Werewolf

Werewolves are humans infected with lycanthropy, a blood transmitted disease that transforms them into wolf like monsters whenever the moon is full.

When the moon is full, they undergo a very painful shift into a versatile quadrupedal and bipedal hairy wolf. Once transformed, they can reach to over 7 feet in height and become extremely aggressive with the overwhelming desire to eat flesh. Werewolves can be both a solitary or social pack animal depending on the person. The largest recorded werewolf pack was 3,000 years ago when their numbers reached to 100. With their small numbers currently, it would be impossible for there to be a pack that large.

Their current existence is thought only to be a myth or a beast once gone extinct. Historically, they have only known to exist in the Far North, but sometimes some have been known to go down as far as Fornwood. However, with the rise of darkness, werewolves have slowly been emerging once more out of nowhere. Attacking humans in the forests and mountains and killing wandering sheep and cattle.

Once having undergone a transformation, werewolves lose all control and basically become starved berserker beasts. Some aged werewolves have been known to better to control their urges when in beast form. Rarely, very strong emotions can take over a werewolf temporarily and cause their mental human side to take over for a short period of time.

Lycanthropy also grants a longer lifespan that can last to 200 to 250 years old. Nowadays, it would be extremely rare to find a werewolf that old. No, their human form does not pull a vampire and stop aging. They do age but much slower. A 250 year old werewolf in human form would most likely look someone pushing 100. The illness also gives the human side heighted senses such a smell and eyesight and sometimes strength, but not too much. However, it also gives them shorter tempers and an near insatiable hunger for meat.

Werewolves are not immortal. A pierced bleeding heart can kill a werewolf as well as it could a human; however, the only difference is that a werewolf could most likely last a bit longer with a bleeding heart than a human could. While they do heal quickly, they don't heal fast enough to keep them from bleeding out and dying. Werewolf "experts" say silver and wolfsbane keep them away, but in all reality, fire and a sword could most likely do the same.