Shadowlands is better written than Cata

[Jeroboam-moon-guard]

@Legonar-the-scryers

Yes, with Undeath and other external factors being the implied exception - that is to say, they believed that under normal circumstances that there was nothing else after.

It’s not like they’d be able to recall their time there, as well - according to an interview with Steve Danuser (on a site that’s in French apparently), mortals who are revived after entering the Shadowlands don’t retain memories of their time there.

If even it’s hard to believe that someone on Azeroth would believe that, I want to also note that a not-insignificant number of people on Azeroth believed for the longest time that their souls would go to the Twisting Nether upon death.

That is an absolute nonsense. We know of examples of people’s souls going into the Light, we have ancestor cults where entire races commune with the spirits of their forebears. Druids were known to enter the Emerald Dream upon death as far back as Classic. Hell, Legion even has quests where you send Death Knight NPCs into the Shadowlands to harvest essences from souls of known characters.

When you resurrect Whitemane she says

High Inquisitior Whitemane says: I… I live? Is the anguish of death over?

The idea that any character in Warcraft would think that existence would end after Death is competely and utterly stupid.

@Legonar-the-scryers

Because it’s not a coincidence.

The Scourge based their architecture off of the Nerubians.

The Nerubians themselves were an Aqir race shaped by Yogg-Saron, who calls himself the God of Death, with the Nerubians being visually similar to many of the Maldraxxi in the House of Eyes.

Given how important Yogg-Saron’s presence was to the Scourge (who are effectively an attempt at replicating Maldraxxus’ Undying Army in the mortal world), to the point of having created the culture that influenced their architecture to be more in line with that of Maldraxxus - this isn’t a hole with “no apparent reason”, its a mystery whose answer has not yet been directly addressed.

This would almost work as an explanation if not for the fact that the Nerubians themselves based their architecture on the Tol’vir they conquered. Or are we supposed to believe these guys were secretly inspired by Maldraxxus as well?

The simple explanation is that they copied the Scourge’s aesthetic and then simply said “Maldraxxus did it first” without even looking at the prior world building that informed the Scourge aesthetic. It’s lazy and embarrassing.

@Legonar-the-scryers

That said, it’s equally clear that despite being only a specific thread, there’s a level of importance given to our timeline which the Titans have deemed the timeline worth prioritizing as well.

That’s a lot of words to say “Souls that enter the Shadowlands from other timelines effectively stop existing”… which is bad news for Mag’har players, I suppose.

It’s the same stupidity that led them to proclaim stuff like “the Legion transcends all timelines ” simply because it sounds cool, without considering any of the implications it might have.

@Legonar-the-scryers

The more I look closer into Shadowlands lore and dissect it, the more I see seemingly intentional mysteries whose answers have not all yet been revealed - but a mystery’s answer not being revealed yet does not mean that the mystery shouldn’t exist.

You don’t seem to be looking very closely at all.