While breaking down the Dragonflight time skip, Blizzard forgot that time progressed differently in the Shadowlands. This was evident when we first met Jaina, and she explained she had attempted to escape thousands of times.
Yes, we spent 2 years in the Shadowlands, but only moments would have passed in the outside world. To our friends and family in Azeroth, we traveled to Northrend and right back again, though looking strangely older and better equipped than when we left.
We would have needed this extended period of peace to process the existential experience we endured and the knowledge we hold of everyone’s ultimate fate.
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Except during Shadowlands the Scourge was rampaging in a frenzy across Azeroth. For example Redridge was attacked and Lakeshire overrun.
Zovaal’s death put the Scourge back into dormancy. So Azeroth had three years to recover. And its debatable on how much the common person knows about the Shadowlands.
It is perceived differently in the Shadowlands. That is all.
This is incorrect.
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That rumor was already debunked by Ion. It’s not that time passes differently, it is that the SLs has lost the concept of time. As they are basically immortal beings, time no longer has a meaning there.
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Thank you for the clarification.
Still thinking about it, this doesn’t explain the rapid passage of time in the Maw, unless it does runs faster there. Whatever.
On to Dragonflight!