Believe it or not, there is a fansite for werewolves. It's called "The Werewolf Cafe".
The site comes in two parts, a main site and a forum. The main site has information about what the various full moons during a year are called, as well as information on movies, books, and other media starring or majorly featuring werewolves. It also includes a major find section for cool werewolf products. The main section of the site used to only be available during the full moon, but its popularity led it to being made available 24/7.
The forums are a place for member to post their own finds, as well as distribute their own werewolf related creations. I myself am part of the forums, and I am pleased with what I have seen so far. There's even a section for people to role-play as a werewolf or related creature.
The link to the main site is http://www.werewolfcafe.com/home.php, and the link to the forums is http://forum.werewolfcafe.com/index.php.
Happy howling!
There's many myths and legends about them. The full moon, a bite, a silver bullet. Beast-man monsters, wolves wearing the skin of humans. Werewolves plagued humanity in the middle-ages... and then, come modern day, it all changed. Attacks stopped. Monsters vanished. Humanity reigned supreme... while the monsters lived in the shadows, the edges of the modern world. Humans forgot, and the monsters struggled to survive in a world now stronger than they.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
The Weakness of the Werewolf
Werewolves were typically feared in folklore and myth. Benevolent werewolves only begin to appear in modern day fiction, and even there they are a minority. It should come to no surprise that people would comfort themselves with their knowledge of what kills or otherwise harms these monsters.
If that isn't enough to make you scratch your head, take a look at silver's alchemical symbol, in use since ancient times:
Silver
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| A thousand ounce bullion bar of this precious metal (Source) |
Everyone knows the foolproof method of slaying a werewolf. The silver bullet. Guaranteed to pierce through the werewolf's durability and regenerative abilities.
Or is it?
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| Not as effective as claimed? (Picture source unknown) |
Stories of werewolves being weakened by silver don't actually show up until the 19th century, much later than the myths of werewolves themselves.
Look familiar? It's a symbol also often associated with werewolves...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Progress Update
I've already completed my New Year's resolution: finish the draft of my book! That's right! The whole story is complete! An editor is looking through Behemoth as I type this!
My deepest apologies for taking so long to post here. The next post will come much sooner, I promise.
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