Un-Were Wolves

While I haven't gone into a great deal of detail about the campaigns and stories that myself and my group of gamers go through, a great deal (like 98%) of my illustration comes directly out of those games. That said, the following illustration and the series that its from (that are in various stages of color at the moment) come from the second of the stories that we all played through.

In this case, the story revolved around a central theme and interest of mine in creative writing; classic monsters used in unclassic ways. Im not going to bore you with the details suffice to say that this particular tale involved one of my very favorite of the classic monsters, the werewolf. Except that for the story to keep from being stale and feel different for the players, it needed to have the roles reversed in it. So a quick summery of the story-line myth might help:

Were Wolves originally were not the semi-wolf/part-man beasts that are popular in today's retelling of the myth. At first they were either men that had gone crazy (think somewhere between Mario and the native American Wendigo) OR men whom transformed, momentarily INTO wolves. Today's werewolves lack the mysterious punch that their mythological ancestors had in tales from the dark ages because we insist on removing the magic from the tale. However, considering that there is no such thing as werewolves to begin with, removing the fun magic from the tale is at very best boring and at very worst illogical. Therefore for my myth men transform completely into wolves.

So if thats the case, than the question has to be asked: If monkeys transform into dogs, do dogs transform into men? The answer, in this story is a resounding yes. Basically, were children are wolves that transform into men. Werewolves retain the intellect, in most stories, of their awaiting former human selves, so by that same logic were children must retain their wolf sense of self and are therefore feral. Now this may not sound all that entertaining for a story until you hear the back story and hook that makes the story interesting.

To sum that up for you: A young woman was raped by a were man whilest he was in his cycle. Obviously the creature had human form and therefore human hormones so therefore had the instinct to breed with people, but as he was only human for a moment, it made the rape that much worse. Thresha, the character raped by said half-beast was unaware of that, what would come to be the father of her soon-to-be-"children" was a were child. She didn't come to have this knowledge until she gave birth to puppies. YaddaYaddaYadda there's a story line, etc etc and every cycle of the moon her puppies, whom age in human years, turn into little feral children.

Obviously the bite of which can cause man to become beast and visa versa.

without further a due, I will post the images, early illustration and mistakes first finishing up with the final finished piece as per usual.