Somewhere along the line it was said that the goal for Arthas was to raise a legion of undead that could stand against the Burning Legion when they invaded. I’m doing this from memory, if you want a source you’ll have to google it.
Anyway, what if the Legion came, and Arthas had been in Northrend, raising an army and planning for the attack?
What do you think?
Too many elements. It’d be difficult to not only write a story, but have the player follow everything going on.
I also think the playerbase deserves the DF ending.
Legion was only defeated because we got to Argus and struck the head off the snake. Without that, the Legion had an insurmountable number advantage.
Arthas’s plan for Undead Fortess Azeroth was doomed to fail. Even if every living thing was raised to Undeath, it would still just be one world VS The Legion’s many thousands of conquered worlds.
I mean we were able to do it and we have a huge faction divide.
Arthas winning would mean he controlled and effectively unified all of Azeroth as undead.
Also stands to reason if his power increased, he may learn how to spread the scourge to Legion forces.
Arthas wouldn’t have the vindicaar, or the Keystone. Both were needed to reach Argus. Arthas would be stuck on Kil’jeaden’s treadmill. “We will return again, and again until we break you!” His stated plan of returning again and again while all Azerothian’s can do is beat them back and close their portals.
Arthas’s plan would never work. He’d be trapped on Azeroth and the leadership of The Legion would forever be out of his reach.
He’d just call up his buddy the Jailor and nipples would deus ex machina a portal.
In a 1v1 Legion vs Scourge fight, the scourge have the advantage since they can res their own forces and the legion have to go back to the twisting nether and await for a new body or whatever.
But then you have to consider the legion has spaceships and those spaceships have technology and then it’s an entire new ballgame…and the scourge have what…gargoyles and, at best, zombie dragons? Like maybe if the LK got Galakrond up and functional again than maybe. Still, the legion can fry the zombies from the air with basically no punishment and just bring in portals full of armies from all the other planets and just out zerg the zerg faction.
It stands to reason that the scourge would eventually figure out how to raise the corpses of dead demons.
Every failed Legion attack increases the scourge’s power. But without killing Argus - the armies are endless.
Then we could have joined the Scourge! Still hoping this is a thing some day…
Also consider that Fel Magic works by consuming souls, and undeath in this setting works by imperfectly attatching souls to a fallen body or construct.
I don’t think the Scourge is going to recover many assets after a Legion invasion as people seem to think. Without the living, souls on Azeroth are now a finite resource. There simply will be fewer and fewer souls to be had each time the Legion invades.
It’s a bad plan.
The scourge have Necropolis and during Wrath the Lich king was having full saronite Necropolis in contruction, which to my understanding, would of been nigh indestructible, and by the time the legion ever came around, could of had hundred or thousands of those things.
Infact during legion im surprised the devs never had Malykriss the vile hold finished, as it would of been much better then Acherus.
IMO the legion vs the scourge would be in scourge favor, though it depends if sargeras himself is involved, the legions limitless numbers dont matter to the scourge, they dont need to eat, sleep, or even breath, and can keep being brought back, and to my understanding Frostmourne can take most demon souls to, outside of dreadlords I think…so even the limitless numbers thing would run out at some point.
Read about the Aldrachi. Had Azeroth’s unified warfront not had a couple of extremely useful deus ex machinas on their side, letting us strike at the Legion’s heart, the eventual end result of continued defiance of the Legion is annihilation from orbit in demonic felfire.
At best, Azeroth would have been turned into a smoldering wreck, but honestly it’s most likely that Sargeras would have just teed up a better swing and shattered the planet to bits with his sword to kill the worldsoul.
This one.
Because it would have involved Arthas, one of the worst written wow characters to date.
The 35 anima he was turned into was more useful than his whole character.
bait comment, typical area 52er moment.
Arthas really having the plot twist of “but i was actually this evil guy for the greater good” is just him being the Jailer before the Jailer was around.
I think this should be an expansion. That would be fun.
I think it would have been more of a stale mate then people think, at least until Sarg showed up. The undead have proved to be a force to of nature that could handle large scales attack, and the legion would keep throwing meat into the grinder over and over and over. Arthas wouldn’t just go: LOL well lost 10,000 troops GG. He would lose 10,000 troops then raise up 10,000 more but this time as undead legion members which would give him an even stronger force.
They would just keep going back and forth endlessly until again, Sarg showed up and GG cleaved the whole planet.
Yep and that sounds boring to me. And unrelatable.
I’m picturing the jailers nipples physically summon the portal now