Lycans

Lycans, also known as Children of the Moon or werewolves, are the primary supernatural creatures of the Hale Chronicles. They are a subspecies of humans that have been cursed to transform into a wolf or wolf-like creature during the full moon. They can take many forms, depending on the lycan and what strain they originate from. There are two known strains: the Lycaon strain and the Original strain, both strains of lycanthropy originating at different points in time. Lycaon was the only known creator of lycanthropy until it was discovered in blood memories that Lycaon was not the first werewolf to exist, it was a Siberian aboriginal woman Abdakey who was the first one to be donned as the first Lycan.

Both strains of the lycanthropy curse have the same notable features, but have different eye colors. The Original strain lycans are known for their pale blue eyes, while the Lycaon strain lycans have orange eyes and rarely does a lycan have yellow eyes. Both are occurring colors within natural wolves, with the blue eyes being rare in nature.

Upon the creation of the Kingdom of Lycaon, the Seven Sons of Lycaon kept fighting for the throne. In the quest for power, almost all of the packs belonging to the Seven Sons died out. Due to the war, lycans have been shown to be extremely territorial and loyal to their perspective leaders, and not the King of Lycaon. This has caused most packs to remain in hiding from the King, as times before kings have executed mass amounts of their own species in the name of power and in search for loyalty to the kingdom.

## History

### First Lycan

Through outstanding research, there was another group of Lycans that were not related to Lycaon, the infamous werewolf king of Arcadia. Scientists found a human adorned with a wolf skull and preserved pelts speared in the chest while digging through the Siberian permafrost. The data discovered on the skeleton outlived the Greek legend of Lycaon. The exact date of when the first Lycan was made is unknown.

Now known to be modern day Russia, a tribe of aboriginals were migrating through Siberia when they were attacked by a rabid wolf. This wolf ended up biting one of the members of the tribe. Through a visit to the past, this person was revealed to be named Abdakey, a huntress of the tribe. In seek of help, the tribe asked for the gods to cure Abdakey. In return, the tribe got their wish, but at a terrible price. Upon Abdakey being healed, she broke into a fever, later followed by all of her bones breaking, one by one. During her first transformation, the tribe was confused as to what was happening. Abdakey then transformed into a wolf and began turning on everyone who she once loved.

When dawn arrived, Abdakey transformed back to human, discovering the destruction she had caused upon her tribe. She had killed several of her tribe members while she was under the full moon's influence. Full of sorrow and guilt, she began to search for ways to end her life. Discovering she could not be killed by her times current weapons, she came to terms of her curse, and began to try and find a cure.

While on a hunt for a cure, Abdakey had turned a man she fell in love with into a wolf as well, making him the first bitten lycan. Together they had children, who all had the lycanthropy gene passed down from their parents.

Liana Naumov, Vidar Solberg, William Waters, and Amaruq Waters have been confirmed to be direct descendants of the original werewolf that was discovered. By the time Lycaon had been turned by Zeus into a lycan, Abdakey was still alive and thriving in Siberia with the rest of her descendants in a pack. It was until Nyctimus' descendants found a way to kill Lycans that Abdakey would eventually meet her demise.

Liana Naumov was the one who managed to find a cure for lycanthropy, making enough to end all of her family's lycanthropy. Despite being humans again, they still possessed the Lycan gene, just a dormant version of it, hence "ending" the original lycan strain of venom.

It is unknown when Abdakey was killed by a spear laced with wolfsbane, where she then became a part of Siberia's permafrost. It is also unknown who had adorned her body with the wolf skull and pelts, but Amaruq Waters thinks that it was probably one of her children or lover who had adorned Adbakey at the time of death. Those who had been turned by Abdakey were later found dead, as a result of Abdakey being their sire.

### First Lycan in Lore

Around 1500 BCE, there was a wretched king named Lycaon who ruled over Arcadia. Wanting to test Zeus' power of being all-knowing, Lycaon grabbed his youngest son and slaughtered him. Lycaon would then go and prepare his son Nyctimus' corpse into a meal for Zeus to eat at Zeus' arrival. When Zeus discovered that the food was Lycaon's son Nyctimus, Zeus threw an outrage, condemning Lycaon and the rest of his sons to be monstrous beasts who were half-human-half-man, now known as lycanthropy.

The King of Gods later resurrected Nyctimus, instructing him to seek revenge for what his father had done to him. Upon Zeus' demands, Nyctimus gathered hunters from across Arcadia to hunt Lycaon and his siblings down. Being the only successor to the throne that was not half beast, Nyctimus took over Arcadia and began a society of hunters. Nyctimus managed to hunt down nearly all of his siblings and father, but by the time he nearly wiped out his entire family, it had been too late for some villages, as they grew victims to Lycaon's curse.

The remaining sons of Lycan united to form packs to retaliate against Nyctimus. It is unknown which of the brothers managed to escape the manhunt. Together the packs became known as the Seven Sons of Lycaon. Throughout the centuries, the sons and their packs made the Kingdom of Lycaon, in honor of their late father.