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Gara: Taming the Void Wolf of Shadowmoon Valley

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A ghostly wolf lies on a grave in Shadowmoon Valley. Scratch her ears and she starts you on one of the best hunter secrets of Warlords of Draenor: six items gathered across Draenor, an effigy, a void god who takes her away, and a fight in a void realm to win her back. The community solved it in September 2014, during the beta.

Gara, the void wolf.
Gara, the void wolf.
  • TypeHunter pet
  • ExpansionWarlords of Draenor
Added: patch 6.0.2 (Warlords of Draenor) · Family: Spirit Beast · Spec: Beast Mastery · Start: Burial Fields, Shadowmoon Valley (45.1, 65.9)

How to tame her

  1. In Beast Mastery spec, talk to the ghost wolf at the grave in the Burial Fields (45.1, 65.9) and choose to scratch her ears.
  2. Kill Mother Om'ra (44.0, 57.4), loot the Shadowberries and show them to Gara.
  3. Loot six items from specific enemies: a Drywind Bonepicker in Gorgrond (45.1, 52.8), a Gorebound Legionnaire in Talador (34.3, 73.1), a Sethekk Prophet in Spires of Arak (69.3, 42.2), a Warsong Marauder in Nagrand (71.4, 35.1), a Necrophyte in Frostfire Ridge (25.4, 10.6) and a Thunderlord Giantslayer in Frostfire Ridge (65.0, 65.5).
  4. Combine them into the Spirit Effigy and place it on the Disturbed Grave. The void god Xan takes Gara.
  5. Farm Shadowmoon Voidtwisters (around 30, 57) for the Void Lantern, use it at the Great Tree Valuundira (60.1, 38.6) and click the Shadowmoon Voidblade to enter the void realm.
  6. Kill Elder Voidcallers and Elder Void Lords until Xan appears, defeat him and tame Gara before the void swallows her.
Gara's ghost at the grave, where the chain starts.
Gara's ghost at the grave, where the chain starts.

Good to know

  • Some of the drop enemies have a level floor; around level 26 is the practical minimum.
  • If you abandon Gara, you can tame a Lost Netherwolf with the same look inside the void realm, but only if you have tamed Gara before.
  • Players confirmed the chain in The War Within; we found no 2026 report yet.

More spirit beasts are in our spirit beast catalog.

Checked in October 2026 against Petopia, Wowhead, warcraft.wiki.gg and warcraft-secrets.com.

Editor, Lost WOW

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