I’ve always said, I would be an amazing writer and game dev for Blizzard and they should hire me. I know what the players want. I know how to bring people back. It’s very easy and can be done so quick!!
Playable.
Murlocs.
I will write the story for them, how the Horde and Alliance come together as one, with the help of their new fishy allies. Faction boundaries and tensions will disappear overnight as the murlocs show us the way. The Oracles will regrow Teldrassil, bring back everyone who died in the WoT and subsequent battles, reveal that the Shadowlands was just a prank bro, and we’ll just pretend that BfA and SL weren’t real.
But they must give us gorloc skin options, because if we cannot play as the big tongues, why are we even bothering?
I got a better solution that maintains some of this. Just make it so that the Dragon Isle Centaur were a clan from the union of Zaetar and Theradras however they left Kalimdor because they didn’t like the constant infighting. They happened to crash onto the shores of the Dragon Isles. Not like randomly crashing into a landmass surrounded by a mist like aura hasn’t been done before. In fact that is how we found Pandaria. When Anduins ship ran aground with the Horde chasing after them.
It makes the entire thing even more bizarre. At least you could pretend with that excuse. But now she serves literally no role that couldn’t have been her being in the Shadowlands.
Well, typically extraplanar entites can only truly die in their own planes, OR, in places of high concentration of their cosmic power. So, if Azeroth was very saturated in void energy at the time (which makes sense since the Black Empire controlled the globe), then its possible killing Y’shaarj permanently was possible.
I think the hard part is, aren’t demons the only known example of this?
Elementals are native to our plane, they were just linked and bound to the elemental planes by the Keepers. So not a natural occurrence. Like on Draenor, killed elementals are killed.
I think the Wild Gods were tied to the Emerald Dream by Freya.
And really, I think the idea of Ardenwald is you’re still dead, you can just be reborn. Like Uther is dead but he can go places to, I think he’s just more limited on getting his original boy back.