Forsaken Reproduction

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Should be as a bite.

The Worgen spread this way and it’s suggested the Undead do in Dark Mirror.

My suggestion would be the Plague of Undeath is now so understood that a remedy is easily accessible.

But yes like the vampire or zombie a horror hickey will turn you if treatment isn’t had.

Why is this a solution?

A. It’s not on an industrial scale. If Sylvanas couldn’t have built her army all that quickly without the Valk’yr still if nibbling was the answer.

B. It only spreads to humans and most Forsaken don’t want to live near the people they’re fighting to the death.

C. It would mean the Forsaken could easily draft voluntary and involuntary members into their fold perpetually and be regarded as a consistent threat.

It’d also spell out why the Forsaken are feared. They can bite you and turn you. And you won’t be accepted back home because you might do the same.

Is this a bit hypocritical considering the Worgen are welcome in the Alliance? Absolutely but that’s kind of the point.

It’s a very simple solution that ends the question of Forsaken population numbers while still making them adversial to humans.

Plus then we could get some classism because of Romero ripping the fancy Forsaken;

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Nah, let the forsaken be a dying race as they Always where, living with a time limit. No more Valkyries to bring them back.

No walking dead BS virus stuff. Just pure on, no more forsaken. What you get now in lore is all that remains

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Talking a lot of ish for a bite sized race.

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I dunno, I feel like necromancy is common knowledge from enemy npcs. :robot::thought_balloon:

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With the absence of the Val’kyr, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Necromancers used instead. Though with how they established that necromancy is necromancy regardless of the source in Shadowlands, I wonder if it would be Forsaken Priest thing. Like say the Cult of Forgotten Shadow having an agreement with individuals to raise them from the grave.

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Bite size race that is everywhere, breed like rabbits and have magitek. We aren’t doomed like the forsaken. :grin:

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I’v always been partial to anything that dies on lordaeron soil gets back up personally

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That live in a Subterranean slum that makes the Undercity look like an advertisement for health and safety by comparison.

At least their glowing green rivers weren’t caustic.

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That is just one settlement. Gadgetzan, in lore, is also a mega city. We also got booty bay, and many outposts around the globe.

Also, you guys live in a literal sewer. The slums are better, also, technology.

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Hearthstone isn’t canon genius. Also the Undercity was a fortress built by Arthas to be the Scourge’s stronghold that was overtaken by the Forsaken.

The Undermine is literally 60% some combination of a dump, slum, trash heap or chemical waste.

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Good thing it isn’t just hearthstone that this is true in as well. It is in the literal books as well. It is a mega city, a port city.

By the time of the Cataclysm, the city had greatly expanded and it was described to contain winding and labyrinthine streets full of almost every known race to the human Aramar Thorne, and even a new west gate for the city.[15]

Faeyrine Springsong, a druid of the Cenarion Circle, lives here,[16] and the author of Common Birds of Azeroth, the goblin Charnas, has his shop in the city. 1

So good work in being sarcastic and being wrong I guess…“genius” :rofl::joy:

All in all, the heartstone expansion just took what the lore said and made art for it. That was all.

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Also the Undercity was a fortress built by Arthas to be the Scourge’s stronghold that was overtaken by the Forsaken.
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Yeah, the literal sewers of the city. That is lore canon.

So a better and liveable undercity.

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Actually no the undercity predates Arthas as a sort of slum where Lordaeron’s poor an unfortunate would end up

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Cool I’ll be interested in that the milisecond it’s ever reflected in game.

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Originally the Undercity was a combination of royal catacombs and crypts in combination with sewers and the city’s dungeons. The poorest people in Lordaeron lived down there, despite it being illegal to do so, and Orgrim was held prisoner there before he busted out.

That being said, zombie virus forsaken would be kind of cool. Feels like the kind of thing that would inevitably lead to a faction war, though.

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lol okay, just stating in the lore forums, the lore reason why goblins are better than the race that…isn’t an actual race but a condition that can’t be replicated?

I mean, maybe via necromancy but I’m sure the current forsaken hate necromancy. Maybe an offshoot that isn’t forsaken but their own thing.

Scourge faction when.

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lol it would lead the horde thinking about getting rid of them, honestly.

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No they don’t, the current 4/5 of the council are pro necromancy and that’s assuming calia is against it, Secondly the forsaken were raising people withought valkyr before cata all the Valks did was industrialise the process

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Really? That was a change from their vanilla lore of “hating necromancers and the scourge with a passion”. I guess the voss missions got her all riled up for a pro undead living, after killing her father and kin.

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No some forsaken hated necromancers, but the forsaken also did have literal necromancers and the vanilla PC was raised by forsaken necromancers.

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If I remember correctly, it wasn’t that forsaken necromancer raised you in vanilla, it was that you broke free of the Lich Kings command and regained free will and consciousness.

Valkirye was like the quasi necromancy and that was already walking on thin ice by some of the horde people but I guess they just ignored that and now just full on with necromancy.

Guess after Shadowlands and Maldraxxus, they just collectively said “f- it”.

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