ShadowlandsChapter 13 / 15

Beyond the Veil of Death

The story steps out of the living world entirely, into the machinery of the afterlife.

With the veil between life and death torn open, Azeroth's heroes followed Sylvanas into the Shadowlands - the realms where every soul is sorted and sent on: the honored halls of Bastion, the war-forges of Maldraxxus, the dreaming forest of Ardenweald, and the gothic tribunal of Revendreth. Beneath them all lay the Maw, a prison for the truly damned.

The true enemy was the Jailer, Zovaal, an exiled cosmic being who had corrupted the afterlife's design and schemed to unmake reality and remake it under his absolute control. A grand alliance of the living and the dead - and a redeemed Sylvanas - finally cast him down and set the broken cycle of death to rights.

Cast of this chapter

Key figures

The Jailer (Zovaal)
Master of the Maw
Sylvanas Windrunner
From villain to reluctant ally
The Arbiter
Fallen judge of souls
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Reference

The cosmic forces

Order

The Titans and their keepers

Disorder

The Burning Legion

Life

The Wild Gods and green dragonflight

Death

The Shadowlands and the Scourge

Light

The naaru and the Holy Light

Void

The Old Gods and the Void lords