All beings in this endless cycle serve this purpose, to keep the realms of death in balance. While there are infinite domains in the Shadowlands, we only encounter four through our questing and we can see how they all serve different interlocking purposes to keep the Shadowlands running. Oribos was crafted to serve as the arrival point for mortal souls where they were to be judged and placed into their fitting afterlife by the Arbiter. The Arbiter and Purpose of Shadowlands Zones In the interest of completeness, I am including our CORRECT cosmology map here for reference. In the end, I realized the mortal would fail to grasp its subtelties, so rather than waste further effort, I thanked her for sharing her 'wisdom' and sent her on her way.

I briefly considered sharing with this self-styled scholar our own cosmology, painstakingly researched by the finest minds of our combined cartels, designed to impartially relate the foundational truths of the cosmos. As has been well documented, the language of the titans uses the same word for 'created' as it does for 'Ordered.' Such blatant hubris! Why, every word wtihin was chosen so as to look favorably upon the titans, as if the Pantheon of Order were the architects of a flawless cosmos! How typical of their kind to claim credit for that which they did not build but inherited. When I learned that this woeful miscalculation of a chart had been passed down through the hands of her world's titan-forged races, it told me all I needed to know about the absurdity of the tome to which she clung so zealously. I must say, despite the extensive training I completed in order to interact favorably with the moral races, it was all I could do to muffle my derisive laughter! Instead, I patiently asked questions about the origins of this so-called 'cosmology' as if I were hanging on every rambling word from the scholar's lips. In the course of my research on the works of the First Ones, a living soul from Azeroth (who purported to be a scholar of some renown) showed me a tome containing an elaborately painted illustration she claimed to be an accurate representation of how the cosmic powers related to one another. While it looks different at first glance, the three major conflicts are still present-Life and Death is simply emphasized much more in Shadowlands. Grimoire of the Shadowlands also introduces a modified cosmology chart from the perspective of the Brokers. A simple structure growing infinitely more complex. Six forces now in balance, and from their intersections arose others. As if reality were nothing more than a fungus growing upon the frame.

With a framework in place, all that we now comprehend came to be. It is from here that the language becomes clearer. Each architect gave a portion of themselves, and thus the pattern was drawn. Forged? Scribed? Shaped? The exact word is elusive. They came together (or were brought together, depending on how one interprets the fractal) and gave form to their design. There was imbalance, until there was a need for something more. Opposition surely, but whether malignant or benign is unclear. Well, not strife in the way one such as you or I would see it. An intriguing set of notes in Tazavesh, written by past Broker researchers, strengthens this theory. Instead, they were forged, scribed, shaped to do so.by the First Ones. Shadowlands introduces the idea that the cosmic forces did not just automatically fall in line. As the Shadowlands story progresses, we've also found an increased emphasis on Life vs Death. We've seen these forces continue to play out in the Shadowlands story, notably in the in-game book Enemy Infiltration, which describes a cosmic-wide war secretly waged by the Dreadlords acting under Sire Denathrius' orders. In this book, we're introduced to the six major cosmic forces: Light, Disorder, Death, Shadow, Order, and Life, as well as the popular cosmology chart which arranged the six forces in opposition to each other. World of Warcraft: Chronicle describes the formation of the cosmos, a clash of Light and Void which resulted in the Warcraft universes. Nobbel87 recaps the story of the First Ones, mysterious figures introduced in Shadowlands who alongside the cosmic cycle have been the subject of discussion in Chains of Domination and Grimoire of the Shadowlands.

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