To the OPs point, I think it’s a matter of perspective. “Corruption” can be seen as a small amount of one thing and a larger amount of the other.
We are basically on the side of light. it is not uncommon for people to have the attitude of trying to Eliminate the shadow entirely. In such a situation, lingering presence of the other side can be seen as corruption.
On the other hand, back in the Black Empire, One can see the shadow struggling to eliminate the last of the light. And dealing with corruption by the light of their Empire of shadow.
They have a standing, highly trained army despite being isolated from all the conflicts on the other side of the world, so that would indicate at the very least they have someone they are worried about over there.
Low key, they also give me Roman Empire vibes—The Arathi Empire seems to see itself as the height of civilization, and thus its a moral duty to spread that to others. Plus, successful military campaigns seem to be considered a legitimate method of gaining political capital. So, like the Romans, they may always either be preparing for war, or be at war with someone.
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then the scarlets can either leave or die
Can the light corrupt, sure but not to the extent the void does and those who worship it are generally better off and happy. People infused with it seem to still have their own motivations and free will and doesn’t seem to sway them itself.
People who serve the void are generally unhappy, in pain and want to inflict that suffering on others and corrupt them.
the light seems to be wielded by zealots some time who want to use it for terrible things but doesn’t make the light bad. The void however by its very nature whispers and corrupts and pushes people to commit attrocities.
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except the moment whitemane was cut of from the light her insanity was cured
Whitemane was an edge case, the light was simply so powerful within her it drove her insane. It was more the quantity of the power she wielded not the nature of it that made her go insane.
Even as a death knight she still wields the light it is just no longer overwhelming her as it use to.
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I would say that is more of a correlation than causation. I believe in death and undeath she was able to piece the truth about how the Scarlets were manipulated by agents of the Legion (Balnazzar and Mal’ganis). Herself included and thus joined the Ebon Blade to get revenge on them.
Kinda a shame that Whitemane wasn’t there to see Balnazzar’s true death in the priest & Paladin order hall campaigns. Instead she was raiding a tomb when that went down.
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except no one told her about any of that, she never knew about the dreadlords so she just wakes up sane cut off from the light
She’s not cut off from the Light. She uses it, even as a Death Knight.
Her change in demeanor suggests undeath changed her personality, something happened to her in the afterlife or she had some sort of disorder/neurodivergency in life.
Funny how every single scarlet the moment they die realise what they were doing was bigoted and wrong and most of em never toucht he light again
No he was fighting a war for survival. The Scourge wasn’t going around preaching a competing religion, they were on an omnicidal rampage.
Funny you should mention him though. He was the one who was excommunicated from the Silver Hand, stripped of his Paladin powers by Uther… and for what? His honorable behavior towards Eltrigg.
They were to a degree via the cult of the damned. In fact that is what Kel’thuzad did upon returning to Lordaeron. It is why Ner’zhul kept him as a human.
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After the plague broke out and the victims turned…that was no longer a progam. It was conversion by death.
The Cult of the Damned existed long after the plague in Warcraft 3 until at least Wrath. We encounter several of various ranks during that expansion as we fight alongside Tirion and other allies, as they have both living and undead members.
Uther was wrong, everybody makes mistakes. Tirion still maintained his faith and regained use of the Light. This isn’t the “gotcha!” you were looking for.
If we’re talking competing religions, remember there’s also demon worshippers in Legion we fight against as allies of, or as part of, the multifaith Priest order.
Did you ignore or deliberately lie about my previous reply to you?
We see people still able to use the Light or be connected to it after undeath.
thats why i said most of em, i made room for it
I see what you meant about the second part. Not sure about the first. If I recall, we see a member of the Scarlet Crusade in Revendreth.
they are a ghost not undead, thats the difference
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It drives me up a wall because now everyone thinks all these cosmic forces are just different sides of the same coins.
Hell they’re not even entirely separate. For example Life and Light have always been intertwined with each other. The presence of the Light literally heals living things. It doesn’t get more straightforward than that.
But that graphic from Chronicle makes it seem like you have to choose between them.
Wait did they change the lore on how Tyr lost his hand? Because iirc he lost it fighting Galakrond.
I think that is the joke.