Lycanthropes

Lycanthropes, not be confused with with Lycan, are people gifted with a portion Venators power and are able to transform into a wolf-like creature at will, exceeding at physical might and resistance. After the first war Luna sealed away the power of the Lycanthropes, as an act of revenge against Venator for his betrayl. As such they were no longer able to transform, however the power was still residing within them, but without being able to use it, it slowly began tearing their minds apart.

But instead of letting them just run amok, Luna decided to grant them a salvation from their torment: Pledging their loyalty to her and making an huge amount of sacrifices, in form of creatures created by Venator of course, to her in exchange for a charm that allowed them to temporarily break the seal. The charms were however purposely short lived, thus resulting in more required offers to Luna to renew them.

But as the Lycanthropes were followers of Venator and noticing that Luna was just toying with them, not many choose to pray to her. Instead they tried to continue living their lives, despite the difficulties of their now cursed blessing. Yet it didnt stop when nearly all the original Lycanthropes died over the centuries: The seal caused the power to be inherited by their children, even though a little weaker. Over generations the seal began to leak, causing those who inherited it to wildly transform against their will and being unable to control themself. At first people thought they were only raging wolfs, but the more incidents occurred the more uncomfortable they felt and so they began hunting them. It was only a matter of time till one of the wild Lycanthropes was killed and at his moment of death he began retransforming into his original form. As the rumor of such cases spread, the High-Elves came to the conclusion that these wolf-creatures were another abomination from Abaddon, as the Vampires and Dark-Elves were, and so they began activly trying to exterminate the werewolfs, as they called them, unknowing the true origin of their curse. Those who bare the uncontrollable animal within them often live afar from civilzation and seeking a way to avert their fate….