Lycans

## The Lycans

The Symbol of the Lycan kingdom

Lycan Shaman

Lycan Knight

Lycan Shinobi

War Lycan

Werewolf

Were-pup

Hunting

Usually have a tail and wolven ears.

Fangs

 Founding and Purpose

The Lycans are another name for the creatures we know as werewolves.

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In the AE lore the lycans or werwolves are an ongoing race that hauls back to even into the original AdventureQuest saga. Only there on occasion werewolves could be cured from there curse. But as time went on this became highly uncommon, also it is quite bothersome to do.

The curse of lycantrophy ===
Unlike for beastmen, lycanthropy is in essence unnatural but a curse. First the curse mainly was afflicted to humans, turning them into Lycans or werewolves. But as the lycanthropy curse can be transmitted by a bite of a lycan more other creatures could get affected too. Resulting into odd combinations such as werebats, werehares, weregourds, wereligers and so on. Yet, these creatures as they were unique in their kind often die before being able to somehow reproduce unlike the normal lycans.

With the exception of werepyres, a breed that's both Vampire and Werewolf.

### Lycans troughout the timelines

The existence of the lycan race already starts in the very first timeline of Lore. And their feud with the Vampires starts there already as they blame the vampires for the creation of (in their eyes) the abomination of the werepyre and vice versa.

The race is very unorganised at first and very primitive. Living in caves and forests. In the DragonFable timeline they seem to be almost extinct but when they later on appear in the AQWorlds timeline they are way more organized and even adopted fire, armor, magic and weaponry on top of being an actual kingdom settled in the rocky area's of Darkovia.

### Internal ranks and statuses

Although the lycans are quite an savage and not very civilised race; they do have an order within them which is more practical than actually hierarchical. Going up or down ranks also usually is fought out in brawls.

#### The Lycan King

For quite a while the Lycan king has been unnamed. But in the AQWorlds timeline an Lycan king stands up after defeating the previous king in front of The Hero. This (and current) Werewolf king is named Constantin.

#### The Alpha Lycans

The Alpha Werewolf is a male werewolf that mainly functions as leader over a pack or a family of werewolves. They assert dominance over the lesser werewolves and are commanders, fathers and the counselors/rivals of the king.

#### Werewolf Shamans

There are *really* few elderly werewolves because the race is ongoingly at war. But if there are, they mostly are the werewolf shamans. Also female werewolves can take up this function in the werewolf society. Shamans are more intelligent than most werewolves, sometimes even smarter than the Alpha's or the king. They are loremasters, magic users and the healers of the pack.

#### Lycan Knight

The werewolf knights are an assembly of young yet adult werewolves that form the elite guard of the werewolf king. They also make sure the homes of the werewolf clan is safe from danger and function as border patrol and lookout.

#### Lycan Shinobi

The Lycan Shinobi or Shadowstalkers are a legendary cult of Lycans that origin from Yokai isle from a long lost expedition of Lycans. They are the rogue's and assasins of the Lycan kingdom.

#### Other Lycans

Further there are War Lycans or Lycan Brutes which are basically the Lycan warriors and berserkers. They do the fighting in the war and make sure the lycan race stays existing.

#### Young Lycans

The younger lycans are called werewolf pups or werepups. They are adorable to see, yet not so friendly as they appear.

#### Notable members:

* Constatin (king)
* Faopaw (ambassasor)
* Lycus
* Asuka
* Apextwin

## Notable events and achievements.

### AdventureQuest

In short in AdventureQuest the Lycan faction clashes with the Vampire faction over the existence of the Werepyres. The Hero can choose to join either side.

### AQWorlds

In the AQWorlds timeline, the werewolves or lycans live in Darkovia outside the castle walls of the Vampire faction. The Hero meets them there, before they invade the vampire territorry because of an intervention of Drakath and later the Queen of Monsters.

They also clash with the vampires over the Blood Moon event and when the long lost Lycan Shinobi clan makes it's re-appearance.

### Other AE games

As they are not quite available in DF or ED, in AQ3D the Lycans appear as enemies of the Vampires again when Safiria marries. But at least here, there is an intend for peace between the two factions.

## Fun Facts

* They hate silver!
* Are not always so savage.
* Along with certain kinds of Beastmen they are sometimes called furries.