Werewolf

**Notable Werewolves**
Sindri Ragnulf (Professor)
Eric Rogers (Professor)

**Therianthropy (Lycanthropy)**
Lycans are a magical creature that belogn to the Therianthrope family of creatures. They are considered to be human / animal hybrids, which often is correct, but this mainly applies to turned lycans, not born ones (the differences are slight and nunaced at best)

Lycans can transfer what is essentially a magical curse that turns the target. The target will then transform for the first time during the next full moon, if the curse takes root.

The curse can be transfered via a bite, or scratch while the lycan is at least partially transformed. It can also be transferred sexually, but the version of the curse transfered has vastly different effects. You will not become a lycan via this infection, but will be infect notwithstanding.

**Infection (Turning a human)**
Upon being infected, the person will be left with a lifelong scar. This is not the only means by which one could turn into a werewolf, but it is the most common. If you are infected, you will go through a heavy fever and be very sick for about two weeks, followed by a period of a remarkable rebound and recovery, often described as "the best health of their life."

**Transformations**
Lycans must transform once a month to maintain their condition properly. If you control the transformation and do not transform, you will essentially start to merge with your alter personality, the beast within. Slowly you will become more like eachother before becoming essentially an amalgamation. It is HIGHLY suggested that no one does this, and is considered a sin by most lycans. It can result in a highly unstable personality, prone to extreme bouts of anger and blood lust. Eventually you will either go mad or be completely unrecognizable personality wise. In the end, neither the wolf or the human are left, leaving soemthing new.

There are werewolves that loose control that transform nightly, but they are rare and EXTREMELY dangerous. They are often prone to fits of anger and often loose control. At night when they transform, they loose all control over their "wolf".

**Powers and Abilities**
Lycans abilities grow as they age, and eventually their powers change quite drastically, slowly becoming de-tethered to the lunar cycle and growing in power. It is very linear, but also very apparent when comparing a new wolf to say a 500 year old werewolf. Eventually the progression slows, but it is not clear when it does. There is an upper cap to the power that a werewolf can reach, or at least it is assumed there is.

**Lycanthrope Physiology**
The potency of a werewolf's powers wax and wane during the lunar cycle (being at their most potent the closer it is to the full moon and at their weakest near the new moon).

**Immortality**
While werewolves may continue to age for a time after they've been bitten, most tend to stop aging somewhere between the age of twenty-five and forty-five. Regardless of when they stop aging, werewolves possess bodies that are not affected by common disease or ailments associated with aging (such as joint pain or poor eyesight).

- Supernatural Senses: Werewolves are supernatural creatures thus their senses are attuned to perceive ghosts and astral beings.
- Werewolf Transformation: Experienced werewolves can force a brief transformation at any time, including during daylight hours, Younger, inexperienced have little to no control or even awareness in this form while experienced werewolves do limited self-control while transformed.
- Cursed Venom: Werewolves' bite secretes an infectious venom.
- Enhanced Resiliency: Werewolves cannot be harmed by conventional weapons. Only a silver bullet or magic can pierce a werewolf's flesh.
- Enhanced Running Speed: Werewolves are incredibly fast with great reflexes and agility. Werewolves can run at around 100 MPH for hours on end without exertion. Under a Full Moon, some werewolves have been known to even break the sound barrier (~700 MPH) in very brief sprints (but enough to cover three city blocks in the blink of an eye or dodge a few bullets. Under a New Moon, a werewolf's top sprinting speed is between 200 to 300 MPH. Werewolves can also jump incredibly high and are capable of climbing at speeds roughly equal to their running speed.
- Enhanced Senses: Werewolves have incredibly acute senses of sight, smell, and hearing even outside of their transformed state. When in their wolf form, werewolves can see part of the infrared spectrum and detect the heat signatures of objects or people in total darkness. They can smell other living creatures within a mile (when upwind) and follow a scent regardless of terrain. Werewolves can hear the sound of a heartbeat within 100 feet in a quiet environment.
- Enhanced Strength: Werewolves are immensely powerful beings. In their un-transformed state, werewolves possess Classes 0-2 Enhanced Strength. The strongest werewolves have been noted as having Class VIII Enhanced Strength while transformed under the Full Moon and Class IV Enhanced Strength under a New Moon, but most average werewolves range from Class II to Class V.
- Magic Fangs and Claws: Werewolves' claws and teeth can rend just about anything: fabric, wood, cinder block, and even steel.

**Reproduction**

Werewolves can have children, but there are some distinct differences between the gestation periuod, among other things.

For one, when both parents, the gestation period is much shorter than in humans. Instead of 9 months, it is reduced to just under 2 months. This elevated growth is also observable in pups, as they grow rapidly until reaching around the age of 12.

**With Humans**
Werewolves can't have children with humans, unless physical modification is made. Baby werewolves transform every month once they are developed enough to do so (usually the last few months of pregnancy). They become much more active during this period, but this isn't a problem with werewolves as the mother also turns. Other species can have children with werewolves if they are genetically compatible and have the ability to withstand the transformations.

If a human were to get impregnated by a werewolf, there are a few options.
 1. Abortion
 2. Physical Modification to survive the transformations
 3. Sedation (least safe method)

**Werewolf Types**

**The Ulfhendar**

The Ulfhendar were elite warriors of ancient times, from the Scandinavian locale. They were Vargar (wolves, used often times to describe bandits, murders, thieves) with immense strength and power. They wore clothes made of wolf skin, sometimes fighting naked save for a wolf skin draped on their shoulders. They were one with the environment, as if wolves themselves. They would undergo various ritiuals and enter a trance state before entering battle. They fought without weapons, opting to use only their bare hands, or their mouths to bite their foes, just as a wolf would.

**The Kveld Ulf**

The Kveld Ulf, or “Night’s Wolf”, is a type of werewolf that transforms every night. They are drawn to the night and away from everyone else, preferring to be isolated. This state is usually brought on by a loss of control over their more wild side or a result of extreme trauma, or loss. They often times can be prone to fits of rage, and as the situation progress, they may become so even when in humanoid form.

**The Vargar Shaman**

These shaman were magicians that killed, skinned and then used the pelts of actual werewolves to gain their magical powers. There were two classes of Vargar Shaman - those that were warriors and those that used the pelts to enter a trance like state, and those that used the pelts as an initiation and a way to enter a trance like state and essentially become wolves. This is an illegal practice in most modern countries.

**Vargar**

In ancient Scandinavia, werewolves were given the name of Vargar, a name shared with criminals. They were outcasts, even among the other magical creatures and magicians community. They were expelled from all communities except their own, and were left to fend for themselves against the Wild Hunt. Everyone could kill them as they were not viewed as human, and would often by hunted by other magical creatures looking to gain favour with the hunt.

- There are many types of Therianthropes other then the Werewolves these included

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 Ailuranthrope (Werejaguar and Werecougar)
 Chorianthrope (Werepig)

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