He made a deal with our pal Bwonsamdi to serve him in Life and in Death. But what would that entail him? Is he doing his taxes he gets from other people he makes deals with? Or, is he walking around one of the many temples in De Other Side, and serving past Zandalari royalty food and drink? He promised to serve him, after all
Would be interesting to visit De Other Side un-instaced/in the future and see how he’s doing in game
It would be interesting if Rastakhan’s spirit was elevated and became to Bwonsamdi what Bwonsamdi was to Mueh’zala, but I imagine two trolls ascending to godhood at once would be a bit much.
Knowing Bwonsamdi I imagine he has Rastakhan wandering the Shadowlands going house to house and trying to convince various death entities that they should totally sign up for a deal with Bwonsamdi to clean up all their nasty soul-related problems. Sign up now and you’ll get a portable vacuum cleaner and an electric razor absolutely free!
You know, I was kinda thinking a while ago how they’d bring him back if they had the option to. Just look at how Vol’jin end up. He’s going to be a Loa now Rastakhan becoming a Loa could be one of said ways to bring him back, because I could totally see him being a Loa of Light and the sun. Or, Bwonsamdi could just ressurect him, and he’d just come back as a zombie, albeit an intelligent one. Hell, Dazar could become a loa too. As the first Zandalarian king, I think this would definitely be a good role for him he could be a Loa the protects all of Zandalar, and the races who live there, be they trolls, Vulpera or even Sethrak. Any Horde who’d be on the island would be protected too, I’d say. The Zandalari could call him the Sun/Light King, and say his spirits lives on in all Zandalarian royalty. But, I think Rastakhan is more deserving due to his very short life in BfA. Just my opinion though, I think having three ascended trolls would be cool
I will usually gladly hop on the Rastakahn QQ train, with its various complaints:
He was built up for near decades, and was killed off almost instantly after being placed In Game, to make way for a blank slate of a neophyte in his daughter.
The Horde didn’t even officially have him, as the Zandalari joined under Talanji’s reign. So the Horde can never really claim him as one of theirs, or claim his loss. The most we could say is Rastakhan was nice to us and welcomed the Horde into Zandalar.
But having said all that… I hope he is done. That he is just preparing a place for his daughter - in the sweetest way. Maybe he has one or two conversations. Maybe a flashback or two. But I feel like he is done for. Let him be a task master of lesser Trolls, keeping the Other Side in good shape and tidy for his daughter and future grand kids.
Rezan is being removed and leaving a portion of his power to Voljin, who may be returning. I would rather have that be the focus.
Although… if Death Knights are freed from Bolvar and Arthas… and other Death Entities get their own brands of Death Knights… having Rastakhan be Bwonsamdi’s Death Knight and the Horde’s Zandalari Death Knight NPC could be neat.
Resting and enjoying a vacation as we saw him conforting briefly her daughter at the end of the recent book.
That said I do hope he plays an Obi-Wan role appearing to give advise to Talanji in ruling while Vol’jin fight outside enemies(founding and foiling schemes feom bloodthirsty gods like the future jailors)
Technically, you aren’t in the Other Side when you meet those gnomes. But… yeah, Milhouse and Millificent Manastorm aren’t what I expected. I figured it’d be, like… Jin’do being Hakkar’s tortured puppet, Zalazane, or perhaps even mighty Zul’jin.
Man I wish that was one of the deals, we save Jin’do from Hakkar and we put him asleep to figure out if he’s corrupted or a form to turn it at benefit of everyone
Also, it would be sweet if one of the bosses were either the first windrunner general that is trying to escape and Zul’jin helps us to put it down again.
I mean let’s be honest here. Blizz took a look at Shadowlands and realized not a single gnome exists in it anywhere in the entire expansion, so they panicked and threw these two into an open boss slot they had in De Other Side and called it a day.
Yes!! Ive seen this pop up from a few people now. Rastakhan ended up being one of the best new characters in the horde experience, even with how hard of a smear campaign mop ran against him. I think it would be great to officially add him to the horde roster and with him being an avatar of a powerful death entity horde will funnily have a powerhouse to fight for them. They could have him rival any of the alliance demigods.
I honestly would rather have some awesome encounter werewe fight the invading force that tries to break to the other side, and where we’re assited by Rastakhan, Sen’Jin and Zul’Jin to defeat the foe.
And to show some fun mechanic/ theme. Like a place where people are partying and having fun and then you see Jailer’s minions coming in and you go to defent the souls that are attacked, and in return they come backon final boss encounter to defend the Other side.