Hi,
If Im not mistaken, Kil’jaeden tortured Ner’zhul and after some time he gave him a choice to be Lich King, to create a whole new army of undeath under Kil’jaeden command. Ner’zhul agreed to that and Kil’jaeden bound his soul to the Lich King helmet, froze him in the Northrend and send Dreadlords to control him.
My Question is… how can the Frozen Throne be connection with the Shadowlands, if Kil’jaeden is the one who created Lich King and the whole Frozen Throne ? I mean Kil’jaeden was a powerful demon, but shutting down Shadowlands and bounding its whole power to someone seems like bit over his paygrade.
It appears that the dreadlords didn’t craft the domination set but asked a mysterious blacksmith using the forge of domination in the shadowlands to make it
Icecrown may have always been a gateway to the shadowlands or Arthas may have moved or opened a gateway to icecrown through the power of the domination set (frostmourne included)
The helm of domination may have been made out of a core component of the Shadowland, most likely through a bargain with the jailor, which resulted in the above points.
The fact that the helmet destroyed the veil is either due to the fact that the helmet itself was maintaining the veil or that the veil was so close and fragile at the peak of icecrown that the combined powers of sylvanas and the helm broke it
So far it’s mostly speculations, but it’ll be answered in 9.0
The way I interpret it for now(atleast for myself) is that maybe the creation of the Lich King, an entity that kept so many souls from going to the Shadowlands is exactly what caused the “machine of death” to malfunction in the first place.
And if you look at how the Frozen Throne originally worked, it was Ner’zhuls prison and he was feasting on souls to fuel his power, those souls would normally go to the Shadowlands instead.
So everything not killed by the scourge would go to the Jailor. Good deal for him.