That’s an insult to Wallpaper!
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Yeah. Tacky or not, wallpaper is a matter of style. Of expression. Love or hate it, it has personality.
Zovaal’s entirely perfunctory. He’s a wall stud or crossbeam. He serves a structural purpose, but has no identity beyond that. Delete Zovaal, design and all, replace him with a formless black cloud called “the Darkness” and would you really lose anything? I’m not convinced you would.
Denathrius is smarmy and hammy and kinda campy, but at least that’s something! Denathrius is a villain’s villain, but Zovaal is blank slate of an antagonist no one bothered to fill in.
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Ok,a delusional fever,yike throw some ice on me.
I’m rewriting a lot of the storyline with…well, basically with all of the original elements, just…imo, executed a lil differently. Maybe better, maybe not, who knows.
I kinda want a single moment to define a lot of things - and for that moment to be Sargeras imprisoning the titans. Unable to kill them but breaking them down into their base powers - the ideas they represent. The fury of a storm, the warmth of sunlight, the chill of night, the sheer joy of revelation, so on and so forth.
It’s already shown in-lore that this event…shook things up in the mortal plane. It’s what allowed the old gods to take over Ulduar, what allowed Odyn to do his crap to Helya without repercussion, and a whole mess of other things to happen.
I also follow the idea that the Sire, the Queen, and so on are just more titan keepers, as we’ve already seen that the titans can move through dimensions without much fear. Their constructs are bound, but they’re more or less free to traverse reality.
So, after the titans just kinda…up and go…like everywhere else, there’s suddenly a lack of guidance. There’s no power structure any more.
Now, how would Zovaal and Denathrius get about being evil?
Well, they’re in charge of “evil” souls. They’re the most aware of the sins of the mortal plane, and just how…corrupt life can be. They have to deal with that kind of person every day - and the thing is, they weren’t designed to be tormenters.
They were designed to rehabilitate. To recirculate souls back into the afterlives to bring about something constructive. Now, imagine, you’re essentially a machine, at least at first. Your orders are to rehabilitate souls - and suddenly, you meet one that resists. Struggles. One that will not cooperate. You reach out to your superior, your creator, for help and advice…and get nothing back. No response.
So you try harder. And harder. And the experience, as it happens again, and again, starts to jade you. You get frustrated. You get frightened. You become hopeless.
And that, my friends, is when the whispers start.
I really think the whole narrative of Zovaal controlling - or at least manipulating the old gods is stretching it. But the other way around, now that’s something. Maybe their influence isn’t as pronounced in the shadowlands - they’re prepared for assaults after all - but maybe all it takes is a whisper. A word.
“…why…?”
And suddenly, all of these disparate anxieties snap into place - into a question in Zovaal’s mind.
“Why am I doing this? Why continue when I was given an impossible task - and if THIS, this cruelty, this barbarism, this HATRED, is the result of the First One’s creations…why would I seek to uphold it.?”
And now, we have a motive. Not necessarily power - because a keeper would know that that is beyond them. They already manipulate the fabric of their world.
No, what Zovaal wants isn’t power - what he wants is an ending. A finality to this stream of anguish he’s been subjugated to for eons.
He confers with Denathrius, and he’s quick to agree. Though perhaps he hasn’t seen the same kind of souls Zovaal has, the amount of just…horrible people that have passed through his realm has scarred him.
Zovaal would bring his words before the Pantheon - and be met with looks aghast from the other Eternal Ones. The others, of course, deal with the nicer parts of death - the sweet, the kind, the stalwart, the protective.
Where this differs with situations like Ulduar or the Dragons - these two weren’t driven to madness. They’re not…crazy. They’re just tired - and someone pointed them in a direction.
Zovaal is deemed too dangerous to be left alone, and is chained deep within his own realm, to be buried under the pile of irredeemable souls. Unable to move, unable to escape - surrounded by his failures. “Like You,” Kyrestia would spit, before leaving him trapped among the very things he had grown to fear and despise.
I don’t know necessarily where I would want to take it from there. Perhaps with Denathrius slowly pulling strings throughout history to break Zovaal out, and realize their dream together - a silence. Peace, through silence.
And…no. I don’t think I’d have Sylvie be any part of that plan - at least not as a willing player. I think after Arthas she’d kinda smell a tyrant before seeing them.
So I recently bought Shadowlands, I haven’t payed since that raid on ORG expansion where the max level was like 110, or something like that. And I forgot what my main account was, so It was put on my Wow Classic account. Which wasnt it. I have like 2-3 lvl 6’s Ive played once before as it seems, I’ve tried to request a refund while I was waiting to hear a response but it said i was no eligible for a refund. Do I have to give up on all my higher lvl accounts and forced to start all friggen over ?! Anyone have any ideas?? Am I the only dumba## to do this ?