As you are all aware at this point Arthas finally shows up in Shadowlands in NUMBER_TOKEN, however his exact role is not completely defined at this point. You probably already know about the Remnant of the fallen king in the Anduin encounter in the Sepulcher of the first ones, but now we have datamined the actual voice lines of the fight with references to Uther, Sylvanas, players as we also know a lot more about the actual story progression. So what is all this new information? If you ever wanted to record your raids, arenas, mythic + check out SQUADOV. The app records itself without a click of a button. You can see complete encounter stats, spell visualizations, analyze performance and you can also watch your friends perspective - best of all you can do it from anywhere just from the web app. Use the link in the description to check out the sponsor SQUADOV completely free. As you are already aware Anduin was turned by the Jailer into his most trusted agent. This happened pretty much at the start of the Shadowlands but since Sylvanas had abandoned the Jailer and 'didn't want to serve' Anduin became the main guy. The only difference was that Sylvanas was sort of serving willingly while Anduin is pretty much just a dominated completely mindless servant. Well as you've also seen Anduin is one of the main bosses of the Sepulcher of the First Ones and we finally learned what it was that dominated him, what is going on and what happens at the end. I'm going to spoil it to you immediately as this is already old news but Anduin was freed, yes this entire storyline ended up in him being a bit dizzy and weak but he is one of the main characters of our campaign questline and he is constantly present. The model also looks pretty basic. It still isn't certain at the moment whether that is just a placeholder or whether a new model will be introduced. We also don't know the full extent of his corruption and the effects it left on his mind but from the many datamined dialogues it really seems like he is just weak and confused but it doesn't seem like he is undead, broken or anything of the sort. Well to get to the point, we learned that the source of his domination is that crystal that the Jailer placed in his father's sword Shalamayne which turned into Kingsmourne. Almost certainly this soul was Arthas. How we know this is because in the fight we manifest his source of domination and we fight the remnant of the fallen king. This remnant also has the same abilities as the Lich King. Well here is the NEW stuff that we've just learned. This is without a doubt Arthas, this remnant of the fallen king and we have two pieces of information that reveal this. First during the battle this remnant literally has the same model as the Lich King from the Icecrown Citadel. If that is not confirmation than I don't know what is. However the other bit is that the remnant actually talks and interacts both with us, Uther and Sylvanas and there are a bunch of new datamined voices lines. So to start off it seems like before the fight Sylvanas starts helping us and then everyone is against her saying yeah you are the one to help,
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