Being raised as an undead may be seen by the living (or even by the person raised) as a “damned” existence, but such an act does not mean their soul will automatically be consigned to the Maw or any other dark afterlife. The Arbiter, when she was still carrying out her duty, judged the soul on the entirety of its existence, regardless of whether the body was animated by Life or by the necromantic power of Death.
From Danuser’s french interview, I think that’s a very interesting new bit of Fact.
So what does Sylvanas want to save them from?
There is a theory crafter in youtube that was analyzing that stuff, its pretty deep and the video was 30 mins.
Big speculations and anduin is involed as well because ilgynoth (legion) prophesized that the boy king will lie 3 times.
Thats too big to take an educated guess, we will have to wait and see
This bit was already clarified in Before the Storm. But its cool that they are bringing it forth in these times when they seem bent on retconning everything.
All that negative baggage derived from the Forsaken starting experience, seems to be now gone. To some extent.
I’d say that she thinks that she is “freeing” them from an unjust soul sorting mechanism. Whether this is true, or if she was deceived by the Jailer to believe this was actually the case, is something yet to know.
Let us summarize few things. She took up the mantle of ranger general cause Alleria refused. She served Silvermoon and even witnessed it’s doom, she was remade into a banshee and everytime she tried to cry on the battlefield, it only brought more pain and despair to the living. She spent years in chains and service to the Lich King, over time it dulled what little compassion she had left. Even when she broke away, she only wanted vengeance and she sacrified everything for it. Then she threw herself off the cliff in Icecrown seeing Lich King was done for. What happened there, we can only theorize, but rest assured…I think she had about enough of this living or dead or undead stuff. I think she has wants to level everyone equal.
I think the latter is more likely. She was tricked. She was never meant to go to the Maw.
But the more I think about it, the whole afterlife system is definitely messed up one way or another. What’s the point of a place like the Maw when you have Revendreth anyway? Lock up extremely dangerous souls, okay, makes sense, but the eternal torture part just seems needlessly cruel.
Well, the torture seems to come from the Jailor and his servants, doesn’t it? If the “Banished One” is a rebel, and not a participant in the afterlife system, the torture might not be by design. The Jailor was banished, but he was powerful enough to exert his will on the realm around him. And he might not even have been supposed to get any souls, considering souls (that aren’t totally drained anyways) would bring him anima and thus power. Considering the Master was his ally for some time, even the souls that Revendreth put there might not be part of the initial plan.
I was wondering about that, too, but afaik it’s just speculation at this point?
Either way, it seems an eternal prison for the most dangerous souls wasn’t a good idea in the first place, when it is obviously so susceptible to error and corruption from within.
Well… what part of that? That the Jailor’s servants are doing the torturing is clear enough. And that the Jailor is trying something that the rest of the Shadowlands isn’t happy with is clear as well. And we know that getting souls brings power to the ruler of a realm, so any soul bringing its Anima to the Jailor would bring him a bit of power. It is at least suggested as well, that the Jailor was chained to the Maw, and thus probably a prisoner, and that his chains are now broken, as the preevent Kyrians tell us.
That the Banished One’s torturing wasn’t part of the design is speculation, of course. He might have deliberately or coincidentally played his role in the Purpose. But I’m just pointing out that we don’t really have a reason to assume that, especially if it sounds wrong.
Either way, at the moment the information we have seems strange, if not contradictory. The Jailor, a literal prison warden… is one of the prisoners himself? Seems like bad design, to be sure.
To be honest, at this point I’m done with the theories and I just want to know stuff.
Shadowlands can’t come soon enough. If there is something that will make me stick around the entire expansion, it will be the story.
I really hope they will conclude Sylvanas’ arc in a decent manner. They insisted so much on her these past expansions that I need to know how it all ends.
I think for me it’s closer to the other way around. I really don’t care about how Blizzard will ruin it this time, but I am vagely interested in what kinds of stories we could develop from the material they throw at us.
