We know it spreads via bite - and we know some people have willingly become worgen. Do you think there are new worgen being made as of BFA? Or is it something the Gilneans frown upon, something they’d rather wasn’t something that was carried on and passed down?
Are there worgen of other races? Say an orc gets bitten by a worgen but survives - do they turn into a worg…orc? Worgen are wolves but like, these would be Worg worgen.
Night elves would be wolves too…but what about dwarves? I’m thinking Like, mastiffs or Corgies.
Gnomes and Goblins would be like, terriers or chihuahuas. Pandaren would just get really angry sometimes.
Blood elves would turn into something more Lynx-like. Trolls would take on something panther-like or lynx-like as well. Draenei…I’m thinking those panthera things, that had like, slippery hides but were still technically cats.
Last time I ventured through Duskwood as a Dwarf and got bitten by a Worgen it just turned me into the same Worgen you see running around. I’m sure it was nice for my Dwarf as he finally got to experience being tall, although I’m certain the hair ratio was about the same.
There’s feral worgen still out there. Roaming Gilneas, Silverpine, Duskwood, the Grizzly Hills. So the threat of new worgen spreading is always a thing to some degree.
The curse only affects humans and night elves though. As far as we know other races are immune to it or we have no precedent for it.
Only humans. Orcs are not affected by this druidic condition.
And I don’t know how we keep our population numbers constant, since the curse is not passed on from parents to children.
Night Elves also has this condition but only humans are playable. The werewolf myth is with humans, not elves.
Blizzard never talked about it. And after our demoralizing butler costume quest we had with Heritage Armor, it seems that it is not something desirable to be a worgen and it is not something that anyone is exposed to.
Another detail that Blizzard forgot during the cataclysm?
I really can’t imagine why you think that a curse that turns someone into a werewolf, would convert blood elves into something like lynx and troll into panthers, when none of these breeds has anything to do with these animals and a lupine wouldn’t give rise to a feline.
And because it would be ridiculous for something like this to happen.
Although the curse is certainly lupine in nature, I imagine that the curse also deals with a race’s connection to the emerald dream. The curse originates from Goldrinn and Elune, and so maybe it’s more often than not a wolf form, but who’s to say whether or not the race changes the form of the worgen?
I mean, druid’s forms change depending on their culture, it’s not even bound to race. Trolls and Zandalari trolls have different forms, gilneans and kul’tirans have different forms - maybe an orc “worgen” would have a slightly different form too!
Goldrinn is a wolf. He just gives rise to something coming from wolves
Zandalars use shapes from non-Goldrinn. Only loa.
Kultirans use animal shapes that have been dead for more than a week, tied with rotten wood and leather.
And Blood elves has no Druidic tradition and even if they did, they would not be turned into lynxes by a curse linked to a wild god of wolf origin.
These ideas are revolting and offensive.
Orcs have no Druid culture.
An orc would never become a worgen.
If an orc could transform into something, it would be a boar.
BOARGEN! My friend you have invented something truly beautiful. Dwarves would ALSO turn into Boargen - wait.
Quillboar.
Quillboar are just dwarves under a worgen curse.
Think about it! Their short stature - their affinity with guns, their alcoholism and connection to the earth, their disregard for anything not a dwarf (cough) I mean a quillboar…
Why…do you think nothing would happen? As far as we know, only forsaken can’t become Werewolves , but that’s just because they’re dead. And although worgen can’t become undead conventionally, we know that the forsaken have made abominations out of them .
Before July 7th, 2009, if you timed your Tame Beast to end exactly when he transformed at 50%, Garwal would stay in his transformed form, giving you an exclusive worgen pet. Only players who had not completed his associated quest could see Garwal.
, but that’s just because they’re dead. And although worgen can’t become undead conventionally, we know that the forsaken have made abominations out of them .