He got blighted, and then red dragons breathed on him. Is he alive, dead, or undead? Is he immortal?
He’s undead.
Okay, but from the WoW wiki:
is just colorful wording. The dude’s undead. Alexstrazsa’s fire went out.
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I’d just go with so dead trying to make a distinction is pointless. He’s not alive enough for it to matter.
He’s sui generis.
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If Blizzard is to believed weaker than when he was a human Paladin.
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I like to think he still has both the blight and the Lifebinder’s flame inside him, and that he is constantly in pain as he is both dying and being healed by the fire.
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He’s only mostly dead.
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I believe that he is something akin to undead but rather than just being reanimated by necromancy, he exists at a point of death but kept from truly dying by the restorative energies of the Red Dragonflight. Kind of like being trapped between being alive or dead.
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Darth Vader without the suit basically
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He’s undead. Alexstraza’s flame will burn within him forever but a living person cannot possibly survive simply donning the helm forget controlling millions of scourge
Bolvar is undead and I believe if they do make a new Helm of Damnation, Bolvar would prob volunteer to be enchanted into the Helm like Ner’zul was.
He’s Worf, duh.
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He’s unique. In D%D terms, he’s positive energy undead.
I’m not sure where I heard it, but it was along these same lines. Bolvar is a unique individual who is stuck between the living and the dead due to the fire. At the edge of life and death. Wish I could remember where I heard it exactly.
Why? I don’t think there’s any rule where you have to be undead to use the power.
Blizz might say he’s undead for thematic and simplicity’s sake, but they could make him like Anduin: show he’s one thing but insist he’s different.
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Red Dragon fire has a unique property. Not only does it burn, it renews life in the area which it strikes. You can see this with all t he flowers that are blooming in front of the Wrathgate. It apparantly caught Bolvar while he was dying from the Blight and caused a unique reaction in him since unlike the others who had succumbed, he wasn’t dead yet.
No, but using necromancy gradually turns you undead. It’s old lore, but I think it still checks out.
*it doesn’t actually. It’s only rpg lore from what I can see.
Sorry Blizz, but you cant get me all excited about Lich Guy’s re-emergence in legion, have him get COMPLETELY WRECKED along with his ENTIRE ARMY by a single person in his debut fight and still expect me to keep looking forward to this.
Especially after Arthas was so overwhelmingly Alpha his entire life, and unlife. Seriously, Arthas is the only guy who ever told Uther THE LIGHTBRINGER to go f#@$ himself. And he did. Uther took his knights and left to go essentially accomplish nothing. Until Arthas found him again to steal the urn holding his own fathers ashes, killed Uther in single combat, and urinated in the ashes (and then poured Kel’thuzad in there, so he knows who is in charge.)
Some cultures believe that defeat is a state of death in and of itself. By this logic, I pronounce Bolvar both dead and emasculated.
#notmylichking
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