wow All Shadowlands Zones Are Actually on the Same Map and Connected

[Starym 3,779]

 

The Shadowlands zones are actually gigantic, near-infinite planes populated by infinite souls, connected only by portals... or are they actually just all really close to each other and you can glide all the way to any zone from Oribos?

Trollzyn took one of the common flight path bugs as an opportunity (where players would fall into a white abyss and die), and decided to map the afterlife. What he found out was that the Shadowlands are much smaller than they are advertised in the lore, as you can get to any zone from Oribos if the flight path bugs out on you:

That obviously makes a whole lot of sense, as there are no loading screens between any of the zones or Oribos, and you can actually see yourself moving along the map as you travel through the flight path. In-lore this isn't the case, as we're using portals and anima-powered corridors and such, but Blizzard had to put it together on the same map to work mechanically.

The big question here is what happens when flying is enabled, as it seems unlikely to stay this way, with players just being able to take off from Oribos and fly to the zones, since that would REALLY break any immersion and lore-fidelity. It was suggested in the reddit thread that we might be getting invisible walls to prevent us from just flying directly from Oribos around the supposed void around it.

[Harvey 59]

from ... what? You didn't finish!
(Age of Ultron quote)
Did the moderator fall into the white abyss? 😜

[krapmyself 60]

when we get flying, I wonder if blizz will put fatigue areas in between the zones so we don't just fly between them and skip oribos.

[Starseed 113]

18 minutes ago, krapmyself said:

when we get flying, I wonder if blizz will put fatigue areas in between the zones so we don't just fly between them and skip oribos.

i realy hope there is a way to skip oribos its a nice well made hub but its time consuming to go over it every time

 

[Ulvgrymt 8]

Isn't it weird that the flight portals are not actual portals? 

[Gortan 37]

To be fair, if you check the minimap while travelling through the portal you can see we're going A LOT faster than the regular flight point speed. So even if we could fly on our mounts from one zone to another I reckon it would take ages.

[Valhalen 1,484]

That was a clever thing they did.

[Starym 3,779]

10 hours ago, Harvey said:

from ... what? You didn't finish!
(Age of Ultron quote)
Did the moderator fall into the white abyss? 😜

Rofl... the editor was a little weird in the morning, ate my final few words 😄 Edited now thanks!