Runeweaver |
A topic discussed on the Argent Dawn forums, decided to throw it here. So after a lengthy off-topic discussion with a friend, I thought I'd bring the question here. Here's the situation.
Death Knights were given their powers by the Lich King, and presumably, the soul of every Death Knight belonged within Frostmourne. When Frostmourne was shattered, Terenas, and hundreds, if not the thousands of other souls Arthas had personally took were released and presumably freed, given how they appear to simply vanish and fade away.
Does this mean Death Knights got their souls back? Well I looked at the lore page for us on Wowpedia and found this.
"The rest are primarily made up of other fallen paladins whose souls were twisted and bound to the will of the Frozen Throne."
Does this mean that DKs souls are still forever to be trapped within the Frozen Throne itself, or have they been released by Frostmourne.. or would it really just be a case of how one died, and where their soul happened to be bound.
My friend suggested some of the souls could have been bound to the Plate of the Damned and the Helm of Domination but I've found no lore that suggests the armour is capable of storing souls in the same way Frostmourne is, and that it's pretty much only to keep Ner'zhul in there, not anyone else.
It'd be a rather interesting situation if the Death Knights understood their souls were out there somewhere and went to go get them back, if they didn't just regain them automatically somehow. So what's your take on it? |
Nyorloth |
The souls of the undead (Forsaken, PC death knights, ghouls, etc.) are imperfectly attached to their bodies; the dark magic that sustains them is a buffer that prevents their souls from properly joining with their bodies. This is why undead feel only faint sensations of pain or discomfort from most physical stimuli, and why the Light is so painful to their existence. The primary exception to this rule are liches, as liches bind their souls to a phylactery and then use the phylactery to generate a physical form; this process is why lich bodies look nothing like their mortal bodies, and also why you have to destroy a lich’s phylactery to truly kill them. |
