Thread:Seleuf/@comment-26080992-20150206094211

I have read your guide but there is something not acknowledged about the "second generation" death knights.

http://classic.battle.net/war3/undead/units/deathknight.shtml - this page mentioned that these death knights "retained their humanity".

http://www.wowhead.com/quest=13361/the-hunter-and-the-prince - in the completion text it is confirmed that Arthas did *not* become undead until he cut out his heart. "-he was still human... he could still feel... he could still bleed. He still had a heart."

Emphasis on them both being "human which is equated in the latter source as being alive.

Not all "second generation" death knights would have been alive of course, but these two pieces of lore information indicate that some were alive—particularly those who willingly submitted themselves to the Lich King.

I won't use the RPG as a source to actually back up the point(since it is now non-canon)but iliving and undead death knights(all of them second generation in the RPG)were differentiated. This is just to cement that the idea has been brought up. 