Sylvanas is right where she planned on being. The Dark Lady will offer of the most powerful and evil souls a choice she never had. The Hoard is nothing, The Alliance is nothing: For Sylvanas!
How do people even find posts this old to necro?
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They keep being the paranoid cold hearted (and sometimes laughingly mad) scientists/assassins who fiercely control the land they lived on and died from all who threaten to take it from them that Forsaken fans loved them for being. They just have to go back to be more surreptitious about it again. Also, they should keep their populations up via recruiting terminally ill humans ala that one really good and interesting BFA character that sadly got wasted (like everything else in BFA).
I’ve never even liked the Forsaken, too goth-edgy, but this Anduinifiction of the entire game needs to die in a fire.
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The Blight of the Ruins has been removed. so at the very least the Forsaken are in the same position as the Gnomes in starting to reclaim their capital plus a possible mending of fences with Gilneas.
As for the propagation issue, given that Forsaken are essentially immortal and can repair themselves, it’s not exactly an immediate issue compared to say the Night Elves who really need to get into the business of making some babies, something that most of have lost touch of over the last 100 plus centuries.
And Zeling has shown, the Forsaken may well get willing recruits among the living facing the twilight of their mortal lives.
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They still own silverpine and rest of the Glades through. Even the Capital City as well.
Send them all to jail, thats what they get.
Honestly if there was a calamity that wasn’t their fault that were to be unleashed & caused many more undead to be created which were ordered to be exterminated, but later discovered that quite a lot of them still held their free will & intelligence – It could lead to bonus Forsaken lore & opportunities, for them to open their arms and create some ACTUAL morally-grey conflict.
You could make it more reasonable on both sides too, for instance:
- Such calamity could be caused by a plague, where the newly-risen undead carry an amplified version of it for awhile.
- The newly risen undead are ravenously hungry or just outright aggressive, before their mind finally settles and they can make sense of what they’re doing.
The two above could give incentive to the Alliance for ‘Damage control’ – Exterminating the risen dead before more of their people fall to the epidemic they carry at amplified versions (even through in a covid reference for giggles) – and to protect their people from the violence unleashed from them too.
However it could also give rise to the Horde’s Forsaken stepping in, seeing the risen dead who regain their wills as victims to a true tragedy - Needing to be helped & guided like their journeys were.
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Maybe, in an attempt to weaken Azeroth for an invasion, some sort of “Undead King” is created to control people by turning them into undead slaves? But, hear me out, his power weakens and one of his powerful slaves, maybe some sort of “Undead Queen”, breaks free and rallies the free willed undead. Only for them to be rejected by the living and call themselves “The Rejected”?
Nah, nobody would buy it…
You could simply do it as another Dreadlord taking ‘Revenge’ upon Azeroth for leaving the Legion in shambles, and overthrowing their ‘back-up plan’ via Sire Denathrius (Like a Dreadlord had done to warlocks in the new warlock-questline).
Dreadlords spreading undeath, plague & sowing seeds of misery isn’t so far fetched to them, and would bring back some of that classic WoW mastermind-villain scheme memories to reminisce upon in the present. 
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Foster a Non-Agression Pact with the Worgen that neatly lets them resettle Gilneas and ensures other Alliance presence stops at Thoradin’s Wall.
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Free the Scarlet Risen and bring the undead Mossflayer tribe into the Forsaken.
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Use them as a force to wage covert war on Gilneas, the Stormpikes and Wildhammer with plausible deniability to keep their sphere of influence small.
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Encourage the Zandalari to help raise the Revantusk to become the successors of the Amani as the Forest Troll’s de facto leader.
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Aid in the now Revantusk led repopulation of Jintha’Alor, ideally helping it become a third Horde capitol on the EK with direct connections to both the Echo Isles and Dazar’Alor.
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Serve as middle men diplomats between the Sin’Dorei and Forest Trolls to smooth over that bloodfeud.
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Rebuild not the Undercity but Capitol City as an above ground Necropolis that loudly declares that this is now a kingdom of the undead.
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Build a dock on the coast of Tirisfal under and focus on more naval power. Welcome pirates and attempt to recruit them as living spies who can report on the Alliance fron within.
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Continue reverse engineering the Maldraxxi magic gleemed from Plague Deviser Merelith to perfect their form and weaponize their undeath as a more formidable bloodborn magical virus.
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Use this perfected undeath to show off their throngs of goth girls and alt boys with glowing eyes, no gag reflex and tongues that can never tire.
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The aforementioned crushes public belief in the cause of Stormwind. Seize the Alliance capitol with civilain support.
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Create a Necromantic Republic that spans the Eastern Kingdoms. If the Dwarves resist eat them and give their territory to the Frost Trolls.
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“You’ve done it Forsaken! You’ve won the World of Warcraft”
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Roll Credits
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Necropoli are cool in concept but never in execution. The last thing we need is another circle city.
First thing to do is making Silverpine and Hillsbrad Horde exclusive zones again.
Why not?
Honestly this is the main reason that I’ve never been a Forsaken fan. While these stories threads could be great for character-based narratives in the hands of a competent and willing author, it seems that ever since WotLK ended, Blizz has had no idea what to do with the group (or at least no idea that they are willing to commit to).
Combine that with the fact that many of the more outspoken Forsaken players I saw during the height of the “Sylvanas did nothing wrong” era apparently just wanted to play as Diet Scourge members who hate the living and thrive on war crimes.
Given that Blizz and some other Forsaken players want to distance themselves from that, we’re left with a situation that can’t (and imo narratively shouldn’t even try to) appease everybody.
My ideas?
Solve the reproduction issue. (If this ever becomes a problem my predictions to fix this are either A. something with Maldraxxus or B. swallow up all the remaining Scourge (albeit i’d rather not do B because I’d still like for the Scourge to remain an independent undead threat, preferably with a LK or equivalent at the helm again.)
Work on establishing more comraderie and better relationships with their new Horde allies now that the Dark Lady is gone. Don’t do anything with the Alliance, that relationship is fine as is.
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