Werewolves

Werewolves have been around since humanity first started climbing the food chain. It is a soul disease meaning there is no real cure except death/ removal of the soul. Werewolves are extremely powerful, they are built to be the ideal predator. However, they do have a few weaknesses: silver or any other holy/ divine objects (i.e. places of worship, holy books etc), restlessness- werewolves can never get a good nights sleep which puts mental strain on the person, weakened mind- being a werewolf ain't good for your mental health, blinding lights- werewolves have very sensitive eyes, sometimes the disease causes epilepsy, and magic- due to the nature of the disease, magic can put a werewolf off from eating you. Werewolves have strengths: enhanced physical strength, high intelligence, "white" werewolves can turn invisible when they heat their fur, the ability to terrify- this means as soon as you lay eyes upon a werewolf your fight or flight instinct kicks off, leading you into an irrational, scared state (extremely potent to people who are already scared of werewolves), they can breathe fire (more like, heated air)- to a certain degree, not like the way dragons can and they have keen senses- werewolves can navigate in complete darkness and can see your soul/ sense your heartbeat.  Werewolves are rare; due to their mastery of killing, in order to preserve the human race, werewolves are sparsely scattered around the globe. However, in spite of this, werewolves seem to be particularly concentrated in England and as a consequence, there's quite a few in America.

The werewolf disease seems to be more likely to take a hold of men over women, no one knows why that's just the way it is. If you are bitten by a werewolf there is a 50% chance you will be infected, provided that you survive the initial attack. The infection takes a while to set in, this can be a nauseating process.  Werewolves transform once a month on a full moon, but they can change due to stress and other intense emotions. The transformation is never easy and is extremely painful.  Werewolves have been used in supernatural sports. The main sport being Theseus where players, advanced with skates and weapons, have to navigate a labyrinth with a werewolf chasing after them. This game is extremely popular within the supernatural community and has become a professional sport. Werewolves are feared and somewhat hated due to their association with Sithatu, the original werewolf and the devil. There are ways to avoid transforming: if it's on a full moon, simply not making eye contact with the moon will prevent the person from changing but you will have to fight the uncontrollable desire to look at the moon, calming yourself down if in a stressful situation or taking a wolfsbane potion or pill, which will make sure you retain your consciousness, to a certain degree, while in beast form.

A werewolf's child can't inherit the disease from the parent but may gain some symptoms like restless sleep or slightly heightened senses. Werewolves also seem to not harm their children or loved ones when in beast form (a.k.a when they lose control). Female werewolves, despite being rare, are much more likely to pass on the infection through their bite than males. Werewolves seem to display more feline behaviour than actual wolf-like behaviour. They don't tend to hunt in packs or have a pack hierarchy but can hunt in groups when they have common or challenging prey. Another ability I forgot to mention is that werewolves can walk on walls if they are driven to do so.