Post by Ren on Jan 22, 2015 18:07:15 GMT
WEREWOLF GUIDE
Please take the time to read the following guidelines for creating the werewolf aspect of your character. We have certain rules specific to the site, meaning you cannot follow your personal opinions towards werewolves. This guide will be concise and only cover werewolf forms, and transformation.
FORMS
The forms a werewolf takes on lie on a spectrum. Generally, males tend to be more muscled and taller while females are more slender and petite. Despite the sex, the forms range from least to most feral, and can be classified under three categories:
Half (img)
Similar to the classic half man, half wolf, being in the "half" stage is too look more wolf-like. While the bodily proportions are for the most part human (bipedalism, long appendages), distinct wolfish characteristics are visible. Downy fur covers the body in a thin veil, making the skin visible underneath. At this stage, fur is the color of the werewolf's natural hair color.
Anthropomorphic (img)
Slightly farther into the transformation, the anthropomorphic category calls for a human-like wolf. Though upright, werewolves in this stage can run on all fours, and their furred hands now become hand-like paws. Thicker fur covers their entire body, and their tails become bushier. A completely wolfish head juxtaposed by a powerfully muscled torso are markers for this stage. In addition to bearing more realistic wolf features, a werewolf's pelt may be the color of their natural hair color--however, natural wolf pelt combinations begin to overwhelm the natural hair color, more so for werewolves with blond or red hair.
Feral (img)
The final form, werewolves take on the shape of a wolf. While being larger than the average wolf, everything about them is wolfish. Their pelts now take on natural pelt colors and their eyes range from yellow to orange--rarely blue, grey, or hazel.
ON PELT & EYE COLORS
At the stages further into the transformation spectrum, natural pelt colors tend to overwhelm natural hair colors. Observe:
A werewolf's natural eye color remains until reaching the final form: feral. Eyes commonly take on colors ranging from yellow to orange--they are rarely blue, grey, or hazel. If the user has eyes that are typically a normal color they just lose their humanoid look about the eye.
TRANSFORMING
Transforming is painful. The older the werewolf, the smoother and quicker the process becomes, therefore less painful. Bear in mind that transforming requires the reshaping of bones, organs, and the growing of new teeth, both human and wolf. Fortunately though, a werewolf can master tolerating the transformation, and only after a few years after their first change, most werewolves can undergo the process with only a few grunts of discomfort.
Born werewolves tend to be able to shift more easily than that of a bitten. This could be due to the fact that they were with both feral and human form already in their DNA, while a bitten has their DNA mutated by the saliva of the werewolf that bite them. A born is often first seen to shift around a young age, and taught like a true wolf to hunt during the full moon. This allows them to become more adapted to their wolf forms as well as more comfortable in them. The born wolves are more likely to be able to keep their humanity in wolf form if only because it is natural for them to be in that form than a bitten, but this does not guarantee they will.
However, the further into the transformation spectrum a bitten werewolf goes, the farther it is from humanity. Upon reaching the feral stage, the bitten werewolf has lost all contact with its human life and memories. Triggering an episode can last hours, even up to days--werewolves recovering from such an event usually find themselves naked in a forest, and incredibly sore. Bouts of extreme anger or blood lust trigger such transformations. Extreme control over the body is required to maintain a feral form without completely losing a grip on reality, and only few werewolves achieve this feat. For this reason, when participating in pack hunts, bitten werewolves only shift to forms belonging to the first and second categories.
Experienced werewolves, either bitten or born, can change by will and lesser experienced weres struggle with controlling impulses. However, werewolves cannot resist the influence of a full moon and must change.
Humans can be turned into werewolves, and werewolves can be born as such.
A werewolf's poison, found in their saliva, can change a human. Usually transferred through an attack and rarely through consent, the saliva enters the victim's bloodstream and infects their DNA. They will then transform into werewolves on the following full moon. Werewolf children are born from two werewolf parents, never from a werewolf and human.
* ON LIFE SPANS & ABILITIES * Our werewolves, while immortal or immune to everyday illnesses, age at a normal rate, and typically stop aging anywhere between 15 years old to 50 years old, but there can be exceptions. Since the werewolf gene does have healing properties it allows the werewolf to have their cells be replaced by younger cells at an extremely fast rate allowing them to keep this younger appearance. Go visit the Werewolf Health Guide for more info on their life span and health.
And yes, our werewolves posses super strength and speed!
Please take the time to read the following guidelines for creating the werewolf aspect of your character. We have certain rules specific to the site, meaning you cannot follow your personal opinions towards werewolves. This guide will be concise and only cover werewolf forms, and transformation.
FORMS
The forms a werewolf takes on lie on a spectrum. Generally, males tend to be more muscled and taller while females are more slender and petite. Despite the sex, the forms range from least to most feral, and can be classified under three categories:
- half
- anthropomorphic
- feral
Half (img)
Similar to the classic half man, half wolf, being in the "half" stage is too look more wolf-like. While the bodily proportions are for the most part human (bipedalism, long appendages), distinct wolfish characteristics are visible. Downy fur covers the body in a thin veil, making the skin visible underneath. At this stage, fur is the color of the werewolf's natural hair color.
Anthropomorphic (img)
Slightly farther into the transformation, the anthropomorphic category calls for a human-like wolf. Though upright, werewolves in this stage can run on all fours, and their furred hands now become hand-like paws. Thicker fur covers their entire body, and their tails become bushier. A completely wolfish head juxtaposed by a powerfully muscled torso are markers for this stage. In addition to bearing more realistic wolf features, a werewolf's pelt may be the color of their natural hair color--however, natural wolf pelt combinations begin to overwhelm the natural hair color, more so for werewolves with blond or red hair.
Feral (img)
The final form, werewolves take on the shape of a wolf. While being larger than the average wolf, everything about them is wolfish. Their pelts now take on natural pelt colors and their eyes range from yellow to orange--rarely blue, grey, or hazel.
ON PELT & EYE COLORS
At the stages further into the transformation spectrum, natural pelt colors tend to overwhelm natural hair colors. Observe:
- Black-haired people tend to have black pelts
- Brunettes tend to have black/brown pelts OR common grey/white pelts (see grey wolf)
- Redheads tend to have black/brown pelts OR common grey/white pelts peppered with browns and reds
- Blonds tend to have common grey/white pelts OR white pelts
A werewolf's natural eye color remains until reaching the final form: feral. Eyes commonly take on colors ranging from yellow to orange--they are rarely blue, grey, or hazel. If the user has eyes that are typically a normal color they just lose their humanoid look about the eye.
TRANSFORMING
Transforming is painful. The older the werewolf, the smoother and quicker the process becomes, therefore less painful. Bear in mind that transforming requires the reshaping of bones, organs, and the growing of new teeth, both human and wolf. Fortunately though, a werewolf can master tolerating the transformation, and only after a few years after their first change, most werewolves can undergo the process with only a few grunts of discomfort.
Born werewolves tend to be able to shift more easily than that of a bitten. This could be due to the fact that they were with both feral and human form already in their DNA, while a bitten has their DNA mutated by the saliva of the werewolf that bite them. A born is often first seen to shift around a young age, and taught like a true wolf to hunt during the full moon. This allows them to become more adapted to their wolf forms as well as more comfortable in them. The born wolves are more likely to be able to keep their humanity in wolf form if only because it is natural for them to be in that form than a bitten, but this does not guarantee they will.
However, the further into the transformation spectrum a bitten werewolf goes, the farther it is from humanity. Upon reaching the feral stage, the bitten werewolf has lost all contact with its human life and memories. Triggering an episode can last hours, even up to days--werewolves recovering from such an event usually find themselves naked in a forest, and incredibly sore. Bouts of extreme anger or blood lust trigger such transformations. Extreme control over the body is required to maintain a feral form without completely losing a grip on reality, and only few werewolves achieve this feat. For this reason, when participating in pack hunts, bitten werewolves only shift to forms belonging to the first and second categories.
Experienced werewolves, either bitten or born, can change by will and lesser experienced weres struggle with controlling impulses. However, werewolves cannot resist the influence of a full moon and must change.
Humans can be turned into werewolves, and werewolves can be born as such.
A werewolf's poison, found in their saliva, can change a human. Usually transferred through an attack and rarely through consent, the saliva enters the victim's bloodstream and infects their DNA. They will then transform into werewolves on the following full moon. Werewolf children are born from two werewolf parents, never from a werewolf and human.
* ON LIFE SPANS & ABILITIES * Our werewolves, while immortal or immune to everyday illnesses, age at a normal rate, and typically stop aging anywhere between 15 years old to 50 years old, but there can be exceptions. Since the werewolf gene does have healing properties it allows the werewolf to have their cells be replaced by younger cells at an extremely fast rate allowing them to keep this younger appearance. Go visit the Werewolf Health Guide for more info on their life span and health.
And yes, our werewolves posses super strength and speed!
