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66 // World of Warcraft Community Magazine

IF IT WAS DIFFERENT - THE
WORGEN REVOLUTION
By Julian Matthew Martinez

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The first question we can

elcome to ‘If It Was

one of the more odd races of

Different’, where we

World of Warcraft. The Worgen,

ask is were the Worgen even

take a character or event from

they were all former Gilneans

necessary for Gilneas to be

the World of Warcraft lore and

that nearly lost their humanity to

introduced in the Cataclysm

talk about several key events

the soul of a beast; yet, thanks

expansion? In the short term,

or characters that would have

to the help of the Night Elves,

no; In the Warcraft RTS days

turned out quite differently if

they regained their sense of

Gilneas was around, but it was

this ‘one thing’ was different.

humanity. They are at constant

in an isolationist state. They

This series may not touch on

war with the Forsaken, the

were never officially members

every little detail, but we will try

Undead monsters led by Sylvanas

of the Alliance. Genn Greymane

to get some of the best World of

Windrunner. Though what would

assisted in Alliance business,

Warcraft moments in perspective.

have happened if the Worgen

but only when it benefited him.

Today we are going to talk about

had never come into existence?

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