The other day was April fools and many places did joke posts. The wow team had there April Fools patch notes and even Wowhead got into the spirit with fake 8.2 PTR data mining. One of the things that were “found” in this data was a new allied race light bound undead.
Now as far as I know this is an April Fools joke and light bound undead is not coming to the game as an allied race in 8.2, but they might be coming to the game someday soon. For those of you who don’t know in the book Before the Storm Calia Menethil (whom you might remember from the priest order hall in Legion) was killed in the chaos of the undead and human get together in the Arathi Highlands. She was then taken to the priest order hall where Saa’ra rises Calia back to life as the first ever light bound undead.
The light born has been referenced recently in game. The 8.1 War campaign ends with you doing the quest fate of Jaina where you attend a meeting about the aftermath of the raid. At one point Anduin askes asks Jaina how she is doing and she says " So much transpired while I was away. Anduin... I've heard rumors about an old friend of mine-- Calia Menethil. What happened in Arathi?" All of this could only mean that the light bound undead will be a major faction going into the future of the game. My guess we will be introduced to the light bound undead by the end of Battle for Azeroth. Of course in the book, Caila Menethil was the only one but some time has passed and there could be more now.
With all that being said, what would light bound undead be like in WoW? Well, I would think they would be like the light forged Draenei, where they look just like Draenei but they have cool looking light tattoos. But what if the WoW team wanted to do something different and made light bound undead a neutral allied race. Much like the Pandaren, you would get to choose to side with the Horde or the Alliance.
This would make sense for the narrative they explored in legion where light and void are not necessarily good or evil. Thus the light bound undead not be Horde or Alliance and would choose. Before you say “but horde already has undead why would they have light undead too” well the Alliance already had Draenei but we still got Light Forged Draenei as an allied race.
Now I’m going to go one step further, what if light forged undead became a normal race attached to a new hero class. They could be some kind of super priest or light mage. They could say being risen as an undead by the light caused their powers to become stronger. They would still be neutral. Now I know this is unlikely but since we just got Deamon Hunters in Legion so getting another Hero Class is unlikely plus it would just add to the growing problem of class balance. I just really want a range Hero Class.
8.2 could hit the PTR anytime now and I'm sure we will not see light born undead. I truly think we will see them soon in the game and then further in the future we will be able to play them. They might even be the key to saving Azeroth herself.