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Double Lycanthropy?

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:00 am
by Barovian gravedigger
I`ve seen it somewere long ago but i just don`t remember... but what happend to a lycanthrope who get infected by another type of lycanthrope?
For exemple, what happend if a wereraven is attacked by a werewolf and fail is save?
And what if one of them, or both, are natural lycanthrope?

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:17 am
by Gonzoron of the FoS
Van Richten's Guide to werebeasts, CHapter 4:
"it is possible for a single victim to be.. infected by - two or more werebeasts... The first story claims that a multiple infection results in a deranged lycanthrope of mixed phenotype (an unholy blend of bear and wolf...)... The other tale asserts that the phenotype of the last lycanthrope to infect the victim is dominant, and the victim will always transfigure into this phenotype." (I'm tired of quoting so I'll paraphrase...)

VR says the second tale is more likely true. If the victim has not yet transformed when the second infection occurs, the second one takes precedence, but the triggers from the first one still apply. If the victim has already changed shape, usually subsequent infections have no effect, but in one rare case, the victim responded to both triggers, becoming a wolf at the full moon, and a boar at the equinox. (VR doesn't say what would happen if the equinox fell on a full moon. The victim was killed apparently before that happened.)

He goes on to say that natural lycanthropes are probably immune to infection from others, but he has heard tales of natural lycanthropes having occaisional momentary slips in their shape control, which he hypothesizes could be the result of an infection's trigger.

Maeve

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:35 pm
by vipera aspis
in Tapestry of Dark Souls by Elaine Bergstrom; their was a woman named Maeve. Maeve could shift into a Silver Fox and a great black wolf. Fro what i remember, and it has been a while; she got the wolf from her father(Kartakus?) and the Fox was contracted by her pregnent mother(thus transfering).

thanks both of you!

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:07 pm
by Barovian gravedigger
Since i have both "VRg to Werebeast" and "Tapestry.." i will go and make some judgement by myself!

I just don`t know why i`ve never think to look at the VR guide... i`m ashame ;)

thanks