Why do necromancers exist in an immortal realm?

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Maldraxxus confuses me.

Immortal souls leave their bodies behind, get judged by the arbiter and then arrive in maldraxxus where they somehow become undead versions of themselves? And then there are loads of necromancers everywhere raising un-undead creations?

This all seems a bit weird to me - all this bone and flesh aesthetic doesn’t seem very immortal. Why is it like this?

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They use anima to reanimate bones of the fallen. Then when those fall, the anima returns to the cycle of the shadowlands. Similar to the stewards but with more necromancy.

At least I’m pretty sure that’s how it works.

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Where do the bones come from though? We are supposedly the only mortals.

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I just think that in maldraxxus necromancers are just tje ones that uses magic to stick together people.

Using scrap pieces

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Because it’s life after life. You gain a new body in the afterlife.

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Good question…

Maldraxxus doesn’t make a lot of sense and something tells me that kyrian where originally going to be the army of the shadowlands instead of the ethereal undead that are the maldraxxians

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Ah ok.

So you die, get judged by the arbiter, get assigned a body in maldraxxus. Then you fight, and if you are weak and get chopped up, then necromancers will put you back together so you can continue to fight. So you spend all eternity getting smashed up and put back together.

This does make a certain kind of hellish sense - the lucky ones are the strong ones who don’t get put back together too many times, and the necromancers.

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Not exactly. If you die, you die (for real this time). Your consciousness is gone, and your soul power (anima) feeds the machine of death as the power that fuels the shadowlands.

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Its the circle of unlife, and it moves us aaaaall

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Shhh, shhh. Bad stories are just bad. Nothing makes sense here. Don’t question the all-mighty and powerful Blizzard!

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is this the case for all of shadowlands?
and thus, is Ursoc the bear gone forever?

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This is unfortunately the case, yes. Barring a retcon which… is always possible.

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Nah, there’s another, deeper level beneath this one. That’ll be the next expansion: Shadowshadowlands.

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I would have found Maldraxxus 100% better if they hadn’t gone all in on the plagues and constructs part of the Scourge.

Spreading plagues in the afterlife just… sounds very dumb.

Every single covenant has their own security force that is seriously impressive, particularly Bastion, so it’s hard to buy the “Maldraxxus is the defense force of the SL” notion. Have seen no mention (even in Bastion flashbacks) of Maldraxxus assisting with the known invasions in the past of Bastion, Ardenweald, and Revendreth.

I’m likewise not really sure how the House of Eyes does any actual spying when they do not appear to have any interdimensional transportation ability and they’re supposed to spy on people outside of the SL who might threaten it.

Maldraxxus deeply feels like its aesthetic was shoved in because they wanted it and then excused later, explaining things like the Primus randomly getting praised as the Smartest and Bestest of the Eternal Ones when we don’t get that kind of individual role-fitting for any of the others in order to try to make it ‘fit’ better.

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I feel like there is also some
“vessel possession” at play here.

If you notice everyone who you talk to sometimes says they would love to use your mortal body as a vessel lmao

So I think everyone in the Necrolords is a just a spirit possessing a body.

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This is absolutely the case within the house of constructs. You see more of that when you play through the maldraxxus covenant storyline.

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took that as being more about the obsession with fleshcrafting there

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My question is, why was one house specializing in making plagues, when all their enemies are already dead?

Plagues and undeath go hand in hand in Warcraft, so obviously the real answer is “it’s tradition”, but there’s really not much logical sense here. If it was for fighting with the other Houses, they’re all rotting and/or skeletal anyway. If it was for fighting with Maw forces, aren’t they animated armor for the most part? If it was for fighting with “outside forces” like the Burning Legion or the Void Lords, biology doesn’t seem to apply to them.

So was the House of Plagues insurance against the other realms of the Shadowlands? Dun dun DUUUUUUUUUUN…

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Which goes back to the question “Where did all the bodies come from?”.

Then you see Draka who appears to be in prime health and peak physical fitness.

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I think that’s just dead.

But in all seriousness, you should probably do yourself a favor and not think about it too hard.

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