Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-17791261-20130913221600

71.61.177.24 wrote: Runesfuer wrote: 71.61.178.23 wrote: 58.7.190.82 wrote: Another thing concerning powers and abilities: if one was to gain Hircine's influence, for example, would Hircine turn them into a werewolf (any kind of lycanthrope, depending on what province your in)? A lycanthrope is specifically a werewolf. I believe a better word would be "werebeast". I think it would depend more on race. If you were Khajiit, you could ask to be a werelion, or a werewolf. If you were Argonian, ther would be an alternative to be a werecrocodile. Other than that, I think it's just werewolves for the boring, non-beast race rest of us. :)

- WorshipsMeridia actually a werebeast would be a man-beast. were is saxon for man. so any non-human couldnt be werebeast. only humans. and it would be province based. I know the literal meaning, thanks. If you went by that reasoning, women wouldn't be called werewolves or whatever because they aren't male. Werelions (exclusively Khajiit) and werecrocodiles (exclusively Argonians) are still called werecreatures in-game, not something race-specific. And I se no reason for it to be province-based at all, especially since that statement is so vague it could cover any number of possibilities. Did you mean the birth province of the character, or the province they're in, or the province they grew up in, or the province their race comes from, or what?

- WorshipsMeridia were is saxon for Man, which is short for Human. the saxons didnt think about humanity as a whole, so they called themselves Man to distinguish themselves from animals. and provence they are in. that is how they contract the disease. they can then spread it to other provences. i.e. A Human in morrowind would become a weretiger or something. they could then travel to elsweyr and spread the weretiger disease to the Kajiit, however because the Kajiit are already tigerlike, they would only become more agressive, or go from cathey to pahmar. the discription for pahmar is actually tigerlike. lol.