See here’s the problem. This “human Light God” never existed and will never exist. It was always The Light as a vague concept of compassion and benevolence. The Church of the Holy Light doesn’t recognize a “God” it’s worship of “the Light.” Everyone is capable of being compassionate, believers and non believers alike.
The Church of the Holy Light is just a series of beliefs and standards humans and Dreanei hold themselves to, to act with compassion and peace. That’s the faith side of the Light. But anyone can reach out to the Light. Even Gul’dan reached out to the Light once.
We don’t know where Bridenbrad ended up. It could be the a place analgous to the Plane of Law described in Moorcock’s lore where Bridenbald’s decay was arrested by ultimate Stasis. A place just as horrific as the boiling madness of Ultimate Chaos.
The Naaru are crystaline constructs, not organic beings. How well they can relate to the latter is qustionable.
That hasn’t been canon since Warcraft 2. Also, was it even a Light God, or just tne Christian God put into Warcraft? Sounds like early installment weirdness.
I has not been directly referenced since WC2 directly, no. But there are for sure echoes of the concept throughout the iconography and worldview of the church and humanity in general.
Ironically, as each cosmic force has a pantheon they may end up formally reintroducing it. The idea of a Singular top level Light God would be a good mirror to the plurality of the Void Lords.
WoW should not have a cosmic force that mirrors an irl religion. Wow is inclusive as it is, by being vague. One faith irl doesn’t have a monopoly on “goodness” what you are basically saying in that is, the philosophy of humanism seen in the faith’s aligned to Shadow are “evil.” That is not true irl any more than it is in fiction.
The right hand and left hand paths are both valid and I appreciate that WoW is based more in divine humanism, than faith in dieties.
From a paladin’s perspective, It’s me, I wield the Light, I am the “God of Light.” It’s my choices in this universe that will change the course of the universe. The universe is a manifestion of my will, be that for good or evil. (But in most Light wielder’s cases for good.)
And yet the Naaru are sapient, have their own personalities, have something of gender (lore plays fast and loose with that) and can reproduce. O’ros was Xe’ra’s descendant.
I just assumed Naaru don’t actually die, just their conscience forms a new body after a X amount of time when their main body dies. Now I’m curious on how they’re actually formed or created. If they even have a creator or are just a byproduct of the light itself.
The Ecology of the Naaru isn’t spelled out enough to comment. (Where’s Ed Greenwood when you need him?!) I would however still classify them as alien compared to organic life. And it’s very clear that Xe’ra did not relate well with humanoids.
Do you think Naaru go to the Shadowlands? or do you think they go to some afterlife exclusively tied to the Light? Tirion’s soul is not in the Shadowlands, it was taken by the Light on the Broken Shore when he died. I imagine he absorbed enought Light when he was the Ashbringer that his entire DNA changed. It’s interesting speculation for sure.
I suspect there is some sort Lightlands out in the cosmos, for light based beings. Now that we know there is a Zerith for every cosmic force, I assume there’s a Death Plane for them also.
They are establishing a pantheon for every cosmic force, which means there will be Light Gods. The question is really how they plan to flavor it. I sort of like this idea of a singular top level Light Pantheon member who has been asleep/inert a very long time, and its subordinates have been left to interpret its wishes through imperfect visions. You can get very distinct camps on team Light, then.
Naaru return to the Light yes. Which means Xe’ra was mostly just inconvenienced by taking a fel laser to the face.
you are right, his absence doesn’t act as proof. But the fact that his soul was seemingly spared in a similar way to Y’sera was at the broken shore, and how he’s talked about in Shadowlands by Alexandros, leave the door open for him to come back in some big capacity. It’s just speculation that his soul went to the Lightlands and not the Shadowlands.
The only thing that is certain is the hint that he may return to the story one day in some capacity.
It is possible for a soul to be diverted for awhile. That is what Elune does to Kaldorei souls to make them into wisps. But it isn’t really permanent it seems. If you kill a wisp its core soul ends up in the shadowlands.
So Tirion could for sure of been diverted by the Light.
I was only talking about the Naaru as being more than just constructs. It’s distinguished from how the Titanforged made more of their kind, which isn’t referred to as reproduction and looks like an assembly line vs Naaru who literally have family lineages.
Again, to use Xe’ra as an example, her core Light’s Heart reacted to Elune’s Tear after Velen said “only a Naaru of Xe’ra’s line can unlock Light’s Heart.” Of which O’ros was the last living member. It’s possible Velen was wrong, it did show there’s a connection to Elune.
See, there was quite a bit of lore wrapped up in the Naaru Xe’ra. Problem is, most fans ignore that for the “muh Light fanaticism story”.
Still makes the Naaru look weak for Xe’ra to get jobbed literally in one shot by fel junkie eye lasers. Plus, how would she return to the Light when we gathered pieces of her body and cannibalized her Light as a power source?
