Have they ever explained why the undead quickly hate the living?

For example the battle at dark shore. once resurrected they are in instant hate mode.

is this ever explained?

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They feel betrayed.

right… but they lived an ENTIRE life, and then drop dead and a few minutes later their former enemy bring them back and they instantly want to kill their old friends?

just like that???

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Yeah that was bad storytelling…

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they mad cause they got deleted by the enemy carry and their jungler was nowhere to be found

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I think they shunned them at first, because they’re gross. Seriously, ever smell rotting flesh?

From a lore perspective, the tauren shouldn’t tolerate them either.

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uh yeah they died angry and feeling betrayed. the rest of the undead hate the alliance because they keep trying to kill them so they can take thier ancestral home of lorderon from them.

well from a lore perspective tauren should be alliance and night elves should be horde really

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I am not saying its a strong reason.

But they go their entire life being told Elune will watch over them. Elune will protect them. Elune will protect their people. Elune will protect their home.

So much so that their leader, is Elune’s chief priestess.

When they needed that protection, Elune was awfully quiet. Doing nothing.

They were killed, and had to deal with their families, loved ones dying. While the person they were told would be there for them…wasn’t.

So yeah. Not saying it is a greatest story telling. But it was explained why they very quickly were angry.

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On Alliance Tyrande promised that warden elf elune would watch her

On the horde side she got engaged by Nathanos and his crew, she constantly started to doubt Tyrande, then when she died she started to say “Tyrande you promised…” Or something like that

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sEnSiTiViTy… glares ‘in orc’ at Forsaken

Humans are really the most pathetic race in Azeroth. Even in undeath.

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ok now THIS makes a little more sense.

I only have 2 alliance 120s and havent done everything with them

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A bit of it is undeath numbing and twisting a person’s psyche, but I don’t believe for a split second that the effect isn’t somehow increased by Sylvanas’ meddling. A quest in WPL showed that freshly raised undead are often in a state of easily manipulated confusion, which makes them vulnerable to influence even if direct, scourge-style control isn’t exerted.

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NE should be more neutral, no?

The accepted theory for necromancy is that resurrected beings will become fractured mentally and even some cases need physical brain damage before construction to operate. These are ideas for free minded undead like Abominations or recently revived Forsaken.

The quest to raise them from the dead, from the Horde side, specifically mentioned you could only raise the night elves that wanted to be raised. They were already angry.

The night elves that didn’t want to be raised, resisted you, and fought back as a wisp. And weren’t raised.

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maybe im misremembering but isnt the “brain” function of forsaken and undead mostly magic? I remember in some quest them saying they dont even have brains

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Sylvanas promises them cookies and ice cream if they’re good and eat all their human limbs.

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It’s been a while since I played an undead. But I think they are shown what the living has done the other undead people. So you just hope on the hate wagon.

After darkshore they have seen the afterlife and realized it’s not what they thought it was. So I think that’s why they come out all mad. /shrug

Pretty much though brains were more involved in Abominations and thus is where we gain the idea why risen free willed Forsaken attempt to attack their friends.