Just wondering, it went from being mostly lawful evil types to not being true neutral/neutral good characters in the last years or so.
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The edgelord novelty of playing a Forsaken has worn off.
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Destroyed by scarlet Rpers 
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We just doing our best out here homie <3
Yeah every faction war xpack you get these people who do it for the Edgelord vibe
Where the Defiler Rpers at D:
Narratively I see the suffering primarily through Calia (if you even count her) and Voss to a lesser extent. Though Voss still has no problem just going on a murder spree. You still see that cooky, if not lawful, evil if not just their usual anti-hero portrayal in Faranell and Belmont. Velarona is up in the air, but Iād state from a general lack of screen time more than anything.
Beyond them, weāve gotten criminally close to nothing as far as Forsaken development goes. The player base equally has been reduced because of the narrative surrounding Sylvanas, though seems to be on the mends. Weāve also all matured over the past 5-10 years since weāve started playing. So hopefully the cooky scary skeletons come back, but without some of the over the top wanton edge that often came with the community.
I might ooze and war crime an entire retreating battalion with plague but I draw the line at overly descriptive murder of babies.
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I donāt think they are more mellow or neutral, so much as psychologically at the point of having been defeated so many times over that they donāt feel emboldened. While sure the Forsaken are used by Blizzard to start fights, the end result is typically them getting wrecked: see the Undercity being successfully raided twice now.
In various RP circles I frequently hear non-Forsaken rpers generally regarding the Forsaken as little more than Blight throwing goons which is a far cry from the OG Forsaken story being the Scouring and Fall of Lordaeron.
Calia Menethil has great potential to return the story to that of a dark fallen Kingdom, which would be a refreshing change of pace aside from the blight goons. While the blight goons are valid, they kind of took over the story for far too long, and people in many cases forgot the story of just who the Forsaken were.
There is also the perception that a lot of the OG Forsaken player base are older players, and have a more mature approach to our creative writing. In my guild we are definitely a community of people who tend to be 25+ years old, with a good number of us being 30+.
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There certainly was an allure to the old school Forsaken-- the questionable things they did, how their rank-and-file inhabited the dilapidated structures of their pre-undead lives, and how they were constantly struggling with proving to Azeroth that they were not the same monsters that marched upon Lordaeron with Arthas-- that latter part being particularly compelling, as in trying to avoid that label often times alluded to them becoming the very thing they wanted to avoid.
But now theyāre just grey-skinned humans. Theyāre not parts of the Scourge who managed to rekindle their own free will, nor undead beings in various states of decomposition frantically struggling to ward off oblivion that comes as a result of physics & nature, nor are they the lost people desperately seeking a return to normalcy after enduring a horrendous fate. They just are. They have no detail or nuance to them anymore, and this I think is a result of the lore writers trying to force on them a āuniqueā identity when they had already developed one.
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Say that with the voice of Cleavon Little
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I loved this post so much, I think it might be aging too, and some of the roleplayers have aged their writing skills like wine.
Being 30+ I can see how much my own tastes and the ones of the people Iāve met over the years have improved.
Do you think this to be a bad thing? I personally prefer them not forcing an entire race into a box. Itās part of the reason I stop caring to play gnome because they were put into a comical box where they are rarely taken seriously. Atleast imho.
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What!
No! No! Itās not over! Itās never over, not until weāre all six feet under.
Thereās not many left and we canāt make more, but I will not rest until the living are dead.
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Mine was Professor Elwin āStinkfingersā Garvin, alchemist extraordinaire. Always was combing his hair (or what little of there was) and he always was concocting silly brews.
He got the name Stinkfingers because his hands always smelled funny, he never answered people if they asked if it was because he was undead or that he worked with weird chemicals.
His name got reported for ābeing inappropriateā
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Yeah Cole started out as a Sylvanas fanatic. After BfA I justā¦lost interest in the Forsaken storyline. Maybe one day itāll come back but after roleplaying the same Forsaken for 12 years I just couldnāt keep justifying the next goofy thing we did. Killed the character off shortly before Shadowlands.
I hope Calia can return the Forsaken to what they used to be - a people scorned by the world just trying to survive.