Worgen Worgen are large , lupine humanoids reminiscent of a werewolf that walks upright , but lopes on all fours to run . Introduction . At first , people believed that the Worgen were not native to Azeroth . They believed that they have only recently appeared in remote areas where they menace travelers and small settlements . The Worgen are an erratic race and they can be found in most of the Kingdoms of the East . Some believe they are arrivals from another world in the Twisting Nether , while others think that they might have been created through magical experimentation , or brought here as servants of some evil entity . Whatever the case , they are , for the most part , unwelcome . These creatures are thoroughly evil , delighting in torturing and devouring intelligent creatures . They enjoy hearing the screams of their victims as they tear them apart piece by piece . Worgen never show mercy or remorse . They may seem savage , but they are fairly intelligent and possess a cruel , bestial cunning that can come as a surprise to the unprepared . Worgen society is patriarchal , with the eldest male leading the pack . Worgen never challenge leadership ; the patriarch leads until he is physically incapable of doing so any longer , at which point his younger kin devour him . The worgen see this not as cruelty , but a great honor — they consume the bodies of their fallen as well as their victims . They believe the flesh and blood of their own kind improves their strength and cunning . Worgen look like humanoid wolves . They dwell in simple huts and usually wear cured leather scraps as rudimentary armor . Worgen do not use weapons , preferring to tear foes apart with their claws . They stand 6 feet tall , except when loping along on all fours , and weigh around 250 pounds . They speak their own language , made up of a variety of growls , barks , and howls . These sources , however , have been proven incorrect . The worgen , in fact , derive from an ancient druidic sect known as the Druids of the Scythe who worshiped the wolf Ancient , Goldrinn . The chosen shapeshift form of these druids was the worgen form , but these druids lost themselves to the form ' s savage nature and descended into feral behaviour . Most worgen keep their wolf - like forms at all times , but experiments by the mage Arugal have resulted in human / worgen " hybrids " who only appear as worgen under the light of the moon . They carry with them a dark , corrupting malaise that grows wherever they infest , making the surrounding area dark and gloomy . Worgen are among the few humanoids that can be skinned . In " " , the Greymane Worgen , have developed a partial cure to the curse which allows them to retain their sanity even while transformed , they are a playable Alliance race . Description . Resembling a cross between human and dire wolf , the hunched over creature is roughly humanoid . Its body is covered in coarse , grayish - black fur with twitching claws and snarling teeth . The creature ' s eyes are mottled yellow in colour , unblinking and devoid of any discernible emotion other than hunger . Cursed beings from another dimension , worgen only appear in Azeroth as the result of magical mishaps . True aberrations , they are accidentally drawn through temporary rift tunnels and deposited in this world with no apparent way of returning . Nothing is known about the worgen ' s home realm , or even precisely how to spawn the rift tunnels through which they come . Worgen are usually encountered in small packs near sites of recent intense magical activity . Fiercely territorial creatures , they rarely stray from the general vicinity of the place in which they first appeared . Fearless beasts , they brazenly prowl near both villages and monster lairs . Although worgen display an apparent fondness for nighttime and its darkness , they can perform equally well in the daytime . Pure killing beasts , worgen tend to attack any creatures that they encounter , regardless of whether animal , humanoid , Scourge or something even more fearsome . Rumors suggest that worgen somehow receive sustenance continually from their native dimension . . . as well as guidance from a distant force . Worgen are usually encountered in small packs near sites of recent intense magical activity . A pack may contain four to twelve individuals . A worgen tribe may contain between twenty and two hundred individuals . As of Cataclysm . Actually cursed night elf druids from Azeroth ' s ancient past , the worgen were released from their prison in the Blackwald by several tamperers over the recent years . Unfortunately , the methods of removing them from their prison do not appear to be reversible , leaving the insane druids unfettered and unrestrained . For a long time , the worgens ' origins remained a mystery , and their home was thought to be another dimension , or another world . The worgen are not from another dimension , as they originate on Azeroth , but the other dimension may be interpreted as referring to the Emerald Dream . The reason for the worgen refusing to devour most of their victims " may " be some lingering vestige of sanity in the worgen ' s minds . Despite promotional drawings depicting them wearing jewelry such as rings and earrings , worgen do not wear any in - game even if shown on their human forms . Worgen are immune to being raised as Forsaken , and so presumably they were immune to being raised as Scourge as well Combat . Worgen prefer to hide in shadows before leaping great distances upon their foes . They attack with feral tenacity , slashing with their deadly claws and biting with sharp , infectious fangs . Worgen are nearly fearless and typically fight to the death , relying on their regeneration to save them . Worgen love nothing more than to pounce on an opponent and tear him to ribbons . If a foe is helpless , the worgen delivers a coup de grace before moving on to another target , unless the fight is well in hand . Then it turns to torture ( or " playtime " ) — and the unfortunate victim is almost certain to wish he had died . The saliva of a worgen carries a dangerous infection that can prove deadly against those who are bitten . Drinking the blood of a Worgen will cause infection . History . Ur , a mage of Dalaran , did research on worgen but never summoned them . He found out that the worgen seemed to hail from a dark and treacherous world , from which there was no corner which was truly safe . Velinde saw the worgen battle an unflinching enemy in a vicious war - the Lords of the Emerald Flame . Frustrated by the destruction of Dalaran by the Scourge and against the advice of his peers , Archmage Arugal elected to summon an army of the extra - dimensional entities by using Ur ' s research . The summoned worgen fought against the undead armies , but quickly turned on the wizards themselves . Driven mad with guilt , Arugal adopted the worgen as his children and retreated to the newly dubbed Shadowfang Keep , where he then cursed the village people of Pyrewood to turn into worgen whenever the sun went down . At approximately the same time , the night elf Sentinel , Velinde Starsong , was given the task of clearing Felwood of demon s . She prayed to Elune and was granted a magical scythe which could summon worgen . Using the Scythe of Elune , she summoned a very large number of the creatures to fight at her side against the demons . Later , Velinde began to notice that some of her force were unaccounted for . It was as though the Scythe of Elune no longer required her presence to perform the summoning process . Perplexed by this development , she ordered the remaining worgen to remain at the Shrine of Mel ' Thandris in Ashenvale and began to search for Archmage Arugal , whom she had heard also summoned worgen . From that point on , her fate became a mystery , but it was rumored that she was killed in Duskwood and lost the Scythe of Elune . Black Rider s from Deadwind Pass came to Duskwood looking for the Scythe and murdered a family of farmers in the search to find it . It is also known that the dark mage Morganth was searching for the Scythe of Elune , and stole Ur ' s Treatise on Shadow Magic as well . In Wrath of the Lich King . In " " , Arthas has discovered Arugal ' s activities and has brought him back from the dead to work for him . This also means that there are a lot of worgen allied with the Scourge in Northrend and in particular , the Grizzly Hills . In Cataclysm . In " " , it is revealed that the worgen curse has spread into the secluded kingdom of Gilneas , transforming nearly all of it ' s inhabitants into the worgen . More recent evidence suggests that their true origin has a connection to the night elves and a secretive druidic order from Kalimdor ' s distant past . At the starting point of the worgen starting experience , many Gilneans believe that a treatment for the worgen curse may exist , although others have nearly given up , fearful that if the barricades should fall , their humanity will be lost forever . The curse originated from the druid ic order who followed Goldrinn , known as Druids of the Scythe . They shapeshifted into the feral worgen and eventually lost their minds to its violent nature . The other Druids agreed that they must be locked away , and thus put them into eternal slumber deep beneath a tree . . . until the days Arugal utilized Ur ' s research , and Velinde Starsong used the Scythe of Elune . It was the night elves , after all , who created the curse in the first place . Obliged to help their newfound allies , they re - introduce them to the Alliance . Inspiration . The worgen bear a strong resemblance to the " Myrkridia " from Bungie ' s " Myth II : Soulblighter " ( a contemporary of Warcraft I and II ) , especially the idea of them being from another dimension . Beside that , the worgen obviously resemble a werewolf as it is known in popular fiction , particularly the part where they managed to get the curse under control and only changed when the moon was up . Hunter pet . was a tamable pet during 3 . 1 until a hotfix was deployed on 7 July , shortly after the discovery was widely known on the internet . During this time , the tamed Garwal pets were no longer an effective pet as they were stripped of their abilities and could not even be fed . Community Manager Zarhym responded on the forums shortly after the hotfix with this statement : Only 21 July , the Garwal skin ( appearance ) was changed to a normal white worg for all players who had tamed him , and normal pet abilities were restored for those players .