chromativore asked:
Forsaken have always had an evilish SLANT, but their core tragedy was never lost in the shuffle, it’s what made them so appealing to me as a playable race when I first started WoW and when I rolled my undead warlock. They were interesting - twisted, but in the end able to rise above and fight for what very little they had left, exact revenge on the Lich King, save the world like everyone else. And then they just became…evil all over and lost their nuance - like complete villains with only a few stand-out NPCs popping up now and then. And that CAN be fun, in a vaccuum, but not as a progression from what they started as.
When B(o)FA was announced I heard almost no decrying from forsaken players about the loss of Tirisfal and Lordaeron/Undercity, and instead a lot of talking about Teldrassil and Silvermoon. If the Forsaken were something like what they were pre-Cata, I’d be upset for them - yet another thing they barely had that was theirs ripped away from them. But they’re not sympathetic anymore. Hillsbrad is a disaster. All the nonsense in Silverpine and Gilnease. Sylvanas marches the Horde onto Kalimdor and burns Teldrassil, Alliance retaliate and removes them from the EK, and no one cares how the forsaken people feel about this because They Started It and They’re Evil Now and rarely shown as capable of thinking for themselves outside of Sylvanas’ wishes.
If one good thing is to come out of B(o)FA, I hope it’s a better exploration into the Forsaken and a turning point for them as a race, I want to see their nuance again, because Evil Plague Murder Zombies stops being fun when you realize that your undead toons are just…never actually heroes anymore in the grand scheme.
