That’s people’s guess but they don’t actually know, since we also know that souls can bypass the Arbiter if someone (like Elune) intervenes.
Coulda been before EN. Coulda been after. No one knows! Blizzard think it’s important to keep it a mystery for…no reason.
Yeah I’d always assumed that Elune yeeted Ysera directly up to Ardenweald.
Maybe there’s some quest dialogue that says otherwise though, I’m not 100% clued in for this expansion.
It seems such a stupid thing to keep secret now, to be honest. Because it really does not matter anymore.
I’m almost certain it’s because they don’t want to pigeon hole themselves and have to visibly retcon when they realise it doesn’t gel with something they’ve already done or want to do in the future.
They just want to use it as a carrot to dangle in front of us for as long as they can. “Wait and see” indeed.
It has to be after the initial battle for Broken Shore because Warbrave Oro is in Bastion.
maybe if they had planned this in advance they wouldn’t have to worry about that
oh well
Continuity exists to enhance the story, not to tie the hands of its creators.
So my guy didn’t end up in super hell after all and made it the moon pool party with his boys.
No it doesn’t.
All the dead kaldorei collectively do the tired cat face meme from their cozy maw cages!
It’ll get its dramatic reveal eventually but I think we all know by this point that the planned, exact shape of the lore to come is as fictional as its characters. It’s all broad strokes to be shuffled by rule of cool, director fiat and in response to community memes.
They should have made twitter dot com meme accounts if they wanted to get saved.
There’s also Ursoc (or Ursol) who we kill in the EN raid who also ends up in Ardenweald.
Did he also get personally taxied by Elune? Maybe? Maybe not?
He just bearly made it!
You’re still a monster.
We don’t have a specific time but it’s at least after the Emerald Nightmare raid (since Ursoc is able to go to Ardenweald, even without any weird intervention-y Elune-y stuff), so your character is all “nice” and “happy” in the “lovely” and “idyllic” afterlives in the Shadowlands
He got the happy fate of being sent to Maldraxxus for being a worthy warrior, being found unworthy once there, and turned into abomination parts.
when you are honored as a great warrior by being sent to the skeleton army, and then are killed by a hulking 50ft flesh monster that breathes death-gas, and the only parts of you that remain are just superglued onto Emeni’s face
It’s all… just so terrible.
if he was a great warrior why wasn’t he able to immediately defeat a flesh giant 10x his size after getting dumped into maldraxxus with no warning or preparation
i am very smart at making afterlives
It’s so absurd and arbitrary I think it’s meant to make us sympathize with Sylvanas and the Jailer for wanting to dismantle the whole rotten mess.
But it doesn’t. It’s a poorly written mess with no established point in time for “everyone goes to the Maw,” so that the writers can send beloved characters who recently died to their respective afterlives, and the whole Shadowlands bureaucracy seems so poorly designed, that it doesn’t seem as though it would function even if the Jailer wasn’t messing everything up.
It’s a garbage pile and I refuse to give the writers the benefit of the doubt by assuming that it’s all intentionally written to be “nihilistic.”