WoW Shadowlands Datamine Reveals What's Next For Sylvanas

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Ever since players defeated Sylvanas in the penultimate raid of World of Warcraft Shadowlands, they've wondered what would ultimately become of the character. She essentially betrayed all of Azeroth, and even her own faction, in service of the Jailer. Now, thanks to the datamining of an upcoming story epilogue, fans have an idea of Sylvanas' fate.

Wowhead datamined a number of voice lines from the epilogue for the Zereth Mortis campaign, which is slated to arrive in the live version of the game next week. The voice lines are not the whole story by any stretch of the imagination, but they do paint a pretty clear picture of what's going to happen to Sylvanas and who is responsible for her punishment. Spoilers below.

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As revealed in the voice lines, it seems the leaders of Azeroth are content with leaving the fate of Sylvanas up to Tyrande, the leader of the Night Elves. Sylvanas, after all, committed genocide against the Night Elves by burning down their home, Teldrassil, and started a full-blown war with the Alliance that was the driving force of the game's Battle for Azeroth expansion. The death done at Sylvanas' command was all in order to send more souls to the Jailer and help fulfill his plans. Given all of the above, Tyrande is perhaps the most appropriate person to mete out justice for what Sylvanas has done.

Tyrande notes that while Sylvanas now appears to show remorse for her actions (thanks to a somewhat complicated story