Why are there even genders in the afterlife?

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As we have seen throughout all of the Shadowlands, souls have genders. Since there is no reproduction process, and everything there is spiritual, and not biological, why is it so? Since the spirits in Shadowlands are, well…spirits, the question of gender should probably not even arise. Especially when souls like Pelagos can actually choose their afterlife gender, it is very clear that souls are genderless, and that the concept of gender is needless in their now-eternal existences.

(I am not saying that everyone should be non-binary, but since death is the end of biological nature, the existence that lives on just doesn’t need a gender).

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Because souls have chosen with their free will to have gender.

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If you die with a good set of tackle, you’ll still have that tackle in the afterlife… according to tales from the crypt.

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I was assuming it’s in case they want to do some afterlife reproduction simulations with preferred company, even it does not lead to actual offspring.

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They simply continue their existence in their mortal form (maybe with the exception of Maldaraxus where the only exception is Draka for some reason).

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It makes sense actually to have gender , female souls are different then male souls . In real life also .

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Why wouldn’t there be?

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I’m not sure I understand why they suddenly need to become genderless. Even the dead have male and female forms.

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Angels in the Bible have no gender.
2020 lobby of dumbs: “An angel must have gender because they have chosen to have it”.

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BFA surely did its work, ppl post random stuff on forums :man_shrugging::man_shrugging:

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These are not the angels you are looking for.

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They are not floating clouds like in Dragon Ball series :smiley: they have normal body so they have to be one or another i suppose, all in all where do Kyrians come from? :smiley:

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No, Maldrasucks. :upside_down_face:

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Also according to the progressive drivel, gender has nothing to do with biology. You are conflating gender with sex.
With this in mind, the spirits can perfectly choose their gender. Also, I don’t know why should all spirits assume an androgenous form since that’s what your topic is actually about.

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Personally i started liking Maldraxxus more as i read more about it but still going Venthyr.

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If you like puke green it’s a paradise!

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I don’t want to spoil SL for you ,but there is not much angels in SL.

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I’m guessing there’s two answers;
Like in Maldraxxus, where you can choose what form to present yourself as, whichever you see as most powerful or whatever, and in Bastion a Kyrian can present as whichever “gender” they truly identified with. There isn’t actually technically “gender” there, but in the Afterlife it’s just a total social construct of Shadowlands’ societies.

The other answer is that the Shadowlands isn’t really a typical afterlife, it’s more like just a separate realm where people happen to go to after death. Shown by Revendreth this isn’t a typical style of afterlife either, there’s entire class systems and stuff. So with the fact that it’s technically a real realm that exists like the Twisting Nether or Emerald Dream, things like gender cross over into the Shadowlands, and in there your soul is technically gendered.

How dare you, the Primus will hear about this

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It’s just a social construct. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Why do you assume that death in the universe of Warcraft works the same way as what many of the human religions say?