Werewolf warrior

a werewolf warrior from Mondwargh, Polforia.

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W E R E W O L F, Lycantrophe Daemonii

<sup>Race: Lycantrophe
Class: Demon
Specie: Daemoni

Other names: Werewolf, wolf, Lycan, Lycantrhope, Wolf Skin, Vargr, wlkwo, versipellis, turnskin, turncoat, oboroten, hamrammr and loup-garou.

Alligance: Dark Legion of Demons</sup>

The werewolves are a type of demons from the daemoni.

The demons are divided in three classes: The High demons, or demon lords, where can be found the Bazrrod, some of the more powerful personal entities of Aiers. The second class are the Demons: offspring of the firsts, and meant to be their lieautenants and retineu, as the elemental demons, Illithid, Succubi, Incubi, Vampires and Werewolves, and finally the lesser demons, slaves and servants, as the Imps, Kattalka, Skavo, Cascomi and Hellhounds.

In myths and the stories of many of the peoples of Aiers, the demons that arrived to Aiers where expulsed from hell itself, theory that was even more supported as often the Daemoni refered to themselves as the exiled. However, later and modern interpretations suppose their origin in a real deep and until then unexplored parts of the underworld of Kazrrad.

Originally, all the demons originate from the Bazrrod or demon lords: By a process the demons called "spliting their soul in shards", they created with "shards of their soul" new demons, and depending of the artificial body used as container and the power of the shard, the offspring would be one or other class of demon or lesser demon.

While this process is unknown in his nature -and many teologists argued that demons don't have souls-, this explained the extreme difference and variation among the demons, specially created by this process.

However, this method of asexual reproduction used by the demon lords to create their offsprings weakened them, as every "soul shard" meant to keep splittering their souls -and core of their power-.

While there where male and female Bazrrods and could reproduce sexually, they where interested in raising armies, servants and slaves.

And because of this, the Bazrrods created other means of sexual reproduction for their demon kind.

And so, were created vampires, werewolves, succubi and incubi that could have offspring, becoming races on their own, aside of just soul shards of demon lords.


The Werewolves -as the early shapeshifter- where meant for the demons to be warriors, that convined the strenght of beasts with the viciousness of the warriors. Tools of war, and fear.

They where characteristic for their ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature.

The werewolves take much pride in their shapeshifting hability -limited only to them, and the early shapeshifter demons from which the werewolves come-, but because of that, and the shifting of size and form -not weight- in general they don't use armor, clothes or many weapons.

The Lycantrophes played an important part in the wars between the Dark Legion of Demons and the late northern Dumian empire, and as well, during the Kanovhook wars, the wars between the demons and the kanov for the domination of Polforia.

However, being sometimes too dificult to command, the werewolves were seen by many demon lords as a force of chaos, of reduced use in a large battlefield or a siege.

According to human and Kanov myths, the werewolves where either a curse or a lycanthropic affliction, transmited via a bite or scratch from a werewolf, or some other means. In their myths, this transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon.

However, the werewolves, being demons, couldn't turn non-werewolves in werewolves -but their biting and scratches could, indeed, produce infections, but mostly due lack of medical care for the victims, that a lycantrhopic affliction.

One of the more importants werewolves would be the Nigromante of Tok-Thoria.

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Like with other demons, the werewolves themselves can be divided in diferent groups:
These are the four types of werewolves:

The First Fathers or Forefathers were from the first demons of the original legion that emerged from Demonach, who can outlive for much even elves: But like the Bazrrods and other great demon and demon lords, these First Fathers have a body that's it's more a construction for their "soul", rather than flesh and blood that age: For example, one of the first fathers of werewolves is the Nigromante of Tok-Thoria, who before becoming the lord of Tok-Thoria and one of the Four Black Kings, was one of the demons that left the Mount Demonach in Satanmet, meaning the arrival of The Darkness -so he was active for some 3.000 years, if not more-. The First Fathers weren't numerous, and most died in the wars of the Dark Legion in the first millenia, against the Dumian and Vakkusta empires, or later, in the Kanovhook wars. Most of the modern werewolf clans have as a mythical forefather, one of the First Fathers. Due the "unnatural" nature of their body, they could shift in more forms that just wolf and werewolf, but it's unknown what it's myth, and what real. At least the Nigromante sometimes appeared as a young werewolf male, and others, as an elder with long beard, and some claim, as a woman sometimes.

The Soul Shards were werewolves created by the First Fathers or other demon lords: their bodies where as well "constructions", and not real flesh and blood. Powerful, they life was a shard of their masters, and their masters give part of their own strength to create these powerful lieautenants and captains: but as demons greed for power, they weren't that numerous.
These lived easily over a thousand years, and like the first fathers, didn't aged as nature would command them to -eventually they did age, but in unnatural rythms-. As well, they had much more powers (including shape shift), that other werewolves. They where much more common during the first Dark Legion, but during and after the Kanov-Hook wars, they descendants replaced them in their roles, so few Demon Lords splitted their souls in shards to make new Soul Shards, to keep their powers.

The Old legacy or Lineage werewolves instead, where the sons and daughters of werewolf First Fathers with werewolf Soul Shards, or of the First Fathers with other kinds of demons: of strong demonic lineage, they where born in a natural way: They where strong, but just a shadow in comparison to their forefathers. The Lineage werewolves live easily 200 years and even up to 300 years, and they age: they born, grow, become adults, and then elders. Many times, they where the alphas of the werewolf packs

Finally, there are the werewolves of the clans, descendants of Lineage werewolves with werewolves, or other demons -and sometimes non-demonic peoples as K'nir beast men, elves and humans, or even animals, as wargs and wolves-, they have the demonic blood much less strong. These werewolves born, grow, become adults and die, and while some can live maybe to 120, 150 years -having stronger demonic or elven blood, for example-, it's more normal an old age of 60 to 80. But due the violent and difficult life of werewolves, life expectative it's more in only 40 years.

(In the distant past, when there weren't many werewolves, it was more common the relation with other demons, and non-demonic peoples and beasts. But with the pass of centuries, as the werewolf population expanded, it became less and less culturally aceptable relations between werewolves and non-werewolves, be demon, non-demonic people or animals!)

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Tree of peoples of Aiers