Post by Adam on Mar 7, 2016 9:18:45 GMT
Origins: Werewolves have existed for as long as there have been humans. While many werewolves have their thoughts upon how their kind began, with many starting a multitude of religions in name of these idols they believe in, the truth of how they began lies within the knowledge of the Alphas, and has been a kept secret since the beginning, when werewolves began to sire others into their packs. Since the beginning, there have been many legends about the lycanthrope, or loup-garou. However, you call them, the werewolf is a mighty myth and force of nature.
Weakness: Of all of the things that the movies have said on werewolves, the myth that it takes silver to kill one has been the most accurate. However, it depends on what Phase of Werewolf you use it on, and how much silver you use. Phase One Werewolves (explained below) are the most allergic to silver. Usually, just a well-aimed bullet to any point of the body is enough to send enough of the silver through the young wolf’s body and effectively kill them. However, for a Phase II, it usually takes a considerably larger amount, but with the advancement in technology, and the creation of silver nitrate rounds, a single shot is all it takes in order to kill one.
Silver aside, in human form a werewolf, is susceptible to any damage that a human is capable of, except disease and sickness. Stab wounds, gunshot wounds, and even being hit by a vehicle can severely injure a werewolf in their human form, but as long as nothing that pierces their body is not silver, they will not die. Instead, their bodies will go into a state of shock, which can lead people to believe them to be dead, but this also leaves them in an incredibly vulnerable state as well. In their human and wolf forms, their senses, while superior, are highly sensitive to certain frequencies and certain levels of light. Although older and more powerful werewolves have honed their senses, many younger werewolves often fall victim to loud, high-frequency alarms.
Like vampires, werewolves also have a hunger for blood, but their appetite is also specifically attuned to bloodied meats in general. Also like vampires, werewolves must regulate these cravings, or they will grow weak and vulnerable. Animal blood has been found to be a sustainable method to feed, specifically cattle, but thirdly like vampires, werewolves have a hunger for human meat. Although the well fed and experienced werewolf can sustain from feeding on humans, so much so as to be capable of living among humans peacefully and living a full and healthy life with them, all it takes it for a werewolf to taste just a single drop of human blood in order to enter the point of nearly no return. Most werewolves that feed on human blood rarely have the will power to turn back from it once they have tasted it for the first time. Most who become addicted and attempt to become clean have starved themselves to death in the process, or often become feral and unstable when humans are present among them. Although possible to come clean from human blood, the taste for it always remains. However, most werewolves only have to worry about the golden rule: ”The wolf is only evil if the person who is bitten is evil.”
Lastly, a werewolf is a slave to their emotions. When one reaches Phase II of their life, they learn that their transformation has become untethered from the moon and tethered more to the werewolf’s emotions. A simple overreaction would be more than enough to make a person turn in public and raise awareness of the existence of their kind, which is why many werewolves are either found and taken under a Forebear’s (they’re explained below) wing, to learn about their new life, or they end up dead from a silver bullet to the head from a patrol of Hunters.
Strengths: Whether a pureblood or a bitten (as both werewolves and vampires refer to a mortal that was turned), all werewolves, save for one group, are at peak human conditioning their human forms. They are stronger and faster than the greatest Olympic athletes, and their senses in human form are far superior to that of a human’s. In their human form, a werewolf can easily hear a person faintly whispering from a block away, even with noise pollution distorting the location of the noise. Their sense of smell is also sharp, allowing them to follow a person almost indefinitely unless they manage to hide, or change their scent. While they cannot see microscopic things the way vampires can, werewolves nevertheless have a superior sense of vision than humans, allowing them to see certain details and things that humans would normally miss out of the corner of their eye. This also helps a werewolf pick up on things quickly, if necessary. Their sense of taste is further superior, as they can taste specific compounds in most things. For instance, a werewolf could take a bite out of a piece of Filet Mignon, and can taste the different ingredients, individually. Their sense of touch is also enhanced to where werewolves feel very little pain unless it’s from silver or magic. Even their own flesh is slightly denser than humans, but not by too much. It takes more effort to cut them in human form, but a bullet will pierce them either way. Naturally, a werewolf does have a denser bone structure, even in human form.
Although at peak conditioning, a werewolf in human form is not superhumanly strong, and thus not stronger than a vampire in human form, unless the cycle of the full moon has begun. During the three nights of the full moon, every werewolf in the world gains a surge of superhuman strength, speed, stamina, and further heightened senses that allow them to easily outclass most of the supernatural community. Although, silver is still as fatal as ever to them when the cycle is around. Albeit still not as strong as their fully transformed state, werewolves under the cycle of the full moon are still forces to be reckoned with.
Transformed, a werewolf is just short of a juggernaut, as even Phase I wolves are strong enough to effectively ram through a wall of solid concrete with no damage to their bodies. Any projectile or stabbing weapon that isn’t made of silver will shatter against their now denser flesh and fur, and their physical strength is just under a fully transformed dragon’s, and their durability is only a quarter of the might of a dragon’s. A werewolf’s claws can rip through reinforced steel, and cut a human to ribbons in seconds. Though gaining in mass, a werewolf is still incredibly fast and agile, with hundreds of newly formed muscles in their bodies working together to make the beasts better mobile, and reflexive, and overall deadly.
Werewolf Phases: Werewolves are divided into two phases, although this is still a third type of werewolf, it is not included amongst the species, and is explained in its own space below.
Phase I: The first stage every Bitten werewolf goes through. Upon being bitten by a werewolf, a human will go through a “transitioning” phase, where their senses are normally out of whack, they get fevers, fatigue, extreme sensitivity to everything, including extreme, vivid dreams and nightmares, ranging from running freely, without fear, in the woods to disfigured humans with wolf features attacking them, or people they know or love. The delusions and illnesses often end around the week before the first full moon, where the Bitten go about their regular lives until the first transformation begins. Every transformation of Phase I is extremely painful, as bones break, organs stop working and resize, and muscles are tearing and reforming at once to make a new creature. Although this kind of pain would kill a normal human being, a werewolf’s body is constantly regenerating, leaving them unable to die from such excruciating pain. In the end, a quadrupedal werewolf, roughly the size of a Lion is left in place of where the human was. These creatures are often feral, and defensive, striking when feeling threatened, but often feeding on wild animals, and anything worth game to it. The werewolf often reverts back to human form when the pull of the moon is no longer in the skies and the sun is beginning to rise, with no memory of the pain, or the transformation that occurred, or how they got to the place where they wake up.
Although those that are Bitten often spend a small amount of time as a Phase I, it is often only for a couple of years before they evolve into a Phase II werewolf, and begin life anew, and easier.
Phase II: Bitten werewolves eventually evolve into what is known simply as Phase II. For every Bitten and Pureborn werewolf, it is the final stage of their cycle, and where they inevitably remain in their immortal lives. Phase II’s are more powerful transformed than their Phase I counterparts. At this stage, werewolves can change at will, and older werewolves can transform parts of their bodies at will, albeit for a short time. Transformed, they are far stronger, faster, and even retain their human intellect, but incapable of human speech. However, all werewolves, whether transformed or human, have a telepathic ability to understand one another and perceive what one another are saying. Phase II werewolves also have a higher tolerance to silver, in which it requires more to kill them. Shooting a transformed Phase II with silver bullets often reverts them back to human form, where they can push the bullets out with sheer muscle power, and regenerate, whereas a single silver nitrate round could kill a Phase II.
In this form, the werewolf is now bipedal and has a more humanoid appearance. This allows the werewolf to now easily climb larger objects and traverses more complex terrains.
Alphas: Many beings in the supernatural community have never seen an Alpha before, or, at least, have never known if they have ever been in the presence of one. They are the first of the Werewolf bloodlines and the most powerful of the species. Alphas are said to have a mental link to every werewolf in the world, save for a select few that can magically block the link. It is through this link, that Alphas have a sort of dominating presence around other werewolves, who often feel unable to argue with an Alpha, or even look an Alpha in the eye unless spoken to.
Nobody knows the true extent of an Alpha’s strength, but it is said to be as equally powerful as that of Vampire Ancients, and just as elusive. There are many myths amongst werewolves of Alphas being able to crush boulders, and even kill a transformed dragon with little to no weaponry besides claws. Although such myths have never been documented, it is thought that Alphas are physical among the strongest creatures in the magical community. Their speed is of equal mystery, as many have noted that Alphas move abnormally fast for a werewolf, and exhibit the ability to move too fast for the eye to track. Even in human form, unlike other werewolves, Alphas exhibit superhuman levels of strength, speed and even seemingly nigh-unlimited stamina, if tested. Mentally, they’re seemingly “aware” of reality changes, or shifts, but it’s akin to catching something out of the corner of one’s eye.
Despite all of these great powers and seemingly True Immortality, Alphas are extremely limited in number. While there are potentially hundreds of thousands, if not millions of werewolves in the world, on record, there are only 24 known Alphas in existence, 13 Alpha Males and 11 Alpha Females, and each ruling over a Pack in the world. Through the ages, the Alphas have “mated” with one another to ensure strong bloodlines, but have never remained monogamous for very long, as each desire a sense of freedom and control. Although out of all the Alphas, the oldest and most powerful of the Alpha males has yet to mate with another Alpha female.
Pack System: The Pack System is the living order in which the Alphas rule and keep a transparent eye over the werewolf community. Each Pack exists across the 24 time zones in the world, with one of 24 Alphas ruling over the Pack.
Although there are not many laws that werewolves must abide by in their respective packs, outside the laws of man, the two golden rules are to A.)Never Kill/Feed on a Human and B.)Never reveal your existence or any other werewolf’s existence to humanity. In order to ensure that Bad Blood activity remains low and that werewolf remain off the radars of the Hunters. Since there is only one Alpha to a pack, they select who they believe is the wisest and strongest of their Pack, and combine their powerful Alpha blood with the wolf, making them a Beta. Although they still look like Phase II wolves, they’re far stronger and hold powers similar to an Alpha, but on a weaker scale. Through the Betas, are recruited more werewolves, who share the Beta’s enhanced Alpha blood, and thus receive a diluted form of the Alpha’s power. Like Betas, Deltas are stronger, faster and agiler than regular werewolves, and while they still retain their Phase II forms, their eye color changes instead from a bright yellow, to a more golden color, signifying their rank in the hierarchy.
Like Alphas, Betas and Deltas are harder to kill due to their enhanced blood and hold dominating abilities, similar to Alphas. Most consider them the authorities of the lycanthrope community and often give them great respect and reverence when met with one. Although their powers do not extend beyond werewolf-related issues, they are known to get stuck in the crossfire of other powerful beings.
Weakness: Of all of the things that the movies have said on werewolves, the myth that it takes silver to kill one has been the most accurate. However, it depends on what Phase of Werewolf you use it on, and how much silver you use. Phase One Werewolves (explained below) are the most allergic to silver. Usually, just a well-aimed bullet to any point of the body is enough to send enough of the silver through the young wolf’s body and effectively kill them. However, for a Phase II, it usually takes a considerably larger amount, but with the advancement in technology, and the creation of silver nitrate rounds, a single shot is all it takes in order to kill one.
Silver aside, in human form a werewolf, is susceptible to any damage that a human is capable of, except disease and sickness. Stab wounds, gunshot wounds, and even being hit by a vehicle can severely injure a werewolf in their human form, but as long as nothing that pierces their body is not silver, they will not die. Instead, their bodies will go into a state of shock, which can lead people to believe them to be dead, but this also leaves them in an incredibly vulnerable state as well. In their human and wolf forms, their senses, while superior, are highly sensitive to certain frequencies and certain levels of light. Although older and more powerful werewolves have honed their senses, many younger werewolves often fall victim to loud, high-frequency alarms.
Like vampires, werewolves also have a hunger for blood, but their appetite is also specifically attuned to bloodied meats in general. Also like vampires, werewolves must regulate these cravings, or they will grow weak and vulnerable. Animal blood has been found to be a sustainable method to feed, specifically cattle, but thirdly like vampires, werewolves have a hunger for human meat. Although the well fed and experienced werewolf can sustain from feeding on humans, so much so as to be capable of living among humans peacefully and living a full and healthy life with them, all it takes it for a werewolf to taste just a single drop of human blood in order to enter the point of nearly no return. Most werewolves that feed on human blood rarely have the will power to turn back from it once they have tasted it for the first time. Most who become addicted and attempt to become clean have starved themselves to death in the process, or often become feral and unstable when humans are present among them. Although possible to come clean from human blood, the taste for it always remains. However, most werewolves only have to worry about the golden rule: ”The wolf is only evil if the person who is bitten is evil.”
Lastly, a werewolf is a slave to their emotions. When one reaches Phase II of their life, they learn that their transformation has become untethered from the moon and tethered more to the werewolf’s emotions. A simple overreaction would be more than enough to make a person turn in public and raise awareness of the existence of their kind, which is why many werewolves are either found and taken under a Forebear’s (they’re explained below) wing, to learn about their new life, or they end up dead from a silver bullet to the head from a patrol of Hunters.
Strengths: Whether a pureblood or a bitten (as both werewolves and vampires refer to a mortal that was turned), all werewolves, save for one group, are at peak human conditioning their human forms. They are stronger and faster than the greatest Olympic athletes, and their senses in human form are far superior to that of a human’s. In their human form, a werewolf can easily hear a person faintly whispering from a block away, even with noise pollution distorting the location of the noise. Their sense of smell is also sharp, allowing them to follow a person almost indefinitely unless they manage to hide, or change their scent. While they cannot see microscopic things the way vampires can, werewolves nevertheless have a superior sense of vision than humans, allowing them to see certain details and things that humans would normally miss out of the corner of their eye. This also helps a werewolf pick up on things quickly, if necessary. Their sense of taste is further superior, as they can taste specific compounds in most things. For instance, a werewolf could take a bite out of a piece of Filet Mignon, and can taste the different ingredients, individually. Their sense of touch is also enhanced to where werewolves feel very little pain unless it’s from silver or magic. Even their own flesh is slightly denser than humans, but not by too much. It takes more effort to cut them in human form, but a bullet will pierce them either way. Naturally, a werewolf does have a denser bone structure, even in human form.
Although at peak conditioning, a werewolf in human form is not superhumanly strong, and thus not stronger than a vampire in human form, unless the cycle of the full moon has begun. During the three nights of the full moon, every werewolf in the world gains a surge of superhuman strength, speed, stamina, and further heightened senses that allow them to easily outclass most of the supernatural community. Although, silver is still as fatal as ever to them when the cycle is around. Albeit still not as strong as their fully transformed state, werewolves under the cycle of the full moon are still forces to be reckoned with.
Transformed, a werewolf is just short of a juggernaut, as even Phase I wolves are strong enough to effectively ram through a wall of solid concrete with no damage to their bodies. Any projectile or stabbing weapon that isn’t made of silver will shatter against their now denser flesh and fur, and their physical strength is just under a fully transformed dragon’s, and their durability is only a quarter of the might of a dragon’s. A werewolf’s claws can rip through reinforced steel, and cut a human to ribbons in seconds. Though gaining in mass, a werewolf is still incredibly fast and agile, with hundreds of newly formed muscles in their bodies working together to make the beasts better mobile, and reflexive, and overall deadly.
Werewolf Phases: Werewolves are divided into two phases, although this is still a third type of werewolf, it is not included amongst the species, and is explained in its own space below.
Phase I: The first stage every Bitten werewolf goes through. Upon being bitten by a werewolf, a human will go through a “transitioning” phase, where their senses are normally out of whack, they get fevers, fatigue, extreme sensitivity to everything, including extreme, vivid dreams and nightmares, ranging from running freely, without fear, in the woods to disfigured humans with wolf features attacking them, or people they know or love. The delusions and illnesses often end around the week before the first full moon, where the Bitten go about their regular lives until the first transformation begins. Every transformation of Phase I is extremely painful, as bones break, organs stop working and resize, and muscles are tearing and reforming at once to make a new creature. Although this kind of pain would kill a normal human being, a werewolf’s body is constantly regenerating, leaving them unable to die from such excruciating pain. In the end, a quadrupedal werewolf, roughly the size of a Lion is left in place of where the human was. These creatures are often feral, and defensive, striking when feeling threatened, but often feeding on wild animals, and anything worth game to it. The werewolf often reverts back to human form when the pull of the moon is no longer in the skies and the sun is beginning to rise, with no memory of the pain, or the transformation that occurred, or how they got to the place where they wake up.
Although those that are Bitten often spend a small amount of time as a Phase I, it is often only for a couple of years before they evolve into a Phase II werewolf, and begin life anew, and easier.
Phase II: Bitten werewolves eventually evolve into what is known simply as Phase II. For every Bitten and Pureborn werewolf, it is the final stage of their cycle, and where they inevitably remain in their immortal lives. Phase II’s are more powerful transformed than their Phase I counterparts. At this stage, werewolves can change at will, and older werewolves can transform parts of their bodies at will, albeit for a short time. Transformed, they are far stronger, faster, and even retain their human intellect, but incapable of human speech. However, all werewolves, whether transformed or human, have a telepathic ability to understand one another and perceive what one another are saying. Phase II werewolves also have a higher tolerance to silver, in which it requires more to kill them. Shooting a transformed Phase II with silver bullets often reverts them back to human form, where they can push the bullets out with sheer muscle power, and regenerate, whereas a single silver nitrate round could kill a Phase II.
In this form, the werewolf is now bipedal and has a more humanoid appearance. This allows the werewolf to now easily climb larger objects and traverses more complex terrains.
Alphas: Many beings in the supernatural community have never seen an Alpha before, or, at least, have never known if they have ever been in the presence of one. They are the first of the Werewolf bloodlines and the most powerful of the species. Alphas are said to have a mental link to every werewolf in the world, save for a select few that can magically block the link. It is through this link, that Alphas have a sort of dominating presence around other werewolves, who often feel unable to argue with an Alpha, or even look an Alpha in the eye unless spoken to.
Nobody knows the true extent of an Alpha’s strength, but it is said to be as equally powerful as that of Vampire Ancients, and just as elusive. There are many myths amongst werewolves of Alphas being able to crush boulders, and even kill a transformed dragon with little to no weaponry besides claws. Although such myths have never been documented, it is thought that Alphas are physical among the strongest creatures in the magical community. Their speed is of equal mystery, as many have noted that Alphas move abnormally fast for a werewolf, and exhibit the ability to move too fast for the eye to track. Even in human form, unlike other werewolves, Alphas exhibit superhuman levels of strength, speed and even seemingly nigh-unlimited stamina, if tested. Mentally, they’re seemingly “aware” of reality changes, or shifts, but it’s akin to catching something out of the corner of one’s eye.
Despite all of these great powers and seemingly True Immortality, Alphas are extremely limited in number. While there are potentially hundreds of thousands, if not millions of werewolves in the world, on record, there are only 24 known Alphas in existence, 13 Alpha Males and 11 Alpha Females, and each ruling over a Pack in the world. Through the ages, the Alphas have “mated” with one another to ensure strong bloodlines, but have never remained monogamous for very long, as each desire a sense of freedom and control. Although out of all the Alphas, the oldest and most powerful of the Alpha males has yet to mate with another Alpha female.
Pack System: The Pack System is the living order in which the Alphas rule and keep a transparent eye over the werewolf community. Each Pack exists across the 24 time zones in the world, with one of 24 Alphas ruling over the Pack.
Although there are not many laws that werewolves must abide by in their respective packs, outside the laws of man, the two golden rules are to A.)Never Kill/Feed on a Human and B.)Never reveal your existence or any other werewolf’s existence to humanity. In order to ensure that Bad Blood activity remains low and that werewolf remain off the radars of the Hunters. Since there is only one Alpha to a pack, they select who they believe is the wisest and strongest of their Pack, and combine their powerful Alpha blood with the wolf, making them a Beta. Although they still look like Phase II wolves, they’re far stronger and hold powers similar to an Alpha, but on a weaker scale. Through the Betas, are recruited more werewolves, who share the Beta’s enhanced Alpha blood, and thus receive a diluted form of the Alpha’s power. Like Betas, Deltas are stronger, faster and agiler than regular werewolves, and while they still retain their Phase II forms, their eye color changes instead from a bright yellow, to a more golden color, signifying their rank in the hierarchy.
Like Alphas, Betas and Deltas are harder to kill due to their enhanced blood and hold dominating abilities, similar to Alphas. Most consider them the authorities of the lycanthrope community and often give them great respect and reverence when met with one. Although their powers do not extend beyond werewolf-related issues, they are known to get stuck in the crossfire of other powerful beings.