Hello everyone! Wowhead has uploaded a cutscene in relation
to the runecarvers memories. This one apperantly becomes available after you’ve collected
15 memories which understandlby not everyone has quite yet so be warned...spoilers ahead!
If you want to experience this for yourself ingame, i can completely understand...please
turn off the video right now.
For those sticking around, lets take a look at one of the memories revealed by the runecarver:
Cutscene: Look at you. Pathetic. A puppet dancing on
strings. I will not break...I will not break...I will
not... Fool, youre mind is already broken. But even
a broken thing can be made to serve. Countless secrets extracted. Insidious designs forged
into weapons for my armies. But I require....more... Runecarver screams in pain aaaaaa
Your grandest design...to claim the final prize. The secr that the First Ones sought
to hide. Yes. Your finest mourneblade and a crown fit
for the king of the damned. The vessels...of Domination.
I love how during the shadowlands bit and pieces of the lore get revealed and explained
while at the same time creating a whole bunch of questions.
So the runecarver is the one that we run into in the Tower of Torghast, chained up and without
his memories, his mind broken. We help him out and in exchange he helps us with crafting
some very sexy legendary gear. A lot already figure that the Runecarver is actually the
missing Primus of Maldraxxus. The primus has been said to be this master crafter. The sword
we empower with runes in maldraxxus looks quite familiar. He left us a warning about
the jailer breaking out of the maw, and apperantly he let his seat of power in search of answer.
It could definatly be a thing that during his travels, the jailer or one of his allies
were able to trap the primus but it’s not a certainty quite yet. More memories will
have to be revealed i suppose.
The cutscene shows us that the Runecarver is being
tortured by the jailer, extracting delicious designs to empower his army. The grandest
design to claim the final prize. The secret that the First Ones sought to hide. Your finest
mourneblade and a crown fit for the king of the damned. The vessels of Domination. Frostmourne
and the helmet of Domination, fit for the lich king.
This is an important piece of the puzzle, because we were uncertain about the connection
between the jailer and the helmet. We learned from Bolvar that it is the jailer that’s
the true master of the helmet and he fears that if he would travel with us to the Maw,
he’d become bound to his will. There’s also the runes on the jailer that line up
with runes on Frostmourne and the Uther afterlives short where Devos loudly proclaims that the
power of the maw itself runs free on a mortal world. Their realm is imperreled, their path,
their purpose is flawed.
We know that there was a connection there, but the how was uncertain. Was this perhaps
armor of the jailer to contain his awesome power, was it crafted to tap into the powers
of the maw and then accidently made its the way to the mortal world, but as it turns out...it
was crafted in order of the Jailer with a clear purpose. The book that comes with the
collectors edition describes it as; A pact needed to be made, only then could sh, Sylvanas,
return beyond the veil, only then will the banshee queen claim the crown of the false
king. The helm of domination was crafted to be their
way forward; instead, the one seared by the flames of life, Bolvar, has used it to keep
them at bay... but no longer.
Crafted with a specific purpose but how does that line up with the original story that
we know about the creation of the Lich King. That does not come from the domain of death,
rather from the domain of disorder. Kil’jaeden the Deceiver took the spirit
of the orc Ner’zhul and tortured it, tearing his phsyical body bit by bit while his spirit
was kept alive, intact, and utterly aware of what was happening. A group of dreadlords
took turns subjecting ner’zhul to the most horrific agony until he soon enough begged
for death and Kil’jaeden would grant it to him, but only in return for absolute servitutde
as the Legion’s new weapon. Death would be just the beginning. Kil’jaeden passed
the orcs spirit through death and revived him as a spectral entity. The orc’s consciousness
expanded a thousandfold, granting him extraordinary psychic powers. The dreadlords bound his disembodied
spirit to a specially crafted set of armory and a mighty runeblade called Frostmourne.
These items were locked in a diamond-hard block of ice to imprison ner’zhul.
They then send him off to Azeroth and the story of the lich king played out. Ner’zhul
wasn’t loyal to Kil’jaeden, worked against the plans of the legion to conquer azeroth.
Arthas merged with and became the Lich King. Through force of will, Arthas clawed his way
through the orc’s mental wound and tore apart Ner’zhul’s mind. As the Lich King’s
body sat motionlesss on the Frozen Throne, Arthas took complete control. The process
was agonizing for Ner’zhul. Not ony did Arthas drown him in his guilt, but he deliberately
snapped the bonds of his sanity, causing the orc to spiral further and further into despair.
When the final battle was through, nothing remained of Ner’zhul but a wail of sorrow
in the back of the Lich King’s consciousness. Arthas found it easy to ignore. Wrath of the
Lich King played out, we defeated Arthas and Bolvar was placed on the throne, holding back
the scourge and now the forces of the Shadowlands. So the origin as we know it comes from Kil’jaeden
and the dreadlords, but someway somehow, it was the Jailer that’s responsible for the
creation of the helmet and Frostmourne, assuming that’s what they’re talking about in this
cutscene. How does that work?
Well...there’s a rather interesting book to found in Revendreth after you’ve done
the Sanguine Depths dungeon. It’s called Enemy Infiltration-Preface and I’ve done
a much more detailed video on this, but real short...it pitches the idea that the realm
of death has infiltrated all the different cosmic domains. Life, Light, Void, Order and
Disorder. “The cunning ones kneel before six masters,
but serve only 1.” And as previously discussed, our position
within the plane of Disorder is proceeding flawlessly. Consuming fel energy is not a
pleasant process, but a necessary one. The deception you have architected will bear fruit
in the ages to come. As ever, we shall serve as your unseen hand. We will poison every
host foolish enough to invite us into their midst. I remain, as always, your faithful
servant.
The book is found in a tower called Spire of Unseen Guests. That’s a term used by
Balnazar himself to describe the dreadlords, Thal’kituun or unseen guests in our language.
The similarities between sire Denathrius and the dreadlords were quickly pointed out. Perhaps
the dreadlords are actually agents from the realm of death that have infiltrated the domain
of disorder. Deceived the deceiver, making him believe they were working on the plans
of the Burning Legion while actually working towards the plans of the Jailer. As I said,
with the answers that we get there’s also a whole bunch more questions. I’m curious
how something like Mal’ganis fits in this picture. Malganis was surprised to be struck
down by Frostmourne, while his soul was not absorbed by the blade.
When the dreadlords crafted Frostmourne, they had shielded themselves from its power. I
wonder how that fits in all of this, not to mention that Malganis went on quite a hate
campaign towards Arthas the Lich King. Perhaps them letting Ner’zhul and Arthas merge was
truely a mistake towards their overall goals. Perhaps the ner’zhul influence and then
Arthas himself put quite a dent into the plans of the Jailer.
I am curious how sylvanas fits in all of this. More and more clues are coming ot the surface
that it was the Jailer that guided the story of the Lich King. A lot of the story we’ve
known now gets its actuall roots and origin in the domain of death. If Sylvanas was super
pissed at Arthas for what he had done to her, wouldn’t she feel the same towards the Jailer
if he was the one that brought the lich King to azeroth to begin with. Or was Arthas not
part of his plan, has sylvanas just not been informed about that little detail. The jailer
once again makes mention of the first ones, completely shrouded in secrecy. Still a whole
lot more to be revealed and I can’t wait to see it. But for now here’s my reaction
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