So in the Shadows Rising spoiler free/soft reveals review on Blizzplanet it was revealed that that the Horde still has undead night elves amongst the Forsaken. And with the Calia reveal it doesn’t surprise me all that much since a group of them left for her. Though not mentioned I’m half expecting Delaryn Summermoon to be among the Kaldorei Forsaken.
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That’d be pretty nice. I feel like Delaryn Summermoon has potential as a future lore character, and I’d like to see that potential go somewhere. Admittedly, as a Horde Dark Ranger is not ideal, but still, who knows what story they could tell if they put their minds to it?
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Thanks for the update but now I’m just disappointed.
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From the review, it seems like the undead night elves split with some following Sylvanas and the rest staying loyal to the Horde. Not quite clear on which side has the majority or if it was an even split. Either way, they’re filthy traitors who need to be used as mulch to help Darkshore’s recovery.
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Tyrande is going to call them as such and then they leave for the horde. Pretty good prediction?
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They’re already in the Horde. The only time Tyrande interacted with undead night elves is when she asked them to stop fighting and come home. They responded with, “wE ARe FOrsAKeN!!1!”
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Yeah though my pessimism grew as Tyrande was “aggressive” against Thalyssra and Calia.
On the plus side we might finally learn the dark secret of why they joined the person who invaded their homeland and killed thousands of their own people. I can’t wait for the explanation finally! No way Blizzard will ignore or gloss over it!
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At this point they just need to split the Forsaken into two factions or something. The original version and whatever the nu Calia version is.
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grumbles Filthy traitors. Betraying the memory of their people. Really, really hate the NE Forsaken.
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I feel like this should be a bigger deal than it is. Not just that Tyrande extended acceptance and compassion to them. But Tyrande, in the full grips of the vengeful murder-rage of the Night Warrior, still offered them acceptance and compassion.
I’m slightly reminded of a certain mana-addled addict taking personal offense to being asked reasonable questions.
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The only explanation I can really think of is that undeath REALLY messes you up beyond our comprehension and they decided to stick with Calia/Voss for therapy the living cannot provide.
I think it’s forgivable if that’s literally ALL they can do to deal with their condition. Being welcomed back into society clearly isn’t good enough with how traumatic the experience of becoming undead is
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I can understand that, but what I really don’t like about these undead night elves is the fact that Sylvanas never forgot about her own people. The undead night elves seem to have completely turned their backs on their own people. Other than therapy I can see no reason for them to have any loyalty to the Horde.
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I feel that’s a theory that only works on paper. They’ve made allusions to different forms of undeath having adverse psychological effects (deathnkights need to constantly make other’s suffer; San’Laiyn must constantly feed on blood; standard Arthas undead were full of rage and hate; etc), but that’s stuff that’s never really quantified in-game. And if you begin to quantify it, now you have to go back and look at all of the other undead - Sylvanas included - to try and figure out what was their own action vs what was the psychological disease and what not.
Oh, and why the one special undead who got the Cadillac resurrection plan, and thus never actually suffered any sort of ill-effects from undeath or rejection - is now the self-appointed therapist for all of the other undead. Therapy requires trusting that the therapist has a good understanding of your situation, and it’s inconceivable that Calia knows anything about actual undeath.
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Neato. Honestly whether they stay as Forsaken aligned NPCs or eventually return to wherever the heck Night Elves make their home these days, I’m glad they’re not all simply being eradicated. It seems like people make bad choices when they come back as zombies. Give ‘em a little while to mellow out after the fighting stops, and I’ll bet half of them will have written apologies ready to pass along to their former kin.
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I still want to know who they think actually wants this. Who was clamoring for Forsaken Night Elves?
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People on the story team apparently. Though I wonder what exactly their future will be? NPCs here and there like other Horde races, a future faction reputation, a customization skin down the road?
Speaking of customization…perhaps perhaps the Horde will get undead elves as a future allied race, and they can choose to be undead high, blood, or night elves?
No one wanted Forsaken Night Elves but it seems we are doomed to hear Sira Moonwarden gripe about how much she’s suffered even as she gleefully works for the very person who made her suffer. Really, it’s all Tyrande’s fault for showing up five seconds too late to save her from dying.
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So will the Undead Night Elves be customization for the Forsaken do you think? If the make them a part of Calia’s story or will they Calia’s new “Dark Rangers”?