Shadowlands Broke the Lore

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In the Shadowlands, we find out death doesn’t mean you’re dead. It’s not even a true afterlife. Souls that we thought were forever lost are still alive, and some are even thriving (Except Ursoc, RIP my man).

Entities of unknown age and significance are farming our souls for sustenance, as if life on Azeroth was just a holding pen for hapless cattle.

Even the leaders of the shadowlands appear to be flawed beings that succumb to desire and temptation like the mortals they feed off.

It’s basically like the World of Warcraft is one big Neverending Story of books within books within stories within stories.

At some point in time, Blizzard needs to take a hard look at focusing on fleshing out characters in their lore, instead of building layer after layer of baddies. The more we keep zooming out, the more insignificant our everyday character development becomes.

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[EDIT] : When I say Shadowlands has broken the lore of World of Warcraft, I don’t mean in the true literal sense, since Blizzard can always add to or retcon the lore.

Rather, what I mean is that the previous lore has become severely more inconsequential. Shadowlands has shown that the death in the plain we exist on Azeroth is not absolute. Even in the afterlife realm (the shadowlands) we can die again. Instead of the shadowlands being a realm souls go to after death, it is more of a new realm that souls thrive, take form and are vulnerable to the same flaws, temptations, desires, and vices that were present in life on Azeroth.

The shadowlands Broke the lore because it opened the door for infinite realms, inconsequential existence, and a never ending layers of Supreme beings.

FFS, we have the Titan Pantheon, the Old Gods, the Eternal Ones, and now the First ones. What’s next, the Eternal Old First God’s?

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Do you have any examples?

I don’t think there’s any factual define afterlife so how would you know?

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Blizzard “breaks the lore” with each wacky novel they put out in conjunction with a major release. Go back to 2010, the Titans still ordered the universe, there were no Void Lords out in the deep cosmos, and Sargeras and the Legion were still the ultimate evil.

So are they really breaking the lore, or expanding it each time?

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You know, the first time my character died, I figured out death doesn’t mean you’re dead in this game.

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Ya but… in real life, we are just spiritually possessed demonic clones of our true selves from the future asleep in a cryogenic chamber trapped within an alien spaceship’s holographic program built by us from the past.

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OMG, how’d you find out?

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I played Roy 2

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We’ve always known it wasn’t true death. Even before this expansion there have been many quests and story points where we communicate with fallen spirits. And Azeroth is crawling with undead too, yanked back from the SL. Existence has always been continued, not ended.

We’re just expanding now on what was once a massively vague and poorly understood area of lore. That’s story development!

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Shadowlands didn’t break the lore.

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Real development of a massively vague and poorly understood area of lore into a massively tedious and poorly developed expansion. Yay?

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This is a lore topic though, gameplay’s a separate thing and irrelevant to the thread. For the story yes we’ve gone up significantly. Before this our knowledge was 0% and it was just known as a weird spooky grey land.

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Just wait till a few expansions from now where we learn all the souls that die in shadowlands go to SuperShadowlands!

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Is there a SuperMaw there? Because that sounds like a fun place to visit.

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We’re immortal as long as:
– We don’t delete our characters
– Our subscription doesn’t expire
– Blizzards game servers stay online

:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Called Blizzards Head Office :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Even when the servers die out the image of my sexy dancing will be burnt into the memories of many…

/fruit hat
/sexy dance

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No gif?
:frowning:

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There’s a sinstone ready for you in Revendreth for that. Being too sexy is a crime! :scream:

Unless you’re me, but since you’re you and not me then you should be concerned.

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No one is feeding off of anyone. Anima is like the Force. And no one is exempt from flaws or falling to corruption.

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I choose Sith!

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Everything you come across in “The Shadowlands” except for the souls themselves are completely fabricated by other entities. The First Ones created Oribos and Maldraxxus plus they created such things as the Waystone and those Soul redirection devices (where you can res sick in sl zones)

It is said even by the Eternal Ones that they created their own realms, hinting to me that Ardenweld, Revendreth, Bastion, and even “The Maw” are just a manifestation of the mental strength of the creator. The Winter Queen wants to be loved and adored, the Sire wants to be revered and feared, the First Born demands your loyalty at the cost of your eternal self…

That said, why did they banish Zovaal? Did he do something bad or is that all false. Why do all the souls go straight to the maw now? Surely there was a natural flow before Oribos and Arbiter were created… If the Maw had been drained from Anima for Eons, maybe just maybe Zovaal is seeking poetic justice.

Though that is asking more than I assume they will do. Jailer bad, Sylvanas wrong, Good guys goodier, Champion is a God that serves at the whim of peons.

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