Ahah, I hadn’t even thought of addressing classes in worgen culture. ![:bacon:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/bacon.png?v=6" ":bacon:")
I can’t recall ever seeing a named worgen mage NPC. However, I do know at least one Gilnean wizard. Archmage Arugal himself was a Gilnean, who left to join the Kirin Tor in Dalaran, only returning to Gilneas when Dalaran was destroyed by the Scourge.
Gilnean Culture (click to expand)
Gilnean culture and history could present some reasons there are less worgen mages. In short, there may not have been many mages in Gilneas to be bitten. The city was cut off from the world, so there were no Kirin Tor visiting, much less teaching apprentices in Gilneas. The city is culturally independent and industrial, so perhaps less focus on mystic arts as a culture. Mages that did pop up may have gone to join the Kirin Tor or the Alliance, meaning they wouldn’t be in Gilneas during the worgen apocalypse (Jaina too left her homeland at a young age, to join the Kirin Tor in Dalaran). In support of this, there is not one mention of Arcane magic in the Curse of the Worgen comic or the starter zone. Meanwhile around Stormwind, the Dark Riders comic has a mage main character and everything to do with arcane, with the Elwynn quests reflecting this.
Pack Worgen Culture (click to expand)
Now on the flipside, there’s plenty of reasons why wild worgen society would not have - or produce - mages. It was kaldorei mages and their meddling in the arcane that brought the Legion to Azeroth 10k years ago, and lead to the banishment of the kaldorei mages shortly after. So there were no kaldorei mages around to get bitten during the War of the Satyr. Then once they got out of the dream in modern day, they formed the Wolf Cult, and specifically recruited humans that agreed with their “re-wilding” and anti-civility ideology, being mostly thugs and rebels. I don’t imagine many scholarly wizards would jump at the opportunity to become a “jugernaught of rage”, and I don’t see an anti-civility culture producing its own wizardly scholars.
So one way or another, the use of arcane magic doesn’t seem as central to worgen cultures as it might to Silvermoon or even Stormwind. Even Genn Greymane’s own merlin-like advisor wasn’t a mage, but rather a royal alchemist, suggesting a focus on chemical and mechanical science. Of course, that’s not to say a worgen can’t become a mage, or that a mage can’t become a worgen. It simply has reason to be less likely, which would explain the certain lack of such NPC characters.
Sorry this one didn’t end up as clean and concrete as the lore on eyesight. I’m stuck on mobile for a few days, and this particular topic of cultures is far more theoretical and speculative based on lore. But hey, definitely made me get my thinking cap on! Now I feel like I aughta make a “worgen class guides” guide too, like to go over worgen druids, deathknights, hunters and the like.