What’s the deal with it nowadays?
Having not played since Wrath I thought the weirdest direction Forsaken lore took was needing the Val’kyr to procreate. When previously I assumed the plague worked similarly to other zombie apocalypse scenarios- just give a human a nibble or failing that stick some essence of undeath in their cornflakes.
Perhaps that wouldn’t be the most effective means now that the Plague was curable as of the pre Wrath event at least. But it still strikes me as odd the only way to make new sapient undead is via emo angels. When I figured suitably advanced undead could just be liberated by killing or weakening the necromancer that rose them.
There’s Blight I guess but does that make spooky scary skeletons on it’s own or just normal, quite dead skeletons and the ones lurking around Tirisfal are just Windrunner’s raised lackeys?
Anyway core point here I guess is if the plague of undeath is still a threat?
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AFAIK the Plague doesn’t exist anymore.
Then what they got in them cauldrons in Archerus? White Claw?
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I don’t know. Something Unholy, I imagine. It’d be pretty out of character for the Ebonblade to be progenating the Plague, though.
They were doing their laundry!
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The first Plague of Undeath was a magic based disease. Undead raised by it were mindless slaves like any other linked to his will. And it was specifically geared to target humans.
The forsaken regaining consciousness was a side effect of that link being broken is all. That doesn’t happen with other necromancers. The Lich King is a unique case. The story goes that only powerful death beings like the Lich King or the val’kyr are capable of raising an undead with their original will and memories intact. Which is probably why it happened that way since the Scourge were raised by his power.
The first plague isn’t really a threat anymore except in afflicted areas like the Plaguelands. The new Blight the forsaken created is an altered version designed to just kill everything in sight, both living and undead. It doesn’t raise anyone.
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