wow Will Garrosh Hellscream Return in the Shadowlands?

[Stan 5,240]

Earlier today, Blizzard unveiled the upcoming Shadowlands animated series titled Afterlives. It's very similar in style to Battle for Azeroth's Warbringers. One of the close-ups in the trailer includes a chained screaming Orc, which looks like Garrosh Hellscream.

We do not know if this is truly Garrosh, but the screams in the animated series trailer sound somewhat familiar. It would be interesting to see why he ended up in Revendreth in the first place.

We need to wait until the premiere at Gamescom 2020 on August 27 to learn more.

If you haven't seen the trailer yet, here's exactly the time stamp with the screaming Orc figure.

[Migol 433]

Garrosh did nothing wrong!

 

...you know, aside from all the racism (Species-ism?),  magic nuke bombing of a neutral city, complaining endlessly about the horde being corrupted by the legion before purposefully being corrupted by old god juice, and laying waste to Pandaria for existing.

[AlexRen 0]

5 minutes ago, Migol said:

Garrosh did nothing wrong!

 

...you know, aside from all the racism (Species-ism?),  magic nuke bombing of a neutral city, complaining endlessly about the horde being corrupted by the legion before purposefully being corrupted by old god juice, and laying waste to Pandaria for existing.

He did all of this to ensure the prosperity of his people. Out of all the so-called 'Warchiefs' Garrosh is the only one that managed to industrialize and bring progress. He wantes nothing more than glory and good living conditions for his people. As far as I'm concerned Lok-freaking-tar and see you in the Shadowlands, Garry!

[Arcling 898]

Even if it's Garrosh, perhaps he will only appear in this cinematic and not in game. Logically, we should see a ton of people, like where is Grom, Varian, Fandral, Lothar, every Saurfang and many others. I guess they can always blame it on the Maw consuming souls or something. Still, it's just too convenient how we are going to meet only selected few. ?

[darkgreenwax 412]

Garrosh would've had the best redemption arc if they had plopped him into the role of Saurfang, standing up to Sylvanas.

 

Saurfang was a great pick because he represented the OG orcs, but Garrosh had all those Cataclysm in-game cutscenes standing tall against Sylvanas' ideologies and killing innocents and whatnot.

 

Bombed a military harbor? Yeah. But he also executed one of his own orc commanders for bombing an innocent druidic village with children.

[Halock 156]

1 hour ago, TyZone said:

Garrosh would've had the best redemption arc if they had plopped him into the role of Saurfang, standing up to Sylvanas.

That is such a good idea. Damn.

[Laragon 269]

6 hours ago, Arcling said:

Even if it's Garrosh, perhaps he will only appear in this cinematic and not in game. Logically, we should see a ton of people, like where is Grom, Varian, Fandral, Lothar, every Saurfang and many others. I guess they can always blame it on the Maw consuming souls or something. Still, it's just too convenient how we are going to meet only selected few. ?

Please be Grom and not Garrosh. That could have way more interesting story telling.

[GBeast 33]

2 hours ago, Laragon said:

Please be Grom and not Garrosh. That could have way more interesting story telling.

the problem here is that grom has hair

Edited August 25, 2020 by GBeast

[SidonisAntares 290]

I don't see why it's a mystery that Garrosh wound up in Revendreth, it's specifically a place for reformation from your mortal sins, chief among them being pride, the same flaw/Sha that made Garrosh corruptible by Y'shaarj in the first place. If you repent, you can either be sent to a different realm or join the ranks of the Venthyr, if you don't repent, you're banished to the Maw.

edit - If Garrosh repents, I could easily see him joining the Necrolords, with their might makes right mentality.

Edited August 25, 2020 by SidonisAntares

[Arcling 898]

1 hour ago, SidonisAntares said:

If you repent, you can either be sent to a different realm or join the ranks of the Venthyr, if you don't repent, you're banished to the Maw.

Imagine Garrosh being transformed into bulky vampiric elf-lookalike. I wonder though, if time is different in Shadowlands or some trials just take that long. Kael died years ago, yet it looks like he only started his repentance, while Garrosh died more recently, and it seems they are at similar stage. Anyway, at this point we should see loads of familiar faces, but we likely won't get to meet many of them, no explanation for it or them being sucked into Maw.

[SidonisAntares 290]

40 minutes ago, Arcling said:

Imagine Garrosh being transformed into bulky vampiric elf-lookalike. I wonder though, if time is different in Shadowlands or some trials just take that long. Kael died years ago, yet it looks like he only started his repentance, while Garrosh died more recently, and it seems they are at similar stage. Anyway, at this point we should see loads of familiar faces, but we likely won't get to meet many of them, no explanation for it or them being sucked into Maw.

Honestly I'd love for Maladraxxus to have tons of former baddies that walking past their torment triggers dialogue when they recognize one of the 'champions' that sent them into the afterlife.

[Arcling 898]

1 hour ago, SidonisAntares said:

Honestly I'd love for Maladraxxus to have tons of former baddies that walking past their torment triggers dialogue when they recognize one of the 'champions' that sent them into the afterlife.

I wonder about dragons, would Deathwing and his black dragons be somewhere too? And what he would turn into!

[SidonisAntares 290]

14 hours ago, Arcling said:

I wonder about dragons, would Deathwing and his black dragons be somewhere too? And what he would turn into!

I don't know about Deathwing, but there's a spoiler in the Ardenweald preview here if you're curious.