#nathrezim

There's also the matter of how, when, and if the Sire got a body back. Is it as simple as casting a certain spell at Remornia, and he pops back out? Or does he need a totally new body now? If so, how does that work? (I have a feeling he's just going to pop up in a future patch/expansion with no explanation of how he got out of the sword and into a physical form again, but that doesn't stop me from speculating.)

The First One's workshop in the Sepulcher where they originally created the Eternal Ones is just sitting there. The malfunctioning prototypes are a boss fight, but afterward could somebody poke around and 3-D print a Denathrius 3.0?

(Disclaimer: I have never set foot in the Sepulcher raid myself. I'm planning a field trip there soon, but facerolling it a few expansions later flattens a lot of the nuance. I, um, actually haven't logged into WoW in a few weeks. I've been too wrapped up in my silly fanfic. *cough*)

I never thought I'd continue this fic so far that I'd need to think about this stuff. The original version was just "this is how Kalizai got to Revendreth and hooked up with the Sire and lived happily, villainously ever after." Then I just HAD to flesh it out and continue it further, until I'm at the point where I'm going to voluntarily set foot in Zereth Freaking Mortis for research purposes. If you had told me when this was current content that I'd be potentially setting part of a fanfic there, I would have thought you were stark raving mad.

The thing is, I still think a lot of this lore is dumb. I hate the thing about "lol the Eternal Ones are actually robots inside." It's just that I've gotten the itch to deshittify some of it with my own fanfic magic.

I'm developing a headcanon that the First Ones made the robot prototypes as a rough draft because it was easier than making living versions. Then, once they had the details ironed out, they went ahead and created them as god-like but flesh-and-blood beings...except for the guy that had to stand there forever and judge an never-ending stream of souls. He could probably use the extra stamina and lack of requirements for food/water/potty breaks. So they stuck a biological layer over the Zovaal-bot to make him match the others and called it a day. Thus there's no prototype of him in the raid because they just went ahead and used it as the final draft instead of starting over.

And that, ladies and gentlemen and nonbinary folks, is why Zovaal is so flat and can't emote worth a damn. He's a freaking robot. And the other Eternal Ones aren't.

Boom, dumbass lore fixed. You're welcome.

Ahem. Anyway. I've worked the last few days, and I can feel my muse pinging around in my brain like "I WANNA WRITE I WANNA WRITE I WANNA WRITE" while I'm doing customer service and packaging books for transport. But I'm too wiped out when I get home to actually write.

What patrons assume I'm thinking about: Professional, serious, library-related topics.

What I was actually thinking: "So if the nathrezim were ignorant about Zovaal dropping Denathrius like a hot potato, what does that mean as far as what Mal'Ganis and Kin'tessa were doing in the Sepulcher of the First Ones? And where did they take Remornia? Nathreza? Would Denathrius' Sigil be with him inside the sword? If so, does that mean there are now two Sigils of Revendreth, counting the one Renathal and the Council of Harvesters made? Sinfall was infiltrated by nathrezim, so did they report that to Denathrius later? How did they know he needed rescuing? He wouldn't have had time to send them a message before he got sucked into the sword, so did he have an accomplice or some kind of signal that would go off if he wasn't around to stop it? Or did the nathrezim hiding in Revendreth just find out like everybody else, and call in the rest to help? Hmm..."