[UA] Lycanthropes

[Gareth Hanrahan]

> Ok, hopefully this will make up for my two off-topic dream posts.
>
> Does anyone else find the description of lycanthropes in the UA rulebook
> jarring?  It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it can work as an
> explanation for lycanthropes.

> Reality rewrites itself (except for some inconsistancies it can't patch
> up) and observers always see either a person or an animal.  Their
> memories are rewritten to whichever the lycanthrope is at the moment.
> Therefore, no one would ever come up with the idea of "lycanthrope"
> except in the most academic discussion of causes behind the
> inconsistancies discovered.

I think the word "Lycanthrope" still refers to the myth of the
man-changing-into-a-wolf, full moon, hairy fangy thingies. Which don't
exist.
The term was appropriated by the Occult Underground to refer to the cases of
animal/demon possession. As to how the scholars of the OU worked out that
memories of a flying man were caused by demonic ghost birdies possessing
people...the scholars of the OU have a lot of time on their hands.

> Ysidro
Gar


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