They don’t have an army, or a ton of land. Since then, they’ve been a shadow of their former selves. The Crusade came back in Wrath of the Lich King, where players bested them once and for all. Because of the Scarlet Crusade, and general human fear of undeath, Sylvanas and her undead Forsaken ended up joining the other in-game faction, the Horde. This meant the Scarlet Crusade were committing genocide, and players had to show up and stop them. The problem is that these undead had been freed from the evil Lich King who raised them as an army, and are now sentient beings who just wanted to be left alone.

At launch, these crusaders were a religious military force dedicated to killing all of the undead in their kingdom. Players have fought the Scarlet threat in one form or another for well over a decade.

The Scarlet Brotherhood, an enemy faction dating back to the game’s launch, has returned (again) with a whole new strategy: fake news. World of Warcraft players often have to deal with fighting gods, monsters, and dragons, but observant fans have found a new threat brewing while we wait for the next expansion, Shadowlands.

At war with the scarlet crusade