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Vampires, Werewolves, and Elves as Evil Beings
The Corvidian:
With the Elves, take a cue from Rob Thurman and Karen Marie Moning. In Moning's latest series, the Fae see humans as little more then monkeys, and in Thurman's novels, they are a race of psychopaths.
Magus Dresdenarus:
--- Quote from: WyldCard4 on January 29, 2008, 07:24:02 AM ---Vampires, Werewolves, and Elves as Evil Beings
Werewolves I have more trouble with. They are hard not to make sympathetic if they are cursed with that state and are barely Werewolves if they are not, I have the idea that they are the personification of the wild that we try to tame, monsters who seek to tear down our every wall and tear us down to the state of beasts but I fear that too many would see that as a blessing despite what I attempt to convey.
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Well, folkloric werewolves aren't cursed with a disease but are Satanic sorcerers who use magic to shape-shift. In other words, they *want* to be that way and went through the effort of learning magic and making the necessary sacrifices to the Devil to gain the ability.
The belt-using werewolves in Fool Moon are an example of the Satanic sorcerer variety (even though Jim's cosmology doesn't posit Satan as the ultimate source of evil.)
The Corvidian:
--- Quote from: Magus Dresdenarus on January 31, 2008, 04:59:19 AM ---Well, folkloric werewolves aren't cursed with a disease but are Satanic sorcerers who use magic to shape-shift. In other words, they *want* to be that way and went through the effort of learning magic and making the necessary sacrifices to the Devil to gain the ability.
The belt-using werewolves in Fool Moon are an example of the Satanic sorcerer variety (even though Jim's cosmology doesn't posit Satan as the ultimate source of evil.)
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There are other ways, like being born on the wrong day; sleeping in an open field, under a full moon; drinking water from a cursed spring; drinking water from a wolf's foot print; being the seventh son of a seventh son. It depends on the source.
Quantus:
Werewolves as a primal hunter spirit sort of thing works too. Something along the lines of the Predator, the Canim, or the Erlking (or a mix of all three).
Elves in the older version as malicious tricksters and such, or expand teh definition to include things like sirens and other ancient perils.
Vampires are traditionally evil, it mostly depends on where they fall on the savage/evi-genius spectrum
OZ:
As has been said before, all of these are already dark in the original traditions. Vampires seek immortality by stealing the life of others to add to their own. Some devoured the persons flesh in addition to drinking their blood. ( Read the original Dracula where he gives his wives a baby to eat so that they won't bother his guest if you want evil vampires.) The idea that they would just take a little blood which the person could then regenerate like they had given to a blood bank was a later idea. It was a persons life they were consuming not just some plasma.
Werewolves were magicians who transformed themselves so that they could kill and maim without it being traced back to them. Psychopathic serial killers trying to hide the evidence.
Elves were more amoral than immoral. They saw humans as toys to be used and discarded, providers of servants for their courts. Humans purpose was to serve the elves.
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