Originally Posted by
Fyraltari
Wasn't it? Back in Frozen Throne, after Ner'zhul is freed from the Legion but before he is wounded by Illidan, Arthas decides to crown himself King of Lordaeron and immediately sets out to genocide anyone still alive there. You fail the mission if too many civilians manage to escape.
And Kel'thuzad's first speech was about how the Scourge aimed to create a "paradise of undeath" by cleansing the world of the living.
If turning everyone into a zombie wasn't the goal, what was it?