Werewolf

**Werewolves** are a supernatural species of powerful monsters that are reasonably common and have existed for thousands of years as the natural enemy of the Vampires.

## Overview

### Creation

The first werewolf in existence is the Alpha Werewolf birthed to the monster goddess Eve countless years ago. He is known as **Lycaon** who had 50 werewolf children all considered to be purebloods as of modern day - some of those 50 have descendants who are more powerful and possess unique abilities. All turned werewolves are linked back to them as the original bloodlines.

If someone is bitten or scratched by a werewolf, the gene then passes through to them making them into "Omegas". The bite transfers the "curse" through the saliva entering the blood stream which indicates other ways one could be turned. Bitten werewolves are able to procreate to create werewolf offspring. However, their nature is dormant until at the age of between 11 and 17, some sudden hormonal changes occur during puberty that makes a boy more vulnerable to lycanthropy. At this point, their body starts to change rapidly, their urges to transform start to show more and more, almost uncontrollably. Also making them deal with hormones that are intensified with desires to mate, changes in voice, changes in physical size, and of course, the desire to hunt and feed. Born werewolves with "bitten" parents are referred to as "Betas".

Werewolves can be enhanced and "evolved" through the consumption of angelic grace. A being can also become part werewolf through the ritual even if they are a natural witch. "Evolved" werewolves were created by Lorenzo Gilcrest - a hybrid, when he became the alpha of a werewolf pack and performed an ancient werewolf ritual to gift them with the ability to control their transformation at will among others.

Artificial Werewolves can be made through a special ointment applied at midnight during a full mooon. The mixture contains rare herbs and ingredients such as; Valerian Root, sea water, Wolfsbane, and a little Opium. Once the concoction is ready, the person has to strip down and have the ointment rubbed over their entire body. After that, the intended must wear a wolf pelt hide before taking the life of a mortal and reciting "Hashi nvgidgia nvasdi" which invokes Selene, goddess of the moon, resulting in them transforming. These are referred to as "eclipse" wolves.

### Physiology

Because a Werewolf gains their power from the moon, full moons (and especially on supermoons, when the full moon is even closer to the Earth than it normally is) are when they are at their strongest. However, this also means that their animal instincts and heightened aggression are at their peak as well, which makes them much more likely to lose control and harm or kill someone by accident. This makes Werewolves vulnerable to exposure and also makes it easier for them to be captured or killed by Hunters, which is why Hunters do the majority of their hunting on full moons when Werewolves are most likely to make a mistake. Conversely, a lunar eclipse will suppress a Werewolf's powers for the duration of time when the moon is in the earth's umbral shadow, which usually lasts between ten and twenty minutes. During this time, a Werewolf will essentially be human, making them vulnerable to Hunters or anyone else who may try to take advantage of their lack of powers.

Werewolves are humanoid carnivores, the ultimate combination of wolves and humans. They feed on prey found nearby, which, due to the increase of urban areas, are mostly people. When they devour the flesh of a victim they leave a recognizable trace on the prey: they always eat the heart, although they do sometimes eat more of the body.

Werewolves in their wolf form are quite similar to natural wolves, although unlike natural wolves, werewolves have wicked fangs, a larger size, and a much more feral and predatory appearance. They can also be distinguished from regular wolves by their displays of supernatural strength, blurred speed, and size which is comparable to fully grown humans. The fur color of wolf forms differs from one to the other (e.g., green, white, brown, or black).

A werewolf will only transform into a wolf under a full moon. The first transformation is quite slow, and the person is subjected to at least five or six hours of intense, bone-breaking pain before the actual transformation. After the first transformation, the experience does not last nearly as long, but it is still painful and something many werewolves come to dread. During the shapeshifting process, any clothes they are wearing will be torn off if they have not already removed it beforehand.

In human form, a werewolves eyes can glow green with the sclera turning black if they are descended from a pureblood though a grace enhanced werewolf may have glowing lime-yellow irises. Werewolves have a higher body temperature than humans with one account stating that they felt as if their skin was on fire.

Werewolves are incapable of being natural witches due to already being claimed by Selene but they can become student witches or borrowers. Werewolves can be hybrids with Gorgons - a demi-god race and it was thought to be impossible for one to be both a werewolf and vampire however through the Augmented Vampire Curse a werewolf could become a vampire and retain their wolf nature.

### Pyschology

Most of born werewolves have difficult-to-control anger and aggression while bitten werewolves if they already had anger issues prior to being turned will be even more violatile than regular wolves. They are known to be aggressive, strong and fast, even in human form with them often having trouble controlling temper, especially leading up to and during the full moon.

Werewolves seem to have a strong sense of duty and loyalty to protect their own and feel a responsibility to help their fellow werewolves whenever they can. They are also extremely loyal to whoever their current alpha is willing to do virtually anything for them and modern wolves seem to regard their alpha as "royalty" seeing him or her as their monarch that they would lie down their lives for.

While some werewolves prefer to keep to themselves and keep their beastly natures hidden, most seem to aggregate themselves into packs and residing in areas isolated from general human society so they can run free on the full moons without fear of hurting or killing anyone.

Lunar psychosis is a very rare occurrence among werewolves in which the werewolf's mind is in flux, trapped between their wolf and human state. When a werewolf is affected by this, they have a harder time bridging the gap between the two states and to access their memories as they normally would. This only happens after a premature reversion from wolf to human, when something causes the body to shift back before the full moon is over, typically something caused by extreme trauma. Given that a werewolf prematurely returned to their human state, left unattended, there is a danger that they could revert back to their wolf form.

### Cure

In the 1930s, the Men of Letters successfully created a workable cure to reverse lycanthropy. It requires the target to be injected with a concentrated dose of wolfsbane combined with the blood of the Alpha Werewolf (or three or more of his children). The needle used to inject the cure has to be made of silver.

Those cursed with lycanthropy can be reverted into their former form by a witch casting; "Anima marcam. Iskoristi vuka." It requires a full moon, burning wood log pentagram; Chalk pentagram and a bowl of salt.

The magic in the werewolf condition can be removed by a special "metaphysical blackhole" who are usually created by a side effect of an angel's touch on a human soul or when a Nephilim becomes depowered. This was seen when Parker Lockwood cured Hope Morningstar.

### Powers

* **Shapeshifting:** Werewolves transform into a wolf-like creature only under a full moon. During the coming of Eve, Sam tells Dean that werewolves no longer change under a full moon, but under half moons. The demon Crowley agreed with Sam by saying "werewolves changing under a full moon, so... 09". Pureblood werewolves can shift at will, however, they somewhat lose control and so can certain hybrids though some are controlled by instinctual emotions such as; fear, anger, or etc. In doing so, every bone in their body breaks. Werewolves can learn how to only transform a few selective features as needed, such as only extending their claws to cut something, their fangs to bite something, and etc.
* **Werewolf Bite:** All werewolves have specialised venom that are extremely lethal to most vampires and other supernaturals. It acts as an poison of sorts that will enter the bloodstream and deliver the toxin throughout the body, producing discomfort and weakness, developing uncontrollable hunger that progresses to delusions, hallucinations, rabid rage, and dementia, culminating in death.
	+ **Infectious bite:** A werewolf can turn another person into a werewolf through a bite.
* **Enhanced Strength:** A werewolf's strength is at a level far superior to that of a human enabling them to easily overpower humans and can rip flesh and bones with amazing force, their strength is notable even for monsters, as they have been observed as being able to smash stone with their bare hands.
* **Enhanced Agility:** Their agility is far greater than humans, often allowing them to perform leaps across incredible heights and distances, and can even scale vertical surfaces. Their agility also allows them to easily and rapidly sprint. They can also jump down from incredible heights with almost gravity-defying grace.
* **Enhanced Stamina:** Werewolves do not tire easily, allowing them to physically exert themselves for longer, and in a superhuman physical capacity.
* **Superhuman Senses:** All Werewolves have extremely keen and heightened senses of smell, sight, taste, hearing, and touch that exceed their wolf counterparts and that of regular canines. They are able to see better than humans in darkness and are well known for being excellent trackers, being capable of using their sense of smell to track targets.
* **Superhuman Speed:** Werewolves are much faster than humans and some other supernatural beings. They possess this ability both in and out of transformation, with an animalistic quickness. Some werewolves have shown to become almost like a blur like vampires.
* **Regeneration:** Werewolves possess superhuman regenerative abilities, meaning that if they are physically injured, their bodies will heal rapidly. Like vampires, werewolves can heal from the most grievous of injuries, even in human form, albeit more slowly in comparison to vampires.
	+ **Longevity:** Because of their rapid cellular regeneration it prevents them properly aging as it replaces aging cells at a constant rate allowing Werewolves to live much longer and healthier than normal humans.
* **Magic Detection:** When dark magic is used in the presence of werewolves, a ringing appears in their ears with its pitch becoming higher the closer they get.

### Weaknesses

1. **Silver:** A werewolf's main weakness is their vulnerability to silver or any substance containing silver, as they can be killed with a silver knife or bullet. Contact with silver will hurt them. An injection of silver nitrate was able to kill one. Grace-enhanced werewolves and some other hybrids are immune to silver.
2. **Angel Blades:** An angel blade to the heart can instantly kill a werewolf.
3. **The Colt:** As the Colt has the ability to kill almost anything in creation, it is most likely a weakness to werewolves.
4. **Higher Beings:** Entities such as angels, demons, leviathans, nephilim, cosmic beings, and etc can kill Werewolves.
5. **Scent Misdirection:** Werewolves have been shown to be able to have their sense of smell fooled, allowing an enemy to sneak up on them.
6. Decapitation
7. Heart Removal
8. Old Age
9. **Vampires:** Although werewolves are, in general, stronger than young vampires, those of higher age can easily kill werewolves in their human form and even in their wolf form though with more difficulty.