Well, the status of that is currently vague. One of the proponents of the Forsaken becoming part of the Horde was Magatha Grimtotem, who also enjoyed full support of the Forsaken during her little take-over in Thunder Bluff, and she truly believed that the Forsaken could be cured. The Earthen Ring went along with that and they too wanted the Horde to help the Forsaken as well.
And after that… well, I have no idea what happened. It’s possible that the Earthen Ring has indeed started researching a possible cure for undeath. We know for certain that the Forsaken have tried to find a cure as well, as they tried to do so during the Scourge Invasions.
There is none, even the Naaru was unable to help Crusader Bridenbrad for example.
That’s the problem with a biological weapon such as the Blight of which is arguably worse than radiation.
You tend to destroy the land you promise after you have conquered it. Sylvannas forgot to mention somewhere in her promise that the land will be liveable or capably cultivated.
Sylvanas only recently became warchief, and the holdings of the forsaken were mainly in the Eastern Kingdoms. If you wish for examples regarding her plauging the land, look at Southshore
Even if the rest of the horde races have enough liveable land, eventually the Horde will splinter into various factions when the Alliance is destroyed, with the Orcs, Tauren and Trolls on one side, the Forsaken on another, and the Blood elves and Nightborne on another.
Th entire history of the Horde has been one of infighting, and I suspect, that this may happen, though this is speculation.
I never disputed that she destroys Land. I just said she doesn’t go around destroying Land just for the fun of it. Southshore was an attack, and an example for living Humans. In darkshore the Blight is used to destroy trees (combined with Shredders) because Nightelves need trees to hide behind.
It has a reason besides “HAHA I’M EVIL, I DESTROY LAND!!!”, wich doesn’t mean that it’s less evil.
But, and that’s important, by inventing stuff to show how bad she is you make the things she really does less important.
It’s like saying “Hitler wanted to blow up the moon” to make him seem more evil. It would imply that you need to invent something to make him bad enough to dislike.
No one is destroying land for the fun of it, except maybe the goblins.
But her methods are costly and of debatable effectiveness, not to mention the land that has been afflicted by the blight can only be used by the forsaken at best.
If she wanted to remove trees, maybe she could create a firestorm for the forest, instead of blighting the whole land to kingdom come
In all scenarios Sylvanas leading an forcing in battle her last resort is always Blight. And it always comes to that, considering she is usually beaten without it.
Fire and shredders are just as effective. I’m sure the Night Elves can attest to this quite well.
Difference between Fire, shredders and the Blight is that you can regrow things with the former two. Not saying either is better, but if Sylvanas really wanted her promise to be a thing, then she should be using at least more renewable efforts.
Heck, fire is a natural thing in the cycle of life. Forests actually need to be burnt up in order to regrow and bloom into something progressively bigger and better.
This might be an incorrect stance regarding canonicity of events in the Warcraft universe, but my view is that unless something mentioned in Chronicles outright contradicts the pre-existing lore, if it is not mentioned, it does not necessarily mean it did not happen.
My point is that why would blizzard neglect that fact if it was still the case? They change old lore all the time. And what you said about the earthen ring is from the rpg, which stopped being canon years ago.
You could very well be right. But the purpose of the chronicle books is to clarify the lore isn’t it? The section covering the forsaken joining the horde only used half the page. They had no reason to omit anything.
I’ll refer to an old adage “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”
Edit: to expand, the aim of Chronicles IMO is to be a comprehensive source regarding lore, not an exhaustive one, covering every possible minor detail.
They’ve also been neglecting details since the day WoW launched, so I don’t think that the fact that it isn’t mentioned in Chronicles means that it got retconned. There’s a difference between not mentioning something and actively contradicting it. The former is not a retcon, the latter certainly is.
It was also mentioned on the WoW websites, but that got lost when Blizzard launched a new website. You can still see it on the Web Archive.
It is, but if it isn’t mentioned, doesn’t mean she played no role at all. She very well may have.
But from an overall POV, Magatha isn’t a prominent character. She may have played a part in 2 major lore events, but she has never been extensively used in the game. She’s in Thousand Needles Cata, and the Shaman class campaign, both of them dealing with the Doomstone AFAIK