As recently mentioned by a YouTuber you all hate, rumor has it that the Archon was intended to be the original endboss of the Shadowlands. Lets assume thats true for a second, that story would have been substantially better. I would have enjoyed smashing the Bastionarchy, and it would have made the Jailer a valid character!
Why didn’t you do this, Blizz!?!?!
Safe to assume she gets corrupted and have to help her recover using some of the bells seen around Bastion. 
I don’t remember who that is. Is that thr big angel, or the soul sorting robot?
No i think she was to be what happens when someone becomes a zealot.
I think it was the angel. The soul sorting robot was the arbiter.
Blizzard would have still found a way to screw it up. I’m pretty sure that in another timeline, that’s what they did, and you came to the forums complaining “Blizz should have just made the Jailer the villain. The story would have been substantially better.”
Shadowlands was pushed so far back into the archives of my brainhole, I forgot who the Archon even is.
She’s ignorant to what’s happening but i’m confused how her job would make her a villain without the Forsworn using corruption. 
I mean she was knowingly still having Kyrian send souls directly into the Maw, it was kind of a big deal part of the campaign. She’s definitely not all that great
Blizzard may have been attempting to avoid a ‘Bad guy was good guy all along pepeHands’ trope. Wouldn’t be the first time they pulled it.
In fairness that had more to do with Blizzard not thinking the narrative through.
They (Blizzard) relied on the excuse of “The Purpose” to justify anything stupid and counter productive in the Shadowlands, with Bastion and its mission being the most egregious.
All of this could have easily been avoided if Bastions purpose was not the move souls past the veil but to do literally anything else lol
I thought the whole point of Shadowlands was to put an end to Sylvanas once and for all?
That would mean Sylvanas was in the right all along. I don’t think we would’ve been ready for that. 
Funny enough, that hiccup can be fixed IF the Scourge were fighting the Kyrian for the souls. Giving that choice whether the Maw consumes the souls or the Scourge consumes the souls. 
The Arbiter still had that Orb in her chest in the original art so the original Arbiter is still an ally of Sylvanas even as she overthrows the Jailer who would be the Archon’s Boss(note how the Jailer’s original Art resembles the Primus AKA the Runecarver).
Blizzard’s desire to preserve the Primus and avoid having to have us kill 2 Female Characters(Sylvanas and the Archon) in a row changed the Lore for the Runecarver, Original Arbiter and the Jailer.
The Jailer would be one of the Big Bads with the Archon as his right hand while the Arbiter would be another Big Bad with Sylvanas as his right hand.
The Jailer would all be about torturing Souls for the sake of a corrupt system while the Arbiter would all be about subjugating Reality into the service of Death.
If the arbiter was the one bringing souls to the realms of death and judging them then yeah the Kyrian of Bastion would of just been the ones who cleanse the souls of their past memories, tidy them up and get them ready for their new lives if the soul didn’t wish to join them as another cog in their machine. At that point the system in place would of made more sense…except for maybe Maldraxxus as they were solely military forces. The kyrian would of cleansed souls of their past and prepared them for their new lives, Revendreth would of cleansed them of their past sins to be ready for the kyrian’s end of things, and the night fae would of been where souls get shipped to to be sent back to the mortal realm while also helping nature bound souls recover from their deaths and return via their own system of things. I mean I’m most upset we didn’t see the drust realm and deal with them or idk go seal the hole the devourers were crawling through
I only remember her because of how much I disliked how she treated Devos and by proxy Uther.
She and the Winter Queen seemed darker. The Primus felt like the true jailer. Then you had Sire Denathrius’ betrayal.
Archon Kristen I call her. Glad she wasn’t the big bad, that would have been even weirder to me.
Actually I dunno. Shadowlands was just so far reaching. Like a rock band trying to get into a double record concept album about some heady topic when they’re usually cutting pop rock tracks. Some mortals come in to a land - a timeless land - and teach these everlasting creatures things.
Why would it be assumed that the Archon would somehow get the character development that the Jailer didn’t get that would make them a more compelling villain?
To be fair I hate all you tubers
None of the Jailer’s plans would have worked without the help of the Forsworn. I know the rebellious streak in many blinded them to just how awful the Forsworn were, but they murdered a lot of innocents and did not deserve to be let off the hook the way they did.
For all the initial uproar about the Kyrian enslaving stewards, only the Forsworn are ever seen holding them in chains.
If anything would have made a more compelling story it would have been a pitched battle leading to a complete and utter rout of the Forsworn, with any survivors exiled from Bastion forever. At least that’s how my head canon rewrote it.
While I’m in the Dragon Isles, my mind has the Forsworn stewards and the few surviving aspirants (The forsworn ascended fought to the last) toiling away rebuilding the Ember Ward in Revendreth.
Eradicate the owls. Forsworn knew