Werewolf

Werewolves. Typical of the myths and legends, they are people who can transform into beasts of legend and all the violence and bloodshed that entails. However, with training and guidance, these forces of nature can be directed as weapons of destruction for their enemies.
In nearly every human culture throughout history, there is a legend concerning werewolves. They may take other names and appear under other guises, but the core principle remains: People who become something else, and perpetrate horrific violence. The enlightenment slowly but surely convinced the world that the legends were merely the fantasies of ignorant cultures grasping for an explanation for the depths of violence and depravity of which human beings are capable. ORPHEUS knows that explanation to be correct in most cases, but not all. The wolves are real, and they’ve hunted us since the beginning. But like all canids, they respond to training and have their own social order. And ORPHEUS is nothing if not adept at manipulating such dynamics to its advantage.
== Mechanic: Primal Instinct ==
Gain a point of Primal Instinct upon dealing melee damage, and for each 5 damage taken (before reduction) from a single attack or source. You may hold a maximum of 3 Primal Instinct at a time.
== Abilities ==
=== Partial Transformation: Savagery ===
The werewolf’s human form gains sharpened nails and teeth. Muscles gain strength and density.
=== Partial Transformation: Senses ===
The werewolf’s human form’s ears become pointed and extremely sensitive, olfactory receptors
increase thousands-fold, and the werewolf’s eyes become an otherworldly shade of yellow, orange, or red.
=== Partial Transformation: Virility ===
The werewolf’s human form becomes more hirsute, and emits a subtle, predatory musk as the body becomes more resilient, both to environmental hazards and to injury.
=== Full Transformation ===
Exceeding the mostly human-appearing form they most commonly have, the werewolf, for a
time, becomes the monster of legend; a 6 to 8 foot tall, thickly furred, bipedal monster, with a huge canine maw, claws, and a tail for balance.
=== Accursed Resilience ===
Werewolves are not merely beasts of flesh. Across the world, legends tell of a core of black magick, demonic strength, and other such horrors. While the source is unknown, werewolves do in fact possess the ineffable ability to shrug off enormous amounts of physical punishment.
=== Pack Hunter ===
Millions of years of social-predatory evolution course through the werewolf’s veins, allowing it to attack its prey with astonishing consistency of advantage, particularly when in tandem with allied combatants.
== Notable Werewolves ==
* Marcus Emerson
Category:Archetypes