Me>>They do not go raving mad once a week, they turn into magical wolves.
>>Wolves are still pretty smart despite being bestial. And although
>I have to question this. I don't have the sources in front of me but I'm
>pretty sure the phrase ravening beasts (or something like it) is used
>somewhere in the Dorastor LoD description description of the Telmori.
Even if this is true, it changes nothing. Most people think of RW wolves as ravening beasts, but they are still pretty smart. I'm questioning the belief that because they are cursed to be beastial once a week, they should be easily fooled with by-the-book human tricks (ie every wilday, leave a bitch in heat tied up in the camp, and then wait in ambush for the randy Telmori). If they were that stupid, then they would have been all dead by now.
>My interpretation of this has always been that, on Wildday, the Cursed
>Ones become not just beasts but wild, savage beasts driven to acts
>of violence and slaughter like the traditional werewolf of legend. _This_
>is what results from Arkat's revelation of the chaos at the heart of Gbaji/
>Nysalor's gift.
Well it was actually Talor who cursed the wolves. I do think that the Telmori are worse than real wolves in that they do not fear men in the way that RW and non-telmori wolves do. They know what humans are like as they have some within their packs. Thus they are not afraid to hunt humans down for food. This flaw would extend to the Pure Ones as well as the Wild Ones IMO.
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