul and bind the Jailer into it.
10.0 We must now destroy the vessel holding the Jailer. The opening patch of 10.0 Wrathion appears and claims to have destroyed Xal’atath in the Dragon Isles and we must go with him there to destroy the Jailer. And there is the segway into the next expac.
Just rambling, but it seems a little more engaging than the Jailer just putzing around in cut scenes.