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Spearhafoc — James Tennyman, Hound of God
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Published: 2016-07-03 05:04:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 1616; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 8
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Occult Heroes: Lycanthropy. This is James Tennyman, Hound of God.In 1692, in Jürgensburg, Livonia, a man named Thiess testified that he was a werewolf. He also claimed that werewolves were in fact servants of God, tasked with fighting demons and witches. This was just one man, of course, and doesn't really jive with the majority of the history of werewolf folklore, but it was too good an idea for me to pass up doing a picture based on it.
Tennyman is a good werewolf, almost completely in control of his transformations. He wears what's left of enchanted armour that can transform along with him.
Artwork inspired by Brian Bolland.
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Awesome! I remember reading about that guy! He was probably nuts but I like the idea of werewolves being "God's Hounds" like in Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book!
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Are you going to do Vampirism next?
Well I can't remember Lycanthropy being occultism but rather they're entirely different supernatural creatures all together or rather it's best becareful to classify such things.
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I'll admit, I was stretching the definition a bit because I was interested in this particular particular story about "Hounds of God". Although in many versions of the legend, lycanthropy is an intentional transformation using wolf skins and rituals, which I think would count as a magical practice.
I won't be doing vampirism, as I already have a series on that subject, but I will be doing Vampire Hunting and I'll be making the character a Dhampir (half-vampire from Baltic legends).
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Of course though, I've always seen Werewolves being the "hunter types" which they're like pack animals like you know actual wolves but with superpowers?
Which with this character's case, the things he hunts are "Demons and Witches" which the latter being that I think Heiðr, Threefold, or basically any of the female occultists would be considered "Witches" in his hunt list due to how misogynistic Abrahamic faiths are which is pretty fringe horror once you think about it.
Basically it shows that "Good and Evil" are subjective terms since Demons and Vampires represent hedonism which is quite the opposite of the Asceticism of Abrahamic Faiths hence why they're considered "Evil" by their standards.
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