So, this patch we learned that there was a god that sorted souls, but that god was a bit of a butthole, so he was replaced by a robot. Great idea, not leading to any existencial crisises for the denizens of Azeroth at all.
But that’s one thing. Now it seems we are actually supposed to not only witness the return of the soul-sorting robot, but to help with it and endorse it. The Primus seems set on repairing it.
Erm… are we ok with that? I mean, it might be likely that that isn’t gonna go as planned, but the fact that this is the plan right now… is that really ok?
It got pretty much wholly disintegrated, when Zovaal reclaimed the Sigil, if anythign they’d have to make a new one, from scratch.
Also the narrative, with the Eternal ones, as far as i could gather is that they basically collectively messed up and were ignorant/negligent to the problems at hand, which made them even worse. The Arcon seems to at least have had a journey from “This is the way” toward critical thinking.
The robot did some pretty solid job for a timespan somewhat shorter then eternity. After all, we haven’t really seen many souls unhappy with their place in the afterlife. People like Vashj and Mograine struggled in the beginning, but ultimately concluded that the right choice was taken. 99,9% of people we meet also seem pretty fine. You might make an argument with the forsworn, but then again, they had the whole thing going on with “secret maw cult and lol Jailer”, so without the Jailers meddling, they too might have been fine.
But to be truly honest, i dont care either way. Give us some new arbiter or dont. Its so detatched from Warcraft for me, that it became irrelevant.
The Primus wanted to create a new key-thingie to repair her from the sigils, didn’t he? Oh well, I won’t claim to be very attentive to the lore right now, if anyone explain me what we are planning to to about the lack of a sorting hat I’m fine with being corrected.
Well, she had a starting point and a differing end point. Not sure I’d call that a journey, considering there pretty much was nothing in between…
All of the Forsworn don’t seem fine, and even the ones who follow the way in Bastion seem to be in a constant struggle. Even the ascended ones. Maldraxxus is a poopshow. Venthyr were just throwing souls out for any or no reason. The only place where souls seem mostly fine in SL is Ardenweald. Sure, we can argue how much of that is due to the draught, but since we haven’t seen any other era “99,9% of people seem fine” is just plain wrong.
And the 0,01% are probably disgruntled, because of Jailer’s nonsense
Not sure what you’re referring to. He eluded to having to do something, in order to replace the Arbiter’s sigil so we can follow Zovaal to Mcguffinland.
That’s more than basically everyone else got, in terms of actual character progression and it makes sense given the context, unlike some other characters who got the same thing.
Before Her, those millions and millions of souls went through Zovaal, who - I presume - similary “experienced”/studied their life and sent them to the right place…
Now, since the official description is “The Jailer is an evil older than reality itself” … and he was the Judge of the Dead
A big yikes
A robot at least could be programed to be neutral and make a choice according facts not personality or feelings or such; could break, sure, but could be fixed too!
There are robots/droids/A.I.s who are turned out quite nice… for every SkyNet there is an Optimus Prime so to speak
