Did The Light Save Uther's Soul To Disrupt The Shadowlands?
Pretty much the title.
We know that the Light has made an incursion on the Shadowlands before, based on the Ember Ward location in Revendreth. We know that there are cosmological oppositions in Warcraft, with some being more pronounced than others.
However, we also know that the wounded soul of Uther's that was sent to Bastion was arguably the start of a devastating domino effect that would catapult many Kyrian towards a more "Forsworn" outlook, including the tainting of a Paragon, Devos. This feeds into a flagrantly unnecessary civil war and the diminishing of the Shadowlands' greatest known agents outside of its own realm. While Maldraxxus has spies and operations conducted outside of the Shadowlands (evidenced by Draka's Afterlives animated short), the Kyrians are embedded in the Great Dark by virtue of their duty: retrieving the souls of the deceased.
Maybe more fanatical agents of the Light believed that they could spread discord through the ranks of the Kyrian, even the Ascended, if they ferried a single soul with the taint of the Maw into their realm.
At first, Uther's plea to the Light to save his soul, followed by the artistic representation of the part of his soul escaping the fate of being entrapped by Frostmourne possessing a golden, perhaps holy hue, seems to be a mercy and a blessing bestowed unto him by the Light that he has served for so long.
And yet, witnessing the effects of such a seemingly generous act, it appears more insidious than we first realise.
I'm not saying this is definitely the case. It may have been a simple case of happenstance. But it's an entertaining thought nonetheless.
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Posted Dec 31, 2020, 11:25 AM UTC