Wolf Cult

This page is about the Wolf Cult in Gilneas. For the the Wolfcult in Grizzly Hills, see Wolfcult.

Wolf Cult
The worgen of the Wolf Cult
Main leader	Alpha Prime
Race(s)	Human  Worgen
Base of operations	Blackwald, Stormglen Village, Shadowfang Keep, Pyrewood
Theater of operations	Gilneas
Status	Defeated

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The Wolf Cult is a secret wolf cult in Gilneas that worshiped the worgen. It was created by Alpha Prime in order to search for the legendary Scythe of Elune, which had made its way to Gilneas. Knowing he could not find the scythe by himself, Alpha Prime began his cult by recruiting Archmage Arugal and using him to spread the worgen curse to the humans of Silverpine Forest.

Soon, with Arugal's influence over the Silverpine worgen and using them to wreak havoc on his enemies, Alpha Prime later infiltrated Gilneas by using underground tunnels hidden underneath the Greymane Wall and started inducting humans into the cult; turning them into worgen after they performed gruesome murders on innocent people, which came to be later known as the Starlight Slasher murders. The cult and its leader then allied themselves with the Forsaken, an enemy of Gilneas and the Alliance, who also had an interest in obtaining the Scythe of Elune. With Gilneas distracted by political divisions, the cult had been secretly afflicting Gilneans with the worgen curse, bolstering the worgen population and using their numbers to build a feral worgen army that would be used to launch an attack on Gilneas City. The devastating attack weakened the nation's defenses and paved the way for the later Forsaken invasion.

Though the Forsaken discovered the whereabouts of the scythe, unbeknown to Alpha Prime, their machinations were foiled by the worgen player when the scythe was retaken and returned to priestess Belrysa. Believing that the Gilneans and priestess Belrysa's night elves no longer wielded the scythe, Alpha Prime led the Wolf Cult to attack Belrysa's forces at Tal'doren. To his surprise, Belrysa unveiled the Scythe of Elune and tried to use the scythe to banish Alpha Prime's worgen back to the Emerald Dream. Before Belrysa could complete the spell, she was stopped by a Forsaken dark ranger. Alpha Prime then led the Wolf Cult to attack Belrysa for the scythe, but was ripped to shreds by a spirit wolf who turned out to be the ghost of Arvell.

Following their leader's death, the remains of the Wolf Cult that survived were forced to disperse and went into hiding.