Skoll Shorties

Donno why everyone is...for lack of a better word...lore horny for the Pantheon. They keep trying to apply things to them to make them more interesting. First Eonar instead of it obviously being Elune and now Argus' soul hurting the Arbiter instead of it obviously being Remornia.

I get the whole Eonar thing. But what makes you think the little sword is responsible for damaging the Arbiter? I see Argus making way more sense personally but I wanna hear you out on the talking sword.

First of all, Blizzard flatout said that the machine of death did not break until after the Nightmare raid, which takes place an entire base expansion's worth of time after 7.3, secondly the red trail of Remornia looks the same during Renathal's cutscene as the Arbiter's.

Argus makes no sense unless you just handwave away the giant hole that Argus dies in 7.3 and somehow his soul doesn't go to the Shadowlands to screw everything up until actual months later.

The main two reasons why I think it is Argus and not the Sword is the fact that Argus itself is the Titan of Death and therefore has some form of a connection with the Afterlife. And two the color of the Argus Star and the Soul are identical.

Also, by the way, Danuser flatout says in an interview with T&E that the Shadowlands is a place only mortals souls go, and that eternal souls like the Titan return to their own plane of "Order."

I've been thinking on that for a bit and I was wondering if the level of damage that was done to Argus is what led him going to the Shadowlands in the first place. Argus himself was corrupted, damaged, and scared. It's possible he made the wrong turn.

Plus it making the Arbiter "break" would make sense since a Titan isn't supposed to go to the Shadowlands. Whatever did her in left in a state where she could no longer judge souls properly. It just makes sense this could maybe be it.