Prologue.
Werewolves. Mythological animals and the subjects of many stories and nightmares throughout the world.
These are people who morph into vicious, powerful wolves. They are blood thirsty and are unable to control their lust for hunting and killing.
According to Greek mythology, werewolves were the result of a curse which made an appearance with the legend of Lyacon. According to the legend, Lyacon, the son of pelasgus, angered the God Zeus when he served him a meal made from the remains of a sacrificed boy. As punishment, the enraged Zeus turned Lyacon and his sons into wolves.
In the Nordic folklore, The saga of volsungus tells the story of a father and son who discovered wolf pelts that had the power to turn people into wolves for ten days. The father-son duo donned the pelts, transformed into wolves and went on a killing rampage in their forest which ended when the father attacked his son causing a lethal wound. The son only survived because a kind raven gave the father a leaf with healing power.
Regardless of the origin, werewolves continued to exist among humans for as long as one can reach back in time, at first by warring, and then by
co-existing as their population dwindled. Consequently, many centuries after the human-shifter feud gained neutral grounds, the horror of their existence faded, and people began to make stories about them to frighten the children to retain them in their houses at night.
As years among humans went by, their race became more and more civilized as opposed to the feral and bloodthirsty nature of their ancestors. They learned to mingle and create a living among the lager human population and many even took human mates to reproduce and settle down as families. Their children were either able to shift into wolves, or not, depending upon the amount of werewolf blood flowing in their veins. But every children born to them had inhuman characteristics marked by superior strength, speed, agility, eyesight, hearing and smelling.
Despite all these, it will do us good to remember that a beast clad in human skin and human clothing is still a beast, wild, powerful, untamed....
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