Im all for it but how does this even make sense??
Did the lich king wander to argus looking for dead light forged to raise?
This has bruh written all over it
Im down with it but come on bruh that doesnt make sense
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Calia is one basically. All the denizens of bastion could possess similar powers. Light a d death magics are compatible. It seems. The light can hurt or heal.
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Doesn’t really matter?
Arthas was a Paladin, as was Morgraine they manage to become Death Knights.
When you’re dead, you’re dead.
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Apparently, there’ll be a new starting experience for allied race death knights.
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The light forged can die? Yes? Anything that is capable of mortal death can be necromantically resurrected.
It doesn’t mean the Light forged DK’s would have a painless existence, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t possible.
This a fantasy land. Anything is possible. Even killing Gods.
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True - but upon becoming a death knight, does the paladin remain? or is it just a past specialization?
Within game, I don’t see both existing simultaneously. One or the other.
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Death knights are super undead that don’t follow rules. Get over it xd
We had holy users in our ranks before, but I guess they were rare cases. Now it’s official xd
What’s really interesting is I wonder how the DK need to cause suffering will interact with how the light will cause one to do good. Like obviously they could just write the latter off but imagine how twisted a LFD DK would be justifying inflicting suffering so they can continue their mission.
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The Allied Races have a new starting area for the DK experience.
I don’t think Bolvar needed to go anywhere.
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They. If you see zealots, like one of tge four horsemen they can still use holy spells. Bastion may help elaborate on those things. And Valkyr use both light and shadow.
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Good points. Now I am going to have to go dig 
https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Sir_Zeliek
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Sir Zeliek would like to have a word with you.
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When LF Draenei do their two Racials that explode in light, it’s gonna be very interesting to watch indeed.
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Thanks to both you and Calaart…. going to go read up on this!
Copy paste of a comment I made in another thread so if some things seem out of context (they were also talking about Velf DKs) that’s why but i feel it provides some fairly good explanations:
Neither Void nor Light are beyond death. I agree Aesthetically LF looks weird as DK but both could have several different lore explanations.
The cosmic forces aren’t oil and water there are several examples of different ones mixing throughout wow’s history. Benidictus wielded Light and Shadow simultaneously. There’s the boss in HFC raid that wields fel and shadow. Not to mention plenty of Forsaken wielding the light. No reason the reverse can’t be true and a Lightforged coud wield death.
If you don’t like the idea of “mixing” there’s also examples where the cosmic “nature” of a creature has been altered/replaced. The biggest is the Titan Sargeras who went from arcane to the opposite of fel. There’s also the Dreadlord in the Army of the Light who was a demon (fel) and changed to be light attuned. Xe’ra’s whole master plan was based on swapping out Illidan’s felblood with light juice before she got edgelorded into tiny pieces.
Another possible explanation is that both Velves and LF undergo a process to become their “race”. Biologically however they were born as regular Draenei and Blood/high elves. When they die it wouldn’t be unreasonable that their corpse functions like their original races’ do. LF even have a racial where they explode in a burst of light when they die which could be seen as the light leaving their body.
Obviously the 3rd explanation is speculation but there’s not really anything that contradicts it. Though personally i’d go with one of the first two since it’s confirmed lore. Being naturally more attuned to one type of cosmic energy doesn’t exclude you from using or being affected by others.
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Off course the Lich King can raise these Lightforged into undeath
The question is what is their difference from normal draenei death knights?
The Light isn’t opposed to Death. The Light is opposed to the Void.
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They also revealed Argus to be the titan of death. The dranei being native to Argus they may also hold a special connection to the death titan. We don’t really know there origins. They may have been Argus titan contructs corrupted by void gods/naaru.
If you notice dranei had soul-priests as well to explain there shadow magics.
Yes. The problem is what would be their difference from regular draenei death knights