Vorquin

A vorquin.

The vorquin are quadrupedal dragonkin native to the Dragon Isles. They serve as the racial mounts of the dracthyr and are respected for their resilience in battle, even against dragonfire. The more powerful armored vorquin are trained using ancient dracthyr methods and embody the pinnacle of tactical mounted ground warfare.

Vorquin apparently feign death. Norukk learned to do so by studying the vorquin of the Azure Span.

Notable

•   Elusive Cliffdweller Vorquin
•   Kah'ra
•   Liskheszaera
•   Pleasant Alpha
•   Razk'vex the Untamed

As a mount

Vorquin are the racial mounts of the dracthyr.

•  [Bronze Vorquin],  [Crimson Vorquin],  [Obsidian Vorquin], and  [Sapphire Vorquin] can be chosen as quest rewards from the quest    [10] Cavalry Has Its Place in the dracthyr starting experience, or purchased from Treysh in the Forbidden Reach and Tethalash in Valdrakken for 40.
•  [Armored Vorquin Leystrider],  [Guardian Vorquin],  [Majestic Armored Vorquin], and  [Swift Armored Vorquin] can be purchased from Treysh and Tethalash for 80.

Non-dracthyr characters can purchase them as well but need to be exalted with the Obsidian Warders or Dark Talons.

As a companion

A vorquin foal.

• Pale Baby Vorquin can be captured in pet battles at Camp Antonidas in the Azure Span, but need to first be revealed using the Magical Creature Manual.
•  [Time-Lost Vorquin Foal] can be purchased from Brendormi in the Primalist Future for 105 1500 .
• Vorquin Runts can be captured in pet battles in the Waking Shores, the Azure Span, and Thaldraszus.

As a hunter pet

Main article: Stag

Vorquin are tamable as part of the stag hunter pet family but require Lesser Dragonkin Taming, even though they aren't part of the Lesser Dragonkin hunter pet family.

Notes and trivia

Alpha model.

•  [Coal-Fired Rib Rack] is made from vorquin.
• The vorquin are based on the qilin (麒麟), a Chinese mythical creature that resembles a hybrid between a dragon and a horse or stag and is often colloquially called a "Chinese unicorn" in the west. The vorquin model is internally named "kirin", which is the Japanese and Korean name for the qilin. They are the second Warcraft creature to be based on the qilin after the windsteed, or third if cloudstriders are counted (cloudstriders were called "kirin" and used windsteed models during development). The similarly-named quilen bear little resemblance to the mythological qilin and are instead based on Chinese guardian lions.
• The vorquin model originally looked slightly different during the Dragonflight beta, with lighter horn textures, longer ears, and different snout and eye textures.