My theory comes from the fact that Sylvanas did commission the creation of a new “plague” since vanilla. And her main goal at the time was to kill Arthas no matter the cost. Which is why she committed suicide after Arthas was killed. However Putress was the main guy behind the creation so who knows when he swapped sides to the Legion or was he always loyal to the legion? O.o
To be honest, the recent carelessness of retcons in this expansion (and disregard for keeping stories coherent) are what is making me lose interest in the franchise as a whole.
The Eredar thing wasn’t THAT big a deal, as it didn’t actually impact much, it was just kind of annoying, yet Metzen still gave a heartfelt apology for it.
Now it feels like stuff gets retconned and the writers don’t even care. They’re steering towards the idea that all lore is circumstantial point of view stuff, which throws the every quest, event, and story out the window.
If they follow through on that idea, it’ll likely kill the lore community, leaving only those who look at shiny cinematics and cheer.
Just look at ESO - it has really well-written stories, but their wikis and lore resources are almost barren because it’s all circumstantial lore - people don’t want to invest in that stuff.
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Blizzard really needs to stop making “Rule of Cool” their main ideology when it comes to story telling.
Also they need to stop allowing writing devs turning minor characters into their self inserts (looking at you Nathanos).
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Plague implies a infection, that’s why it’s called the blight because it kills any and everything. But I’m certain putress was just easily swayed to the legion because they offered him more test subjects or grander scopes of experiments
It is annoying that blizzard keeps flip flopping between the two.
I just wish blizzard just struck to one or the other.
It is like “Are cloud serpents beasts or dragons?” Nobody knows!!!
Have they flip flopped on the blight?
The whole Blight thing really wasn’t helped by the fact that for the duration of Vanilla and WotLK we only really saw it being significantly tested on living subjects.
Then right before deployment the Horde player is sent to drive a plague launcher around part of the Dragonblight and finally find out if the stuff actually works on the Scourge. Whether intentional or not it made it feel like the whole “secret weapon against the Scourge” angle was some kind of scam and at the last moment the Forsaken questgivers decided that after years of making sure the stuff would liquify every living race under the sun, maybe we should actually go and make sure it will actually do the same thing to the Scourge.
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It was originally called the “new plague”. They even called it that during Cata in the Worgen starting experience.
General Warhowl says: You sound very confident, your Majesty. I seriously hope you do not plan to use the Plague. Garrosh has explicitly forbidden it.
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: You’d do well to watch your tone, General. Neither you nor Garrosh have anything to worry about. We’ve ceased all production of the Plague, as he ordered. We’d never deploy it without his permission.
A few moments later
High Executor Crenshaw says: My Lady! Should I order my men to stop development of the Plague? Or are we to continue as planned?
Lady Sylvanas Windrunner says: What kind of question is that? Of course we’re deploying the Plague as planned! Let the Gilneans enjoy their small victory. Not even their bones will remain by tomorrow.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/The_Hunt_For_Sylvanas
However at some point they changed it to “blight”. I can’t remember where though.
Man can’t they stay consistent with the name, like seriously which is it? 
Well Blight used to refer to the affect that the Scourge plague had on the land.
Now it is referred to a bioweapon the forsaken created.
It seems they referred to it as blight as far back as Wrath according to these two quests
https://wow.gamepedia.com/The_Forsaken_Blight_(quest)
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Give_it_a_Name
Yet in Cata, they called it the plague again -_-
That left me outright agog. And like they had Classic on the horizon - there’s a Forsaken loremaster there. He’s part of a long quest chain and before sending you to the Scarlet Monastery his quest is a QUIZ ON THE HISTORY OF AZEROTH. There’s book stores in the Undercity for Christ’s sake! Who okayed that idea?!
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It’s things like this that make me question the idea that novel writers have every detail dictated to them by the devs.
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Yeah, it looks like any old fan fiction is fine at the moment.
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Brining Turalyon and Alleria back rather than granting them a heroic death after the events of WC2/expansions, perhaps sacrificing themselves downing a horde of Orcs or demons to allow their troops to survive.
Undoing Muradin’s tragic death and doing sweet FA with the character since.
And while not a retcon, anything related to deaths via faction parity——Taylor and Voljin etc
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