InsaneJournal

I don't know where we are. I had to get the operator to tell me where I was calling from. ― George (Being Human)

∙ After being attacked by a werewolf, a human will either die or become a werewolf themselves. Bites and scratches from a werewolf also pass on the curse.

∙ It is abnormal for the one who created the new werewolf to school them, teaching them what to do. Most attacks are done under the affects of the 'wolf' and the person has no control of it. Most do not accept their new behavior for some time and it is a struggle.

∙ Werewolves only change during the first night of a full moon. This transformation is quite painful due to the complete reformation of the musculoskeletal system from a Human to more of an advanced wolf. It is done usually in a place where no human can find them. Woods are a toss-up as to safety and homes should be avoided.

∙ They can be identified through sight and smell by other supernatural creatures including themselves, ghosts and vampires. As in the vampires's section, most vampires do not like werewolves, seeing them as dirty, crude and below them.

∙ As the full moon approaches, all the senses are enhanced, they remain enhanced even after reversion to human form, probably returning to baseline human levels as the time goes on until the cycle begins again. Confidence and even a tendency towards aggression may be evident, given the occasion.

∙ The Transformation In Vivid Detail: "He should be dead within 30 seconds. The werewolf's heart is only two-thirds the size of a human's. But in order to shrink, first it has to stop. In other words, he has a heart attack. All of the internal organs are smaller, so while he's having his heart attack, he's having liver and kidney failure too. If he stops screaming it's not because the pain has dulled, but because his throat, gullet and vocal chords are tearing and reforming. He literally can't make a sound. By now the pituitary glands should be working overtime, flooding his body with endorphins to ease some of the pain, but that too has shut down. Anyone else would have died of shock long ago. But it won't kill him and that's the thing I find most remarkable. It drags him through the fire and keeps him alive and even conscious to endure every second. Nothing like this could just evolve. An impossible lethal curse spread by tooth and claw, victim begets victim begets victim. It's so cruel, it's perfect." - (Mitchell from Being Human)

∙ Werewolves lose higher brain functions and will attack those nearby. When fully transformed, a werewolf becomes covered in fur, slightly gains in mass and has a very wolf-like head and snout. They are also known to walk on their hind legs and have clawed hands.

∙ Once the change happens the human will have a blackout and will not remember anything that happened while they are a wolf. (ie. If one is out in the woods, he/she could have traveled for miles and he/she would not know where he/she has ended up.)

∙ There a different werewolves out there with different bloodlines making no werewolf the same. Some do however take on similar appearance to the one that 'made' them.

∙ Werewolves are unable to cross running water.