The difference at this point, is garrosh was actively pooping on the other horde races/racial leaders i.e trying to have vol'jin assassinated and calling some race useless (think it was blood elves) and forsaken 'monsters'. The only difference now is Sylvanas is doing shady shit and saying 'for the horde' and if other leaders oppose her she says ok sure leave then, I'm gonna keep working for the horde.
She also has dirt on most of the other leaders or they can't leave the horde or they would be destroyed. Blood elves will never join the alliance after the purge of dalaran, and Sylvanas knows baine likes anduin and he would lose his place if it was known to the rest of the horde. The orc and troll leaders are new/interim and wouldn't oppose the watchief. Thrall is out of the scene. It's very different to when garrosh was committing atrocities.
Just as the Light saves its followers from suffering in the afterlife, so does Elune (whatever she might be). The undead have no protection. That's the whole point. Sylvanas hasn't done anything that really deserved eternal damnation during the time between freeing herself from LK's control and suicide in Icecrown, and that's when she first learned what was waiting her in the afterlife. So yes, these are assumptions, but they are quite well founded.
She's always had the Black Arrow ability (in WC3 as a Dark Ranger) which would explain her raise skeleton abilties, but she seems to have improved on it somewhat. Which I thought, as a DK main, was freaking awesome! Waiting for her and the Forsaken to join us at the Ebon Blade as a third faction
Jaina -of course but she lacks political power
Genn- his focus has always been Sylvanas ,never horde
Alleria- I cannot remember it when she said anything about killing entire horde as a whole ,verassa sure can be given her husband was killed by horde
Malfurion- Even told Saurfang that he has lead horde in service of death
Saurfang being kept alive by alliance shows alliance don't want horde head . He was one of the main person that organized attack on Teldrassil
If right now if Sylvanas head fall off war would be over.
If you had to sacrifice ten of your own army to save hundreds, would you not do it?
the dark ranger class variant of teh RTs had the dark arrow ability that raised a unit as it was freshly killed.
I feel this skill has changed for sylvanas over the course of the story. It's also possible that the raising of lesser undead was made somethign she can use as a result of her deal with the valkyr after they brought her back the first time post ICC... or part of her deal with Helya which was never fully explored.
I want to say she HAS had teh ability to summon minor undead for a long time, though. Like wasn't this one of her boss skills if alliance attempted to raid UC?
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the fact that ONLY Saurfang is shown getting this treatment is also a bit odd
Sylvanas is a sociopathic monster and everyone knows that. What's funny though is how often we're lately abandoning the comfortable place of "cold pragmatism 'cuz war is bad and you don't get that noblesavages lel" to examples of borderline idiocy. Burning Teldrassil wasn't exactly the work of genius but this "killing troops" thing looks particularly retarded, mostly because of how comically forced it looks. I mean, it's not like the gates of Lordaeron couldn't open, they ARE opened to let the Blightspreaders out, those troops could have just run behind them while they started to spread their shit.
But nope, Sylvanas had to show how pRaGmAtIC she is, because "lel this is war" or something.
oh no, sylvanas raised useless skeletons en masse when avarage DKs AoD is way more powerful.