Warg

/ˈwɑːɡ/ · noun

Meaning

(fantasy, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf..

Definitions by Sense

1. (fantasy, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.
2. (fantasy, fandom slang) To possess the mind of (and see through the eyes of) another person or animal.
3. (Crusader Kings fandom slang) To switch to another player character during a game.

Example Sentences

But even the wild Wargs (for so the evil wolves over the Edge of the Wild were named) cannot climb trees. […] Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together, and their dreadful clamour almost made the hobbit fall out of his pine-tree.

My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg, etc?

He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs.

The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs, whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh at line 1267 and his mother a grund-wyrgen at line 1518.

Even in far-off Braavos, Arya has wolf-dreams, and she can warg into Nymeria’s body; it’s thus that she discovers Catelyn’s body floating in the Trident and drags it out (SS, 65).

Hodor’s origin is finally revealed as well, with Bran warging into the big man’s body.

As he was dying, Varamyr Sixskins of the Free Folk warged into his wolf One Eye (A Dance with Dragons).

I died and warged into my son, and waited around for a succession war in England.

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• wargs
• warging
• warged

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