Neither the void or light have any signs of caring about the shadowlands
They literally said that any soul deemed a threat to the shadowlands gets sent to the Maw. They also said that the Arbiter is completely neutral and impartial.
A soul saturated by any form of energy could be potentially used as an access point but we know the Void can do so as a fact. They literally used Alleria’s soul as a beacon to invade the Sunwell sanctum and risk corrupting the sunwell.
Speculation sure. Headcanon no. Every assumption I make as a potential point is grounded in the pre existing game. Note I said potentially, not definitely. We have no certains about the Shadowlands at this point, particularly since Blizzard could just rewrite anything we do know.
How would we know? We have never been to the Shadowlands. The Shadowlands would hardly need an army to defend it if there was no risk of incursions. That is the whole point of the Necrolords existing. Go back 3 expansions and we would be able to argue that the Void is 100% a force of evil and the Light is 100% a force of good.
not really, people just assumed, how can the light be a force of good when we had evil people use it since vanilla
People assumed the Light was good, just the people using it for evil were mislead or being manipulated. The concept of the ‘tyranny of the Light’ was something that really only came around in Legion and it caught a lot of people off guard.
Didnt catch me off guard, a force of the universe being a force that doesnt confine to the pov of mortals and concepts of good and evil is really normal
You maybe not but working from in game lore there was nothing to suggest the Light itself was evil. Even the pain it inflicted on undead seemed more from it ‘reverting’ their state by clearing away the dark energies animating them resulting in them regaining their physical senses. To most people the idea that the Light might not be completely benevolent was a new concept in WoW.
The condemning to the maw might be a scourge thing. And not specifically an undead thing. The scourge cult called themselves “the damned”. I think that’s is in context of being damned to the maw or warcraft “hell”.
Easy answer is that it depends on what the arbiter thinks of void. If he thinks being infected with destructive madness makes you irredeemable than to the maw you go.
The more interesting question here is whether the void actually fuses with your soul, or just your body. And are undead still ‘undead’ when their souls pass on into the afterlife?
I see three ways to go here, first being that your soul takes on the guise of your unaltered physical form. Void Elves would be Blood Elves, or maybe even High Elves and Forsaken would be humans. Second being that your soul takes on the guise of the physical form you most relate to, Void Elves would be Blood Elves if they think of themselves as Blood Elves with a shadow infection, but Void Elves if they think of themselves as changed. Third, and probably most lazy, is that the soul takes on the guise of the physical form you had when you died.
For mechanical reasons we’ll certainly be in the third group, but for story reasons I expect our entry into the after life will not be normal. It will be interesting to see what happens to undead NPC’s that ended up in the afterlife via more honest means.
where do bad elves go when they die they dont go to bastion where the angels fly
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