I think about this often and how it never really seems to be touched on.
I ask this because lorderan would have had a lot of graves for soldiers being sent back home. Remember, that the world we see in game isn’t 1:1.
but i’ve always wondered why we never had an Orc and undead thing where a Second war vet that was slayed by an Orc gets to meet his killers. Or even why the blood elves or the forsaken really show no real resentment towards the orcs and vice versa considering there was a bloody multi-continent world war.
It’s possible. Though it’s possible that they could have risen as skeletons, with the more fresher dead becoming the Forsaken we have.
Though it is a missed opportunity, like we could of had an Orc and Forsaken talk about how they tried kill to one another in the Second War.
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Because Blizzard’s philosophy was that it was infinitely easier for the Horde to be functionally cohesive if they ignored past atrocities, and focused on mutual hatred for the Alliance.
I mean, among the Forsaken are absolutely the humans whom ran the internment camps that the Orcs never stop complaining about. You’ll never see a Forsaken Warden of those camps interacting with any former Orc prisoners.
Same way the Zandalari ally with the Horde, and the Blood Elves, Nightborne, and Pandaren have absolutely nothing to say about it.
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Alliances of necessity work quickly to smooth over things irl, why not in a fantasy game?
Germany and Japan were allies to the US a scant few years after WWII ended.
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This is another one of those things where unfortunately, the Ebon Blade had this addressed while the Forsaken are ignored. The death knight starting zone has Thassarian and Koltira talk about overcoming the faction divide (even though it has an incorrect premise in their case), and the short story before Shadowlands discussed Thoras and Nazgrim becoming buddies despite where they stood in regards to the internment camps. I know Thrall and Cairne are credited as being very persuasive at convincing others that the New Horde is not the same, and in the case of the Forsaken and the Sin’dorei, pragmatism and a need for allies are given as reasons for why they as a group joined Thrall’s Horde, but that doesn’t cover any of the potential awkward moments between individuals. As for the Zandalari, that one’s so laughable that it’s literally a joke line for them. BfA just handwaved it as Zul doing Zul stuff without Rastakhan’s approval. Halduron literally committed acts against the Zandalari that he considered war crimes on the Isle of Thunder, and it’s never been brought up since.
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As long as you people don’t bring up Garithos when the Alliance will return to Silvermoon in Midnight. Keep that same energy. 
Its an unfortunate side effect of the forsaken never getting much screentime, and the times they could have the ebon blade robes them
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No?
Just cram their souls into different bodies.
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Because the fact that the citizens of Lordaeron were murdered BY THEIR OWN KING, kind of overshadows that.
This is compounded by the subsequent crusades declared against them by Alliance partisans such as the Scarlet Crusade.
As to why they are on better relations with Orcs right now, the credit has to go to the Tauren who were at that time the ONLY race to show compassion on them and were their sponsors into the Horde. People really keep forgetting how important the Tauren are in this.
The Horde was their only protection against an Alliance filled with Humans who refused to see the Forsaken as anything other than Scourge.
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Hot take: playable death knights were a mistake.
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King Terenas II killed his own citizens?
The guy took it seriously when Death Knight Arthas called himself “king” and started genociding the remaining humans at the beginning of Frozen Throne. 
We can’t be friends now.
Even hotter take: Teron Gorefiend somehow returns and teaches current DK’s the way of the Gen 1 DK. Turn Unholy into a ranged spec that uses int, 1 handers and shields or staffs with a stronger focus on summoning undead minions.
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This’d be a hell of a lot cooler then Deathbringer, as fun as Reaper’s Mark is.
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Guldan’s death knight isn’t even the same class.
technically speaking, he became legally king the moment he murdered terenas
Actually, he didn’t. The Church of the Holy Light is based on the Catholic Church and kinslaying is one of the capital sins which automatically removes the criminal from the succession line.
So the legal heir to the throne of Lordaeron is, you guessed it, the lady you’ll be taking Forsaken-exclusive quests from for the rest of this game’s existence.
No she lost that right, if we are talking legality when she died, and even if any laws were update to include undeath, she also gave up that right
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In addition to that, just because X is based on Y does not mean X has all of Y’s traits; there’s no reason to believe that the Church of the Holy Light, a fictious religious organization in a fantasy world that is not Earth (or lightwielders in general for that matter), to share the views of the Catholic Church.
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