It’s purely for gameplay purposes. Lore wise, Void Elves only use the void and Lightforged only use the light. If you want to get semi technical, you can argue that if they try to use the opposite force, it hurts them in a similar way that using the light hurts undead.
When undead use or are healed by the Holy Light, does it cause them any actual damage or harm, or does it only cause them pain (in addition to the intended effects of the spell)?
Channeling the Light in any way, or receiving healing from the Light, only causes pain. Forsaken priests do not disintegrate or explode from channeling the Light for an extended period of time… though they may wish they would.
Light doesn’t cause Undead to explode so raising a Lightforged as a Death Knight isn’t impossible though I can imagine said Undead would probably be still for a couple of hours until they get their wits about them during their endless suffering.
Light using Void Elves would be having Light in them on a less big basis so their uses of the Light will either drive them more insane or bring them clarity to their Void-addled mind.
The only case where two Magics in contact caused an explosion was the Shadowfel Revenant Xhul’horac in WoD’s Hellfire Citadel who during Phase 3 and 4 is on the verge of blowing up due to(according to himself) becoming everything(Fel) and nothing(Void) at the same time as a result of absorbing Fel and Void portals.
There is a stark difference between simply calling upon the Light and being infused by it. The Lightforged are those who are literally ‘remade in the Light’, which implies that it’s present within them even when they’re not casting a spell.
You don’t have to rationalize it. It doesn’t make sense, and it’s being permitted purely for gampelay purposes.
I don’t see anything wrong with Lightforged Undead if their racials changed. It’s totally conceivable that a dead Lightforged’s corpse would be something that the Lich King could raise, since most of the real light energy would probably leave the body at the point of death.
What’s lazy is letting them keep their obvious light-based racials.
This was my thoughts as well, the only thing I can think of is when LF Draenei die the Light infused in them leaves, thus leaving their body vulnerable to undeath.
A completely irrelevant example. Lothraxxion was totally transformed into something else. He’s not a demon running around shooing felfire out of one hand and holy light out of the other.
Meh. The whole point of the Silverpine questline is about how worgen are immune to undeath but then wham, Worgen DKs. I assume though the Lich King is powerful enough to just raise whatever into undeath. He could probably make a cooked turkey leg a Death Knight as a prank if he wanted.
Not sure how his helmet getting broke affects that but maybe he tapes it back together or something.
I always figured he was a Nazthrezim that didn’t fall to the Legion when their planet did and instead joined up with the Army of Light.
I mean the Dranei have cloven hooves, horns or squid beards just as a racial feature so them just having gigantic bat wings may just be how they evolved.
It’s just one of those gameplay concessions where you have to plug your nose and pretend it doesn’t really happen. Those combinations really shouldn’t work, but the gameplay and story aspects clash in a bad way and the only option is to just ignore it. Chalk it up to either the races being a bad concept, priest being poorly designed, or both.
For long time in the lore was said that undead and demons were especially weak against the Light. Like the kryptonite to superman. Even so the lore says that undead can use the Light. Considering this i don’t see how demons can not do same, even after we saw that they can survive after being infused by the Light.