I skimmed it through and the OOCer is not representing the RP community, but just PvP so even though in terms of naming rules it’s terrible, I guess they don’t really look at the server someone’s in.
I’m happy there’s at least several roleplayers, I think I saw three from AD (but don’t have many alts/are not known names to me either, maybe only Oak who sounds familiar?) so maybe they’ll be able to do something.
I do wonder what their application process was like. Was it randomly selected with no background checking, or did they also look at the accomplishments? E.g., someone had some sort of an obscure website thingy going, but there’s several here who’ve also done lore collections etcetera who also applied and apparently didn’t get in, so…
I wouldn’t be surprised if they just selected people at random though, it’s also really awkward where all of the EU participants need to make trials on the US forums to be able to communicate when . . . the Discourse web functions globally and there’s really REALLY no need for such barriers any more, connect us already.
It’s not like the US people are going to come over to the AD EU forums and if they do, they’ll be laughed out anyway.
So, like always, you are forced to play through x part of the story (the Bastion covenant in this case), otherwise you’ll be missing out on the most important parts of the story and you’ll be scratching your head, wondering, who tf Pelagos is.
But even then it does not explain why Pelagos is even worthy of becoming the Arbiter, unlike anyone else, for example.
(Also why don’t Demon souls go to the Shadowlands, but Argus’ corrupted soul does?)
Also, about Argus. Shouldn’t he go to the Arcane/Order afterlive? He’s part of the Pantheon of Order like the Titans afterall, esp since he’d upset the balance of the Shadowlands since he’s as strong as the Eternal Ones.
Glad to have a definite answer to the question. It does raise the question of why a Titan soul was sent to the Shadowlands in the first place however. I could swear that we’ve been told that upon death, Titan souls would be sent to whichever realm represents Order - not Death. Then again Argus was a bit of a special case I suppose.
Needless to say the Twittersphere isn’t happy with this. If indeed this means that the entirety of the Burning Legion was manipulated towards this one event for aeons by Zovaal’s nathrezim agents… I can’t say I am pleased either.
Why does the new Arbiter need to be a person, anyway? By all indications, a robot did this (boring, mechanical, and thankless) job just fine for all those millennia, so why change something that worked?
Because having a soulless robot do it was bad. Now having this rando who basically got the job because they happened to be nearby when people were talking about it is much better.
So a Titan, who we were told had a separate ‘arterlife’, actually went to the Shadowlands for ~reasons~. And then it doing so broke the Arbiter for ~reasons~. And it was able to do so because it was attuned to ‘Death’ (whatever that means) for…~reasons~?
You know I’d kind of assumed that Argus being a death titan was just “his thing”, like how Eonar is a Life Titan and Aman’thul is a Time Titan and Norgannon is a Nerd Titan, but now we’re meant to believe that:
a) It was a coincidence but that the Jailer 58457246 dimension chess’d us into killing Argus for his plans
or
b) that he had his dreadlords change Argus into a ‘Death Titan’ and no one in the burning legion ever questioned why they were doing it with death magic instead of fel magic (Especially when he was used as a soul battery to resurrect demons…you know, the fel creatures)
or
c) Both.
Man it’s crazy how the Jailer had all these plans and manipulations set up but if he’d literally just told Sylvanas not to break the crown for a year or two longer he would’ve easily bodied reality with no notable opposition.
Also remains crazy how no one noticed that for over a year every soul was getting maw’d.
Also remains crazy that “no one can escape the Maw” but haha vulpera DKs go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr haha wisps go brrrrrrrrrrrrr
also did we find out why vol’jin didn’t go to bwonsamdi and instead got ‘changed’ instead, I know he’s now a wildseed but did they ever confirm who messed with his soul in the first place
Seeing people make crackpot theories to make this insanity fit makes me unreasonably upset. It’s like I’m watching the writing team serve actual poop straight from the toilet and people go “Hmm, maybe this is special poop, and if you think about it this poop was once food and that food could have potentially been something delicious, like brownies, because both brownies and poop are brown, yes, I think this is what they planned for all along.”
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