Would Queen Calia eat human flesh?

[Arrashi]

A difference maker, perhaps; but she could prove herself in other, unrelated ways. As for being a pansy, well, that's not exactly uncommon either - so not itself a signifier either.

Maybe but eating human meat would help calia moving away from being pure embodiment of white savior trope to forsaken. Other methods would probably push her even further into it.

[Schattenlied]

Pretty sure it's always been said in lore that the forsaken don't need or want to eat... I seem to recall them not being able to taste food, and having no biological need to eat.

[Combatbutler]

Pretty sure it's always been said in lore that the forsaken don't need or want to eat... I seem to recall them not being able to taste food, and having no biological need to eat.

There are curses on undead beings, death knights need to inflict agony on others, some undead crave flesh, others blood, Banshees are in a constant state of torment etc.

[valky94]

since shes a lightbound undead, dont rly think that she has the need to eat like regular undead do

[Krothar]

I doubt most Forsaken eat human flesh generally speaking to be honest.

Can't place a time we've seen an NPC Forsaken do it in game either so no, I don't think Calia is about to nom on some Anduin brains.

[omeomorfismo]

Pretty sure it's always been said in lore that the forsaken don't need or want to eat... I seem to recall them not being able to taste food, and having no biological need to eat.

no forsaken cannibalize for need of eat. they are compelled by lk curse. then somehow its a necromantic way to restore their "health". that even how worked for the troll. somehow it improved their "natural" ability of regenerate

I doubt most Forsaken eat human flesh generally speaking to be honest.

Can't place a time we've seen an NPC Forsaken do it in game either so no, I don't think Calia is about to nom on some Anduin brains.

there are foods with "special" ingredient from some forsaken seller, pretty sure that the cook master in uc should have one of it

[Schattenlied]

There are curses on undead beings, death knights need to inflict agony on others, some undead crave flesh, others blood, Banshees are in a constant state of torment etc.

I don't believe that's the case for Forsaken, the pilgram's bounty forsaken NPCs say they're just doing it out of habit, a Deathguard mentions that all food tastes like ashes to them.

[Combatbutler]

I don't believe that's the case for Forsaken, the pilgram's bounty forsaken NPCs say they're just doing it out of habit, a Deathguard mentions that all food tastes like ashes to them.

https://wow.gamepedia.com/Baron_Ashbury#Quotes

And perhaps the best part, I now have a hungering for the flesh of other humanoids. Cannibalizing their rotten corpses grants me power. Yes, DE-LI-CIOUS...

[Rustedsaint]

I don't think that ability is canon. It NEVER gets mentioned anywhere. Otherwise it would be quite hard to cooperate with them in any way. Same with the trolls.

In the books it’s mentioned that trolls were banned from eating people., “the shattering “
This happened when Garrosh was still sane/cool and was able to bluff his way out of a fight with the alliance.

[Rootsbum]

Would be cool with a little dialogue where Calia says something like "Well, I guess he died of natural causes..." and has some soup made from an old man.
That would take big dead balls and swoon the forsaken

[Arrashi]

https://wow.gamepedia.com/Baron_Ashbury#Quotes

See, that guy knows whats good.

[Niwes]

So with calia being pushed onto forsaken more and more, and her making claims how much she learned and how she understands forsaken more and more and how she is totally one of them i started wondering - what is her stance on traditional forsaken cuisine? How would she react if she was served fresh free-range paladin for dinner? Would she prefer them raw or cooked? Or would she go on the rant how she knows better and forsaken should abandon their culinary identity?

sooner or later... ofc.

[Schattenlied]

https://wow.gamepedia.com/Baron_Ashbury#Quotes

Ok, now try again without taking that quote out of context, it's sarcasm, said in the same lines of dialogue where he also claims he doesn't have a brain which is obviously untrue... It's a sarcastic 4th wall joke, he's taking the piss out of the forsaken racial abilities.

Being forsaken has its benefits. Let me see... I am able to practically live underwater. I can stay submerged 233% longer than any fleshy mortal. Yes, count it, 233%.

Joking about Forsaken's increased underwater breath bar.

Oh, and now I am able to shrug off mind-controlling effects - BECAUSE I LACK A BRAIN!

Joke about Will of the Forsaken

And perhaps the best part, I now have a hungering for the flesh of other humanoids. Cannibalizing their rotten corpses grants me power. Yes, DE-LI-CIOUS...

Joke about cannibalize.

[Niwes]

I doubt most Forsaken eat human flesh generally speaking to be honest.

Can't place a time we've seen an NPC Forsaken do it in game either so no, I don't think Calia is about to nom on some Anduin brains.

you know what EVERY forsaken player in game, has as race ability ?

https://www.wowhead.com/spell=20577/cannibalize

Especially have a look at the tooltip part, that starts with „Only works on ...“

The best thing: They can do it EVERY 2 minutes !!!

[omeomorfismo]

Ok, now try again without taking that quote out of context, it's sarcasm, said in the same lines of dialogue where he also claims he doesn't have a brain which is obviously untrue... It's a 4th wall meta joke, he's taking the piss out of the forsaken racial abilities.


Joking about Forsaken's increased underwater breath bar.


Joke about Will of the Forsaken


Joke about cannibalize.

to our knowledge only abominations and other necromantic construct need brains

[LemonDemonGirl]

She's vegan.

What if she eats animals instead of people? Like how 'Vegetarian' vampires in Twilight (sorry) feed on animals such as deer?

[Ursoc18]

"No True Scotsman," but Forsaken style?

Forsaken are the undead that were freed of the Lich King's control after he turned them into the undead. This is not the case for Calia. We don't even know what kind of undead she is. Her entire existence as an undead is a brainfart by Blizzard.

[Aucald]

Forsaken are the undead that were freed of the Lich King's control after he turned them into the undead. This is not the case for Calia. We don't even know what kind of undead she is. Her entire existence as an undead is a brainfart by Blizzard.

Calia is only a "brainfart" by Blizzard to the extent that *everything* in WoW is equally a brainfart by Blizzard - it's all fiction, as it were. Is Calia being turned undead by a Naaru's intervention really any more fantastical or unbelievable than the idea that the ghost of an Orc inhabiting a suit of armor forged by demons could create and control a fungal plague that infects people and turns them into zombies enslaved to his will? It's all pretty fantastical when you get down to it, and thinking Calia is somehow beyond the pale is just drawing arbitrary lines in the sand.

[Ursoc18]

Is Calia being turned undead by a Naaru's intervention really any more fantastical or unbelievable

It's not about it being fantastical or unbelievable, it's about the idea of "lightforged" undead being retarded and being something they pulled out of their asses in order to get to a point where they could establish Calia as the new leader of the Forsaken.

[Venziir]

Very funny guys, when was the last time they acknowledged that Forsaken eat flesh in canon?

Didn't those Forsaken soldiers in Nazmir eat a sethrak? Or at least talk about it.