End Time idea - Redemption of Arthas

I made a joke I wouldn't finish this before 11pm when I started it at 12pm.

I was correct.

I named the file 'fuckyouarthasseriously.jpg'.


SO, um, this isn't BEIMN spoilers, this is actually more along the lines of patch 4.3 FANGIRLING.

BASICALLY, The aspect of Time, Norzdomu loses his shit after seeing his own death, and becomes Murozond, and living outside of time fucks Azeroth up pretty good.

So then I started thinking. What if he REALLY fucked shit up.

What if, in order to create the perfect downfall of the planet, he completely altered the timestream to remove the need for war, thusly removing the advancement of heroes on Azeroth, thusly making everyone weak and unable to defend themselves in a time of need?

One of the events Murozond altered was Arthas' rise to power as the Lich King.

It starts off by Arthas losing Jaina's affections to another suitor, but no matter, he soon fell for another fine lady during that process. During the expedition to Northrend, instead of him ordering mercenaries to burn his own boats (wut), he returned home to Lordaeron, and then marries aforementioned fine lady (stay with me here). And without Arthas to claim Frostmourne, Muradin Bronzebeard claims Frostmourne, and would follow Arthas' Path and try to fuck Quel'thalas up. And then aforementioned fine lady would hunt down Muradin and kill him, claiming Frostmourne as a trophy of Muradin's death.

But unfortunatly, Frostmourne corrupted her, and tl;dr she became Lich Queen Sylvanas Windrunner Menethil. That's a mouthful.

Arthas lost his father, and nearly his kingdom to the woman he loves. He still loves her.

As the leader of the Alliance (now in cooperation and peace with the Horde), he's a very kind and approachable king, though seems a bit tired and weary from Sylvanas' betrayal. Should I mention they have a son? Yeah, I think I should.


You would have to correct Arthas' time stream, first you would have to battle King Arthas Menethil after you tell him you're VERY sorry, but he has to take his wife's place, and once you've beat him he says he loves her and it's for the best, and then he grants you permission to go back in his personal time stream and convince him that burning his fleet in Northrend is a GREAT idea. There may or may not be alcohol involved.

King Arthas Menethil is 1/4 'End Time' fangirling I'm doing. There's two more baddies gone good and then something completely different for #4.

I gave him a beard because he was pissing me off.


Crystal texture on pauldrons is by ~Aymi-Ambrosia [link]
Paper texture by ~struckdumb
And yes, I did go over the alliance symbol in yellow. The last time I tried to freehand it, it was a bicycle made of nightmares into my dreams.

Arthas Menethil, Norzdomu/Murozond, the Warcraft universe is (c) Blizzard
I'm probably not the first person to come up with a 'good/not evil' Arthas idea, but what I've typed up are my thoughts and I do have some claim to them.