This has been bugging me since the announcement. I’ve played through the leveling part of the beta (some bugs have prevented me from progressing further) and it’s never even addressed, let alone explained. This is literally the afterlife. The destination for the dead (assuming all goes well, which it frequently doesn’t). How are people even ABLE to die there? What are they now, super-dead? Do they go to the Extra Shadowlands? Why does everyone act exactly like people do in the living world when someone dies?
This isn’t the most major or pressing problem with the lore right now, but it is giving me brain spiders and they won’t go away.
Well, as I understand it, people don’t exactly die there. But they do lose their anima, and become impotent souls without a body, just floaring around.
Apart from that, the obvious escalation from being a soul in the afterlife would be to have your soul destroyed permanently, wouldn’t it? Life->Afterlife->Oblivion would be a reasonable version of “superdead”, I think.
The chaos gods are really something arent they? I was hoping the old gods would be something like that honestly… I bet even the vaunted Jailor would be a sissy compared to the chaos gods.
I don’t think souls are supposed to die in Shadowlands, I don’t think that’s the purpose if of it and I don’t think it’s even possible. One thing that strikes me is that SL doesn’t have a Heaven. It has a hell but no heaven. And no, Bastion doesn’t seem like a heaven at all.
What if SL was not supposed to have a hell at all? You have characters that seem irredeemable and they’re in other zones, not in the Maw.
From what we’ve seen in beta, people dying in the Shadowlands is very much part of the expectation. I’ll avoid spoilers, but there are numerous referenced figures who have died and are in no way expected to return, nor is any mention made of what their fate might be.
It would be interesting to see how the lore team would show this. It’s quite a mind bender. I wonder if there are like multiple dimensions or layers to the place.
When you die in the Shadowlands, you’re transported to Bobby’s realm where you are strapped to a wooden chair and forced to watch him spend all the subscriber money on cars, clothes and autographed copies of Steve Jobs’ autobiography. It truly is a fate worse than death.
I believe this was confirmed by Ion or some other developper. If you die in the Shadowlands you become this wraith like being and you essentially just cease.
… I mean, what other place can be worse than the Warcraft universe to live in …