We are very happy with the attention this got! And what a merry band of dead men coming out the woodworks. I will endeavour to elaborate on some of the points raised above.
Then we are of two minds! There is definitely a feeling of the world being too big for the Undead, so seizing the opportunity to create a format where everyone can come together to meet, debate, befriend or berate, with some cultural hooks and activities sprinkled in, seemed very appealing to us.
Concerning the possibility of a discord group, I will leave it up to the future whether the community grows enough that managing it from these very forums and through in-game doesn’t quite make the cut, I will jump on the chance to facilitate it. No guaerantees for now! We are more invested in getting this project on its feet for the time being.
I completely agree, and I’ll speak on what else we have in mind for it while speaking on your input (of which we very much appreciate):
This is a good point and something that’s not to be underestimated — we can try to reinvent the wheel or beat the dead horse called the loss of the val’kyr in the unforgiving hopes it ever stirs, but it’s much cooler to focus on current affairs.
The reason the Council and the val’kyr are mentioned in the OP are just to serve as a simple example—this thread serves purely as an interest check for the idea of a forum centered around Forsaken affairs, because Lakeworh (my dear aforementioned friend and co-organizer) and I aren’t known with the current Forsaken scene and the size of it. The topics in the OP can serve for a pilot episode of the forum as an event.
The only problem there is that the Forsaken don’t directly tread to the foreground anymore, but topics that generally should or would concern the Forsaken people - like the discovery of Khaz Algar - are still interesting topics for this forum.
Beside that, topics are supposed to be pretty open. It’s kind of the point — it allows speakers to be nuanced and encourages their own take on something so the audience can engage with it, be it by heckling, by questioning their take or by cheering — you get the gist. People are free to submit topics they’d like discussed in future topics through the forums.
brother i was the one that killed it .i burned it all to the ground from within, scattered the ashes, GONE
