If anything, this just complicates and muddles the nature of the Shadowlands even further.Why care about any of the dead characters we meet? They aren't actually the people we know. Just an amalgation of an infinite number of alternate versions of that character, with "our" characters only being a single, miniscule part that makes up what is essentially an eldritch abomination. If anything, this makes death in WoW absolutely horrifiying, keeping in mind that you lose your entire personality in order to merge with an endless number of complete strangers. If I were Thrall and met this Draka that has memories of an endless number of Drakas, I know I wouldn't feel like I was meeting my actual mother. So why would this "reunion" be touching? It wouldn't even be a reunion. Thrall has never met this Draka fusion.Moreover, the only thing we really know about our Draka is that she was Thralls mother. What if MU Draka and AU Draka should have ended up in different realms of the Shadowlands? What if all the strands of rope that make up Shadowlands Draka should have ended up in different realms of the Shadowlands? Does evil Lich Queen Draka not go to the Maw? Does Lightbound Draka not go Bastion? Does first druid of Draenor Draka not go to Ardenweald? How does the main good guy decide where a soul goes when every strand of the rope should go to a different place?Sounds to me like they wrote themselves into a corner, and rather than just forgetting about the trainwreck that is time travel and alternate realities, they just ruin their own lore more and more by trying to somehow bring WoD back into the cosmic/MU lore, no matter how little sense it makes.
what happened to world of warcarft. what is this redundant things all about?
I liked the details about the Forsaken and that they actually addressed what threats Maldraxxus supposedly defends the Shadowlands against.The rest of the interview is just Danuser being Danuser. Just collapse the AU already, no one likes it and it clearly makes the canon tedious.
I think alot of people are getting confused by the rope and thread analogy. At least the way I'm understanding it, the main timeline isn't one of the threads, The main timeline is the rope. The "threads" for different timelines represent the possibilities of what could have been if events had been different. Essentially you are able to pull a thread out, to explore that possibility but eventually it folds back into the rope (Like alternate Draenor collapsing as time passes) as though it had never existed leaving the rope exactly the way that it was. Think of it kind of like Schrodinger's box but with a soul instead of a cat. While the soul is in the box, it could be any of the different timelines, but when you open the box to observe the soul, what you see is the main timeline. To put it in other terms the main timeline is canon and alternate timelines are in universe fan fiction where everything is made up and the points don't matter. (except for when things get brought back I guess.)
This literally makes no sense. Spaceships and demons the size of planets was better. How crazy is that?
You misunderstood what they said. In the Mag'har questline a bronze dragon states that our Garrosh was the worst possible Garry, while other alternate timelines he was a good guy. So it doesn't make any sense for Garrosh to be in revendreth, if other versions, who are good, fuse into one entity and end up in revendreth.
Warcraft: Everyone Dies Twice(or maybe three or five times, if you are a really badass character)
BTW in that interview there was so much tasty Lore about cosmos powers. I wonder why author of the thread decided to point out only things related to Dreka, which is less interesting? =)
what happens if a young person passes but that same person in another timeline/dimension/universe/etc dies as an older person, or as an; altered, evolved, de-evolved, mutated, cursed, changed, etc, person?I liked it better when they said alternate universe has their own shadowlands, that way we can keep them separate. now thrall and his alternate 'sister' are going to see the same draka and both say mom?this is why lore should be thought out first before written because if they knew how the afterlife worked, they probable wouldn't have made wod, or they would have at least had the rules in place to navigate this. now they are having to write the consequences of alternate timelines/universes/dimensions into the story instead of simply having an afterlife existing in wow.
This is the problem with adding time-traveling without thinking the consequences.Sill, they can salvage this explaining that eventually when the same people from different timelines dies, they merge into one soul, with one domint personality and the others vanish.That would've explained too why there's only one Twisting Nether. It would be a parallel of Ardenweald and nature spirits: demon spirtis recolect anima (from other demons or from their alternate-selves) and then resurrect.
You know what reunion I want? Me and the prepatch.
So there's a 'good' AU version of Sylvanas and that will be the one who 'lives.' Remember this is still a Sylvanas expansion, and everything is being set up for some kind of redemption conclusion for her.