Moonlost wrote:That's just it. Anyone can become Forsaken. Sure, it means you need to die and then swear yourself over to Sylvanas' cause, but other than that I can't see the Dark lady turning anyone down. A race, on the other hand, you cannot simply join, you have to be born as one. Oh, you can be considered to be an honourary member of a race, but that's not really the same thing.
And we bend right around to my earlier questions. Does she have the right to do this to someone without asking their permission first? Are the needs of her people, arguably a cursed lot to begin with, more important than those of the souls she raises? There are no right or wrong answers to these questions, which is what makes them so difficult to answer in the first place.
/divesbackintodiscussion
A few thoughts in response to Moonlost's excellent analysis...
Have we seen many Forsaken that were not human at one point? Is it simply that the plague or whatever they are using is more effective on the human body (Saturo would love that..), but with the Valk' in play now, perhaps that's no longer an issue.
To respond to the first question, she doesn't, but there's not a realistic way to ask that permission. To ask is already ripping them from wherever they were.
As to the second, there are right and wrong, it's merely a question of what side of the grave you happen to be sitting on.
Again, my call for a war against the Forsaken might seem harsh, but viewed in the light of Sylvanas's goals, if you are her target, how else should you respond?
As for Garrosh, he scares me far less than Sylvanas, mainly because he's predictable. Sylvanas is the insidious one.