There Are No Real Mortals In The Warcraft Universe

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Here are the rules of mortality as written in Warcraft:

  • There are basically two types of beings: Mortals and Magic Creatures.

  • Magic Creatures have a home realm. When they die outside that realm, they return to their home realm and respawn. When they die inside their home realm, they cease to exist.

  • As for Mortals, when they die they go to the Shadowlands. If they die in the Shadowlands, they cease to exist.

Now, if we pay attention, we see that Mortals have the exact same death behavior as Magic Creatures from the Shadowlands.

In fact, as we’ve seen in Shadowlands, Mortal souls just become Magic Creatures associated with the realm of Death when they die.

So for all practical intents and purposes, Mortals are simply the larval stage of Shadowlands creatures.

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Play Hardcore. We are all mortals there.

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One of the problems in these kinds of stories is past the first few story arcs they just grow too big to a point of ridiculous. The fate of everything is always on the line. I don’t know of many IPs that successfully walked that back.

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No, thank you. I’m Brazilian. Real life is hardcore enough, no need for further hardcorement.