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Knights Commander’s Journal I write this missive in the event that some day it will be found and our story told to the world! My name is Lhorian Dugal, Knights Commander Lhorian Dugal of the 3rd Gilnean regiment! The Greymane Wall has stood stoic and impenetrable for some time now and it was our job to make sure that it remained that way! No one entered and no one left this great city unless lord Genn granted them leave and that was an extremely rare occasion! However I have never seen him grant audience with anyone on the outside of the great wall! So how was I to know that an unseen threat lurked among the people of Gilneas! Stalking us like pray but not to kill us! Oh no that would have been too kind! No it claimed our humanity in its wake! I watched helplessly as this invader crept silently through our city claiming its victims one by one at first until much like a great plague it consumed us all! At first my men and I were unsure as to what was going on! Was there a wolf loose in the city? If only it was that simple! If only anything were that simple! I was making my rounds about dusk one night, as I approached one of the guard towers I noticed that the guard was not at his post! This was not like my men. They never would abandon their post for any reason other then death. From behind me came a deep bestial growl! I drew my sword and turned, It was too late the beast was to close to make out what it was exactly so I thrust my blade deep into its chest. The beast let out a shriek almost human in nature and slumped lifelessly against my blade and then to the ground. On closer inspection I realized I had just ran my own man through. There he was, at my feet, dead and with my blade bathed in his blood there was no denying the fact that I killed him! I was stunned to say the least and the nobles, upon hearing my story thought I was loosing my mind! At that moment a local constable spoke up saying that he had seen what appeared to be a Worgen in Crowley’s Orchard! The nobles asked if he was loosing his mind as well because there was no way a Worgen got past the wall and all the guards, it would be a feat of impossibility at best! Just the same I knew that what I ran through was not a man, it was a beast! If there were Worgen here in Gilneas, I had to know! It did not take long to verify that there were in fact Worgen here in our great city! The worse part about all of it is that the Worgen turned out to be citizens of Gilneas themselves! Soon we would discover that the curse was the only threat that the great Greymane Wall could not protect us from, that I and all my men could not stop! How do you muster the conscience to kill people you have known and protected with your life! Sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, no one was safe from this curse! The apothecaries and healers were helpless to stop the inevitable! We are now all infected by the curse! It has run its course! Although we have maintained much of our will, I fear that the beast will have its way with us if we were to give in to its nature! The Forsaken are at our gates now and it is only a matter of time before they gain entry and access to the fury of Gilneas and the fury of the Worgen! May the light have pity on their wretched souls! That is if in fact they still possess such things! It really does not matter now anyway! Duty calls as well as the beast! Once more unto the breech go the noble men and woman of the 3rd Gilnean regiment! This time we know our enemy! This time we “WILL” succeed!

Commander Lhorian Dugal of the 3rd regiment of Gilneas