Soulframe Wolf Quest: The Shewolf Snared Walkthrough

The Soulframe wolf quest is the Fable "The Shewolf Snared". You free the Omen Wolf Orengall, rescue her pups and earn her Pact plus a Wolfpup of your own. Since Preludes 16 it's also the required first step before you can train that pup.

This guide takes you through every stage of the Fable, shows where the pups are, where players get stuck most often and which pup you should pick at the end. That choice can no longer be undone since the last update.

🐺 The Soulframe wolf quest at a glance

Digital Extremes calls the questline a Fable and Orengall an Omen Beast in its TennoCon 2026 recap on soulframe.com.

📍 How to start the Soulframe wolf quest

The Fable doesn't start with a quest giver. It starts while you explore. Per the Avakot community wiki, look around Vertonn and the Mines of Borro in northwest Midrath for a Sinecure camp marked by a red, pyramid-shaped Ode'n skylantern. Beneath it sits an Ode'n chest with orders from Banneret Styne. Once you've read them, a vision shows Sinecure soldiers chaining the Omen Wolf Orengall with Voltaic chains.

In the Fable order, the wiki lists it after "The Steelsinger" and before "Brewer of Hues". There's no official statement on hard prerequisites. Either way, don't go in underpowered: the camp and the route to Orengall are full of Sinecure enemies.

⛓️ Stage 1: Free the Shewolf from her chains

The wiki calls this stage "A Vision Ordained: Find Shewolf Enchained". Summon your Sparrow Guide and follow the howling. Per the wiki, the spot from the vision is on a plain east of Vertonn. A Sinecure squad guards the Shewolf there. Defeat them, then destroy the Voltaic chains. The Bisulcam that some guides place here only shows up in the last stage.

Since Preludes 16, parrying no longer has a startup delay, which helps a lot against groups.

🐾 Stage 2: Earn Orengall's trust

Free doesn't mean tame. After everything humans did to her, Orengall doesn't trust you and runs off. Per the wiki, no new objective appears right away: you earn her trust by fighting the Ode. When you hear her howl, use Spectral Sight to reveal glowing blue paw prints, follow them and defeat the enemies along the way. The wiki recommends Vertonn, where Orengall often appears after the last Sinecure falls.

At some point Orengall joins a fight herself and takes down an enemy. Talk to her afterwards. You pick one of three answers, one each for Courage, Spirit and Grace. Per the wiki, the chosen Virtue permanently goes up by 1, and you can change it by replaying the Fable. Then Orengall sends you to free her pups.

🐶 Stage 3: Free the pups

Per the community wiki, the Sparrow leads you through the Mines of Borro to an entrance of the Dermak Undercity. The route has two stops:

• Dermak Undercity: in a flooded chamber, take the platform with the rope, hit the shiny hook on the far side with a thrown attack and get pulled across. Up top, push the heavy box off the ledge to pull the plug and drain the chamber. The new passage leads to a cage holding Cuan and Cathal. A nearby Sinecure drops the Cage Key.
• Sinecure camp: at the end of the Undercity you surface near another camp. The third, silver-furred pup is caged there, and again a Sinecure carries the key.

⚔️ Stage 4: The ambush at the Bisulcam

Soon after, the runt's howl warns of an ambush. The Sparrow leads you to a Sinecure camp built around an Ode'n Bisulcam. Per the wiki, you disable it by detonating the surrounding Ode'n Mistrels while fending off the Sinecure. Banneret Styne then climbs out, but Orengall tears her apart in a single strike. By then the runt, Nightling, has already been taken by Tempest Bayor's Collector.

Plan some time for the Undercity. If you'd rather play in a group: since Preludes 16 you can search for other players in the entrance room of a dungeon. How matchmaking works is in our Soulframe co-op guide.

⚠️ The most common snag: the missing key

The official Soulframe forum has several bug reports about exactly this part of the wolf quest, such as "No key for Orengall Pup in undercity dungeon" or "Key for pup under mine". Players report that the key for a pup cage doesn't show up. There's no official fix. The community wiki suggests relogging if a Sinecure doesn't drop the Cage Key. If that doesn't help, file a report in the forum's Bug Reports section.

🎁 Soulframe wolf quest rewards: Pact and Wolfpup

After the ambush, Orengall bows her head and you seal the Pact. You receive the Fragment for her Pact and get to pick one of the three remaining pups: Ciar, Cathal or Cuan. It moves into your Nightfold and stays with you as your companion from then on.

⚒️ Crafting the Orengall Pact

The Fable only gives you the Fragment. The Pact itself is crafted at the blacksmith Tuvalkane. Unlike other Fable Pacts, the wiki says further copies can't be bought from Avakot's Gots, and replacements only cost Arcs, so don't sell it. The values below come from the Avakot community wiki. Digital Extremes hasn't published official numbers:

The Pact turns you into a summoner: Werewalker shifts your Envoy into wolf form, Packhunter calls spectral wolves. According to the Avakot community wiki, Howl raises your Grace and your allies' Grace by [6.3 + Grace/9] for 30 seconds, boosts the Smite multiplier, heals the Packhunter wolves and befriends enemy dogs for 10 seconds. All abilities in detail are in the guide to the Soulframe wolf companion, and every other class is in our overview of Soulframe Pacts.

🧭 Which pup to pick at the end of the wolf quest

This is the most important moment of the whole Fable. Per the official Preludes 16 patch notes, the choice is permanent. Each pup has a temperament with three starting points:

A pup tops out at 15 points with a maximum of 5 per stat, so three maxed stats. Since Hotfix 4 on September 29, 2026 you assign the points yourself, and the temperament's starting points are optional. Your pick no longer locks in your build. It's mostly about looks and personality.

Worked-out point spreads for every playstyle, food recipes and the energy rules are in the guide to Soulframe Wolfpup training.

🔓 What the Soulframe wolf quest unlocks since Preludes 16

• Wolfpup training: only after finishing the Fable can you summon your pup through the Gear Wheel and train it.
• Heart training: per the patch notes, fishing is one of the activities that raise Heart. Players on the official forum report that this still doesn't work after Hotfix 5. That isn't officially confirmed. How to start fishing is in the Soulframe fishing guide.
• Future mount: according to Digital Extremes, the wolf becomes rideable "later this year". The TennoCon page refers explicitly to the wolf you picked in this Fable. Your pup is your future mount.

By the way: since Preludes 16, Orengall's armor set comes from the Siege of Kearnhold and can no longer be bought from Alca's Children. It has nothing to do with the Fable itself, even if the name suggests otherwise.

💡 Tips for the Soulframe wolf quest

• Use the Sparrow Guide: it leads you to Orengall's prison and later to the pups.
• Don't rush the pup choice: check the table above before the final conversation. You can't swap later.
• Level Tuvalkane early: without Bond rank 3 the Pact Fragment just sits in your inventory. You collect the Dracs for it along the way.
• Relog, then report: if a key is missing, try a relog first, then file a bug report on the official forum.

❓ FAQ: Soulframe wolf quest

What is the wolf quest called in Soulframe?

"The Shewolf Snared". It's a Fable about the Omen Wolf Orengall.

Where does the Fable start?

At a Sinecure camp with a red, pyramid-shaped Ode'n skylantern in northwest Midrath, around Vertonn and the Mines of Borro. The orders from Banneret Styne in the Ode'n chest trigger the vision.

Where are the three pups?

Per the community wiki, two (Cuan and Cathal) are in a cage in the Dermak Undercity, which you reach through the Mines of Borro, and one is in a Sinecure camp at the Undercity exit. Sinecure enemies drop the Cage Keys.

Can I switch my pup later?

No. Per the Preludes 16 patch notes, the choice between Ciar, Cathal and Cuan is permanent.

Do I get the Orengall Pact right away?

No, only the Fragment. You craft the Pact at Tuvalkane from Bond rank 3, and per the community wiki it takes 27 hours.

Can I ride the wolf after the Fable?

Not yet. According to Digital Extremes the mount comes in a later update. Preludes 16 only added Wolfpup training.

📚 Sources and status

We checked this Soulframe wolf quest guide against the official Preludes 16 "Of Hook and Hound" patch notes on the Soulframe forum and Digital Extremes' TennoCon 2026 recap on soulframe.com.

The quest flow, start location, pup locations, Virtue bonus, Pact costs and Howl values come from the community wiki on wiki.avakot.org ("The Shewolf Snared" and "Orengall" pages) and are labeled as such. The Wolfpup rules follow the Hotfix 4 patch notes, and the note on Heart training comes from player replies to Hotfix 5. There's no official wiki.

More English guides are on our Soulframe overview.

Checked against Preludes 16 with Hotfix 6 as of October 2026. Soulframe is in its pre-alpha phase, Preludes, so steps and costs can change with future updates.