Have I ever mentioned I'm a kind of acrophobic in First Life?

Arkelios's Solace is sadistic.

So, um... these other trees...?!?

I think that glimmer is Tirna Marwol. (Very far right edge, barely visible, thought it was in-frame)

I think - Tirna Kaithe, Tirna Achiad, Tirna Glayn and maaaybe Tirna Noch?

This is looking about due east... or 'east'. There's nothing on the map.

Imagine getting stuck down there?

Who or what is THIS?

Which is why I stay as far from the edges as possible in Bastion too.

Gorm-chewed land is the worst, though, ne?

Theory about all these phantomy trees: Given all the possible souls they would have been receiving and caring for, before the disaster, what we're dealing with is only a tiny fraction of True Ardenweald

The rest is A. Being hidden from the mortals for Reasons B. All completely dead and dessicated, which means the drought has been MUCH much worse than we've realised C. Going about its handicapped business at its normal remove from Tirna Achiad, not unlike the furthest-lying groves we can visit.

The only catch with any of those theories is that Marasmius doesn't mention any further outlying groves/lands, and since he's been there since the Winter Queen started landscaping, this seems highly improbable.

I like theory A. We know there has to be more to the Shadowlands than we've seen.

They've always done symbolic distances, symbolic populations. Stormwind should look like it does in the movie, for example. There's absolutely no way something the size of Ardenweald-as-we-know-it could handle near-infinite populations of worlds even with the 4-5 dead groves we've seen being revived again.

But it's bothersome that there's not even off-hand comments about the further reaches, to explain them.

Bastion's got some corner-of-the-eye floating installations as well. Revendreth has a few builds down the sides of sheer cliffs - glider-reachable to get to, no way to get back up yet.
Maldraxxus seems to be almost boringly normal.

But Ardenweald... is a wedding cake.

We're on the same wavelength. I almost commented that we shouldn't be able to take a step in the maw for all the lost souls.

The other practical limitation problem that I keep thinking about is that we never get to see non-Azerothian spirits in their former shapes.

Yeah, that's a good point. Which reminds me of my eternal puzzlement over why Kyrians look so much like Humans... or is it Humans who are devolved Vrykul who look like Kyrians?