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Sylvanas Windrunner has been working with the Jailer since her attempted suicide at Icecrown Citadel and has been perpetrating acts to bring about great amounts of death in the world of the living. During this time, Mueh'zala brought Helya to the Jailer's side. As a result, the Maw grows larger and more powerful while other parts of the Shadowlands have become deprived of anima and have started withering. The eye of Odyn had been brought to the Maw by Mueh'zala long ago.Īround the time of the Burning Legion's third invasion of Azeroth, the machine of death was broken, causing all souls who enter the Shadowlands to pour directly into the Maw as part of the river of souls. Reality is ever-changing within the Maw, which is continually altering itself to the whims of its singular master who resides in Torghast, Tower of the Damned. The laws that bind the Shadowlands are meaningless within the Jailer's realm. Īs the Jailer's dwelling, the Maw is a tumultuous, hopeless maze of torment chambers and endless despair.
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The Maw was sealed and made inescapable with the magic of the Heart of the Forest, with the goal of banishing The Jailer forever. The Jailer pieced these together into a single landmass by throwing out chains in every direction within the Maw from Torghast and pulling them inwards. The landmass within the Maw consists of pieces of land that have been ripped from a realm that was destroyed upon entering the Maw's atmosphere and whose pieces have become burned and desiccated. Still, few souls that the Arbiter found completely irredeemable would be sent directly to the Maw. If they fail or refuse to seek redemption, they are condemned to an eternity in the Maw. Normally, few souls are sent directly here, as even the most evil and prideful beings in existence are given a last chance to atone for their sins in Revendreth. It is then that the tormented willingly serve their tormentor. They are imprisoned forever and suffer without end, until they are twisted into a mere shade of their former glory. The wretched souls imprisoned in this hopeless realm are the unforgiven and irredeemable. In the deepest depths of the Shadowlands lies the inescapable Maw.
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THE MAW THE MEDIUM PATCH
Patch 9.1 added new areas to the Maw with Korthia and Helgarde Keep. The Maw is a max-level zone designed for exploration and (somewhat) open-ended play, without settlements or inns to let players catch their breath. This has caused the Maw to begin growing larger and more powerful while the rest of the Shadowlands wither from a lack of anima. In recent years, the machinery of Death has been broken, and all souls who enter the Shadowlands are now condemned to torment in the Maw, no matter their deeds in life. At its center lies Torghast, a cursed otherworldly prison where the most wicked souls in the universe are locked away. No one has ever escaped this vile place, and any foolish enough to venture here are never heard from again. Ruled by the enigmatic Jailer, the Maw inspires nightmares and legends even among the denizens of the Shadowlands. This horrific place houses the most vile and irredeemable souls in existence. The Maw, Wasteland of the Damned, is one of the realms of the Shadowlands. For other uses, see Maw (disambiguation). This article is about the Shadowlands zone.