Does anyone know of any factual lore on this? In Before the Storm it was actually mentioned what forsaken smell like. Kind of like dusty old parchment, not really unpleasant. But that example was from Alonsus Foal who lived with the Conclave. A key difference between The Forssken and The Scourge is that The Scourge are undead who have decayed to the point they are little more than meat on bones and in some cases not even meat. Whereas The Forsaken are undead which retained enough corporial composition for them to still remain an individual - a slightly mad and generally nihilistic individual - but an individual none the less.
The beard was gone. Rotted away? And the hair was dark with dried blood and ichor. He smelled like old vellum: dusty but not unpleasant. Faol had died when Anduin was a child, and the boy had never gotten to meet him. The Lich King, now uncontested in the ice realm of Northrend where he ruled from the Frozen Throne , unleashed the terrible Plague of Undeath southward into human lands.
As the plague encroached on the southlands, countless humans fell prey to Ner'zhul's mental control and life-draining sickness every day. With the help of Kel'Thuzad and the Cult of the Damned the plague was spread. Many of Lordaeron's northern villages were contaminated almost immediately. Just as in Northrend, the citizens who contracted the plague died and arose as the Lich King's willing slaves.
The cultists under Kel'Thuzad were eager to die and be raised again in their dark lord's service. They exulted in the prospect of immortality through undeath. As the plague spread, more and more feral zombies arose in the northlands. Kel'Thuzad looked upon the Lich King's growing army and named it the Scourge, for soon it would march upon the gates of Lordaeron and scour humanity from the face of the world.
Though Ner'zhul and his undead Scourge were bound to the will of the Burning Legion, the Lich King constantly strove to free himself and gain vengeance upon the demons for dismembering his body and damning him so completely. To this end, he sought a champion to carry out his will and decided that Prince Arthas Menethil would be the perfect choice. During the Scourging of Lordaeron , Arthas became increasingly enraged at the devastation the undead caused and sought to end their threat by any means necessary, including culling a city.
This would lead the young prince to Northrend, the roof of the world. There, the Scourge engaged in combat with the 1st Legion and Dwarven Expedition , which would eventually team up and proceed to Mal'Ganis ' citadel. Fearing of being overwhelmed, Arthas would obtain the runeblade Frostmourne and kill the nathrezim, who he had thought was in command of the Scourge.
It was there that the whispers of the Lich King guided Arthas into becoming Ner'zhul's champion and the greatest of his death knights. Arthas returned to his soldiers and killed them, raising them as Scourge.
In the days since Prince Arthas took the fleet to Northrend, the Silver Hand was fighting the spread of the plague. The citizenry didn't know the cause, but suspected that their prince succeeded in his quest to destroy the Scourge in Northrend. The truth was that the Lich King ordered the Scourge to retreat in order to prepare for Arthas' homecoming.
Arthas, now the champion of the Scourge, returned home, and brought a mighty Scourge army with him, consisting of death knights, necromancers , abominations , crypt fiends , gargoyles , and frost wyrms.
The prince ordered the army to remain hidden for the time being, and only a handful of death knights accompanied him to Capital City where he killed his own father and destroyed the capital, along with hundreds of citizens. At the same time, the Scourge emerged from hiding across Lordaeron and attacked the living. However, Devlin betrayed his people and made a deal with the Scourge.
The farm and all on it were waylaid by a gigantic wave of Scourge, with Nathanos perishing to Ramstein and subsequently being rased as a Scourge himself. When Alexandros Mograine returned from Ironforge with the mighty Ashbringer in hands, the Highlord was reported to be paring down the Scourge's numbers.
However, the Scourge was numerous and defeated any Alliance resistance. Ultimately, the Scourge took Lordaeron, [16] ravaging many towns and farms across Eastweald, including Darrowshire in the Battle of Darrowshire. The undead also continued to spread the Plague of Undeath , corrupting the land. Tichondrius sent Arthas on a mission, rallying the Cult of the Damned to his banner and invading Andorhal where Arthas ended the life of Uther the Lightbringer. The death knight and his army continued to invade the ancient elven kingdom of Quel'Thalas , defiling the Sunwell and using it to resurrect the necromancer Kel'Thuzad into a lich.
With Kel'Thuzad once more among them, the Scourge moved forward to destroy the magi-city of Dalaran and claim the Book of Medivh , the result of which was the summoning of the demon lord Archimonde into the world, as well as Dalaran's destruction. It was at this point that Archimonde ordered that the Scourge be commanded by the dreadlords ; however, Ner'zhul was planning a different move. Shortly before the Battle of Mount Hyjal , Ner'zhul engineered the downfall of the Legion by having his lieutenant, Arthas Menethil, alert the demon hunter Illidan Stormrage to the presence of the Legion in Felwood.
Illidan's attack on the demons there brought about the death of Tichondrius and the destruction of the Skull of Gul'dan , which greatly weakened the Legion and made it possible for the Alliance, Horde, and night elf forces to stop Archimonde during the Battle of Mount Hyjal.
It was at this point that Ner'zhul was finally capable of making his bid for freedom, effectively cutting all ties to the remaining demons as well as the remaining demon lord, Kil'jaeden. Such a move inspired Kil'jaeden to incredible heights of anger, and it was now the demon's turn to lust after vengeance. But, thanks to the Legion's defeat, Kil'jaeden was stripped of his capacity to simply bring about swift destruction, and was forced to use more subtle methods to dispose of his rebellious creation.
In Felwood, the Scourge decimated the area with attacks of infernals and other demonic magics, with the slimes supposedly creeping up through the earth during the attacks. The Scourge about to defend the Frozen Throne. Shortly after the Battle of Mount Hyjal, Kil'jaeden contacted Illidan Stormrage with an offer too tempting for the demon hunter to refuse: Slay the Lich King and be granted the awesome power of a demon lord.
Gathering his once- Highborne allies, the naga , Illidan traveled to the Tomb of Sargeras and began weaving a massive spell targeting the Frozen Throne using the Eye of Sargeras. Though the spell was not completed, enough potent fel energy had been siphoned to cause a fracture in the Lich King's icy prison.
This caused Ner'zhul's powers to weaken, especially his control of his undead. It was during this time that a large band of undead, led by Sylvanas Windrunner , regained their free will and left the Scourge. After warring over the control of the Plaguelands and defeating the remaining nathrezim, she named her followers as the Forsaken.
Desperate, Ner'zhul contacted Arthas, the greatest of his death knights , by telepathy and commanded him to return to Icecrown Citadel at once.
However, this matter was complicated by Kil'jaeden once again. Growing impatient with Illidan's failures, the demon lord instructed him, with his allies the Naga and newly named blood elves , to travel to Northrend and put an end to the Lich King personally.
Arthas's undead forces battled Illidan's army at the base of the glacier, the aftermath of which left Illidan wounded and his troops broken. Arthas, victorious, proceeded into the Lich King's throne chamber where he used the runeblade Frostmourne to shatter the Frozen Throne and free the essence of Ner'zhul. The spirit of the orcish shaman then bonded with Arthas and they became one of the most powerful beings the world had ever known. The survivors of the Knights of the Silver Hand in northern Lordaeron continued to strike at Scourge, including Stratholme.
This heralded the birth of the Scarlet Crusade and Argent Dawn , which led to further battles, including an attack on Hearthglen where High General Abbendis died, attack on Naxxramas to free Alexandros, and an attack on Light's Hope Chapel where Darion Mograine was captured.
Their necromancers raised the Dawn's fallen soldiers and created twisted golems to slay more soldiers. Two years after the end of the Third War , the Scourge were edging closer to Hillsbrad Foothills according to Kalecgos. Anveena Teague 's farm and the human -controlled Tarren Mill were attacked by the Scourge led by the traitor high elf Dar'Khan Drathir who was looking for the essence of the Sunwell.
They were led by the ghoul Ichor who had the Orb of Ner'zhul that they used to raise undead beasts. The baron had the orb stolen, and he wanted to use it to create his own army from remains dug out by a group of dwarves.
When their frost wyrm attacked, Ichor captured Jorad and Tyrigosa. Soon, however, the prisoners and Kalec's group fought against the undead, while Trag Highmountain struggled with his former comrade, destroying the orb and causing the deaths of Ichor and Mordis.
The Farstriders continued to fight against the undead and noted that the Scourge numbers were increasing in the area. As they learned, Dar'Khan's return was the cause.
When the two clashed, the Lich King revealed that he wanted to make Trag his champion and a Scourge commander. Diodor the Damned led a series of attacks against the Scarlet Monastery , two of which were successful while the final third one marked the Scourge's defeat.
The battle was joined by the mad Sir Thomas who killed not only the Scourge force, but also his fellow crusaders. At some point, the paladin Lord Thorval scouted an area for Scourge presence.
While he was away from his village, the Scarlet Crusade burned the villagers, Thorval's family among them. He and his scouting party discovered this, but were ordered to continue to the nearest remaining waypost. Not long after nightfall, they heard the ominous cackling of the undead echoing from the trees, and a wave of Scourge overtook them. Thorval was killing them, but for each of the fallen, two more crawled forth from the hills. They were caught in the same tide of Scourge they had been hunting, only now they were broken and unprepared.
Thorval's allies were succumbing to wounds and exhaustion. Thinking of his deceased family filled Thorval with hatred. Post by Yetiking Ok, so I know that the playable forsaken race is made up of former humans of Lordaeron who were killed by the plague, right?
And that this group of undead broke free of the Lich King's will and have free thought. So: the playable undead are former humans who are not scourge.
What are human Death Knights? I assume they're dead human Scourge So what is an undead Death Knight? A human who died, became forsaken, then died again and was raised as a Lich? Lore-wise I know why they're like that in the game: the herp class had to be available to everyone.
Post by This post was from a user who has deleted their account. Post by taurenmoo you know the funniest thing about it is forsaken and death knight humans are of the same catagory, both died and raised to serve the scourge only to break free from it.
The difference is basicly a lore lol moment, so the alliance, who thought of the forsaken as monsters, now all a sudden let undead humans in there faction because they have a human model? Hypocrites much? Post by Slimda Let's see. The Forsaken are Scourge who broke free from the Lich King's grasp.
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