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ANTHROPOLOGY:
THE WORGEN OF
GILNEAS
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By Sam Wheatly

he Worgen of Gilneas are a

symbolic chants?” and “Why do

Let’s start off with what a Worgen

relatively new race, in the

their clothes grow with them?”.

is, just incase you’ve been
stranded on Outland for the past

sense that most of them only
started being Worgen five years

It is these questions, and more,

five years and have somehow

ago. In that regard, I am hesitant

that plagued me as I set out

gotten ahold of this anthropology

to actually refer to them as a

to complete this paper. And

report through a cosmic hole in

race in the same way you might

for you, dear reader, I have

time: a Human afflicted with the

the Gnomes or Murlocs. We

answered... the majority.

Worgen curse is a seven to eight

don’t refer to those who suffer
from undeath*, or irradiation
as their own race, per se.
*Well, in some cases. Maybe come
back to this in a later anthropology.
Worgen, or at least the Worgen
of Gilneas for the sake of our
discussion, are Humans who
were infected with lycanthropy
by other Worgen, and from
there it just gets confusing. With
many questions along the lines
of; “Where did the first Worgen
come from?”, “How can a curse
be spread by biting rather than a
shadowy Warlock shouting vague
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