Hi,
It won’t let me post this question in the lore thread for some reason, so I’m posting it here instead.
Is there, technically speaking, a lore process that could be developed for reverting Death Knights to their former living selves, however difficult or rare that could be?
Thanks,
-Kriptium
I don’t think so. Resurrection in lore is extremely difficult and costly. Restoring a DK to true life would basically be attempting to counter the magic that is animating them, repair the damage to their soul that was done in the process of being animated, and resurrect them to their pre-DK state.
Remember Crusader Braidenbrad, the dying crusader who was infected with the Plague of Undeath in Icecrown? It took the powers of the Emerald Dream, the Red dragonflight, and a Naaru to purify his soul and it still didn’t stop him from dying.
It’s a great question and I think Karat summed it up perfectly.
Maybe you could go all Xe’ra on them minus the “I AM MY SCARS” bit.
That’d probably just make them explode though.
I read somewhere that the Shaman or Val’kyr can rebind a soul to the body, but that’s all I really have on that.
Aren’t their souls bound to their runeblade since they can’t be bound to their body?
I don’t think our soul is bound to our runeblade. Instructor Razuvious says the following when he tells up to claim our first weapon.
The single most important piece of equipment to a [death knight] is the [runeblade]. It is through the runeblade that a death knight commands the powers of frost, blood and the unholy. The runeblade also acts as a vessel to store the death knight’s [runic power]
The time has come to create your first runeblade. Search the weapon racks on this floor and locate a Battle-worn Sword. Once found, take the sword to a nearby runeforge and use it to create a runeblade.
Now perhaps the first generation of DK had their souls bound to their blades when created by Gul’Dan.
Perhaps getting Naaru you corrupt one of them, but there’s a 8/10 chance they will merely burst into flame, my only question would be why some Death Knights would go back to being a Scrawny wimpy nerd of a Mage?
Honestly for First Generation, this would actually be quite use.
For Third Gen Death Knights, there’s no way in the Maw they would give up their Amplified Strength, Reflexes, and Agility, along with Self Healing and Psychic abilities.
Our reason to exist is to suffer and cause as much death as possible. I would imagine those of our ranks who were too weak have already perished so I agree I can’t see many who would want to become living once again. All we can do now is suffer well.
To be honest i look back at what my life was before the alliance killed me. It was a good life. But being risen into undeath even agenst my will. I can say I’m stronger now then i was when i was alive and with these powers we have been given, I can honestly say i would not want to give it back so easily. I suffer every day my mind body and soul being torn to sunders as i walk across Azaroth. But I suffer well. My torment is my own and any Death knight that would go back i would gladly take there life. we are death we are destruction.
I don’t think there’s ever been an undead who was resurrected back to life.
Wasn’t Medivh a ghost and later came back? That’s the only lore example I can think of and I freely admit I may be way off base with that.
Medivh (“keeper of secrets” in Thalassian was the last Guardian of Tirisfal), an ancient line of protectors bestowed with great powers to do battle with the agents of the Burning Legion. He was possessed even before birth by the spirit of the lord of the Burning Legion, Sargeras. Under his influence, Medivh contacted the orc warlock Gul’dan, and together they opened the Dark Portal, bringing the Old Horde to Azeroth. He was slain some time after by a party led by his best friend, Anduin Lothar.
Resurrected by his mother Aegwynn, Medivh returned as a mysterious prophet shortly before the beginning of the Third War, manipulating events in order to arrange the formation of a last-ditch alliance between the mortal races of Kalimdor, guiding them to victory at the Battle of Mount Hyjal.
We could use another Donkey Kong game.
Ya but that quest was a homage to a devs brother if I recall. We’ve seen people rezed with more ease as rare as it is.
I feel that if you took away the necromantic power a dk would sacum to their own power and be killed by it (frost becomes frozen, unholy gets infected with plagues, blood falls apart from all the damage they have taken) something like that. Just what I have thought about fantasy whise would happen to dk if we tried.
Yea i like freezing things. I don’t want to be the one frozen in ice forever. So I’m not planning on trying to return back to my old living self any time soon. Suffer well.