Forum Post of the Day: How did your undead die?
by Mike Schramm 
Mar 10th 2008 at 5:00PM
Yeah yeah, lolRP, but even though I'd never seriously do an emote with my character (though I do enjoy /coughing at inappropriate times), I do kind of enjoy thinking of what my characters did before I started playing them in the game. As I've said before, my Orc Shaman was actually a prisoner in Durnholde Keep along with Thrall (and though I've tried to find him among the Orcs down there, I don't look too hard -- wouldn't want to cause a paradox).But for my Undead Rogue, I've never thought about this questions: What did he die of? Whether it was choking on a gnome, one too many enchantments (never knew those could kill you), or the old standby of, y'know, cancer, every Undead character out there used to have a life (and now they just play WoW, ha!). So how'd your Undead lose theirs?
I'd like to think mine was something poetic, like his family was murdered by roving noblemen, and he arose from the afterlife and became a backstabbing rogue to avenge his lost ones. But it's probably more pathetic: like most of the Forsaken, he probably just got trampled underneath the onset of the Scourge. Of course, that'll make an appointment with Arthas more interesting...
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Tereth Mar 10th 2008 5:10PM
Sorry to tell you this, but to become a forsaken you needed to be undead, and you pretty much needed to be infected with the plague for that to happen.
darian Mar 10th 2008 5:16PM
Disease can work its way into already dead corpses. Especially those that don't wash themselves regularly!
Hellskreamer Mar 10th 2008 5:46PM
Ya, if you play WCIII, you see that all undead Scourge (and by extension Forsaken) died of the plague. This plague then rose their bodies in service of the Lich King after they died.
Sean Riley Mar 10th 2008 5:48PM
Read the thread. It specifically mentions that they're doing this for fun, not paying attention to the lore.
FWIW, my undead sidesteps this, believing he died in a 'tragic motor mishap' in his tinkering. He regrets that he never finished his ham sandwich ... made with Andorhal grain.
Mama Cass? What? No, of course I'd never reference that particular urban legend.
Theserene Mar 10th 2008 5:12PM
Considering my character's amazing ability to fall off...well..anything, the running guild joke is that she fell off the zepplin in Tirisfal
darian Mar 10th 2008 5:14PM
I was originally a human warrior. My misfortune was meeting a ravishingly beautiful high elf maiden. I lingered too long in my gaze upon her, and her High Elf spouse (also ravishingly beautiful) took offense to the attraction to his beloved.
I was beaten to death with my own jaw.
Now they're both blood elves, and I'm their undead lackey. He kept my jaw as a souvenir, and uses it as a back scratcher.
Irian Mar 10th 2008 6:03PM
This, sir, is bloody brilliant. Especially compared to all the drama most of undeads make of their death.
Balasan Mar 10th 2008 5:19PM
Non-serious RPer here. I'll just take "trampled underneath the onset of the Scourge". I can blame Arthas easily then.
But I love theserene's cause of death.
Woolwort Mar 27th 2008 10:26AM
Dude, Gross!
Criustel Mar 10th 2008 5:40PM
Shaving accident. thats why my jaw hangs to the side
Elder Mar 10th 2008 5:43PM
Died of the plague after escaping Stratholme when Arthas got his cleanse on.
Worst bit, He would have lived (was not infected) but before getting out of town he grabbed some fresh bread from the bakers shop to survive on the road.
Skuling Mar 10th 2008 5:47PM
HA! Im not a rp'er but yet I got it all figured out:
My UD is and was a priest, and his brother (my alt :P) was a thief, he kinda hang out with the wrong crowd.. But when the Plague came Peak(my alt) Fougth the scourge valutly, but alas he died, devestated, Skuling (my main) Caried him to a abandoned house and buried his brother in the garden, not to long after, say a week or so. The scourge found him, and skuling died and became a slave of the scourge. But in a moment of strengh (thanks Illidan) he borke free. Loosley joining the forsaken he grew bitter, the loss of his brother was to much and guilt consumed him. But one day he meet his borther again, even tho skuling was happier than Peak was, (or showed) his bitterness never left. And hate is what is keeping him alive these days... Sad yet awsome; the story of Skuling (in the end he kills arthas ^^)
Cynra Mar 10th 2008 5:55PM
Mariska Stormborne caught the plague while traveling a ship bound for Westfall from Menethil Harbor. The unlucky crewman who was carrying it died during the voyage and was ceremoniously buried at sea - with no one knowing why he had actually died. Mariska, who - despite her family's heritage - had never been at sea, suffered from seasickness the entire trip and so her increasing illness was blamed on that and then the side effects of having suffered from a shipwreck. In a series of misadventures, over the next couple of days she ended up being captured, tortured, and having her spine broken, leaving her a broken shell of a woman. She begged the man she had one day hoped to be her paramour (before finding out that he was Forsaken himself and under the effects of a magical amulet possessing qualities similar to the Orb of Deception) to burn her body when she died, having seen the effects of the plague in the aftermath of the Third War and fearing that one day she, too, would join the living dead. Mariska did die, but the Forsaken was unable to burn her body, due to the intervention of a dwarven Paladin who saw the practice as a heathenish one done by the primitive orc cultures.
Needless to say, when Mariska Stormborne awoke some time later - her sockets empty from when the rats had ravaged and then eaten her eyes - she should have been angry. Fortunately, she had little to no memory of her past and was named Cili (Hungarian for Cecilia, meaning "blind").
The story comes from a tabletop roleplaying session that was GMed by the friend who got me into the game. /salute, Whiteleaf!
Cynra Mar 10th 2008 5:58PM
By the by, there's nothing like the undead to bring out the rampant Mary Sue in a person. Or some of the most depressing backgrounds ever conceived of. Some of those starting quests Tirisfal Glades are some of the most depressing, heartrending ones I've seen any where in the entire game.
WP Mar 10th 2008 5:55PM
sitting in a BG que
Tracey Mar 10th 2008 5:56PM
My poor Undead alt, while still in her living human form, tripped over a Gnome and fell into a forge.
Butnick Mar 10th 2008 6:10PM
Auto erotic asphyxiation, ftw
Zeplar Mar 10th 2008 6:12PM
You do not need to die of the plague to become undead. Look at Sylvanas. High-ranking Scourge generals are able to convert corpses into undead.
Ichigo Mar 10th 2008 6:32PM
And how far into Mary Sue-ism do you want to go to believe that a Scourge General singled out your character to resurrect into a foot soldier? ;-)
I keeed. I keeeed.
Adi Mar 10th 2008 6:26PM
My undead character actually committed suicide whilst being infected with the plague. He didn't actually know that. The ironic thing is that after dying he then came back to life as a Scourge minion and within a few months came back to life yet again as a Forsaken. It's ironic, and now he just lives with the question - should he go on as a Forsaken or just snuff it?
He actually already tried to drown himself only to be brought back to life by a priest in the area. Interesting stuff there.