So I was just wandering through the Vale doing part of the new questing and who should I fly past but Yu’lon! What gives? I thought she was at the end of her life in MoP yet she’s still here seemingly no worse for wear.
she has a cycle they tell you this in mop, and she is a wild god, wild gods dont really die
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I’m not sure why you thought that. In MoP her plot was that she had to delay her reincarnation thanks to the events in Jade Forest.
She’s then popped up all over the place multiple times, in Warlords of Draenor and Legion.
I think the implication is either that a new Jade Statue was successfully built between MoP and Legion/BFA, or that she wasn’t as close to death as it first sounded and she can just chill out for a while.
To be fair, it’s debatable if her appearance in Ashran is canonical or if its just a cool item ability
I get she has a cycle, I said that in the post. She was supposed to be at the end of it in MoP and that was why us destroying the statue was a big deal. How has she survived years past her use by date? I would have thought she would have had to do the reincarnation by now. Like she doesn’t just reincarnate as Yu’lon again right? If that’s the case I retract my question because it makes sense.
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I don’t really think anything in Ashran can be taken seriously though.
It’s never expressly stated just how much time she has. Only that it’s NEARING her time. I mean, she’s still an extremely long-lived Dragon and “soon” for her may not be for another 30 of our years.
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I mentioned this a long time back but I’m really hoping they have Yu’lon die in shadowlands.
She’s been nearing her time since MoP and Ardenweld is all about rest and rebirth. I think it would be really cool to see someone go through the entire cycle and the candidate that I feel is easiest to do that with is Yu’lon.
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We have a short story about this from back in MoP.
After the statue was destroyed and the war ended the Alliance and Horde joined the Pandaren to rebuild the statue.
Yu’lon has already been reborn.
That doesn’t eliminate the possibility that Elana might get her wish and she dies in Shadowlands anyway.
Yu’lon and the other celestials are wild gods like the troll loa and the night elf guardians. None of them really die. When their physical body dies they go chill in the Dream to recuperate and then return if they choose. Some like Ursoc and Aessina arent inclined to return. Others like Cenarius seem to go and come every few years these days lol.
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I like this. Not just Yu’lon but Ashamane! This is where Ashamane has been all this time after the Legion got him/her right? Ardenweald? Would be nice to meet.
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I don’t think the Celestials took place in the ritual that Freya did that allows majority of wild gods to do that.
I don’t remember a short story about that. There was one set after MoP called the Jade Hunters, where Yu’lon, using her humanoid form of Fei escorted a group of dwarf miners into the very mine she took refuge in after getting fatally wounded by Lei Shen. Where her original body died.
why is this flying snake so useless? Could eat up flying worms atleast
She’s doing w hat the other Celestials are doing… holding the line.
It’s up to the Champion to tip the scales.
That just can’t happen, she imbues the next Jade Serpent with her essence so she can reincarnate, she doesn’t just ‘‘die’’, and the current JS was borderline finished by MoP, considering how we see her alive in BfA and the time between MoP and the current expansion, it’d make sense her reincarnation went well.
It was destroyed in the conflict though, but if she is still around by now chances are she reincarnated, I say this because we had Fenella (although blackmailed by Moira) working with Pandaren Masons on the statue, the fact she is now residing in Shadowforge City in BfA means her job is most likely done.
The thing I don’t get, reincarnation implies it’s not the same person afterwards. I always figured that her putting her spirit into a new statue was akin to the Avatar Spirit jumping into a new body. The spirit is the same but the statue is a new Yu(heh). That’s why I assumed it hadn’t happened and she was far past her supposed time of dying.
Every hundred years a enormous jade state is built in the temple grounds, so Yu’lon can transfer her life essence into the sculpture, which would then turn into a new being. This cycle has been going for generations.
I suppose it’s less akin to reincarnation and more like getting a new body.
They even say it there though “which would then turn into a new being.” Not Yu’lon with a fresh body.