Werewolf
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A Werewolf is a lycanthrope whose animal form is a wolf. Lycanthropes are creatures that can shift between their original humanoid form and an animal form; the wolf is the form most often associated with them, though other predators occur, as with the weresharks.1
The curse
Lycanthropes are bound to the phases of the moon and change against their will during certain lunar cycles. The werewolves of the northern lands can win full or partial control over the curse through the wisdom of the Fraza.1
Among the Frans
In Fraza, lycanthropy takes a different course for those of Fran blood. When they are afflicted, they do not become mindless monsters, and if they learn to control their powers they become some of the most powerful warriors in the realm, known as the ulfhednar. These warriors are held to be chosen by the gods, and young people are sometimes rewarded with the gift.2
In Zincirsiz
In the campaign Zincirsiz ("Unchained"), the northerner Olaf is a werewolf. In the north his condition is counted a gift, though he calls it a curse. He belongs to a respected body of warriors who learn to control the change through training and rites, but he left before finishing, unwilling to take the role his family pressed on him, and seeks his own way to master it.3
When Jonathan River perceives the trace of a wolf spirit behind Olaf, seeming to look back at him, the northern werewolf's state is explained as a grace of the Great Wolf. It passes mostly through blood or a similar bond, and one who learns to control it can change at will; it is not the same as the curse. Olaf knows the difference, yet he still feels it as a curse in the life he leads among others.4
Northern lycanthropy, it is said, is far from mere savagery: it is bound up with ritual, faith and an important military and social role.5
Finding a werewolf
Shapechangers can be known by their scent. The Potion of the Hound’s Nose lets its drinker catch that scent, try to tell from it what kind of shapechanger is near, a werewolf or a doppelganger for example, and find where it is.6
Notlar
- ↑KitapMercenary Compendium, p. 39
- ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 43
- ↑Oyun masasıKarantina Günleri | DnD 5E Oynanış #7 (Zincirsiz #7), 45:49
- ↑Oyun masasıYüzleşme | DnD 5E Oynanış #17 (Zincirsiz #17), 1:01:15, 1:02:23, 1:06:34
- ↑Oyun masasıKırılma | DnD 5E Oynanış #22 (Zincirsiz #22), 1:09:19
- ↑KitapShadow Over Vansreik, p. 71
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