Thiess of Kaltenbrun

## Origin

In 1681, and again in 1691, an astute old man in Swedish Livonia named Thiess of Kaltenbrun was called to testify as a witness in two trials. In both cases, when presenting his eyewitness testimony, he dropped a bizarre bombshell revelation in court. **Thiess freely admitted, without anyone accusing him of it, that he was a werewolf.**

His self-implicated testimony revealed a very atypical version of werewolf lore. Here are some highlights:

Thiess claimed that he was a **"Hounds of God"** who traveled to Hell three times a year to fight covens of evil witches. The three dates were specific holy days: Saint Lucia's Day, Pentecost and Saint John's Day. **Thiess only took the form of a wolf while in the nearby swamp that was his gateway to hell. (Hell, he said, was "the place beyond the sea".)** Thiess said he was one of several werewolves who engaged in this behavior. **Defeating the witches in the underworld was their common cause because all werewolves have a fierce hatred of the Devil.** After battles, they would remain in wolf form for a while and attack livestock for food.- but contrary to what you might expect from a wild werewolf, they roasted or salted the meat before eating it. **He also claimed that the witches stole livestock and grain from local farms, and he and his fellow werewolves rescued them and brought them back.**

Thiess claimed that his lycanthropy was bestowed upon him when he was "roasted by a rogue". **He said that if a werewolf blew into a cup or pitcher, and later you drank from that vessel, you too could become a werewolf.** He said he used to have a wolfskin cloak that helped him to to change, but that he overcame the need for it and gave it to another werewolf years before. At one point he claimed to have given up werewolf 10 years before the trial, but in later testimony he admitted this was a lie and that he was still actively transforming three nights a year.

The courts were unsure what to make of Thiess. He was the main witness for the prosecution in both trials and claimed to be doing God's work. The first trial was actually about Thiess's accusation that his neighbor had attacked him and broken his nose (by hitting him with a broom decorated with ponytails, mind you). The second trial was more important, dealing with a church robbery, in which Thiess was the main witness. …but the whole werewolf thing was weird and officially not good. The first time they seem to have just concluded that he was a harmless madman and left him alone. When he made the same claims at the theft trial ten years later, they questioned him deeply and pointed out some inconsistencies in his story.

Then, in 1692, the courts convicted him of heresy for his strange allegations, ordered a flogging and exiled Thiess of the community. (Note that 1692 is also the year of the Salem witch trials, where 19 people were executed for being accused of witchcraft, implying a significant contrast in the mentality of the authorities in the two regions. Not how flogging and exile is not a horrible thing , but it's not on the same level as being hanged to death , and it took 10 years and two ongoing lycanthropy confessions before I decided to do something about it.)

## Powers and Abilities

**•Strength** (Fought the Devil, his witches and demons)

**•Endurance** (Thiess survived the Devil's blows)

**•Speed** (Was able to follow and dodge blows from demons and the Devil)

**•Stamina** (Extremely high)

**•Acute Senses** (comparable to wolves, who have hearing enhanced sense of smell and vision)

**•Adaptation** (is able to adapt and survive in any environment and/or external condition, being able to tolerate a wide range of temperatures and humidity levels, any quantity or quality of food, breathable medium, and other things with little or no discomfort)

**•Supernatural Condition** (a power to achieve and remain in physical and mental condition far beyond the natural level)

**•Stealth mastery** (Uses wolf-like stealth tactics)

**•Contaminant Immunity** (Is immune to all, known poisons, toxins, poisons, viruses, bacteria, allergens, etc)

**•Lunar Empowerment**

**•Regeneration**

**•Semi-Immortality/Longevity** (they live much longer than humans, the condition makes the host virtually immortal through the employment of healing factors and a amazing metabolism)

**•Claw Retraction**

**•Fear Inducement** (A werewolf can make a human feel fear, when in its eyes, becoming paralyzed with fear, even with its presence makes any human fearful)

**•Immunity to mind control or hypnosis**

**•Lun Mind** (revert to a wild mind while under the moon)

**•Energy Ability** (Thiess is an old man)(He ventured into Hell with other werewolves to fight the Devil, his witches and demons. Demons can fight Angels, which were believed to be real stars and shooting stars.)

**•Immunity to Hell** (Stepping between planes/dimensions/worlds (this power one can have or obtain, but it relates to the one in particular - in which werewolves were highly benevolent beings sent by God to protect people, fight demons, and even pass to and from Earth and other worlds (i.e. Hell), to do these jobs, Thiess and the Hounds of God)

**•Werewolf Physiology**

## Talents

Fought against the Devil and his witches.

## Note

Werewolves were the Devil's mortal enemies, so it wouldn't make sense that the Devil with all his might wouldn't want to kill werewolves with one blow every time he hit them. Therefore, Thiess's durability would scale to Devil's AP.

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Lobanil ( Mitologia Brasileira)

Lobisomem Demônio (Mitologia)

Origem do Lobisomem (Mitologia)

Peeira (Mitologia)

Wulver (Mitologia)

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