#Shadowlands

[pierppasolini]

Shadowlands (2018) // dir. Charlie David

[heartsmourne]

Shadowlands au where instead of dissolving, Arthas's soul just sorta merged with Anduin and now the poor guy has this grim specter of death that only he can see following him around everywhere he goes, encouraging him to pick up every cursed item he finds and talking in cryptic riddles about horses and unforgivable crimes

[breekio]

rewatched the shadowlands cinematics (sadly) and wanted to sketch

and you know what, maybe attempting to choke Sylvanas wasn't the best idea but its the principle that counts, everyone say thanks Tyrande

[whitecat-art]

Humanization of Remornia😈

[akl-sketch]

Excuse me, waiter? Sorry, it just seems like there’s a lot of blood in my dating simulator.

This might be my most ambitious project yet! I’ve been working on it since February and it’s finally done! I tried to mimic The Arcana the best I could - I am amazed by that original style. It’s so beautiful and clean and Dana Rune, Nikolai Ladizinsky, and Veronica Lieske created so many illustrations that are decadent as a chocolate fountain. I also found the original font and altered it slightly to make it feel a smidge more stylistically cohesive.

I chose the Shadowlands camp as a setting since it seems like that tends to be the relationship solidifying set for a lot of these characters. Who’s your go-to choice?

[thelearnedsoldiertoo]

Watcher Fenixia

Originally a Ranger of Silvermoon, Nixxie died the first time in Arthas's attack on her people, being raised as a Banshee with her sisters in their last stand near Fairbreeze; one of the original Dark Rangers of the Forsaken, she was a devoted follower of the Banshee-Queen and a skilled soldier and assassin--ultimately driven by duty and loyalty, when she died for the second time as a result of the Fall of Dalaran over Dornogal, she first found herself in Revendreth for her crimes, but later in Bastion, where she became a Kyrian Watcher-of-Souls, able to provide comfort and companionship in the final moments of the dead in a way she never had.

Which is extremely sweet and a good high note for her arc I feel. She's in a really good place, and her devotion is now being applied to helping others, instead of just her superiors in the Forsaken. She has a task, and a way to help people through that task.

...but that doesn't stop her from being very horny in her free time. Have you ever done it in mid-air with a ten foot tall buff blue woman with wings? She has.

Credit to the lovely @cadhla182 for this delightful commish!

[tieflingfingers]

My submission for King of Cups in the @bg3tarotdeck collaboration. Paired with a written piece by @miradelletarot~

Thisobald Thorm is my best friend. My confidant. My silly rabbit.

Honestly, any excuse to draw the three little mini boss girlies in that Shadowlands.

[noire-ighaan]

The boys are on the road to Moonrise Towers.

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Gortash i Durge podczas podróży do Sosnowca.

[druidonity2]

Fallen Angel

[wrathion]

forever and always bitter about how anduin got magically cured from his arthasfication in shadowlands ... i mean yeah the mental issues & trauma are there (somehow...shoutout to tww) but i mean physically!!

what if he lost his heartbeat and it didn't come back after his boss fight. no matter what he does his pulse isn't there, he doesn't know how he's standing and that's scary. what is he now? is he alive? is he dead? will he age? or will he rot on his own two feet like a forsaken? if that's the case, how much time does he have left? is he a ticking time bomb or will he be here long after his other shorter-life-span friends & adopted family die (assuming he even manages to make it that far)

granted, his mawsworn design in shadowlands was more a visual shorthand to the players that he was Evil Now than anything, he was just as alive as before, just possessed. he could seemingly be swapped between his original looking self and mawsworn self in the kyrestria cutscene? but i digress, the pale skin & hair? the blank eyes? Surely something had to have gone wrong with the amount of time he was stuck like that

[amethystinam]

" majesty? is... is this true? did i not serve you well? "

[pierppasolini]

Shadowlands (2018) // dir. Charlie David

[wardenowl]

World of Warcraft portraitures series: Alleria Windrunner, Xal`atath, The Harbinger of the Void, and Nani the Death Stalker (Warcraft RP OC) Pricelist: http://wardenowl.carrd.co

[vepaluiron]

consider: an alternate ending to 9.0

[whitecat-art]

[mikaila-orchard]

How to fix Shadowlands.

So awhile back, I made a post on how to fix BFA which I largely still stand by. I mentioned possibly doing a followup for Shadowlands as it was the culmination of all the bad decisions Blizz made in BFA prior and over two years later, I'm keeping that promise.

1. Fixing the setting.

The Shadowlands themselves are going to have to get perhaps the biggest overhaul. First and foremost, we're nixing everything to do with the First Ones. Zerith Mortus is fucking out. The idea that all the dieties are 3d printed robots? Also out. In their place, we're gonna have it that Titan traveled to the realm of death in an attempt to bring Order™ to the place Mortal Souls go. They created Oribos to organize the souls based on deeds and nature, Bastion where they put the souls to work upholding the grand vision, Revendreth to 'rehabilitate' discordant souls, and the Maw for those deemed too undesirable. And naturally, they left keepers here to oversee everything, including Kyrestia, Denathrius and Zovaal.

Also, yes. This means that Domination magic is Death magic + Titan magic, which is honestly very fitting.

What about Maldraxxus and Ardenweald, M'kay?

Well, we're nixing Maldraxxus because it's awful. But more importantly, Ardenweald is going to represent what the Shadowlands were before the Titans swooped in. It's a safe haven for mortal souls who don't prescribe to the Titans ideals, like the trolls and the Night elves. Loa, Wild Gods and Elune all have a presence there and are crucial in saving the Titan Realms from the mess they made for themselves.

2. Fixing Zovaal

This one's surprisingly easy. First, we stick with Zovaal's look in the concept art because it's way cooler and the Primus has been written out of this version anyway. This is what the Progenitor of the Lich King should look like.

Second, we fix his motivation. Rather than trying to reforge all of reality which is a goal the lore had to break itself in half to give him, we're gonna give him the same motivation as all the other cosmic forces. Dominion over Azeroth's world soul.

So everything from giving the Scourge to the Legion to disrupting the machine of death to pull all those souls into the Maw to the veil being shattered above Icecrown, all of it is done so that Zovaal has a clear shot to channel enough death magic through the Forge of Souls, straight to the core until Azeroth emerges as an entity of Death and Domination. This keeps the stakes ceiling on par with expansions like Legion rather than trying to one up it like a tryhard.

3. Fixing Sylvanas (MOST IMPORTANT)

Fortunately, since we already fixed BFA, most of the work has already been done for us in terms of characterization. We just have to tweak a few things.

Firstly, we're going to make her the hero of this expansion leading the fight against Zovaal while Bolvar is going to be his lackey, as was set up back in Legion. We keep the fight on Icecrown, we keep Sylvanas shattering the Helm. But this time, Bolvar is going to retreat to his master, having been long since been swayed by him. And Sylvanas is going to take the fight to the Maw rather than trying to run from it as she had been since Edge of Night.

To better focus on this task, she names Baine Warchief and names Nathanos regent of the Forsaken, trusting them to handle things on Azeroth while she wages war against the Jailer.

Also, to no one's surprise, the whole split soul thing is getting completely scrapped. I don't care if there was a clever way to do it. It's just not worth it as a story beat. The Sylvanas we've spent 22 years getting to know is the Sylvanas. Full stop.

And there we are. That's all you need to change to make the story work. Everything else, you can keep. Wanna keep Anduin becoming Zovaal's discord kitten? Go right ahead. Wanna keep Torghast? Sure. Wanna keep the Dreadlords being Denathrius' little bitches? Sure. Just stick to these three reworks and you'll have a good expac.