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Asanbonsam — Mantle of Bestial Majesty
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Published: 2017-06-28 09:31:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 2323; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 0
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A level seven power of the Protean discipline, which lets the vampire tap into the Beast of an animal and transform into a powerful hybrid form.Related content
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So this is a vampire then? It looks more werewolf-like.
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Its is part of the Vampire Dark Ages Game line. They have two powers for shapeshifting: Protean and Vicissitude. At the lower levels the powers of protean are pretty basic, growing claws, changing into an animal etc. But at the higher levels like this one they can grow into hybrid forms or even mythical beings.
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Ah ok. Do you know of any free online games where you get to play as werewolves or vampires and fight each other? I'm partial to werewolves personally.
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Not really, no. I've seen some advertisements here and there of course, but I never participated in any of the games.
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Well that sucks. Do you have a preference between the two fictional species?
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Nope. I don't even get why there should be one.
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Didn't mean to infer that there was, I just find most people who like horror creatures have a preferred one.
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Maybe I don't have a preference because the media is so oversaturated with them or better: with the same variants over and over. White Wolf at the vary least gave them different clans and so dealt with different aspects of fictional vampires and werewolves, even if they come along as pretty damn overpowered if you ask me.
What bugs me about the whole werewolves vs. vampire thing is how stereotypical the sides usually are and when there are other supernaturals in the mix, the authors/writers tend to make especially vampires as the big rulers even if there would be tons of supes out there that would be able to whipe the floor with a vampire.
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I understand. I agree with your last point.
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Well, what do you think is the most annoying element of the current vampire and werewolf fads?
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Personally it annoys me that werewolves are always depicted as worse than vampires or the vampires being heroic compared to them. I actually feel the opposite if anything. Thats why I like the story of Theiss.
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My problem is usually that the werewolves are basically such idiots that they can do no different but lose against the vampires. I blame Underworld for that.
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True, they are oft depicted as mindless.
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Which makes them so boring for me. They can easily outsmarted and they are often so loud you can hear them miles away.
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I agree, although I'm more disappointed than bored.
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Because I'd like to see better work done with the werewolf as a concept, more depth of character, something more empathetic, not just a brainless monster that you as a viewer are conditioned to want dead immediately.
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Well, there are such werewolves for some time now, but sadly even they tend to be rather on the dumb side.
And they all usually have only very little to do with actual folkloric werewolves. Those were usually much smarter.
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I've barely ever seen such characters unfortunately.
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The only three cases of werewolfism being pretty close to actual folklore I can think of are the movies Blood & Chocolate, Brother's Grimm and ironically the Twilight movies.
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Well in Blood & Chocolate the werewolves are born the way they are and transform into full wolves or normal size, which is the most common type. And being born with the ability to shift doesn't occur often in folklore of werewolves but it occurs. The same with Twilight, it combines that with cases were werewolves transform into big wolves, normally the simply unusually large but I know of a Hessian tale where the wolf was "Taller than the tallest horse" and that the eyes do not shift is an element from Norse folklore. However in folklore wolves as dangerous as in Twilight usually are not hardwired that way, but it is part of their personality, Meyer simply used the Noble/Ignoble Savage stereotypes. Also it is not as if I think she actually knows about these folkloric elements, it was probably coincidece. Now the werewolf from the movies closest to folklore is the one in Brother's Grimm, where the wolf has human eyes and is a man who transforms into a wolf via a pelt that he wears.
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I haven't seen The Brother's Grimm in a while, then again, I was never a fan of dark fairytales.
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"The Brother's Grimm" might claim to be dark, and it certainly looks that way, but I did not think it really was. Plus, it is possible that they also did not know what tales belong to the Brother's Grimm and which not.
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granted it was in the regard of stories used not nearly as bad as the tv show Grimm, the producers claimed that each episode was based on the Brother's Grimm, but yet they were at Goldilocks and the Three Bears in episode 2 or 3 already.
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