Lore Wise, What Happens When Things Die In The Shadowlands?
When people start decimating mobs in shadowlands, canonically what happens?
Are there infinite realms of death and shadowlands?
Like why are we killing mobs that already died?
Also why is the WoW version of heaven on the same level as maldraxus, a rotten smelly swamp that looks like EPL in 2020?
I want to know canonically why we are killing dead things… and why dead things have flesh and blood
Also I want to know why my rogue can put bleeds on dead things and is that something explained in canon or just made easy for game design purposes.
Although that should break immersion in my opinion for anyone serious with RP
Will Hardcore Roleplayers have to delete their characters if they die?
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Naturally, they go to the Shadowshadowlands, and then the Shadowshadowshadowlands, and so on.
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Lore-wise?
If you die in the Shadowlands, you really are dead. Nowhere else to go, so you’re poof.
If you die in the Shadowlands you are gone for good and just become one with the Shadowlands themselves.
I guess dont die then… if You RP you have to delete the character after you die in SL
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They probably become pure anima and their soul just goes on to feed the Shadowlands functions.
That’s the entire plot for Shadowlands. Thanks to Sylvanas and The Jailer, all the Souls are going to the Jailer, and The Shadowlands is dying without Anima.
It’s shadowlands all the way down.
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Its a recursive call in the system—>
Shadowlands (toon) { if alive (do nothing) else Shadowlands(toon) }
going all the way down the recursive rabbit hole.
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Nah. People who roleplay are generally never in-character while questing or doing PvE. We’ve gotten to the point where you’re some big demigod hero and most people don’t RP that power fantasy (people who do are, of course, entitled to their personal preferences).
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You’ll have to actually play to find out.
But we all know you won’t, but you sure will complain about it.
If they pull the ripcord I will play
We’ll never know since vanillanoob threads never die. they just eventually get necro’d by vanillanoob’s alt.
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Shadowlands are a prison, by killing those that reside in there, we are turning them into pure anima to rejuvinate the shadowlands and releasing their spirits back into the cycle of reincarnation.
I think they turn into anima and the anima is used to empower the covenants?
Souls from our world who get sent there after death, in whatever form they end up in, will be dead for good if it happens a second time. It’s game over, you won’t exist.
Natives to the Shadowlands born from anima energy are part of a system. When they die they are gone, but the Shadowlands will respawn them as new beings. So if say fifty swolekin died then at some point fifty new ones will reappear to replace them so work in the covenants can continue. It’s why they exist at all, so that anima recycles itself. Though we’re in a major energy drought atm.
We need to kill them because the enemy ones are causing problems that must be stopped.
Living people like us are fine. We can corpse run back, returning our soul anima to our body. In lore we don’t actually die as often as we do in game.
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They get reborn. “I live, I die, I live again! Shiny and chrome!” And all that jazz
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I have no idea what you are talking about… people accuse me of this all the time. I am the one and only Vanillanoob and no one else…
I am the only character to ever hold this name ever in the history of WoW and I am proud of it!
There’s no afterlife for the afterlife people.
Argus the Unmaker was called the Death Titan, will he have any influence on the Shadowlands and do Demons go to the Shadowlands or are they on a different cosmic level?
Demons are born of the Twisting Nether; normally, a demon killed on Azeroth or otherwise outside of its home realm will go back to the Twisting Nether, eventually coalesce, and come back. Sargeras tried to shortcut that process by using Argus as a resurrection engine to speed up that process. That same principle applies to other creatures of various realms (Shadow, Light, Fire, etc). The Shadowlands is specifically for mortal beings to go through the process of Death.
So the Burning Legion still goes back to the Twisting Nether, unless they’re killed there, at which point they experience kind of a “true death”. Even then however, the energy that makes up those creatures remains. For example, if a Steward named Joe running around Bastion is crushed to death, Joe is gone, because he died within his home realm, but that energy remains - eventually a new Steward, Jane, will pop up to take Joe’s place.
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