Werewolves

Also known as **Lycanthropes** and the **Children of the Moon**,
 are a species of Downworlders. Like vampires, werewolves are humans
infected with a demonic disease, which gives them the ability to
transform—or Change—into powerful wolves/humanoid wolves and gain their
inhuman strength and enhanced capabilities.

Lycanthropy transforms a human into a werewolf, a demihuman whose
 demonic infection causes them to transform into a large and dangerous
wolf under the light of the full moon, though they can also Change at
will. Some wolves who have been wolves for years can even refuse to
change at the light of a full moon, though this has been proven
difficult. Werewolves in their lupine form are not merely wolves; they
possess unnatural strength and speed comparable to that of demons, and
their claws and canines are strong enough to be able to slash through a
chain-link fence or bite through a padlock. While they still bear a
little resemblance to their human selves while Turned, their eyes become
 that of a wolf's, now the colors have been showed to vary. As there is
some sort of pack mentality with shifting, alpha wolves tend to be
larger while the second in commands or middle class known as betas tend
to be of a slightly slender build but strong in their own rights. Omegas
 tend to be scrawny and almost runt like, omegas are also rarely seen in
 packs and normally on their own without the aid of a larger force of
wolves.

In addition to their supernatural strength, grace, and reflexes,
werewolves have the same unnaturally accelerated healing abilities as
most other Downworlders. They cannot regenerate a severed limb, but they
 can recover quickly from most mundane wounds.

In human form, they look fairly normal, albeit a little ragged,
as many of their kind do not care much about their appearances and do
not bother to clean themselves up. Werewolves also retain their
superhuman speed and strength while in human form. Werewolves are also
mortal; they age and die normally like ordinary humans, though they do
grow slightly faster. Some werewolves though have been found alive for
centuries, it depends on the strength of the demonic disease. Though it
seems those of the stronger breed have died out for good, most likely
from over hunting by humans or nephilim during the downworlder wars.

As werewolves, they follow the long held tradition of being mortal enemies of vampires. Maia
 explains that the demons who passed on the disease to humans that gave
birth to vampires and werewolves are believed to have been mortal
enemies, and, as a result, the prejudice was passed down through their
respective races.

The bite of a werewolf has a fifty/fifty chance of turning the poor person who has been bitten.

### **Weaknesses**

The only ways to permanently wound or kill a werewolf are either with the angelic fire of a seraph blade
 or with pure silver. Silver is associated with the moon, and wounds
made with silver weapons will not only cause permanent damage to the
wounded but will also cause them great pain, as even their enhanced
healing abilities are not effective when a wound is inflicted by silver.
 Any Institute will have a cache of silver weapons in place for just this reason, in case of rogue werewolves.