I’m basically pulling a angry fan moment but Art hu as and the Lich King and all of it is, in my book, forever unrelated to the Jailer or the Maw or anything related to Shadowlands. I don’t care if it’s wrong, but Arthas is the big reason so many people loved Wrath and part of the reason WoW was successful in the first place. People loved the Lich King as a villain and Arthas’s fall. They’re just going to run his story into the ground and I absolutely refuse to acknowledge it.
Right now ALL of my characters are basically ignoring Shadowlands as a story, just there’s something big going down, Thrall and Baine are missing and Sylvanas is involved…But the world is otherwise still running. Still gold to make, villages to save, etc.
It doesn’t really concern them and never will (unless Azeroth as a whole gets dragged into the Shadowlands).