Multiverse Mana Theory: Making Sense of Respawns

It is undeniable that many strange things happen on Azeroth; things that should stay dead come back to life, and events that should be world-changing have no impact, and things generally remain at the status quo. But thanks to the magic of SCIENCE, or in this case more guesswork than actual science, one might find an explanation for these strange events! I call my explanation the Multiverse Mana Theory!

What the frak does that even mean?

I’ll start from the beginning: Things in this world generally can have a few different possible outcomes. Say, for example, that there is a delicious pear in your kitchen. You want to eat it, but you might want to save it instead. At the day’s end, there are two outcomes: The pear is eaten, or the pear has not been eaten (for the purposes of this argument, this is a delicious Pyrus binarius, it will be eaten or not eaten, you can’t take just one bite out of it and leave it because it is that delicious). You can’t change whether the pear has or hasn’t been eaten during the day, it will stay that way whether you regret it or not. But on Azeroth, we should re-examine what would be this taken-for-granted situation. Say that maybe, you could change whether you had eaten the pear or not. Maybe, through some mysterious power, you could somehow ‘summon’ the pear back to eat it again, or it just came back on its own. In science-ified terms, this is moving through the multiverse to a state with a more preferable outcome. But how might one do this, even in WoW?

Mana’s involvement:

• I suggest as a solution here that mana is what allows this transition between parallel universes. Mana could be an Azerothian elementary particle that travels between the parallel worlds. Bear with me as I dub this particle the ‘manatini.’ If a character can accumulate enough manatinis (their mana is full), they can ride the particles in a surge to a more preferable parallel world.

IN PICTURES:

I apologize if the image is bad, I drew it on a Graphire4 that is barely larger than my hand

This should explain many things in the games, and allows events that should be mutually exclusive to occur. For instance, mages, besides conjuring food, can alter the states of things with fireballs, but require no gasoline or matches, unlike that Chinese player. They can simply cast themselves to another universe where their opponent has a large, flaming object flying towards their face. Another note: this can explain why it’s necessary to stay still while casting, as moving from one universe to another is something that would generally require some concentration, as one doesn’t want to lose concentration on what they want and end up in the universe filled with cinnamon rolls, or it is necessary for the manatinis to come together in one precise location in order to be used.

But what about mana-less classes?

• To counter this, I propose that each object on Azeroth has a certain amount of manatinis that they can influence, or even control and use. In layman’s terms, warriors and such still have a small amount of mana, but they haven’t been trained to use it or even acknowledge it, but can still subconsciously influence their surroundings once in a while (things respawn).

Protecting the status quo

• Obviously, this could lead to CRAZY things happening if it were true, like waking up in a Universe where somebody with enough mana has suddenly taken over the world, which is why in conjunction with the last conjecture, I propose the concept of a multiverse-change inertia, where things want to remain in as close a state as they currently are. It requires a relatively small amount of mana to get some food, or a medium amount to set something on fire, but a ridiculous amount to become ruler of the world.

More evidence:

• The Nexus is supposed to destroy the world by disrupting ley-lines? Kind of lame, unless the raw power of torrents of manatinis ripping through the crust snatches the earth away into universes unkown.
• Arcane beings, like Anomalus, who are undoubtedly very powerful in controlling manatinis, are chaotic agents of entropy, pushing things away into other universes.

Problems I have with this:

• Do the characters just exist in one universe, or span across many? It seems as though this would require some considerable amount of consideration for either side, and I will try to update my thoughts on this later.