by K-MacK » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:50 pm
Not to get too off topic, but there is a common thread with all of the Big-Time WereWolf setups: They scream FAKE! THe only way these critters could keep up any sort of population is by forced Transition (transition from Human to "Lycan")...sort of a perverted draft system: your number came up, so you have to become a WereWolf. The idea of Families and Lineages is ridiculous, there are 'way too many males, and even as a WereWolf, children have needs that aren't provided in these scenarios.
Kris has, to my mind, come up with a sensible sort of WereWolf population: hiding in plain sight. Yes, it has been used before, but not to the believable degree that exists in Kris' universe; and it'll be used again, maybe by you, maybe by me, maybe by who-knows-who? It is a supportable, realistic setup, where WereWolves live side-by-side with non-mutated humans. "Don't ask, Don't tell" carried to the ultimate....and it would really work! That's the important part. Your neighbors could be WereWolves, and unless they chased your cat up a tree, you'd never know. Beautiful! White Wolf were's are, by contrast, a bunch of disfunctional psychotics that couldn't keep their existence secret if their lives depended on it. In PITW's world, the Government probably knows of WereWolves, and files their "Secret" in the "Why are they still bothering" file. AND That is the big difference! Vive le Difference!
KMacK...
"You don't have to be invisible when everybody is looking the wrong way..."
Writing the series "Wulfen Blood"... getting ready for publication.