Forsaken Creation: Pick and Choose your Senses and Emotions

I just wanted to talk a little about emotions and senses, when it comes to the Forsaken. I've spoken before on how Forsaken roleplay is easy to pick up, but also offers a level of complexity and depth that appeals to seasoned roleplayers; and this really expands on that.

Everyone has a different approach to character creation. Some people have to plan everything out on paper beforehand, others start with a blank slate and jump right in without any solid ideas – creating the character spontaneously though organic roleplay. Many of us are somewhere in the middle. But what about when you're considering a Forsaken character?

The Forsaken are defined by the fact that they're dead and incomplete. A lot of roleplayers expand on that by taking away parts of them, physically or emotionally.

A lack of physical senses is common in Forsaken roleplay. After all, we're talking about a race of corpses that are missing jaws and eyes on their character models, who make jokes about being colour blind, and, in the starting zone, there's that guy freaking out about how his hands are different. (He's my favourite.)

A lack of emotion is common too. We have Forsaken NPCS left and right telling us that their feelings aren't the same, or that they're missing their emotions entirely. My favourite example is Dalar Dawnweaver, a former Mage of Dalaran and quest giver in the Sepulchre who asks players to kill twelve Dalaran affiliated Humans, saying the reasons he wants them dead “range from hatred to anger to betrayal” but assures us that they are all legitimate gripes.

Awesome GM Response

It's petty to gloat, especially over video games, but I couldn't resist posting this gem I got today. I know the Warcraft roleplaying community is easily discouraged and often feels abandoned by Blizzard on their own servers; so it's good to see that there are some game masters out there looking out for us and polishing their ban hammers. 

For the record, I don't have a problem with names that are non-fantasy on a roleplaying server, or non-roleplayers as long as they're respectful. However, if you're running your mouth off in trade about how stupid you think roleplaying is, when you rolled a character on a server specifically designated for that purpose, and you're named after one of my favourite comic book characters, then I feel a slap on the wrist from a game master is well deserved. 

I censored his name because I was still able to look this guy up on the armoury and see his guild, but when I clicked on the link it told me the character could not be found. I'll take that as a good sign. 

Book that I write in: Conrad Corvasius

Book that I write in:

After the battle in the Basin was done I returned to the tunnel leading to the Defilers Den. I had resolved to get some answers from Vaalis, the wayward Death Knight who had pulled me from my grave after the fall of the Lich King. He had given me both coin and purpose, though he wouldn't say why.

As I left the enclosed entrance to the Basin and stepped out onto the wooden deck beside the Hammerfall Inn I scowled uncomfortably at the brightness of the sun in these highlands. Best to backtrack and find where I had made that wrong turn.

After a long, hard, bone-jarring ride I found my way to Tarren Mill. No sign of Vaalis. I decided to wait a few days and see if he would appear. Not wanting to sit idly by I set about seeing if there was any work suitable of a Death Stalker.

After several days I was still unable to find work and there was still no sign of Vaalis. With each passing day I was growing more and more frustrated with what an enigma Vaalis was to me,  and my resolve to get some answers from him grew even stronger.


One day, as I wandered the town considering my situation, a strange Forsaken woman with huge goggles blocked my path.  Holding a gnarled staff level with my waist she grinned at me and said, “Fancy a lift, Defiler?”

The grin combined with the goggles she wore made it look like her entire face was her mouth since it was the only actual facial feature that could be seen.

Deathknell was a Huge Success, Thank-You!

So the Deathknell event was amazing, my guild and I were so happy to get a chance to roleplay with you guys. We had about fifty people show up, and we went for two hours not including the hour of set up we did beforehand. The time flew by, I couldn't believe it when I checked my clock. I adore this event because it manages to accomplish so much; we gave out a lot of free items, let people see the roleplay in our guild, and try out the Forsaken to see how much fun they can be. It was so cool to look over the zone and see all those corpses shambling everywhere, it made for a great in-character atmosphere.

I was astonished by the organization of my guildmates and how well they communicated with each other in the midst of all the madness. There was huge throngs of people at the high points of the evening, with and so many people posting it was very hard to keep track of everything. They had their quests planed days in advance, their macros made, and were great about directing players to each other and making sure no one missed out on anything.

The people we had join us were awesome as well. I saw a lot of high level Forsaken that came to roleplay along with some awesome characters people made just for the event. Everyone was very respectful and we only had two non-Forsaken crash the party, but they left when they were asked. We also got some glowing compliments afterwards; more than once someone told us that it was the best event they had seen since coming to the server. More after the break.