Common Misconceptions About The Undead

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1 - “The Undead can’t feel things”

The Undead have dulled senses of touch, smell and taste. Dulled, not absent.

“I love the smell of fresh foot scrapings, don’t you?”
-Argent Apothecary Judkins

2 - “The Undead can’t be happy”

Dumass, Professor Putricide and Calder Gray are proof that it’s possible for the Undead to be happy. Happy undead are rare though.

3 - “The Undead are incapable of love and sympathy.”

The Forsaken of Hillsbrad have become emotionally attached to the local spiders, which they treat as precious and beloved pets, like Baby.

Captain Jekyll also decided not to take Dun Garok out of sympathy for the Dwarven ghosts that inhabited the place.

“They fight for their land even after death - much like the Forsaken. I will report back to high command that Dun Garok is uninhabitable. Let them keep what they hold so dear.”
-Captain Jekyll

4 - “The Undead can’t have “fun””

The Undead can’t reproduce, but they can have “fun”. Unlike Garrosh lol

5 - “The Undead are opposed to the Light”

The Undead are born of Death Magic, which is opposed to Life, not the Light.

The basic type of Undead created by the Scourge is weak against the Light, as it disrupts the connection between the Undead’s corpses and their souls. That said, there are other types of Undead.

Long before Undead Calia Menethil was a thing, we already had Fjola Lightbane, a Holy Val’kyr, in the scourge, wielding the Light.

With Legion, we met Odyn’s Val’kyr infused with Light to the point of glowing golden.

6 - “The Undead are extremely easy / hard to destroy”

This one is very complex. Undead bodies are more frail than living bodies and they can’t heal naturally. But they can also take a lot more damage before true death, and unlike the living they can easily replace lost body parts.

The amount of damage an Undead creature can take before dying seems to be very dependent on the individual. We’ve dealt with headless Undead before. On BfA alone, we saw an Undead survive being torn in half and another one being killed by a neck snap. It’s speculated that stronger willed Undead can take more punishment, but that’s not confirmed.

7 - “There are no benefits to being Undead.”

There are many benefits. You no longer need food, breathing or rest. And you can “live” forever if you take care of your body.

8 - “The Undead are inherently stinky.”

It’s very easy for the Undead to smell bad. Most of them have no incentive for hygiene. It’s not like they will get sick if they don’t bathe, and it’s not like they’ll get a date if they do. That said, it’s entirely possible for the Undead to not stink.

“The undead being who stood before the king of Stormwind was shorter than average but otherwise unrecognizable. The beard was gone. Cut? Rotted away? And the hair was dark with dried blood and ichor. He smelled like old vellum: dusty but not unpleasant. Faol had died when Anduin was a child, and the boy had never gotten to meet him.”
-Before the Storm

9 - “The Undead are strong against the Void”

While the Scourge managed to mine Saronite and build castles and armor out of it without falling to the influence of Yogg-Saron, it’s also known that being pierced by Saronite is deadly to the Undead. That’s why Sylvanas used Icecrown Citadel’s saronite spires to commit suicide.

I would say it’s a zero sum situation lol

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Come to moanguard. We have ways of bringing the dead back to life :wink:

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I like being Undead. I don’t want to grow old and die. I wanna be young and popular with the ladies forever :smiley:

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Came here to see what kind of antics I could enjoy. Found a very well thought out and supported post. Take my Like, Mortis :slightly_smiling_face:

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To be fair, it’s not completely devoid of antics. I did make fun of Garrosh Hellscream lol

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  1. Forsaken aren’t brain obsessed zombies.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y44TUPr3zBc
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You’ve obviously never seen the movie “Death Becomes Her.” After just a couple weeks those two ladies were held together with duct tape and spray paint. Spending any length of time as a sentient corpse would be an enormous challenge.

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As Dave Kosak said on that tweet, the Forsaken exist in a state of ‘preserved decay’. They are rotten but they don’t keep rotting further.

Otherwise we would all have become skeletons before Vanilla even started.

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A clever ploy just to have a reason to link those sexy novels. :smirk:

Have a like for the whole post, though!

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Yeah they stop rotting, but that does not stop skin, joints, and ligaments from wearing out. Forsaken have to stitch injuries back together or replace them. Hope you’ve got a few dead bodies packed in a freezer for spare parts.

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Actually it was a clever ploy to make fun of Garrosh :sunglasses:

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Fine you have finely explained Undead, now try to explain death knights. Now that’s gonna be an hard challenge. Have you see the death knights using the light? xd Or how Dks seem to be more close to aberattions than undead and how undead deaht knights make sense? Basicly they wield plot armor and pierce their foe with irony, and sometime real iron swords. They’re like that character a dungeon master created for himself and then had to make for other players because they also wanted to be “that” guy.

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I told them I loved her for her brain. They told her to run…

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Very cool post, my man!

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I believe Lord Zelic (spelling?) in Naxxramas had such a strong connection to the Light that he could still wield it in undeath.

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And recently Whitemane, yes that was my point it doesn’t make much sense but dks can do everything :stuck_out_tongue: Except actually having our character fight on an horse, now that would be way too much.

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Sir Zeliek :smiley:

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Thank you!

I love Sir Zeliek.

He implored us to leave Naxx. Even as a death knight and unable to act upon his own volition, this guy had the will to do what little good he still was capable of.

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