#shadowlands alpha

Anyway this is what I found in like the first few minutes, the Bastion intro was pretty different

The four station visiting quest was called Remember: This is Forever instead of A Fate Most Noble. In the Alpha when you step into the pool to cleanse yourself, apparently the Maw Walker was not traumatised enough by Tariesh to manifest him. They just cleanse themselves and move on, nothing appears, Kleia says nothing

Kalisthene used to wear gold

Update 9/8/2025: all updates in orange text, I went through the list again bc of course I did

I'm looking through the full list of kyrian again bc I want to check things for Aspirants vs Acolytes and I found an alpha quest that never made it into live: Light Lost

And apparently 9999 aspirants dived into the Maw for an excursion and never made it back. And the Ascended quest giver named Tir Bellas has disappeared from retail entirely (the 9999 is likely a placeholder, don't think too much about it, numbers don't make sense in WOW sometimes)

And from then on I decided you know what I'm gonna see what actually happened in Alpha Bastion that never made it out to live!

Lore Changes/Non-Canon Information:

Pelagos was originally the first SL citizen you meet instead of Kleia! Source

Kleia calls Pelagos Sky-brother, I forgot if that's in live?

Akimos takes Sophone's place in the Crucible part of the story and Sophone doesn't show up, edit: Sophone does appear but the order between quests is swapped and she gives the flower quest while in Canon Sika starts it

Hymnal [Keeper of the Crucible] (F) blesses the Maw Walker with the their kyrian covenant ability after The First Cleansing instead of Kalisthene

Flight Master Rheus (F) was originally a male named Torgolius in Alpha -this is from trivia on the wiki idk if this is canon-

The Taelica double up: In SL beta there was High Courtier Taelica (F) | Ascended, but now in Canon there's Quartermaster Taelica (M) | Forsworn; happy transition!

The four caves and the Vault: Bastion used to have a Lava Cave, Crystal Cave, Snow Cave and Bone Cave as well as a Vault

Revendreth and Bastion used to do trade before the drought :)

Nikolon was originally an Acolyte and his original issue with the Path was about being forced to forget the love of his life; more details in this post

It was implied that Vesiphone would kill Lysonia while trying to cleanse her in the Alpha of The Hand of Doubt (A Bond Like No Other)

Kynthia's original name in Alpha was Ismini, the only remnant of this are these datamined boots

Dark Ascended Corrus (F) | Forsworn was originally named Dark Aspirant Corrus and this mistake is still visible in the achievement Gatekeepers of Torghast

In originally in RSVP: Sika, Clora's Promissory Note was an objective instead of Adonas' Promissory Note

NPCs that are not Canon/found in live:

Tir Bellas (F) | Ascended

Hymnal (F) [Keeper of the Crucible] | Ascended, apparently she could shape arriving souls into their kyrian forms (source)

Callie the Nightmaiden (F) | Forsworn

Dutus (F) [Paragon of Service]

Kostas (M) used to be Paragon but now he's an aspirant that literally sells inconceivably aged vinegar (also check out Fysh's post on the Paragon theory that started with the vinegar it's great)

Aspirant Elynna (F) | Torghast rescue quest ref

Iralios (M) | Ascended

Mateos (M) | Forsworn

Torgolius (M) | this was originally Flight Master Rheus (F) idk if it's Canon bc it was wiki trivia

Aspirant Thete (F), not to be confused with Aspirant Thetes (M) who is canon!

Paranomos [The Face] (M) | steward, apparently renamed from Swolkin in the Alpha but that's also wiki trivia idk if Canon

Tempula (F) | Forsworn

Forgehand Demikos (M) | steward

Miscellaneous Items/Spells (new section added 9/8):

Light of Bastion

Scroll of Binding

Unburden- original Kyrian Covenant Ability

Fallen Purians existed. I don't know how fruits joined the Forsworn.

A bunch of gear and items with no context. These don't have much lore- Kyrian Pauldrons, Kyrian Chestplate and Kyrian IOU

More lore relevant ones are Kyrian Boots, Kyrian Helmet, Kyrian Armaments, Kyrian Shield

Steward Service Improvements: Harmonic Convergence, Reagent Deposit

Tonal Mallet

Vision from Another Land

Kyrian Glider Kit

Other Notes- stuff not lost but things Vale found was interesting:

Dathlane the Herald [Torghast Executioner] (M) | part of the Wrath of the Jailer event was a Mawsworn I forgot to add to my Mawsworn kyrian list

And if y'all want angst Watcher Havros (M) will make you cry bc he's in Perudition Hold, you can save him but the Mawsworn cut his wings 😭

Also somebody get Bearer Thedrin back home and some therapy bc the guy needs help please don't leave him in Maldraxxus