I think the are not nice is the specifics of his imprisonment not that he was imprisoned.
The legion as we saw in the third war didn’t require a fount of power to invade and without the world tree that invasion would have been an overwhelming success, not to mention the fact that a fount of arcane magic isn’t inherently a bad thing anymore than a world tree is. When the new world tree was used to corrupt the emerald dream the night elves didn’t burn it down so it could never be abused again.
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His punishment was eternal imprisonment without the posibility of parole. Killing him might have been kinder.
Or it might not, depending on the afterlife.
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To be fair, that is exactly how we ended up with Vordrassil.
The tree in North rend that was corrupted and destroyed?
Yeah. We even burn it a second time during Wrath when the Furbolgs replanted it.
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Not quite; Chronicle clarified that the whole point of the Third War was getting Archimonde to the World Tree so he could use its power to open a full-sized portal through which the Legion could cross over en masse. What he brought with him at Dalaran was comparatively just a small vanguard of troops, presumably to spearhead the attack and keep the Scourge under control. It wasn’t a real, full-blown demonic invasion.
One of the things Chronicle did to reconcile the various RTS wars with events in WoW was solidify that every attempted invasion by the Legion since the WotA has explicitly been an effort to either reopen the portal in the Tomb of Sargeras or create a new, equally massive portal using a local font of power. Simply steamrolling Azeroth with the Scourge and a few battalions of demons was never the plan; it was always about claiming the World Tree (or more specifically, the Well under it) to open another massive portal that could accommodate Sargeras and resume the full-scale demonic invasion that had been interrupted by the Sundering.
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With the intro of legion space ships you hsve to winder whh they need big portals so badly sebd a few if those in sonewher far away open portals from them use msny small ones
As of legion this is incorrect. The first world tree was Shaladrassil, in Val’sharah. It appears to of been grown before the sundering even occurred, and while it isn’t stated is likely what shielded much of the broken isles from sinking into the sea.
As for if he was right to make well 2.0, That is going to be totally subjective. The Kaldorei were downright terrified of sorcery after it almost blew up the world and a font created to expressly power it was never gonna go down well after what had literally /just/ occurred. However sorcery was vital in the ultimate downfall of the Legion, so it is arguable he was right.
How though exactly?
Well mages and magic helped fight the legion without them the defence would have been far harder and the well may or may not play a part in the scale of magic.
The entire mage campaign of Legion to begin with. Sorcery provided the main base of operations in the form of Dalaran, and we couldn’t of escaped the legion ship as Kil’jaden died if it had not been for Khadgar’s mass teleportation.
But that wasn’t really due to any well of eternity though, it wasn’t as if arcane magic didn’t exist without it
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Eternal imprisonment while being spelled to not need food or water and be unable to hurt himself so no one would ever need to visit him.
Death absolutely would have been kinder.
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Maybe blizzard isnt clear on how the well and magic work together. In the trilogy when rohnin goes back he finds his spells are far more powerful and easier to cast when compared to today. this may mean a well acts as a magic amp so even supressed the well might be responsable for the power of magic today thus uf it were not here magic would barely be present ir be heavily deminished.
Magic seems to work perfectly fine on both Outland and Draenor and there aren’t any wells there.
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That may just be leylines that work for a baseline magic. Blizzard isnt exactly consistant as wel they say arcane power is from leylines or the lines control magic but outlands magic is fine.
No it wasn’t a full blown invasion yet the tactics used ended in the full scale defeat of many great kingdoms and civilizations. The legion essentially broke the back of the alliance with the scourge and the horde was still in the early stages of rebuilding at that point so they didn’t have near the strength of the post 2nd war Alliance. the legion may not have even needed it’s army to purge azeroth the only thing that saved the world was the wisps and the world tree.