For anyone that may have an answer to this - When a warlock becomes fel corrupted (starts growing mutations, etc.), do they become part demon, or is it just corruption until a certain point, and then a sudden shift to being a full demon from being a regular mortal?
Answers are appreciated, sources are awesome.
According to the Maker dungeon journal entry, if an individual is exposed to fel corruption for long enough, they become more and more demonic in appearance. To the point that they actually become a demon.
All creatures who use the power of fel magic, willingly or otherwise, slowly take on the appearance of demons. The Maker accelerates their corruption and performs cruel experiments on any who attempt to resist.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/The_Maker
But just having some fel corruption doesnât make you part demon? Itâs only after a certain breakpoint you actually become a demon?
The more you use fel magic the more youâre likely to become a demon. Thatâs how demon hunters become demon hunters. They practice fel magic and drink fel-tained demon blood and eat fel-tainted demon meat. Their souls are turned into demons by that whole scenario.
Source: Illidan
Prolonged exposure does it. Just using fel once doesnât make you a demon, or even part demon. Illidan only became part demon after he absorbed the Skull of Gulâdan, and he was using fel magic long before than that. You can even have your demon hunter look demonic or not.
Only some demon hunters turn into full demons, it seems. If you die during the demon hunter starting area, Illidan expresses surprise that you have a demon soul like him. If it were something that all of his demon hunters had, that interaction doesnât make any sense. Heâs had many of his demon hunters die by the time Mardum happens, after all, and if all of them had demon souls it wouldnât be news to him that you do too.
So demon hunters are a good example of how far you can go before becoming a full demonâmany of the lesser demon hunters in the Illidari have very demonic appearances, but they havenât quite crossed over into becoming a full demon like Illidan and the PC demon hunter.
Idk, that conflicts with the book. The book firmly establishes that demon hunters are demons and the only thing that separates them from demons is their will to protect Azeroth. Thatâs like the core theme of the book, covered by the chick from the animated video on youtube. I donât remember her name, sheâs one of your order hall champions though.
I donât remember what Mardum specifically is, but a lot of demon hunter trainees die before officially becoming demon hunters.
The demon hunter starting area is newer than the book (August 2016 vs. April 2016), and is also in-game instead of being in supplementary materialâBlizzard has a habit of ignoring the books. Itâs far more likely to take precedence.
Itâs when Illidan sent his demon hunters to a Legion world to take the Sargerite Keystone. It took place at the same time as the Black Temple raid (it ends just after Illidan is defeated by the raid), which means that all of Shadowmoon Valley questing happened before it, including the quest in which you kill several fully-fledged demon hunters training the aforementioned trainees.
That quest was definitely still canon as of Legion, as itâs important to the demon hunter class questline (one of the trainers was one of the few that did have a demon soul, and he turned on the Illidari after the Legion tortured him into submission when he appeared in the Nether).
Actually, the term he uses is âan immortal soulâ.
Itâs nothing more than a lampshade on the gameâs self-resurrection mechanic.
Actually, the term he uses is âimmortal demon soul.â And itâs an explanation for the gameâs self-resurrection mechanic.
Itâs a lampshade for a game mechanic that has no particular lore bais.
Not in the context of the game⌠or for that matter the Lore. Gulâdan⌠the most warlocky warlock of them manifests at amost⌠pocky green skin.
Admittedly Kilâjaeden might have taken steps to make sure Gulâdan would remain mortal, since in addition to native Azerothians the portal in the ToS was specifically warded by Aegwynn against demons opening it from Azerothâs side, and opening that portal was the intended ultimate purpose of both Gulâdans.
Demon Souls ARE immortal, what Illidan is saying is that as long as youâre not killed in the Twisting Nether youâre bound to come back, how does that not have any lore basis?
What Illidan is lampshading is the same self-resurrection mechanic EVERY PLAYER has⌠for which there isnât any lore basis.
The Spirit Healers are valâkyr who chose not to join Helya in Helheim after the sealing of the Halls of Valor and instead disappeared into the Shadowlands. The few of these valâkyr who still had nobility in their souls dedicated themselves to watching over the physical world, and from within the Shadowlands, they would occasionally guide the dead back to the realm of the living.
Should prob give Chronicle another read, dear.
Last I heard Chronicles had been thrown on the dustbin of being discanonised.
Until new lore contradicts it, itâs still very much cannon.
It is still âcanonâ, however blizzard made up the excuse of it being from a biased PoV as a way to justify their retcons.
Just because they backpedaled on their own creation in order to justify the incoming crap changes in their lore and already bad to horrible writing doesnât make it any less canon.
Unless directly contradicted. Also you can find Spirt Healer text in game about it âânot being your time yetââ