Several bind-on-pickup blue items are also to be found here, primarily for Mages and Warriors in particular. However, since the nerfing of SFK's mobs, the caution previously required is no longer vital to success here.įor the level, the loot here is highly desirable, with a few different items that can sell well via the twink market. In addition to the volume of mobs present, several of the mobs here cast various curses, nearly every type of Worgen has some sort of special ability (active or passive) that affects a group's ability to deal with them, and the undead humans make use of Silence, which means that a tank can be caught without healing in some fights if the healer(s) get hit with it. SFK is the first vaguely challenging instance that players are likely to encounter. Eventually they were able to discover that the mad archmage, Arugal, was behind the worgen's presence, and the Forsaken command ordered him slain. Landen Stilwell was still here years later.ĭuring the events of World of Warcraft, agents of the Banshee Queen Sylvanas Windrunner were dispatched to both solve the mystery of the enigmatic worgen and ultimately terminate the source of the creatures' infestation in Silverpine. Jordan Stilwell and Daphne Stilwell used to live and work here before the Third War. He went mad after this and now accepts them as his 'children.' His worgen run rampant throughout much of the forest. During the Third War, Arugal made these worgen as allies but they could not be controlled and turned on him and the other soldiers. The worgen that stalk the Keep, as well as the cursed villagers of Pyrewood, are the doings of this madman. Pyrewood Village is shadowed to the north by Shadowfang Keep, once a bastion of Alliance power but now the dark residence of a mad former mage of the Kirin Tor, named Arugal. It's said he still resides there, protected by his massive pet, Fenrus - and haunted by the vengeful ghost of Baron Silverlaine. Driven mad with guilt, Arugal adopted the worgen as his children and retreated to the newly dubbed 'Shadowfang Keep'. Situated above the tiny hamlet of Pyrewood, the keep quickly fell into shadow and ruin. The worgen sieged the keep of the noble, Baron Silverlaine.

The feral wolf-men slaughtered not only the Scourge, but quickly turned on the wizards themselves. Arugal's summoning brought the ravenous worgen into the world of Azeroth. Frustrated by their lack of progress (and against the advice of his peers) the Archmage, Arugal elected to summon extra-dimensional entities to bolster Dalaran's diminishing ranks.

When the wizards of Dalaran died in battle, they would rise soon after - adding their former might to the growing Scourge. From the World Dungeons page on the official World of Warcraft Community Site:ĭuring the Third War, the wizards of the Kirin Tor battled against the undead armies of the Scourge.

Shadowfang keep map