The latest WoW raid gives closure to the Sylvanas saga

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Watch the cinematic here if you want to skip the raid it follows.

WoW's Sanctum of Domination raid went live today, climaxing with a showdown against Sylvanas Windrunner and the mysterious Jailer she's been serving. This has been the endpoint for World of Warcraft's Shadowlands expansion, and was eagerly anticipated. Now it's been beaten, and the climactic cinematic has been revealed.

The fate of Sylvanas was a point of contention among WoW fans and memelords. Was she going to die? Was she going to repent? Was this all setup for a redemption arc? Well, yes, it turned out to be the redemption arc thing many players predicted, with Sylvanas surprised to learn the villain she's been working with is actually a bad guy, then turning on him only to be punished by, er, getting the lost half of her soul back? Maybe this makes more sense if you've been keeping up with 20 years of Warcraft lore.

You could of course choose to wind back the clock with World of Warcraft: Classic. How are things over there? Well, it's Burning Crusade time and the Horde are so popular it's beginning to ruin the game. Ah. Well, nevertheless.

Jody Macgregor
Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.