Lightbound Undead

[Fallynn-wyrmrest-accord (Fallynn)]

I entirely disagree and hope to never see them added, personally. I gave my reasoning in another thread. Might as well copy-paste it here.

@Fallynn-wyrmrest-accord

I disagree with you personally. In my opinion, Lightforged undead are a terrible idea. It turns into a “You’re evil if you don’t go through this process.” Or “why be regular undead when you can be better”. LF Draeni are living and so they’re not considered “corrupted” to begin with where as the stereotype is: If you’re dead, your damned.

Now, there’s things that would make me ok with the idea, I guess.

1. Establishing that you don’t become some perfect little angel upon becoming Lightforged. Blizzard did a good job of showing that the light has its dangers too. If LFU have the “holier than thou” attitude, big no.
2. Perhaps make it a ritual like night warrior. They then wouldn’t be on Alliance, and of course give them lore drawbacks. I don’t think LFU are a good allied race anyway personally. The origin would indeed be a ritual taking place current content. Whereas void elves branched off a good long time ago, there’s nothing background wise to make these any different.
3. Making it just another form of resurrection. Nothing special or amazing, just the result of something else bringing you to life. Imo at that point you’re just living though so I don’t know why you’d be “undead”. Maybe because it’d been too long Or something.

That aside, and again, this is a personal opinion and I speak for no one but myself. There’s many other undead races I’d love to see rather than them. Obviously San’layn are at the top of my list. Technically these could be counterparts to one another, but again it’s imperative that we’re not just slammed with the “evil” bat once again with the Alliance being perfect without the ability to do wrong.

Other ideas I’d personally rather see:

1. Playable giests
2. Valkyr(this would be a tough one as there’s no males).
3. Nerubian
4. Undead Vry’kul

So yeah. Just my thoughts.

Take it as you will. These are just my opinions, anyway, and you can feel free to have yours, but mine isn’t going to change.