Not to point out further plot holes in the story, but a glaring one is that they haven’t really explained how was the Primus captured. Was he drawn into the Maw somehow? Did the Mawsworn drag him all the way from Maldraxxus to Torghast?
I feel the latter is very unlikely on the grounds that I feel someone in Maldraxxus would have noticed he was being dragged out from there. Not to mention that the Primus himself is incredibly powerful, so he would have probably made some noise were he being attacked.
Sarm suggested Denathrius may have tossed him in.
If that isn’t what happened, I figure Draka’s going to a Legion world wasn’t happenstance. Zovaal may have had Denathrius use the Dreadlord to use the Legion to draw Maldraxxus into a war with the purpose of luring the Primus onto a Legion world, to capture him and funnel him into the Maw.
The Primus had already left Maldraxxus because he started noticing the Jailer’s influence leaking out and suspected he had allies on the outside. After leaving behind the hidden messages and dropping off his sigil in Korthia he would have likely gone straight to the Maw himself to try to confirm what was going on there.
The Jailer has already shown the ability to weaponize his magic chains. Even in ages past long before these events started he was already capable of using them to snag landmasses that wandered into the Maw’s atmosphere. All the land in the Maw today used to be from another zone.
So it’s possible that even if the Primus didn’t go directly into the Maw, if he got too close the Jailer may have been able to surprise attack snatch him with a chain and drag him inside. Then once he was in there the Primus could be properly captured.
Speculation, but I think it makes sense. The Primus hadn’t seen the Jailer since his imprisonment ages ago. He would have no way of knowing Zovaal had gained that ability.
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Yeah, it comes across like he specifically hid his sigil in Korthia because he intended to go to the Maw next to confirm his fears, and wanted it safely secured away from the Jailer, but also still potentially reachable by his allies in the event that he couldn’t return.
At that time there wasn’t any available way to easily leave the Maw (no Azerothian Maw Walkers on hand to activate the waystones yet), so he left behind his sigil in Korthia and the hidden warning in Maldraxxus so that if his suspicions proved correct, the rest of the Shadowlands’ defenders could hopefully do something about it without him.
So even if he’d theoretically been wrong and the Jailer wasn’t escaping, the Primus had arranged for his peers and subordinates to continue protecting the Shadowlands without him because going to the Maw to prove or disprove his suspicions was a one-way trip either way.
Once he was in the Maw, he’d have been cut off from aid and probably just worn down by Zovaal and the Mawsworn. They’d been drawing more and more power from the souls funneling into that realm, while the Primus was alone and denied any assistance.
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