Skoll Shorties

For me personally. I used to play Forsaken, but never TRULY RP’d them as that predated when I RP’d. But I wanted to. I thought they had a lot of story potential. I could never bring myself to do it though, because I could kind of sense that this stuff was on the horizon.

The Forsaken as a whole have been problematic for not just the Horde but the whole world of Azeroth for a while now. If they don't change their tunes on certain things than realistically they'd be casted out and treated like all other threats/problems.

But they were written into that corner. Then they were told to accept that the things they were forced to do were wrong. Now a savior who isn’t like them comes to redeem them. It’s not really a fun narrative. I’d expand on these, but Twitter. Regarding being evil: (continued)

There’s lots of ways to write a villain. Compare Dark Side choices KOTOR 1&2. 1 is just “be a dick”, 2 is “be Palpatine”. 2 is actually pretty fun. Forsaken have varied over the years from cartoon villain to a necessary evil to accomplish good. It’s all about character motive.

There’s lots of good examples of Forsaken, but BfA was pretty much “do evil to do evil” without a real goal. Burning Teldrassil was a strategic failure. Most missions were “do this because Nathanos said Sylvanas told us to.” But the end is negating all good examples too.

Again the problem being the majority of what the Forsaken does/do is morally never a good enough reason. Wrath was last time where you could really go, "Well they're doing that to get revenge on Arthas." After that it quickly became them taking that out on the Alliance instead.

They actually did have good moments post Wrath. Blizzard wanted to have their cake and eat it, so they wrote them as the Forsaken and the Scourge simultaneously. They escalated Scourge though in BfA, then ripped that out from under them without leaving room to be Forsaken.