Yes, another forum post about worgen tails. I understand this may be tiresome for some, and I empathize with their frustrations. However, I believe this discussion is brought up often due to a genuine desire of a large portion of the worgen playerbase to have this option. If anything, I encourage the dialogue as a person who has been playing worgen for most of my time on WoW.
Here is some of the arguments against worgen tails, and my rebuttals to why worgen should have tails:
Older models of worgen do not have tails present. Worgen having tails now could be considered inconsistent.
I disagree with this notion. Yes, worgen did not have them on their original models, but this isnāt enough reason to rule out entirely.
The original worgen lore for those models had been made mute, replaced with the concept of the Pack Form; A corrupted druidic transformation that mutates the afflicted individual into an humanoid wolf entity.
Because of the corrupted nature of this druid form, this can be justification for a healthy amount of variation between different worgen. Druid forms vary wildly between races, and individuals. Sometimes to extreme degrees, such as the werebear forms gained from the Druid Mage Tower. A tail, which logically would come from the Goldrinn aspects of the curse could easily be added.
The worgen are based upon European werewolves, which in some of their designs do not have tails. Due to this, they believe worgen having tails hurts the werewolf aesthetic.
Yes, but equally many original European depictions have tails as well. The initial design of these creatures differentiate greatly depending on the folklore which they are references from. Stories of men who would turn into true wolves for years upon a time, others who were not much more than hairy, feral men.
There was a story that I found very interesting; A trial were a man claimed he supposedly turned into a wolf to fight of satanic forces.
There is many cases of European folktales, many not being the most consistent. This isnāt justification to disallow tails for worgen. Again, in many of these stories they do indeed have tails.
And lastly, there is a belief among some that worgen would lose their fierce aesthetic.
This is not the case. If anything, it would add to it. Worgen look very off balance without tails, especially the males. When entering their running wild state this becomes even more apparent for female. This bestial and primal nature of the worgen is eroded by the comedic way the female behinds are arched upwards towards the air. Worgen do not have a fierce aesthetic, and they arguably never did. Their humanoid roars on the females whos voices remained in a chain smoker state for ten or more years now. By adding a tail we can remove the comedy aspect somewhat, and finally make them look more proportional.
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