wow The Many Faces of the Jailer

[Stan 5,240]

The main antagonist of Shadowlands is the fiend of a thousand faces...

Jailer from BlizzCon 2019

It all started with BlizzCon 2019, where we first saw Sylvanas with this massive, mysterious creature in chains that was supposed to be the Jailer.

Early Concept Art

Later, Pyromancer leaked some early concept art of the Jailer. Here, Zovaal looks similar to Leoric from Diablo, wearing a "Leoric's Crown" on his head. He is skinny compared to what we saw at BlizzCon, which makes me think that maybe Blizzard planned to have him as a Titan of the Shadowlands at some point. He reminds me somehow of  Aman'Thul.

The Jailer's In-Game Model

Here we see the Jailer's in-game model as seen on the Shadowlands Beta.

The Jailer is huge compared to players. Here is a size comparison of a dwarf and the Jailer from the Shadowlands Beta.

Jailer's CGI Model

We also have a rendered CGI model of the Jailer that will appear on the cover of November's edition of PC Gamer. Here, he looks like something between Uncle Fester and Quan Chi from Mortal Kombat.

We saw four different faces of the Jailer. Which one is your favorite?

Finally, here is a video of the Jailer singing "Up There" from South Park because why not.

[Brutalis 165]

Gotta say, I think he had a way cooler silhouette in the Blizzcon reveal than he now has ingame. Spiky crown, cool looking armour... Honestly, I find him rather underwhelming now.

[Ravenclaw89 27]

8 minutes ago, Brutalis said:

Gotta say, I think he had a way cooler silhouette in the Blizzcon reveal than he now has ingame. Spiky crown, cool looking armour... Honestly, I find him rather underwhelming now.

Same, I like much more the first concept.

[Migol 433]

First one was too Leoirc-y

[kolumb 0]

Have to notice that this "Jailer" is freshly un-jailed/un-chained (the blue marks on the brocken chains).

It even look still chained on Blizzcon image.

Did Sylvanas unleash it from the magic chains, just like we unchained N'Zoth?

Edited October 5, 2020 by kolumb

[Halock 156]

46 minutes ago, Brutalis said:

Gotta say, I think he had a way cooler silhouette in the Blizzcon reveal than he now has ingame. Spiky crown, cool looking armour... Honestly, I find him rather underwhelming now.

I think it's the head that bothers me. He's got a good face out of context, but in context it does nothing to make me think 'supremely powerful being ruling over the realm of death!!!'

Have to admit the view from below, with his face behind the collar, chains hanging, scale absolutely clear, looks great though.

I also reckon I'll swiftly forget my misgivings if his character is actually compelling to listen to, though. Plenty of Warcraft's characters look completely ridiculous. 

[Halock 156]

38 minutes ago, Migol said:

First one was too Leoirc-y

I would be fine if he turned out to be Leoric.

[Brutalis 165]

3 minutes ago, Halock said:

I also reckon I'll swiftly forget my misgivings if his character is actually compelling to listen to, though

I find his voice very generic and unappealing, but you may feel different. Take a listen and lemme know.
 

 

[Grumar 188]

He looks like an angry grandpa, terrible design please fire who ever came up and then approved of this one they went with.

[Halock 156]

2 hours ago, Brutalis said:

I find his voice very generic and unappealing, but you may feel different. Take a listen and lemme know.

Hadn't heard that, thanks. I like the touch of the LK about his echo, and also he sounds like Metzen which is both good and bad in the best ways. I'd tend to agree though.

I do like the fact it sounds like that's random voiceovers for the Maw, which again would be a cool throwback to Lichy.

[Valhalen 1,484]

The Leoric-inspired design is pretty cool. I wish they went with that instead. It feels imposing and powerful. The final design looks... Generic? As if he was just some random mob walking around.

Edited October 6, 2020 by Valhalen

[Guest]

Honestly the first two (especially if the ancient Titan Santa Claus was his final form) look amazing. The changes that game after were just so bad. Unless they plan on using a variety of the forms together but then again probably not. Probably would be cool if it even worked in reverse, looks like the ancient Titan grandpa keeper of time and then reverts or completely changes into a rotting leoric creature as the titan of death. The final and chosen result they went with is just, my gosh terrible.

The dude probably would have been my favourite lore character to date if any of the first two options were used.

Edited October 6, 2020 by Guest