I think I’ve figured it all out already, it’s been there all along. Vol’jin’s death was not random, it was planned all along. And the beings that could whisper to him was more than likely someone who has power over life and death.
Not too many would benefit from Sylvanas current position, but there are a few.
The Lich King showed signs early on in Legion that he hasn’t given up on what Ner’zhul and Arthas started. But instead of doing it himself, he uses the same cunning and manipulation tactics that Ner’zhul used, contrary to Arthas.
So if the Lich King hasn’t given up on his grand design on Azeroth being turned into a world united in undeath, he knows that acting in the shadows lies in his best interest right now. So through his vast consciousness and telepathic powers, he knew that if he sent the Val’kyr to her, feigning that they broke free from him instead, to act as the enforcers of his will and they would empower Sylvanas and give her the necromancers she needs to bolster her forces greatly, which she has, becoming the largest army in the Horde after Siege of Orgrimmar.
That showed the others that she has what it takes to lead an even greater army, the Horde. Which she intends to use as the vessel of destruction that it was created to be.
And Sylvanas is desperate, since after Stormheim, she made her deal with Helya which was about to grant her power over the Val’kyr Queen and make Sylvanas unstoppable. But since that failed, Sylvanas now owes Helya and from what it looks like, she cannot uphold her part of the bargain.
That’s where Bwonsamdi comes in, since Helya also works in the same ways that Bwonsamdi is, except she was transformed into the first spectral Val’kyr, while I think Bwonsamdi got his role from something much more ancient.
But, I think that Helya is the one who is after Sylvanas head. I’m fairly certain of it.
Remember her words? “Do not dare to cross me, banshee!” - Helya, after their bargain was made.
Both Helya and Bwonsamdi each has their ties to the Shadowlands, but the Lich King is the only entity so far to actually control larger parts of it.
Bwonsamdi has his place there aswell, but nothing like the Lich King, since he went into the Shadowlands with his newly created Val’kyr and asserted his dominance. I as we heard recently, the Frozen Throne is so much more than it appears. People think that Bolvar is trapped in his merging period, hah!
No, he just has no interest in leaving. He sees everything, can reach out across the entire planet and corrupt minds from afar, thereby gathering his own agents if he needs to.
Either way, Helya is pissed but trapped in her own realm that’s not quite the Shadowlands, so she wants out or atleast to get to the proper realm I would assume. So she must certainly have something to hold Bwonsamdi hostage as or she has simply offered him something in return?
Why else would Bwonsamdi, who is in the best position he could possibly get as the Zandalari’s prime Loa, which grants him power over the whole kingdom and the troll race.
But he would not trade that away so easily if it weren’t for Helya(or someone else) demanding him to put an end to Sylvanas.
We saw the power of Bwonsamdi’s reach in the Battle for Dazar’alor, where we would go to lenghts he rarely does to keep King Rastakhan alive.
But he is only as powerful as the souls he can draw power from, atleast when he puts on the big guns like that. But when the minute his powers were exhausted, he retreated to the background and appear on the throne, telling King Rastakhan that his time is up and it’s his own age and flaws that’s gonna be his death in mere minutes. When in truth, Bwonsamdi had fully exhausted his powers obviously, so he would not risk anything (although I doubt we as players could kill him as he is an entity of Death.
Either way, I’m fairly certain that Sylvanas will use Xal’atath either to entrap Helya and use her powers to make herself a goddess of Destruction and Creation, just like in the vision she herself saw. Or it might be Alleria aswell, although atm she is not powerful enough to turn to tide of the whole war alone.
It could end with Sylvanas either taking Helyas place, then she won’t have to face the true horrors that she fears so deeply. Or it could also end with Sylvanas leaving for Northrend or some other place, join up with either an undead faction or a third faction with the followers of N’zoth.
It’s not too many other ways it can go, Sylvanas isn’t really easily corrupted, even with the Blade in hand, it’s empty and she is an undead, which means that she is alot harder for the Old God’s to corrupt.
Most undead we see in the Twilight’s Hammer are Forsaken who have embraced the Void and the madness willingly. Since their corruption works best on beings of flesh and living beings with a living biological system, since that’s were the emotions comes from, it’s hard for them to corrupt those who have none and even harder with the one’s who ontop of that has a strong will, like Sylvanas.
And the Lich King, when we went there to ask about Vol’jin’s spirit, he was pretty much lying?! We saw him during Legion and we know full well that he doesn’t give a sh!t about wether Sylvanas tips the balance or not, that’s Bwonsamdi’s thing.
So we know he already started to rebuild the Scourge in Legion, raising both Vrykul and dragons alike. At the same time he manipulated events so that the Ebon Blade re-entered into his service, “willingly” even though it was quite obvious that he knew the outcome for Darion and after he was brought back as the leader of the Four Horsemen, they are now bound to the Lich King’s unwavering will.
So he felt like he wasn’t truthful at all, I think that there is more there to the story.
We shall see!