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I’ve played the Shadowlands beta but some cutscenes were left out until the live version. Some juicy surprised and omg moments followed. Y’all wanted my reactions, here they are. I’ll probably make a more detailed video on some of the questions I’ve got like who is the sister, what’s up with the arbiter and what about the sire but for now…here’s the initial reaction!
Maw 0:00 – 2:39
Arbiter 2:40 – 8:51
Bastion 8:42 – 10:13
Torghast 10:14 – 13:08
Winterqueen 13:09 – 18:31
Revendreth 18:32 – 22:30
No More Lies 22:31 – 44:54
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Maw 0:00 – 2:39
Arbiter 2:40 – 8:51
Bastion 8:42 – 10:13
Torghast 10:14 – 13:08
Winterqueen 13:09 – 18:31
Revendreth 18:32 – 22:30
No More Lies 22:31 – 44:54
@Nobbel87 what do you think, wheres Varian?
some people say that he ended up in the Twisting Nether because his soul was "fel infused/crushed".
A bit illogical to me. (Saying this like Shadowlands gave us any logical thinking lol)
I think that she burned Teldrasill so tyrande became the nightwarrior she needs her power
We almost didn't get these, at least not voiced because all the actors are working from home. Amazing work from WoW's team as always.
Could that screaming soul that broke the system have been Slyvannas's suicide?
We can't even choose who we genocide… Sometimes it just happens, y'know? You're at the beaches preparing to force a bunch of elves into surrendering and then some elf lady pisses you off so much that you gotta prove a point and one thing leads to another… To be fair, if the moral of the story is that Sylvanas is right and determinism is true and free will is not true, then Sylvanas definitely isn't morally responsible for any of her actions… Unless maybe it's soft determinism, but if we're talking about hard determinism then she's morally grey like everyone else in WoW is…
Between Syl becoming a banshee and her suicide she kinda did some naughty things. You know that little thing called the Plague that she had the Royal Apothecary preform torture and experiments on the living to make a perfect weapon that would kill all living things.
Whoah is the boy king sitting at the masters table a shadowlands thing ?
Maybe I missed it in bfa
I wouldnt count argus out just yet. he says titan souls are "supposed" to go to a different place but you kill argus on the pantheon which may be a true death for a titan in their realm and something hinkey could have happened with argus being ripped through the twisting nether and being put next to azeroth until he was defeated.
So Sylvanas motivation is anarchy on cosmic levels. Interesting.
Could Helya have been involved in making sure Argus' soul would end up in the Shadowlands? – She seems to have had some connection with the Maw in Legion via the "Maw of Souls" dungeon, she is of Titan origin and we know there was a rift open between the worlds of Argus and Azeroth during that time. There is also the Helheim pact between Sylvanas & Helya, which we all thought was centered around the domination of Eyir, but could the true purpose for Sylvanas going to Helheim actually have been to break the jailer free? – I could be very wrong but there definatly seems to be some sort of connection between Helya, Sylvanas & The Jailer stretching all the way back to Legion.
There is no 'too much' for her
Sylvanas is a master tactician maybe she is playing politics here. If Zovaal cant break him by torture, Sylvanas will be "nice cop" and win him over that way?
27:53 I find quite… interesting that all 33 Windrunner sisters fell for a human, Sylvanas for Nathanos (both undead but still checks), Alleria for Turalyon and Vereesa for Rhonin
Alright so heres what I'm seeing in terms of future story
If anduin is able to wield death magic without going full jailer mode
We might get a void lord expansion sooner than we thought, death is the bane of the void is it not ?
Somehow, I think the final bossfight will be Anduin and Sylvanas in a twin emperors style encounter.
For possible souls that effected the arbiter, is Varimathras a possibility? Not a demon so it could’ve been him?
What are we if not slaves to this unfair system?
Winter Queen is the sister of Eonar, since Eonar brought Ysera to existance.
I can’t wait to see Sylvanas’s head roll.
i think she was going to say "who we died too"
i was also very confused on the winter queens "sister" the emerald dream is what azeroth is without any old god corruption or sundering at all. This was made by the titans right? Thats why eonar was able to use that power and bless the green dragons. I know it will end up being elune as the sister but i dont know how that works. Unless the titans made elune and shadowlands.
So… Elune set this whole plan in motion?
I'm guessing she was one of the pantheon, and while we havent figured out the Jailer's deal, its looking like Elune came up with the idea of creating a mortal plane in order to set up a life and death cycle. in life we would build anima, and then in death we would have that anima directed to our afterlife empowering the pantheon in order to keep the jailer jailed. when it was decided to put the plan in motion they agreed on one condition, Elune would guard her mortals and make sure their end of the bargain was held, and they would each watch over their realms.
Seems like the jailer believed in a dog eat dog universe where anyone could amass as much anima as they wanted, some would wither and die, some would become as strong or stonger than them. and the rest of the pantheon disagreed choosing to order everything in a certain way to prevent that from happening. the Jailer tried to do things his way, and he was imprisoned for it.
….my 2 cents anyway.
Il'gynoth is not a reliable source of information :/
“ we can’t even choose who we …” Are
She ended up as a banshee.
LOL, ok, I had to, on finishing this video: "imagine you were just given a book, and it told you where you ended up based on how you lived" …L O L. its just funny hearing that, you forget just how religious the US is by comparison, my mom would have an aneurysm if she heard that. She'd smack Nobbel upside the back of the head with her shoe and say "you DO have a book that says that, its called THE BIBLE, and you BEST pick it up and start reading! or it'll tell you the other place yer gunna go!"
So, the Anduin/Sylvanas exchange. Sylvanas says everything is predetermined, yet she's trying to break the cycle. Why would that be determined? Am I thinking too much into it?
And why do I recall the whole "free will" thing from like…Vanilla/TBC undead descriptors. Freaking fascinating
Guys. I cracked it. She was in love with Varian and he died during their battle on the Broken Shore. She is disrupting heaven and hell themselves to atone or get him back.
Some cutscenes are definitely top notch but am I the only one who thinks Jailer, Denathrius and Winter Queen look a bit off in some shots? Not like nightmare fuel anime in-betweens but not quite like their actual model, either. It doesn't ruin the story for me and if they had to rush something, cutscenes aren't bad choice, but just wanted to point that out.
Also, since this is video game world, I guess you could say that everyone would start minmaxing for their afterlife at the moment they learned what's most surefire method to end up where you want. But also we already have so many religions with strict guidelines and they aren't working that well. I mean reading your holy scriptures isn't exactly the same as witnessing with your own eyes how the system work but presumably religious people should believe that the message in those scriptures is just as true.Yet most of the humanity still chooses to do terrible things disregarding those teachings. So unless Azerothians would receive concrete reputation bars for each Covenant and see them changing every time they do anything significant, I doubt that their actions would be altered drastically. It's funny to think that people would form farming communities for their whole lives to get into Ardenweald or start punching literally anything breathing that comes their way to enter Maldraxxus asap but I believe that in reality most would be like "I'll have plenty of time left, I'll just pick some flowers later and I think that's more than enough."
ok everyone is saying argus must of broke the cycle. BUT argus is a titan so we know his soul doesnt go to the shadowlands but guldan (WoD) did die in the legion timeline. Guldan is an orc and they do end up at the shadowlands. We know our world and WoD have an unbreakable connection and WoD guldan died on our azeroth meaning his death should of went to our shadowlands fucking everything up.
We need The Winter Queen and Tyrande to have a conversation. It’ll confirm then 100% if it’s Elune or Eonar.
Yeah, I don’t think people need to worry about Sylvannas ultimately being right. First off, we’ve seen her genuinely enjoy the suffering of others. Second, as Anduin suggests here, there’s no earthly way the Jailer is going to let her reinvent life and death with him, and there’s probably a damn good reason he was “jailed” within the maw in the first place 😂
Eonar made freya who made the emerald dream. Eonar through freya also gave Ysera her aspect power. The winter queen is talking about Eonar. There are far more connections. Elune just purified yseras soul so she would go to the shadowlands and not the void
Sylvanas”how can I convince you”
*100 Porn videos begin being made”
You have failed this city
6:19 what if it was kil'jaeden?? that soul looked red as fire…. i mean sure he is a demon and demon goes to the Nether, but he wasn't a ordinary demon and i think that was his first death, not to mention he used to be a Eredar (aka what Draenei where original) and the way he died was as if he was feeling regrets for his actions, maybe his soul became mortal again and when he died it still had plenty of power from sageras and that is why the arbiter couldn't handdle him.
maybe that is why souls like titans don't go to the arbite because she can't handdle their powers and maybe Kil'jaeden's soul carried with him some of the powers of Sargeras the fallen titan.
My money is also on Elune being Winter queen's sister, since emerald dream is sort of a mirror to the shadowlands, and little feary says "all that is emerals dies with her"
sister elune? idk i think it was eonar, b.c we know that the dragons were given titan powers; she did not say my sister put it here she said its OF my sister. but who knows both are good.