During the initial SL quests, I got sent to this viking-themed place with a giant gold-bearded king. It required a few short quests, then a jump into a hole to return to the regular world, and that was it. No more returns visits offered, and I have no idea how to get back there to see if anything else is available.
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Skyhold? That was the Warrior Class Hall in Legion and has plenty of lore developed in Stormheim. You can go back there as a warrior! It’s also used as the Trial of Valor raid, and the Halls of Valor dungeon in Stormheim.
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That was the Halls of Valor. It’s not in the SL, it’s hovering over Azeroth. Odyn and his val’kyr there snatch worthy vrykul souls from the SL and take them there instead where he gives them new stormforged bodies. But the Halls aren’t actually part of the SL at all.
If you play a warrior you can go there, it’s the Legion class hall for them.
Thanks. Not sure how I got pulled in there, since I play Shaman, and don’t have a warrior.
Holy crap, I was so confused reading the OP although I have been there so many time 
Sadly, as others have pointed out, that wasn’t really a new zone. It reused the warrior class hall from Legion. It probably didn’t take a lot of work to add a few story-related quests to an instanced version of it.
It is a shame, though, as Valarjar > Kyrian any day of the week. These guys should have been their own covenant.
It was apart of the questline for Shadowlands since Val’kyr, Odyn’s eye, and some other things there are all connected to the Shadowlands in some way even if not via direct affiliation. They’re bridging some old lore, which I liked a ton.
I agree. I would love to be a Val’kyradin
For now no. It’s from Legion, the warrior class hall.
I liked their use of it. I suspect we MIGHT go back but at this point it doesn’t seem like there is a point to it unless we see Odyn go down somehow with his forces.
Kinda lore connecting with SL since the big evil eye in the maw was once Odyn’s before it was corrupted-taken by the Jailer through some shady dealings.
Actually Odyn has his Valkyr snatch the Souls from the Rift which is between the Shadowlands and the Great Dark Beyond.
Kyrian Spirit Healers snatch Souls from that place as well.
There is mention in the Chronicle that mentions the Valkyr traversing the Shadowlands to resurrect Souls on the spot(I.E. give them a physical Body not given by the Covenant of the Death Realm they are living in)!
As for how the Valkyr are able to leave the Maw and return to the Halls of Valor in Azeroth’s skies: there is a big hole in the Maw’s Sky so that is no problem considering the Mawsworn themselves use the thing to invade Azeroth.
Odyn struck a bargain with Mueh’zala to give his Eye to him in exchange for using it to see into the Shadowlands.
Mueh’zala took a quick stop by Bastion before handing the Eye to the Jailer. Incidentally the Maw has 4 Mirrors leading directly into Revendreth(seen in the Venthyr Covenant Assault in 9.1) so the Mawsworn have a means of exit from the Maw though clearly not a pleasant one considering the Mirrors lead directly into the Ember Ward where the Light hurts Venthyr and Mawsworn.
Odyn following this proposed to invent Valkyr only for Helya to get angry at the notion and fight him. She accidentally got sucked into the Shadowlands and corrupted by the Maw only to be pulled out and forcefully converted into the first Valkyr(Odyn’s idea of mercy rather than send her back into the Maw).
Helya later escaped Odyn’s control then created first the Kvaldir and later the Mawsworn.
According to Datamined cutscenes the Primus eventually banishes Helya from the Maw thus cutting the Jailer off from his primary source of Mawsworn forcing him to make his move against the Arbiter in earnest as the Sanctum of Domination Raid begins!
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I know it but thanks for the lore lesson. It was a nice read.
I really liked how the Primus just banished Helya so effortlessly lol
I’m awaiting the Jailer’s encrypted form but hope odyn sends more into the maw to have a neat showdown 9.2.