Comments on: Future Lore: The Forsaken of World of Warcraft 2

By: L2Lore

L2Lore — Sat, 16 May 2009 22:39:35 +0000

This theory may no longer (sadly, in my opinion) hold as much promise as it originally did at the time of its writing. I believe that while the Forsaken initially showed much promise to become a new, and decidedly quite evil race/faction as a whole, Blizzard pulled away from this with the Battle for Undercity questline, which shows the most evil of the Forsaken that we’ve seen (the apothecaries) were under direct deomnic influence.

With the Varimathras threat being removed, we’re able to accept the Forsaken as a more sympathetic and Horde-oriented race. Remember the instanced version of Orgrimmar which saw so many Forsaken Refugees crying out for help and saying how awful the taking of Undercity was? Blizzard wants the player to always at least partially fill the shoes of a good guy in World of Warcraft, and they’ve said directly in blue posts that WotLK was shifting us back to a primary Horde vs Alliance conflict. A third faction is simply very unlikely. I personally believe in WoW 2, should it ever happen, we’ll see two factions with some switched around races responding to some great conflict, but even this may never happen.

By: Cocles

Cocles — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:53:22 +0000

Apparently the Chinese find the Pandaren to be offensive in some regard, so they’re not in the game.

Nagas? I would not be surprised if Gilneas turns out to be a starting zone for a horde Naga faction the Maelstrom expansion.

As for Goblins… I’d love to see them as a playable race for the Horde too.

One good point for the Naga and Goblins, they’re a very complete race. A lot of the armor, etc. has already been done up for them.

Here’s hoping.

By: Bald of Vashj

Bald of Vashj — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:50:31 +0000

Maybe its time they introduced the PANDAs

Tbh the Nagas could be brought in. Who knows? theres are loads of races in Warcraft!! I have a feeling Goblins could be making an appearance for the Horde though!

By: Cocles

Cocles — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:22:02 +0000

Plausibly look to expanding the ranks of her own future faction.

Might make sense then for Maelstrom to be the expansion after Lich King, which I’m betting will feature the other race that’ll join the Blood elves and Forsaken.

By: Dangablad

Dangablad — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:25:07 +0000

We could see this as early as WOTLK, or the expansion after. Arthas is a major boss in Lich King. What would the Forsaken do with the destruction of both the Lich King and the Scourge? How would Sylvanas act to fill that void, her revenge on Arthas complete?

Look for the Forsaken to take a much greater role in Lich King.