User:Minionman/Forsaken General description

The forsaken are a group of undead who have broken away from the scourge. Under the leadership of Sylvanas Windrunner, they have carved out a nation for themselves in the Tirisfal Glades, joined the horde, and built a new society in the ruins of the human nation of Lordaeran.

Forsaken population, Health, Body Type
There are around 6,000 forsekan in existence today, though the number is increasing slowly. Around 2/3 of the forsaken are freed scourge, mainly ghouls, around 1/3 are raised from dead bodies. A small number are banshees from the beginnings of the forsaken, abominations created in recent years, and other unusual sources.

Forsaken are among the weakest of the intelligent races in azeroth. Those raised from dead bodies have often decayed quite a bit before their reanimation, while freed ghouls tend to atrophy for a few weeks after they are recaptured. No one knows why this atrophying occurs, the best guess at the moment is that The Lich King's control corrupts and distorts ghouls in a similar way that demonic corruption warps and distorts those it effects.

Like all undead, the forsaken do not need to sleep or breathe (Though many are still capable of breathing, as the common use of blowguns shows.), and can survive on surprisingly small amounts of food. Forsaken require about the same amount of food in two weeks as most humans need in a day, though fighters and manual workers might need twice this much. Forsaken are also capable of eating just about any food, from leaves and grass to meat, and that food can be fresh, cooked, raw, plagued, diseased, etc. The most common food varies from region to region based on what is available. During celebrations forsaken will sometimes prepare well cooked meals (Which they still prefer taste wise), but generally stick with very simple foods.

Forsaken generally have a far less effective sense of smell and taste (Though a bit of sensitivity remains). Vision, hearing, and touch generally remain effective, and forsekn also gain a sense (as undead) of living or other moving beings in the area. This sense is very inexact (at most it is a sense of something being in the area or not.), but has proved useful to their fighters.

It is not known whether forsaken age or die, in theory, they could live forever, but as forsaken have only been in existence for a short time, no one knows for sure.

Forsaken personality
By and large, the forsaken tend to have much less strong emotions than they had as living beings. Other races that deal with the forsaken often notice a "flatness", and lack of excitement, ambition, or other emotions that other beings would have to most events. There are a few areas where forsaken do tend to feel stronger emotions. Most forsaken have memories of loved ones or other family, and wish either to meet with and protect other family members (If they are still alive or convertible into forsaken), or strong desire for proper burial and respect for their remains (If they are dead and not convertable to forsaken.) Most also have a blinding hatred of the scourge, after being either killed or enslaved by the Lich King's forces. While those fighting the scourge can control this hatred enough to fight effectively, but mention the scourge to an unsuspecting forsaken ,and they will must likely launch into a screaming tirade. Most of the rest of the time, forsaken simply feel a desire to destroy enemies, or feel a slight sadness at their condition, if they stop for long enough to think about it.

This lack of emotion, as a side effect, leaves forsaken much less social, or playful, than other races. It also tends to somewhat weaken the moral strength of forsaken, though the strong desire ot survive also contributes to a weakening of morality as well.