Update: Added a bit more per Mystic and Muro's request.
Side-note #2 is very nice! I "feel" it. So this is the non-lycanthropic man-wolf. Its good, but it cries out for something beyond the "talisman must be worn". Something more about battling them or some tales of hexen-wolf hunting or something. But over-all i like it. A part of a set.
Updating my vote because of the new material.
The demon aspect adds another dimension and rounds it out nicely. Beware of deals with extraplanar beings!
More to come, ran out of time. Thanks for Muro for putting me up to a challenge to get at least this done.
Fixed... this isnt the Jewish werehunter your looking for.
Frame story! I like it and the distinction between blood-born and bitten lycanthropes.
Dr. Lervolachi will now proceed to give us a few lessons in lycanthropy and on battling back its tide. Looking forward to the complete guide on were-wolves and were-wolf hunters
(psst, he's lervolachi up top, lerkoviski at bottom Those sneaky European monster-hunters! :) )
I have to echo the notion that stuff laying eggs into living people is nothing new.
Alas, what is new is the parasite eggs being used as a) torture b) delicacy c) both.
(If you added a little oomph! it would be very good, so it's okay.)
Lifeforms (Intelligent Species) (Any)