Lycanthropes

Werewolves are an artificial byproduct of a sacrificial spell that went wrong. The Moon Curse turns those with Lycanthrope blood in their bloodline into a hulking werewolf every full moon. After the first mass turning of the first set of Lycanthropes they discovered that the original sacrifice was to the gods, in order to destroy the Vampires. The gods delivered, simply not in the way the perpetrators of the sacrifice thought they would. Werewolves were made to hunt and kill Vampires and would come to serve alongside the Humans and other Sicorian races in removing the rebellion from their home.

Now in the present they are perhaps the only race that the Destruz Empire considers worthy of not being seen as a lower class. The children of select packs that are zealously loyal to the empire offer their young to be trained, indoctrinated like the previous generations were. However there are many smaller packs that have managed to survive well enough in the forests and other less populated areas.

Strengths:

 * Due to their curse, Lycanthropes in their normal human form have increased physical strength, agility and a weak healing factor.
 * A Lycanthrope's base strength reach their maximum when they take on their werewolf form, an apex predator and arch nemesis of Vampires.
 * Werewolves are capable of tracking and hunting prey for miles due to their keen senses.

Weaknesses:

 * While Lycanthropes are able to change at will, it is a lengthy, painful process that involves the breaking of every bone in their body. They become very vulnerable while shifting forms.
 * Lycanthropes are incapable of using any form of magic, their wolf blood doesn’t allow it.
 * Lycanthropes are weak to silver weaponry and a herb known as “wolf’s bane” which will cause burns and intense pain on contact with their flesh.

Diet + Habitat:
Werewolves can eat anything a Human can eat but need to eat more when they are in their werewolf forms. In their werewolf forms they become carnivorous, unable to digest plants.

Small packs of wolves try to stay in forests of any kind for hunting grounds and they try to be away from populated areas in order to avoid tearing someone to shreds by accident. Meanwhile the other, larger packs tend to be kept in the major cities where the young can be indoctrinated.