When I saw the Draka cinematic, I thought it wasn’t as great as the Uther one but one interesting observation (the scene with the felguards and the scenes where Draka was interacting with the Masters of the House of the Eyes and the House of the Chosen, respectively) made me think of a theory that could very well be plausible. Spoiler and Speculation alert!!!
I have a theory and maybe I might be wrong because I’m basing this theory on the limited knowledge of Warcraft lore. I think certain groups of denizens that reside in twisting nether were actually - originally - entities who were working for the Jailer long long long time back and were banished to the Twisting Nether by the Death Pantheon - Nathrezim, being one of them. Also if you closely look at the felguards and the fel-lords…they look quite similar to the leader of the House of the Chosen and the erstwhile leader of the House of the Eyes looked eerily similar to the demon inquisitors in their appearances (not to mention that these inquisitors also had moving “eyes” used to “look for” things or “catch” hidden things - even their warlike methods were similar). I think eons back when the Jailer was defeated and chained by the Pantheon, many of his followers (some of whom probably served him from both the Maw and Mal’draxxus ) were banished to the Twisting Nether and once they were hurled there, they started to transform due to the influence of the Fel. On one of such events, I think the Jailer delivered the Nathrezim the Frostmourne and the Helm of Domination for “safekeeping” for further use - in case an opportunity presents itself. And so Nathrezim found and resided in a planet in the TN and called it Nathreza where these artifacts were kept protected until Kil’Jaeden needed “some help”. What do you think? We have to remember that both Danuser and Hazzikostas (i hope my spelling is right) said that the Death Pantheon predated the Titans. So Sargeras might have witnessed these demons probably eons after the event of Jailer’s “arrest”.
I’d love to give Blizzard writing enough credit in order to come up with plausible theories that could weave this stuff…but it can’t.
So no, sorry to tell you that the most probable reason for those “demons” there, is because Blizzard reused some Legion Harbingers slides for this cinematic.
Much like they’ve already used it with several of Lords of War (orc fighting silhouettes, etc.) or how they used Korvas fighting movements for Draka here.
By your level and no. of achievements, I can see you were probably most expectant and subsequently most frustrated due to the bizarre “turn of events” that blizzard have been going on about as far as their warcraft lore is concerned. But a new expansion is coming up. I would rather want people to have an open mind…I understand where you’re coming from and trust me…since the WoD, I have had a lot of questions than answers when it came to warcraft story-telling. Time-travel based stories have to be very very very carefully laid out in a way that might not harm the origin of the story - I completely understand - but so far, atleast as far as Shadowlands is concerned, I think I can HOPE that they apply or rather “weave” one of those theories. But then again WE CAN ONLY HOPE…I wish this is enough to comfort your despair, friend
It’s hard to have an open mind when the last expansion’s speculation on “who burned the tree???” Was as clear as broad day light. We can go even further beyond in time with how they handled the Warchiefs speculation after Garrosh his reign. It’s hard be optimistic to Blizzard after the catastrophe that was BfA.
You see, anything could happen. We do not know if the Jailer worked with Sargeras. We do not know how much Sargeras knew about the Jailer, and if he did at all. We do not know where the scene of the cinematic was: was it inside, was it outside, etc.
So, yeah. For now I just give up xD
It could be one of those things we learn more about as we play: about demonic presense in shadowlands, who and why sabotaged Maldraxxus, and so on.
I think Sargeras knew about the Jailer and was SCARED OF HIM. You see, Sargeras was always about using his Burning Crusade to destroy all planes of existence. And yet, he was not only keeping Argus alive…he was rather nurturing that world-soul to do his bidding. Interesting…isn’t it? Now why would someone like Sargeras who wanted to destroy all life - including Titan World Souls - would want to take this approach for Argus - an approach that completely contradicts his principles…I think I can guess why…HE KNEW ABOUT THE JAILER AND HE WANTED SOMEONE - LIKE ARGUS A PROCLAIMED “TITAN OF DEATH” - TO FIGHT FOR HIM AGAINST THE JAILER?
How did he know about the Jailer? maybe through Kil’Jaeden. If I continue from my introduction on this thread regarding the nathrezim and the death artifacts, when Kil’jaeden “needed some help” and Nathrezim presented these artifacts as potential solution. Kil’jaeden was obviously magically proficient enough to ask the question “How did you come by this?” Given the lying nature of the Nathrezim, they must have said “we stole it from another world” and they can be very convincing liars…either that or the Nathrezim might have told their master the truth about the Jailer…being hopeless of the defeat they faced so many eons back…you’re right Chrono…anything can be possible…remains to be seen.
