So, we all know what actually happens to the undead Kaldorei in the recent scenario - they join the Horde and the Forsaken specifically (perhaps to stab Sylvanas in the back later, which I don’t find convincing but it doesn’t matter right now anyway).
However, the discussion surrounding this event has got me thinking: what would happen if they accepted the undeath for one reason or another (because the afterlife is terrible, because they feel angry and betrayed and must continue to fight, etc.), but decided/were able to listen to Tyrande’s pleas to “fight the shadow in their hearts” and tried to rejoin their people? Could they possibly be accepted as equals and allies? On one hand, such an outcome doesn’t seem possible judging by the attitudes the Night Elves have toward their death knights; on the other hand, the only alternative I’m seeing is that the undead NEs would be expected to commit suicide, presumably for their own good, and this doesn’t mesh well with Maiev’s initial unwillingness to kill Sira in combat. To ask Sira and Delaryn to come back only to shun and exile them later, though, is just pointless.
I don’t see them coming back into the fold, even though I think Tyrande understands their anger. I would like to see them redeemed in some manner. Maybe they realize that Elune didn’t abandon them and she accepts them back in.
as another point out, tyrande was ready to accept them, she didnt much care “fight the shadow in your heart” the problem is that they didn’t want to come back instead wanted to help the people who murdered them, murder the rest of their kin
There’s no real difference between these guys and death knights, and we’ve never seen the nelves have any problem with death knights. There’s no reason to assume they wouldn’t be.
They probably could have learned to accept the undead NE, but they turned against there kin, so that might be the bigger issue here. Also in BtS, there were humans that were ready to accept their undead kin, so the living and undead can get along.
Personally I think one of Sylvanas’s Banshees possessed the bodies and that the two Kaldorei who fought and died spirits departed their bodies and have gone into the shadow lands or wherever the Kaldorei’s afterlife is located.
The DKs aren’t accepted. Ask CDev says “the night elves abhor the death knights”. They hate and distrust them even more than the Highborne mages and those guys were getting murdered for their class choice.
I doubt it. They have betrayed their race, and the alliance. They now willingly (to our knowledge) aid sylvanas. Sylvanas who has attempted genocide on the night elves. burned teldrassil, and slaughtered children.
And they still willingly followed her. Now fight for her, killing night elves. Trying to keep the night elf ancestral lands from night elves.
Thats very different from unwilling death knights.
You said that night elves abhor the death knights. but i will ask you, all of them? Even Knights of the Ebon Blade? Those DK not only are loyal to the Alliance, also they were (as most DK) raised and converted against their will. So, if nights elfs knows that there is group of unholy knights among them, who wield powers and have a nature that go against Night elves culture, but they know they were forced to go into that, and also knows that this knights are willing to help and fight for the Alliance and the night elves. Then, they will really be abhor for they kin? They not should take pity on them?
There are lot of "IF"s involved in that scenario, each of increasing improbability.
Undead are infamous for being unresponsive towards pleas from the living… especially if their return from death involved emotions that include hating said leader for her perceived abandonment.