Wrath of the Lich King (3)

The official Wrath page is gradually accreting information, which is good, because it started out pretty dang empty. The newest addition to it is an "interview" about the Death Knight class with the developers, the length of with a page on lore. I put "interview" in quotes because it doesn't feel like a genuine interview; it reads like an excuse for the devs to give the same information we by now have. Which is fine and all, I just think "interview" is the incorrect term for it. Here's a summary in my own words:

• Why must you pick Death Knight for the new class?
  They have a connection to Arthas and Northrend, and we desired more tanks. The playable DKs will be related with the Horde or Alliance, fighting against Arthas.
• What will adding up another tanking class do to the group/raid game?
  We want all tank classes to be evenly good in general, so you can use any of them for a 5-man, but we want them to have different raiding roles. (They also took this opportunity to reiterate for the nth time that "hero class" does not mean it is more powerful than other classes, just more unlike.)
• How was the DK different from other tanks?
  No shield, super powerful melee abilities, magic attacks. The devs are making certain they have the core tanking abilities of keeping aggro and mitigating damage, while still make the DK feel like its own thing.
• Will we notice some classic DK spells and abilities?
  Yes, we are taking a lot from previous Warcraft material. One thing that will set them separately as a new class, but still tie them into WC3 DKs, is the rune system.

The lore page is less readable to me, since I don't actually know a lot of the background information of the Warcraft universe. It gives a comparatively short overview of the evolution and status of Death Knights. Is it latest information that "modern death knights consist mainly of paladins who lost their confidence and pledged their souls to the Lich King in switch for the promise of immortality?" If DKs come from paladins, why can we create them in non-Paladin races? So Blood Elves do not get even more popular, I guess.