lycanthropes
People becoming wolves
Lycanthropes are humans who transform into wolves or wolf-like creatures, typically under a full moon.
The word covers werewolves and similar shapeshifters in folklore, horror fiction, and fantasy games: The party encountered a pack of lycanthropes in the forest.
Lycanthropy is the condition or ability itself.
Shapeshifting wolf-person
- shapeshifterBeing altering its form
- skinwalkerNavajo witch who transforms
- berserkerFury-driven Norse combatant
- curseInvoked harm through words
legend · myth · fable · lore · oral-history · tale · saga · chronicle
Desire to kill
- savageryExtreme, violent cruelty
- maulingViolent tearing attack
- carnageWidespread violent death
- huntPursuit of quarry
prey · attack · rampage · gruesome · macabre · gothic · terror · dread
Profound biological restructuring
- shapeshiftMagically change physical form
- morphingSeamless visual transformation process
- mutationPermanent DNA alteration
- transfigurationExalted change in appearance
transmutation · changeover · hybrid · feral · claws · fangs · fur · howl
werewolf
Shapeshifting wolf-person
- shapeshifterBeing altering its form
- skinwalkerNavajo witch who transforms
- berserkerFury-driven Norse combatant
curse · legend · myth · fable · lore · oral-history · tale · saga · chronicle · ballad
bloodlust
Desire to kill
hunt · prey · attack · rampage · gruesome · macabre · gothic · terror · dread · nightmarish
metamorphosis
Profound biological restructuring
- shapeshiftMagically change physical form
- morphingSeamless visual transformation process
- mutationPermanent DNA alteration
transfiguration · transmutation · changeover · hybrid · feral · claws · fangs · fur · howl · snarling
moonlight
Reflected solar radiance, nocturnal
waxing · waning · crescent · nocturnal · nightfall · twilight · silvery · glow · celestial · tides
alpha
First Greek letter
- betaGreek alphabet's second letter
- omegaTwenty-fourth Greek letter
- hierarchyRanked authority structure
territory · den · lair · hunting · tracking · scent · loyalty · kinship · wild · feral
- mythical beingsdragons, dragon, unicorns, unicorn, phoenix
- shapeshiftersshapeshifter, werewolf, shape-shifting, skinwalker, doppelganger