Is there a explanation at all in the lore? Why our character can die, spirit walk to it’s corpse and be resurrected? Are we protected by something? Is it ever explained what it is?
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I think the short version is that the Spirit Healers are basically just lazy Kyrians that don’t want to make the trip for us so they let us stick around.
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It’s a game…
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From an article from SA Gamer when they talked Johnny Cash a dev involved with SL:
"We have met Watchers before, but might not have given them much notice. The Spirit Healers back home when you die? Those are kyrian Watchers.
Cash explains: “We have explored little slices of this before, but ultimately the Spirit Healers are kyrian. One of the kyrian roles is called Watchers and we know them as Spirit Healers on Azeroth and their role is to eternally evaluate souls. When you die and you are called to them, they peer into your inner self and evaluate whether you are ready to be dead. If you are, they call one of the other kyrian, called Bearers, to come and get you and bring your soul to the Shadowlands. If you aren’t ready, they return you to life, exactly how you see Spirit Healers work in the game."
Or what Karat said.
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Gameplay.
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Well ok, that’s kind of fun.
Makes me think of like a guy who dies during a life-threatening scenario like a operation or surgery and then comes back to life somehow which people explain away as not their time or something.
Nah I don’t think everything has to have a excuse, but just felt like asking I suppose.
I think, due to you being the ‘chosen one’ in multiple expansions, you’re given the luxury of trotting back to your corpse upon death. 'Course it’s for in-game reasons but that’s as close to a in-game reason as you’re getting. BfA you can say Bwonsambi just wants to see the ‘champion’ squirm a bit.
Interestingly, Legion has a more in-depth description if you do the Demon Hunter quests: One of the early quests you have the option of sacrificing yourself instead of one of your allies to break a portal. Choosing to do so kills you and Illidan is like, “Wow! You have…demon soul powers, like me! That’s neat! Go back to your body now!”
I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
Same as resurrection spells. It’s a game mechanic, not something that actually happens in world as often as we see it in the game (maybe it can happen from time to time in the lore as some sort of rare miracle).
Well, if you are talking “canon” your character presumably never “died” in the same vein that all resident evil characters are presumed not to have been biten by zombies even though that is what happens ingame.
Lorewise, it is either a person is 1) deemed tether to the mortal plane by something(like say our Heart of Azeroth) 2) had an “immortal soul” like demon hunters 3) is being summoned back by powerful forces(being ressurected by say light magic) 4) your soul is simply too powerful/not willing to give up yet to death. 5) you have a patron like Bwonsamdi looking after you.
The spirit that usually brings you back is Kyrin Watchers or in smart form it’s Audra.
Unless Bwom Samdi Lord of the Dead does it in another place.
The book of the Deadomancers foretold the coming of a aeon, where orcs, trolls, men and MER would all persish. Would it thepnore that you woulds’t walk to your own CORPSES? Niegh, for ye flay in dragon fight! BUT if you were to die at the hands of the Alliance they would chop your head off if you didn’t at least whorship Audra! Whos Kyrin Torn have thoust wings for thee. So they agreed on the battlefield to all come back to their bodies on a spiritual journey lead by Rod the Riptah. Shaman elk troll of the g’vati tribe!
(Lore)
Thats also some cool stuff and way of seeing it. Thanks for your response.
Also, excuse me if I sound like a lore nerd to some people. C: Hahaha~
It would be cool if the character lore-wise actually died to the threat of the dragonflight expansion, but fought to get his soul back by means: This works surprisingly will in Guild Wars 2 as a plot device.
There are plenty of nasty beasties in the Lore’s past and future relevant to the dragonflights and would mean a dire turning plot lore-wise in the continuity of the plot.
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Technically we did this already. It happened in the Argus raid/this was part of the raid mechanic.
Is there a lore explanation that we reach an early terminal velocity while falling? Or that we always run?
There are practical gameplay things at stake. I don’t think people would want in game death to result in a permanent deletion of their character
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Determination.
I never meant that, but in many games and media, “death” has been used as a trope to instigate a form of loss, grow and change in the aforementioned dead in the form of a return from the underworld so to speak.
But like the gentleman Zerde mentions above, I was not here for this “Argus raid”, but truly there is a feeling nothing is really at stake if you know you’re basically immortal and everything will turn out fine?
See this trope can be fascinating because it can be focused inward, like a plot device. The player is struck down, he fights for his soul and hence, we see in some sense, this new threat we think we’re going to strike down because we always win? The cards are against us for once canon wise.
Death, resurrection, growth and rebirth to put it TL;DR. If was used as a canon plot device.
I always thought the spirit healers were Val’kir.
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Yea, if you do some of the Kyrian dailies they show they let some people live if it messes with death. Like they like this Kliaxxi soldier live to kill Necromancer’s terrorizing the place.
Also they might see we have a special connection to azeroth, as Illidan refers to demonhunters and him having a special type of soul.
Which at times makes me wince sometimes at important lore characters that get killed but can’t come back.
Varian’s situation is understandable because he was fel exploded so he had no body to return to, but Tirion’s death makes/made me want to toss my keyboard.
Didn’t we die to the lich king and Argus.
Dead guy: “Can I go back to my body”
Kyrian 1: “Sure, whatever, just go”
Kyrian 2: “…is he allowed to do that?”
Kyrian 1: “I don’t get paid enough for this, bro”
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