I mean is it dumb?
A Undead held together by holy magic? Sounds pretty unique to me.
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Yes.
I mean a car with square wheels would certainly be unique but that doesnât mean itâd be a good idea.
Theyâre clawed creatures of the night who eat people. They weld skulls and eerie lanterns to everything. One of their stock building models is a mad science laboratory.
I do not look at that and think of sunshine.
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Are you speaking just from aesthetics?
Thereâs no reason they cant still dress and decorate scarily.
Itâs already in lore as a thing with Calia and I think thatâs pretty neat. Forsaken lack a bit of variety compared to other races and I think this would help with that.
Why would they want to bother with that though? Death magic is a primordial cosmic force that is at worst chaotic neutral. The Light couldnât even conquer a realm full of Draculas. Thatâs like salt losing to snails.
And I would argue the Forsaken have more variety than most factions. The lionâs share of them are Lordaeronian but they have deaders from Dalaran, Westfall, Stromgarde, Gilneas and now Kul Tiras. Not to mention canonically they run the gambit from monstrous meaty skeleton with maggots in their exposed brain to perfectly preserved corpse who could pass for a human with vitamin D deficiency if not for the spookster eyes.
Thereâs a ton of really interesting stuff you can do there. Lot of different cultures and backgrounds and faiths bound together by literally grave circumstance.
Having some be Light powered is not only completely off brand for them, but completely redundant, as thatâs what the Belves are already doing.
Well your first question is answered by your second statement, probably a good many dont really want to be
Which I could see the Light being better at the preservation of bodies.
And sure, Undead are raised from different cultures but honestly, I feel you dont get to see much of this.
Sure I will say its off-brand but then again so are Void elves and people like themâŚI think.
The Forsaken can preserve their bodies by cannibalizing both the living and undead. Additionally they can just stich new limbs on should one be too decrepit or otherwise destroyed. To say nothing of RASâs many embalming techniques.
Suffice to say the ones who look like monstrous zombies do so because they either donât care or are into it, as was Putressâs case.
Or there could maybe be some classism at work. As a blacksmith has to make due with a soft artists hand at any rate. Which is troublesome as you canât exactly build up muscle. Suffice to say body building is a very different type of hobby in Tirisfal.
So hey thatâs an interesting route we could go down. Are there much in the way in haves and have nots in Forsaken society and do the commoners have to make due with whatever helping hand they can stich back onto the stub?
How do Forsaken even feel about looking more or less human? Is it purely a vanity thing if they prefer the preserved look? Do they simply miss their own face? Maybe itâs just worth the effort to make working with the living easier.
Well, maybe thatâs where the Light can come in to answer those questions. Could be for the ones that want to not really look like a dead body and not have to do all that gross stuff.
What in the airborne fornication is a wind chime going to tell me about undeath and the Forsakenâs economic system?
Undeath makes you get into all that gross stuff. They donât hang out in crypts to be on brand. They do it because to them a haunted mausoleum with a gigantic spider hanging out in it looks like a cozy cottage with a big friendly dog. Even Faol is a bit unhinged.
If there was going to be some super new Forsaken type it would be completely asinine to go with the Light and not Maldraxxus.
Theyâve access to the cosmic center of death magic. The Mecca of Monstrosities, the Vatican of Vampirism, the Sarnath of everything that stalks graveyards on moonless nights.
Why in the name of all that is spooky and disquieting would they decide to look into Holy magic? They are next door neighbors to the SinâDorei and Argent Dawn. If they had any interest in that there was ample opportunity to look into it before. All that would do is make Calia look less out of place, which would officially torpedo her only interesting character trait.
I donât know what to tell you man, I think it would be cool lol
Just tossing out there as every forsaken is doomed to rot away eventuallyânot to mention once the brain goes they tend to regress into mindless undeadâit would be really cool if the forsaken reverse engineered how the Draenei vigilant technology works and created their own spooky goth version.
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As Shadowlands progressed, I had hoped Maldraxxus would become more joined with the Forsaken. Almost like Annie being adopted by Daddy Warbucks. And Maldraxxus would supply the Forsaken with all sorts of stuff to help them - fleshcrafting techniques, chemical combinations, or other magic/artifacts.
Ardenweald might be the nature and renewal aspect of Death for the cosmos, but it was basically married to Night Elves. I figured Bliz might do the same with the Forsaken and Maldraxxus. I guess they did a tiny bit of that at the tail end, with the Blight techniques. But I would have liked a connection established.
As far as Light themed Undead - I am not opposed to them. There is story potential there and it could be interesting. But I think if Blizzard ever did this, it should be a Forsaken customization, sort of like the whole recent Undead Elf thing, and the Black Moon Night Elves.
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