The Arshaz

The Arshaz ("The End" in Thalassian) is an astral prison complex developed by Mira Electrobolt designed to hold in stasis and as is appropriate, truly destroy demonic souls and conceptually, whole demons, though Stasts Block Delta, designed to house demons with their bodies and souls intact, remains vacant. The pocket dimension was designed to emulate the Ruby Dragonshrine given demonic hatred of verdant, natural spaces.

Gnomish engineer and dimensional magic expert Mira Electrobolt together with Quel'dorei Abjurer and Leywalker Entilzha Firesong are the principle designers and custodians of the complex.

Studying such failures in the past, the complex focuses on containing the souls of demons in individual stasis fields using magnetism and geometry to create areas void of any energies a demonic soul might use, with a series of wards encasing each soul, orbs regularly draining their power, and a teleportation complex leading to a destruction point in the Twisting Nether.

The Arshaz initially met limited success as trapping the souls of demons is highly complex, and both conventional soulstones and engineering-based alternatives, though has provided actionable intelligence, and removed some demons from the cycle of endless return. Work on improving soul capture technology continues given the frequency of contact with demonic forces, many experimental soul gems and engineer "soul cubes" are being tested leading to improved designs.