They use to be a tragic and pitiable people.
They gained genuine status and are going a little nuts with their potential. It happy fairly often, America did it.
Maybe evil, maybe not, but thats the core of their story right now.
Either they'll go full evil and try to take over the world or they'll lean back and try to establish a homeostasis with the other races.
Honestly, I wouldn't call "conquering the world" evil in and of itself. Now, if they pull a Lich King and do what Garrosh accused her of before he went Full-Bazonkers™, which was to systematically kill their enemies with the intent or raising a larger and larger undead army fanatically devoted to an undead leader, then yeah, that's enough for me to call them evil.
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This is somewhat hilarious considering you were talking about one group murdering you, bringing you back as a rotting corpse then saying "join us or find yourself alone in a world who hates you" and the other said "they're going to murder you, so you can either die to them and be resurrected or willingly become a werewolf so that when you inevitably die, you'll stay dead."
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Soothing Mist:"Healing them for a minor amount every 0.5 sec, until you take any other action."
Jade Serpent Statue: "The statue will also begin casting Soothing Mist on your target. healing for 50% as much as yours. "
[What's half of minor?]
"Statue casts Soothing Mist at a nearby ally for toddler healing."
No offense, and yes technically i AM assuming,nut how else would an undead faction take over? Surely you don't think they'd let living intelligent races exist. Even if th wants slaves, undead slaves are more useful. They don't need breeding stock since they'd have all trolls, humans, elves, orcs, Tauren, goblins, gnomes,dwarves, fur blog, etc, etc as forsaken and forsaken don't age or die really. There's no use for them to have living people if they took over the whole of Azeroth.
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One does not need to enslave their subjects. Rome, just to go for the most famous example, let most of their territory have its own laws and customs but nobody got away with not paying taxes and offering whatever tribute was demanded. Now, the Forsaken themselves would likely murder every last sentient being on the planet, or at least I think so, but that's not required.
Soothing Mist:"Healing them for a minor amount every 0.5 sec, until you take any other action."
Jade Serpent Statue: "The statue will also begin casting Soothing Mist on your target. healing for 50% as much as yours. "
[What's half of minor?]
"Statue casts Soothing Mist at a nearby ally for toddler healing."
Sorry, but the forsaken are an army of cowards and hypocrites. They claim defense and wanting to be left alone, whilst invading in every direction, torturing, experimenting, and raising people into undeath the same way the scourge did to them. Claim all you want that it's just extremists or rogue factions like traitors from within the RAS, there's a reason for that. Evil is as evil does, and the forsaken are a breeding grounds for all sorts of nasty shit. It'll happen again, in fact it already sorta did in Hillsbrad.
The forsaken are on a crash course with destruction atm. The Horde might take a turn for the better after Garrosh bites the bullet, but they've always been rotten to the core. They aren't going to be able to take Gilneas, and if they continue pressing into the plaguelands, they'll be answering to the Ashbringer and the Crusade, possibly even the Ebon Blade. And that'll be lights out forsaken.
I call your bias because you choose to qualify a side as good and the other as evil, using a relative moral scale for such assumptions instead of fact. Do not go calling bias when you don't know what it means.
You could call the worgen the good guys, but only from the Hillsbrad humans PoV, yes. But it is much more akin to "between a sword and a hard place" than a happy rescue. They are giving away their humanity, one way or the other. People have to remeber that becoming a Worgen isn't all daffodils and candy canes, you are basically cursing yourself to become a creature half beast that can never be fully human again.
So again, pick your poison, beast or zombie. At the end is about what scenario is less horrifying, it is a grimm situation and I can't see it as a clear cut good/evil stitch.
It's just so unnecessary to bring up the concept of good versus evil when it's about power and might, of conquest and domination; it's like bringing a sword to a gun fight. This is war, and the forsaken are the race that you don't go asking for empathy.
The last "rightful heir" of Lordaeron killed them all, why would you possibly think they would hold any love for his sister, a girl that has done nothing of note for anyone in years? At best, they'd see her with resentment if she is still alive, hardly anyone would "love" her. She'd be the remainder of what they lost and what her brother did to them. The Forsaken only hold love and respect for Terenas because he died too.
As a personal note, I greatly dislike the mentioning of Calia Menethil as an argument. If she is alive, I have nothing against the girl. I hope she is doing her thing and living a fulfilling life. But she's the last remnant of a fallen monarchy, and with all the death and destruction that her blood has brought; her use as an icon or figure would bring more pain than any good, moreso this late. Had she rallied loyalist to the crown after the fall of Lordaeron, she would have been seen as a hero trying to reclaim her throne and redeem her brother's sins. That would have been cool. But after all these years and she keeping quiet, why would any of the battered once and again Lordaeron citzens care for her? where was she when Hillsbrad was left adrift and fighting for survival? where was her when they where finally overrun by the forsaken, and assimilated?
Calia, at this point, should keep quiet. No one could blame her for retiring and trying to distance herself. But she lost any right to reclaim her throne when she left behind her subjects that didn't die.
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Cowards, hypocrites? "We will slaughter anyone who stands on our way" that has been their motto since their inception, they cannot be more forthcoming. They plan is to consolidate an empire, impregnable and free of danger. So of course anyone that resists that gets on their way.
They believe so much in this idea of order, that they quell rebellion in their own ranks, as they did with Stillwater in Hillsbrad. Evil exists in all races, and as in all of them, it is an undesirable trait to be eradicated, they have done so whenever it has presented in their race. The forsaken might not be altruistic, but they are not evil either.
Now, I do want to see the clash between the forsaken "environmental politics" and the Argent crusade in the WP. But if we take a page from our world, inescrupulous companies get away with a lot of shit that is harmful to the environment. Maybe if the forsaken and Argent crusade established fixed boundaries, they could actually coexist in peace.
I called you biased because you obviously seem to feel very strong about the Forsaken/undead. You have Sylvanas in your signature and what seems to be some kind of undead/forsaken elf dark ranger thing.
Yes I see the Forsaken as evil and the Worgen/Gilneans as good. It seems quite obvious to me. The Gilneans were no threat to the Forsaken, yet they stormed the Greymane Wall and brought war to them. For what? So they could conquer their land. That alone doesn't mean they're evil. That only makes them the aggressors and put the Worgen into the defensive position. What makes them evil is killing innocents and raising them into undeath, like the Scourge, while the Worgen only defend themselves and their allies and do not force their curse upon anyone.
Anyone who doesn't see the wickedness of the Forsaken, in my opinion, isn't mature enough to discuss something like this. To call someone biased because they see how evil the Forsaken are, is just childish.
I also like Maiev, she is in my sig as well. I also ropleplay a Draenei paladin, my favorite race are high elves, Vereesa is my boo and I really like Jaina and I'm okay with what she did in Dalaran. Those are things that you don't know, because I only discuss what is pertinent to the theme at hand and I don't go around waving my "factions colors" like a rabid football fan.
If you dismiss my arguments for the toon in my sig, that is childish of your part. If you have such a clear cut view of good and evil, specially in a world like warcraft, that is naive of your part. The fact that you call me immature because I, unlike you, refuse to box a side on a reductive label and instead try to look at the facts with objectivity and context, is laughable. And then you wrap up your diatribe saying that if one does not agree with your opinion, is immature and childish.
That is just worthy of pity; and not worth of my time, If I'm to be honest.
I think the Forsaken have their own agenda and are now becoming more like the Scorge, provided that their queen is using the valkyries to create his own army of undead and practically dominating the Eastern Kingdom, it will be the new Lich Queen?
What? You didn't have any arguments. All you did was call me biased because I see the Worgen as the good guys and the Forsaken as the bad guys. I gave lots of arguments why I think that way.
Then the Forsaken don't have a right to that land either. Yet they insist that they have.
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Yeah ask Koltira how that free will stuff works with Sylvanas.