Vincent Godfrey Lord Vincent Godfrey is a renegade nobleman from Gilneas who opposed his king , Genn Greymane , after discovering that he and many of his people had been afflicted with the worgen curse . After committing suicide rather than acknowledge a worgen as his lord , Godfrey ' s body was recovered and reanimated by the Forsaken , but after turning on them as well , he fled into the abandoned ruins of Shadowfang Keep , where he and his followers remain . Biography . Godfrey is first encountered by Worgen players during the Worgen invasion of Gilneas City . He disaproves of Genn ' s decision to release Crowley , but is loyal to his king . He later travels with the refugees while Crowley and the Player Characters create a diversion . Following the evacuation of Gilneas City , the player awakens in the stocks in Duskhaven , where Godfrey tells Krennan Aranas that it is " time to put this one down " in accordance with protocol . However , King Greymane intercedes , asking if those who gave their lives so the survivors could escape were following " protocol " . This interaction and later actions reveal that Godfrey is prejudiced against those that have been afflicted with the worgen curse . During the climax of the worgen starting experience , Godfrey - joined by other eastern lords - turns on the Gilnean defenders after he discovers that King Greymane is a worgen . He kidnaps Greymane and holds him for ransom , believing he would be able to save Gilneas if he turned the king over to the Forsaken . Afterwards , once Genn is saved by players , Godfrey commits suicide by jumping off a cliff , preferring to die rather than have a worgen as his king . After death . Lord Godfrey is later raised as a Forsaken himself by the val ' kyr . Once he is returned to " life " , now as a level ? ? boss , he leads the attack against Pyrewood Village , where Lord Darius Crowley and other survivors of Gilneas have settled . He later kidnaps Crowley ' s daughter Lorna and holds her for ransom as commanded by Sylvanas , where he would rather kill her and raise her as a member of the forsaken , hoping to force a ceasefire between the Gilneas Liberation Front and the Forsaken . After Darius surrenders to Sylvanas Windrunner at the shattered Greymane Wall Godfrey betrays her , shooting and killing the Banshee Queen ( who is shortly afterward resurrected by the val ' kyr ) . Now wanted by both the Alliance and the Horde , Godfrey makes a run for nearby Shadowfang Keep . Shadowfang Keep . Lord Godfrey replaces Archmage Arugal as the final boss of Shadowfang Keep in both normal and heroic modes . Quotes . Blizzcon 2010 Worgen Cinematic Movie Premiere . " Look at what you ' ve become . Those cursed beasts . . . they ' ve left you nothing more then just another wretched mongrel . Do you even remember what you did to your friends ? Your kind . . . haunting the wilds unchecked . . . until we found you . They ' ve kept you alive , because they still believe you can be saved . To which . . . I must ask : is there even a shred . . . of humanity left within you ? Perhaps . We will find out . . . soon enough . " ( Lord Godfrey ) " Note that this is a copy of the in - game cutscene subtitles . " Duskhaven . WoW Insider provided a blogged transcript of a conversation between King Genn Greymane , Royal Chemist Krennan Aranas , and Lord Godfrey , officially confirming Greymane ' s presence in the upcoming expansion : Quests . As a quest giver . In Silverpine Forest : As a quest objective . In the Ruins of Gilneas : In Shadowfang Keep : External links . " Excluding Shadowfang Keep "