Werewolves

## General Information

### Also known as:

Lycanthropes
Loup Garou
Rougarou
Wolves
Children of the moon
Wet dogs
Mutts

### Residence:

Samar
Earth

### Related Species:

* Vampires
* Vampire-Werewolf Hybrids

## Affiliation

### Creator:

* Nyx (Mother of All Night Creatures)
* Unknown (Progenitor)

### Notable member(s):

* Anderson
* Adam William Lykos

### Allies:

* Witches
* Angels

### Enemies:

* Vampires (Rivals)
* Hunters
* Demons

**Werewolves** are one of the supernatural species that inhabit the world. They are currently lead by the Werewolf King and Queen. Werewolves have a natural enmity against vampires.

## Description

Werewolves are race of supernatural shapeshifting creatures, they are gifted with supernatural strength, speed , regeneration and immortality, and are known to be highly aggressive. Werewolves also have a strong bond with each other, going against one werewolf is considered going against the entire pack. Werewolves have a strong rivalry with vampires that's engraved in the two species' DNA, almost like the two opposing species are natural enemies made by nature itself.

The werewolf race is also a physically stronger breed compared to vampires, they have naturally more strength, stamina, endurance and resistance compared to them. However, vampires have regeneration that is far superior to that of werewolves. Their senses of hearing and smell are also far superior than that of vampires', and if leveraged in combat, a werewolf may experience more discomfort when exposed to sonic blasts. Likewise, werewolves are much stronger than normal vampires in terms of close combat, and if an Alpha wolf was present, werewolves are most likely to win. Another trait that are special to werewolves is their affinity with nature, as unlike vampires, werewolves are the beings that are closest to nature, with most of them possessing abilities that are related to some attribute of nature.

There are three kinds of werewolves, alpha, beta, and omega. Alphas can become leaders of an entire pack, there are also the much rarer 'True Alphas' who possess the potential to become Kings. However, alphas can also become followers of another more powerful alpha as is the case with the Werewolf Generals who serve the Werewolf King himself. These generals are all powerful alphas by right but choose to serve the Werewolf King whose might is recognized by all werewolves. Additionally, a werewolf pack can contain more than one alpha as is the case with Adam's pack, which contains three more alphas in it. A pack with more than one alpha is referred to as a 'family of alphas' most likely due to all the members being related by blood. Betas, on the other hand, are weaker in general than alphas and are more timid, and cannot become pack leaders. Lastly, Omegas are the wolves who were exiled from their pack or those who left it on their own accord.

### Moon Aspect

A werewolf's strength is also greatly affected by the moon's phases, however, the full extent of its influence on them are still unknown. The moon's empowerment can also be replicated through the use of special talismans that the werewolves have created. These talisman have the ability to simulate a full moon even in broad daylight, boosting their strength to great heights

### Trigger

According to Adam, Leona was not always capable of werewolf transformation or had werewolf abilities. From this, it can be inferred that some werewolves take longer to awaken their werewolf bloodline compared to other werewolves. However, what exactly triggers these bloodline awakening are yet to be full revealed.

## Characteristics

Like Vampires, Werewolves have certain characteristics that can be used to identify them.

* **Big Bodies:** Werewolves' bodies are larger than any other species to the point being 200 cm is only considered above average in their race.
* **Fangs:** Much like Vampires, Werewolves have retractable fangs.
* **Wild Scent:** Werewolves have a unique scent of their own that can only be smelled by a one with enhanced senses like Vampires. To Vampires, Werewolves' scent is like that of wet dogs.
* **Aggression:** Werewolves are more aggressive than any other race.
* **Glowing Blue Eyes:** Alpha werewolves' eyes glow with blue color when they use their racial abilities or enraged.

## Creation

Werewolves are either born or turned. Werewolves can turn humans by injecting their venom in humans either through clawing or biting, commonly the turned werewolves result into betas. Like vampires, the werewolf transformation forces their body to its peak state and, as a newborn, these changes will only stop happening when their body is fully developed. Later on, it was revealed that the primordial of night, Nyx is the originator of their race along side other night creature.

## Diet

Unlike their rivals, werewolves can eat human food and is not restrict to one type of food. The only difference is their appetite is far larger than humans and vampires.

## Abilities

**WereWolf Physiology:** Werewolves are a species that are naturally gifted with superior physical capabilities. In addition to other racial abilities that are afforded to them by their status as one of the five great races.

* **Immense Strength:** Werewolves possess supernatural strength that makes them far stronger than Humans, Witches, Hunters, Vampires and most of the other supernatural species. In terms of physically capabilities, Werewolves are at the top of supernatural world. Leona - a newly triggered werewolf - punched her brother to the wall which made his body leave a silhouette in it. Werewolves' strength increase when they are in their transformation. An elite alpha Werewold is able to carry mountains in his/her base form.
* **Superhuman Speed and Reflexes:** Werewolves posses speed and reflexes that rival that of Vampires. Edward climbed a 30 floors building in seconds. Their reflexes and dexterity are similarly heightened, allowing them to catch certain projectiles thrown at them.
* **Enhanced Agility:** A werewolf's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete. They can move, jump, climb, and run incredibly fast without difficulty or exhaustion.
* **Augmented Stamina:** Like vampires it's very hard to make a werewolf Physically tired.
* **Superhuman Endurance:** Werewolves can take far more trauma than humans, vampires, demons and other races without much discomfort.
* **Immense Durability (Nigh-Invulnerability):** Werewolves' durability is top notch, their durability surpasses most of the supernatural species including Vampires, Gods and Demons. They also possess elemental resistance, the elite werewolves can bath in flames without showing any signs of pain. Ordinary bullets can't penetrate their skin. An elite alpha werewolf can bath in lava without being injured.
* **Healing Factor:** Werewolves possess superhuman regenerative abilities, meaning that if they are physically injured, their bodies will heal rapidly. Unlike Vampires, Werewolves can't regenerate their hearts. Johnny is shown to have several scars across his arms which indicates that werewolves' healing factor is not even close to vampires' regeneration. Not all Werewolves can develop a good healing factor, that's why Samar has doctors in it and The Werewolf King always supporting the Werewolves who want to become doctors.
* **Extremely Extended Longevity:** Unlike Vampires, Werewolves are not immortals but can live for a very long time depending on their strength, they can potentially extended their lifespan for forever reaching a state similar to immortality but they aren't born immortals. They are also immune to all conventional illness, diseases, viruses and infections, unlike Vampires, Werewolves don't grow stronger with age. The life expectancy for betas and omegas is 500 years and 1000 years for alphas, the maximum life expectancy for all Werewolves is 3000 years.
	+ **Aging Immunity:** Werewolves are immune to aging and all its negative effects. During their long lives, werewolves would always look young and have the strength they used to have in their prime, example of this is Volk Fenrir. Despite being 3000 years old, he still looks young and still has the same power level he possessed in his prime if not stronger.
* **Acute Senses:** Werewolves have extremely keen senses of hearing, sight, smell, and taste that far exceed those of humans. Werewolves also have acute sense of smell, hearing and sight. This allows them to locate distant sounds, track scattered scents, and see with perfect clarity and wider range, even in the dark. They can hear whispered conversations, even ones in far of buildings and on phones, and like vampires they tune out the ambient noise. Werewolves' senses surpasses that of Vampires', they can sniff out vampires and discriminate different flavors even if they're mixed together. Adam was surprised when Victor know about Anderson's arrival before him because that's not something an ordinary Vampire can do. Adam was also able to identify Johnny's lovers' races from just sniffing him.
* **Night Vision:** As creatures of the night, Werewolves are capable of seeing in the darkness of night as if it were daytime.
* **Energy of Nature:** When werewolves fight, they coat themselves with the energy of nature which elevates their physique to an absurd level. This energy is exclusive to special Werewolves and Royalty.
* **Animal instinct:** Because of their wolf side, Werewolves an animal like instinct.
	+ **Danger Intuition:** Werewolves can sense danger before it happens.
* **Roar:** Werewolves' roar is considered a sonic attack.
* **Alpha Presence:** When an alpha is present the entire pack power increase.
* **Pack Empowerment:** Alphas' strength grows with the number of wolves in their pack, the more werewolves is the pack the stronger the alphas.
* **Full-Moon:** When there's a full-moon, Werewolves power increase greatly.
* **Claws and Teeth**: The werewolf's claws and teeth are extremely sharp and tough, enabling them to rend through a variety of substances including fabric, wood, cinder block, and even metals. Werewolves' claws are sharper, longer, tougher and more powerful than that of a vampire.
* **Flying:** Like Vampires, Werewolves can use their energy to float and glide in air.
* **Werewolf Transformation:** Werewolves are capable of transforming to wolf, partial wolf and bipedal werewolf forms. In their wolf form, werewolves are more powerful and aggressive than usual. Like Vampire count transformation, Werewolves are closer to their nature in the wolf form but unlike Vampires, the werewolf transformation is easier to unlock than Vampire count form.

## Weaknesses

* **Untriggered:** Werewolves who didn't trigger their powers are just like normal humans and anything that can kill a human can kill them.
* **Physical Trauma:** Because of their weak healing factor, physical trauma can slow down or possibly kill a werewolf.
* **Mortality:** Werewolves -unlike their rivals- can die from old age.
* **Wolfsbane:** Wolfsbane is lethal to werewolves, it can make a werewolf body convulse and melt, if it somehow made a contact to werewolf's brain or heart the said werewolf would die immediately.
* **Heart Extraction:** Unlike Vampires, Removing a heart or destroying it, will result in instant and permanent death. Victor killed a werewolf by ripping his heart off.
* **Brain Damage:** If a werewolf's brain is damaged or partially damaged, the werewolf would die instantly.
* **Faith Energy:** Hunters' Faith energy is harmful and is some causes deadly to creatures of night like werewolf and vampires.
	+ **Special Hunter Weapons:** Hunters use specialized weapons that channels their ability of 'Faith' and imbue it into their attacks. A significant blow from a Hunter's weapon can deal fatal injuries to a werewolf, often impeding their supernatural regeneration and can, at worst, cause death.
* **Decapitation:** Dismembering or manually removing the head of a werewolf will result in an instant and permanent death.
* **Alphas:** Betas are the pack's alpha servant. The alpha's orders are absolute and there's no way a beta can break them.
* **Alpha Absence:** A werewolf back without an alpha is significantly weaker than one with an alpha.
* **Moonlight:** Younger and less experienced Werewolves can't walk in the moonlight or they'd go mad. Older Werewolves don't have this problem.

## Myths

* **Religious Items:** Crosses and other religious items has no harmful effect on Werewolves, unless they are blessed with the Hunters' power.
* **Cursed:** Werewolves are not cursed humans, they are an entirely different species.
* **Monogamous:** This myth came from the fact that wolves are monogamous, so people assumed the same for werewolves. However that's proven to be not true in the novel. Nearly every werewolf that's introduced in the novel is either single or in polygamous relationship.

## Home

### Samar

*Main article: Samar*
Samar is the homeland of werewolves. It is a realm of hostile weather, a realm where the sun is always present for 38 hours, a realm that only exists for 4 hours at night, and when night falls, temperatures drop below freezing easily.

## Trivia

* Volk was introduced as the progenitor but later the author removed his status as a progenitor.
* Werewolves are a crippled race like Vampires, they also didn't originate from Earth.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 56
2. ↑ Chapter 181
3. ↑ Chapter 180
4. ↑ Chapter 240
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 125
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 179
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Chapter 25
8. ↑ Chapter 2
9. ↑ Chapter 510
10. ↑ Chapter 492
11. ↑ Chapter 390
12. ↑ Chapter 152
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Chapter 342
14. ↑ Chapter 58
15. ↑ Chapter 188
16. ↑ Chapter 63
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Chapter 387
18. ↑ Author comment on chapter 387
19. ↑ Chapter 388
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Chapter 176
21. ↑ Chapter 444
22. ↑ Chapter 645
23. ↑ Chapter 414
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Chapter 670
25. ↑ Author's Discord