It really is ridiculous to me that the Scarlet Crusade is being exploited - yet again - as a supposedly irredeemable villainous force.
I can’t get on board with that. The Scourge were an incredibly horrifying threat who rampaged through much of the Eastern Kingdoms. The lucky victims were either displaced or killed outright. The unlucky ones were defiled and raised into undeath.
Worse yet, every attempt to reclaim the lost lands has been foiled by yet more undead as well as some of the former inhabitants who chose to flee rather than stand their ground.
Cutting down yet more people who want nothing more than to wipe out the undead in all its unnatural glory is just…really tone deaf. The Forsaken are not innocent misunderstood victims. They actively sought to sabotage and defile the living at many a turn and the only way they can replenish their numbers is by defiling the dead (be it scavenging corpses to replace rotting limbs or using necromancy…) but one of the first quests to reclaim Gilneas consists of criticising the Scarlet Crusade for destroying buried corpses so that they cannot be arisen into undeath.
I miss what this game used to be…