My story, which requires assistance

[Xavier Harkonnen]

Well, I wouldn't consider it Fanfiction so...
Its a bit more fantasy than anything. Its mainly Roman times meets Fantasy, combined with a lot of Da Vinci's Ideas, like Airships, weird looking tanks etc.
What I really need is help on the races.
Heres what I got so far.
Good Races

• Romani (Roman Humans, with Da Vinci type o' stuff)
  
• Wood Elves
  
• Hill Elves
  
• Giants
  
• Werewolves
  
• Valkyries
  
• Behemothi (plural Behemoth)
  

Evil Races

• Orks
  
• Trolls
  
• Goblins
  
• Anubites
  
• Ethereal Undead (spirts not corpses)
  
• Undead (Solid stuff like Zombies and Skeletons)
  
• Daemons
  
• Dryiads
  

Neutral races/Independant Factions

• Dwarves
  
• Vampires
  
• Gallatraxian ( Barbarian Humans)
  
• Dragons
  
• Kraken
  
• Shadow People
  

Any and all help will be appreciated! ;D

[Ambika]

Have you ever consider using Wikipedia for help on the species/races information? That's one place you could find, I mean there some useful information there that can be very helpful for you within your fiction.

[Xavier Harkonnen]

I know, but I don't really trust them.*shifty eyes*
What Im looking for is personal opinions. Im trying to think outside the box.
Thanks though! ;D

[Ambika]

Well I try and do my best to help DLR (I could find some useful information when I came until tomorrow but I was drinking right now) So here the information I can managed to come up with of the werewolf.

Werewolves, also known as Lycanthropes, are mythological or folkloric people with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or wolflike creature, either purposely, by using magic, or after being placed under a curse.

The Greek term Lycanthropy (a compound of which "lyc-" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *wlkwo-, meaning "wolf") formally denotes the "wolf - man" transformation. Lycanthropy is but one form of therianthropy, the ability to metamorphose into animals in general. The term "therianthrope" literally means "beast-man," from which the words turnskin and turncoat are derived.

Beliefs

In Greek mythology, the story of Lycaon provides one of the earliest examples of a werewolf legend. According to one version, Lycaon was transformed into a wolf as a result of eating human flesh; one of those who were present at periodical sacrifice on Mount Lycæon was said to suffer a similar fate.

Herodotus in his Histories tells us that the Neuri, a tribe he places to the north-east of Scythia, were annually transformed for a few days, and Virgil is familiar with transformation of human beings into wolves.

The Roman scholar Pliny the Elder, quoting Euanthes, says that a man of Anthius' family was selected by lot and brought to a lake in Arcadia, where he hung his clothing on an ash tree and swam across, resulting in his transformation into a wolf, a form in which he wandered for nine years. On the condition that he attacked no human being over the nine year period, he would be free to swim back across the lake to resume human form.

In the Latin work of prose, the Satyricon, written about 60 C.E. by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, one of the characters, Niceros, tells a story at a banquet about a friend who turned into a wolf (chs. 61-62). He describes the incident as follows, "When I look for my buddy I see he'd stripped and piled his clothes by the roadside...He pees in a circle round his clothes and then, just like that, turns into a wolf!...after he turned into a wolf he started howling and then ran off into the woods"

Werewolves in European tradition were sometimes innocent and God-fearing folk suffering from the witchcraft of others, or simply from an unhappy fate, and who, as wolves, behaved in a truly touching fashion, adoring and protecting their human benefactors. In Marie de France's poem Bisclavret (c. 1200), the nobleman Bizuneh, for reasons not described in the lai, had to transform into a wolf every week. When his treacherous wife stole his clothing needed to restore his human form, he escaped the king's wolf hunt by imploring the king for mercy and accompanied the king thereafter. His behaviour at court was so much gentler than when his wife and her new husband appeared at court, that his hateful attack on the couple was deemed justly motivated, and the truth was revealed. Other tales of this sort include William and the Werewolf (translated from French into English ca. 1350), and the German fairy tales Märchen, in which several aristocrats temporarily transform into beasts. See Snow White and Rose Red, where the tame bear is really a bewitched prince, and The Golden Bird where the talking fox is also a man.

According to Armenian lore, there are women who, in consequence of deadly sins, are condemned to spend seven years in wolf form. In a typical account, a condemned woman is visited by a wolfskin-toting spirit, who orders her to wear the skin, which causes her to acquire frightful cravings for human flesh soon after. With her better nature overcome, the she-wolf devours each of her own children, then her relatives' children in order of relationship, and finally the children of strangers. She wanders only at night, with doors and locks springing open at her approach. When morning arrives, she reverts to human form and removes her wolfskin. The transformation is generally said to be involuntary, but there are alternate versions involving voluntary metamorphosis, where the women can transform at will.

There were numerous reports of werewolf attacks and consequent court trials in sixteenth century France. In some of the cases: e.g. those of the Gandillon family in the Jura, the tailor of Chalons and Roulet in Angers, all occurring in the year 1598: there was clear evidence against the accused of murder and cannibalism, but none of association with wolves; in other cases, such as that of Gilles Garnier in Dole in 1573, there was clear evidence against some wolf but none against the accused. Even though belief in lycanthropy reached a peak in popularity, it was decided in the case of Jean Grenier at Bordeaux in 1603 that lycanthropy was nothing more than a delusion. The loup-garou eventually ceased to be regarded as a dangerous heretic and reverted to the pre-Christian notion of a "man-wolf-fiend." The lubins or lupins were usually female and shy in contrast to the aggressive loup-garous.

Some French werewolf lore is based on documented events. The Beast of Gévaudan terrorized the general area of the former province of Gévaudan, now called Lozère, in south central France. From the years 1764 to 1767, an unknown entity killed upwards of 80 men, women, and children. The creature was described as a giant wolf by the sole survivor of the attacks, which ceased after several wolves were killed in the area.

Wolves were still found in England as late as 1600, but became extinct by 1680. At the beginning of the seventeenth century witchcraft was zealously prosecuted by James I of England, who piously regarded "warwoolfes" as victims of delusion induced by "a natural superabundance of melancholic."

Becoming a Werewolf

Historical legends describe a wide variety of methods for becoming a werewolf, one of the simplest being the removal of clothing and putting on a belt made of wolfskin, probably as a substitute for the assumption of an entire animal skin (which also is frequently described). In other cases, the body is rubbed with a magic salve. To drink water out of the footprint of the animal in question or to drink from certain enchanted streams were also considered effectual modes of accomplishing metamorphosis. Olaus Magnus says that the Livonian werewolves were initiated by draining a cup of specially prepared beer and repeating a set formula. Ralston in his Songs of the Russian People gives the form of incantation still familiar in Russia. According to Russian lore, a child born on December 24 shall be a werewolf. Folklore and literature also depict that a werewolf can be spawned from two werewolf parents.

I better stop there now, I try and continue scouting for more information if I can, DLR by tomorrow. My eyes are preety sore now >.>

[Xavier Harkonnen]

Thanks!
Do you know of any other evil races besides the ones I have up?

[Ambika]

Here are the useful species/races you may use:

• Banshee
  
• Ghoul
  
• Bogeyman
  
• Grim Reaper
  
• Yeti (Or Bigfoot)
  
• Hellhound
  
• Demon (or Daemon)
  
• Behemoth
  
• Harpy
  
• Zombie
  
• Undead
  
• Inubus
  
• Succubus (They are the female version of Inubus)
  
• Leviathan
  
• Manitcore
  
• Orge
  
• Wraith (Wraith are pretty interesting if you must know)
  
• Wyvern
  
• Scorpion Man
  
• Valkyrie
  
• Wendigo
  
• Werecat (YES! There are similar to Werewolf but feline side of cats such as Leopard, Tigers, Cheetahs, I will give you this information soon as I can)
  

Here are other races you can have included as well if needed:

• Ghost
  
• Fairy
  
• Phoenix
  
• Muse
  
• Leprechaun
  
• Dragons (Though, there are two types of dragons are: European and Chinese)
  
• Pegasus
  
• Unicorn
  
• Sea Monster/Sea Serpent
  
• Questing Beast
  
• Titan
  

[Xavier Harkonnen]

Updated, teh thanxorz.
Um, whats a questing beast? :?

[Ambika]

The Questing Beast, or the Beast Glatisant (Barking Beast), is a monster from Arthurian legend, the subject of quests by famous knights like King Pellinore, Sir Palamedes, and Sir Percival. The strange creature has the head and neck of a serpent, the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion and the feet of a hart. Its name comes from the great noise it emits from its belly, a barking like "thirty couple hounds questing".

Do you want some more information to help you out of the races from your list? (Like Valkyries, Undead, Vampires etc)

[Xavier Harkonnen]

Nahhh... I play enough AoM to get those. Man I love the encyclopiedia.
*updates list*
Check, see what you think!
Please state your opinions.

[JoleenotBindo]

Ah, thank you! One who doesn't say that werewolves are ALWAYS evil!

[Xavier Harkonnen]

Meh, here soon I'll upload the introduction.

[JoleenotBindo]

Excellent...