Druids of the Scythe

Druids of the Scythe
Ralaar Fangfire, leader of the Druids of the Scythe
Main leader	Unknown
Formerly	Ralaar Fangfire †
Race(s)	Night elf  Worgen
Base of operations	Daral'nir
Formerly	Tal'doren
Theater of operations	Emerald Dream; Ashenvale
Status	Banished to the Emerald Dream

The Druids of the Scythe (originally the Druids of the Pack) are a sect of druids that became the origin of the worgen curse and were the reason that the Cenarion Circle was formed.

History

War of the Satyr

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During the War of the Satyr, the Druids of the Pack advocated the use of the Pack Form. They shapeshifted into a powerful yet unwieldy form that embodied the fury of the wolf Ancient Guardian Goldrinn. They called this form the Pack Form, a form that turned them into wolves. Although powerful, the Pack Form tended to turn the druids feral. Malfurion Stormrage prohibited the use of this form because it couldn't be controlled. However, the Druids of the Pack continued to practice the form in secret but eventually lost themselves to the form's feral rage. They were eventually brought under the leadership of Ralaar Fangfire, who promised them a way to tame the Pack Form.^[1]

Taught by Ralaar Fangfire, these Druids of the Pack sought to temper the uncontrollable rage inherent in their chosen form. To do so, they willingly submitted to the energies of the Scythe of Elune, a mystical artifact created from a Fang of Goldrinn and the Staff of Elune.

Rather than abate the druids' fury, however, the weapon transformed Ralaar and his followers into worgen: bestial humanoids enslaved by their own primal instincts.^[1]

While in the worgen form, the druids eventually lost their minds to its violent nature. Blinded by all-consuming rage, Ralaar’s druids tore through friend and foe alike during a battle with the satyrs. Night elves wounded by the unruly beasts contracted a virulent curse that turned them into worgen as well. The remaining night elf druids established the Cenarion Circle to combat the threat of the worgen curse and establish rules for druids to follow that would prevent a similar incident from happening again. Desperate to stanch the affliction’s spread, Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage mournfully banished the worgen beneath Daral'nir in the Emerald Dream, where they would be in peaceful slumber for all eternity.^[1][2]

Modern times

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For millennia, the worgen threat was contained until the day Arugal tampered with summoning worgen after looking into Ur's research, calling them into the world to combat the Scourge but accidentally unleashing the worgen curse on Gilneas.^[3] More worgen, those of the Terrowulf pack, were also released from their slumber by Velinde Starsong when she found the Scythe of Elune in Ashenvale.^[4] When Velinde died in Duskwood, Jitters would find the Scythe of Elune and accidentally release more worgen there.^[5]

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Some of the worgen that remained in Felwood after Velinde fought there would go on to join the Alliance at Talonbranch Glade.^[6]

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Some of the Druids of the Scythe traveled as a pack in the Emerald Dream until they found their way to Val'sharah and went their separate ways.^[7] An Archdruid wielding the Scythe of Elune is able to return these feral worgen to their original night elf forms.

Members

Named

Unnamed

Notes and trivia

• Tal'doren was once the home of the Druids of the Pack.^[8]
• There was a journal found in Gilneas that tells more about the worgen in the Cataclysm beta. However, the journal was not available when the Cataclysm expansion went live, but it was made available 14 years later during the updated Love is in the Air event in Dragonflight. Gaedrin Moonfang was the author, one of the first Druids of the Pack who had kept his night elf mind longer than most of his comrades.

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