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If we're going with the viral lycanthropy model, the heritability of lycanthropy would depend on the specifics of the virus. If you think of the lycanthropy virus as something that somehow permanently edits a person's genetic code, then it is likely to be heritable in part or in whole if both ...

There is no reason why joints would pop in or out of socket in a shift.

Actually there is, if you're changing from human-to-wolf, or gestalt-to-wolf. There are several pieces of skeleton, such as the pelvis and sacrum have to be configured quite differently to handle bipedal/quadripedal motion ...

Animal-person in general (I like the term better, it doesn't come with the same political and metaphysical baggage as "Therian") but specifically connected to wolves.

Since this is one of the primary foci of Freeborn and a big source of narrative tension in much of werewolf media, I thought it might be interesting to ask:

In your conception, how extensive or limited would a werewolf's interaction with normal humans be? Could a werewolf continue to hold the job ...

Dunno about you guys, but every time my shoulder, hip, or jaw pops out of (or even back into) joint, it hurts a bit, regardless of how many times I've done it before. I don't imagine that that sensation spread over my entire body could ever really be comfortable.

I can go for the idea of an ...

Actually, Morkulv, wolves do bark, they just don't do it as frequently as dogs, nor for the same range of expression that dogs do.

It depends on your paradigm. If our werewolves are primarily mundane and scientific, I see no reason why not. Hayfever is an autoimmune inflammatory syndrome, which is to say that it's caused by an indiscriminately aggressive immune system. Since wolves and humans are both succeptible to ...

Both are very nice, and I appreciate that considerations are taken for the werewolves' ability to do basic things like...you know, moving.

My singular nitpick is that unless those claws are retractable, particularly on the hind feet, there's no way they would stay that attenuated or sharp for any ...

My school, the University of West Georgia, just switched their mascot from the Braves (again, an NCAA offensiveness issue- the local detatchments of the Cherokee and Creek Nation were not amused) to the Wolves. Heck, I might even develop some school spirit now.

INTJs unite! ::does a wolfish mastermind dance:: Admittedly, Myers-Briggs/Keirsey was one of the first things that I thought of when the combination of Werewolves and Jung was mentioned.

There are places in nearly every state and region in the US and Canada where you have tracts of wilderness within relatively close proximity to civilization. For example, I live in Northwest Georgia, where we have the Cohutta Wilderness, a 40,000+ acre, federally protected wilderness area (the ...

Add me to the list, no cord required. I'll see if I can get my current Paypal account verified by then. If not, I'll have to do the snail-mail dance.

I don't think Werewolves should "talk" as in speaking English like a human. If they've got a muzzle, they may be able to produce sound similarly to a human, but they don't have the same kind of facial mobility that a human does to shape those sounds into consonants, vowels, and eventually words or ...

In what ways (and to what extent) do you thing that wolf-type social behavior ought to filter into werewolf (particularly human-formed) life? Do you think that a pack-like caste system would be used? If so, how do you think that system would be enforced/reinforced, what would determine the ranking ...

Lupin is correct. There are no recorded cases of a wild, healthy (i.e. non-rabid) wolf attacking a human in North America. Except under very specific conditions, like the Sawtooth Pack, who were extensively socialized as pups so that researchers could watch them as closely as possible, wolves ...

New here. I'm a full-time card-carrying po' college kid with a fascination for wolves in both reality and lore. I like the idea of "making-over" a mythical creature in a reasonably believable way and considering the way it might think, interact, and affect the world around it.

I'll add my opinion to the pile: I think that for the purposes of a story-centered, modern-earth movie, werewolves should come with heightened, animal-like senses and the extra strength and speed you'd expect from a large predator. I also think that a certain amount of accelerated healing would be ...

Honestly, I think it's a moot point to describe a facile shapeshifter as having a "true form". What they truly are is a shapeshifter.

I think when living in highly populated areas, you could call human a "default" form, to be returned to in times of trauma because leaving a mostly human corpse is ...