Lycan

Lycans are natural shapeshifters and the precursors to lycanthropes who they hate with a passion. The disease lycanthropy was created, though legend has forgotten by who, in an attempt to create more lycans, but it went awry and the resulting persecution from people who didn’t understand the difference between the race of lycans and the disease lycanthropy drove the lycans even further away from civilization. Lycans come in many different forms. Wolves, hyena, snakes, dire frog, dire rat, gorilla, tiger, coyote just to name a few. Lycan society is organized into packs, each pack being its own tribal society. There are many traditions in lycan society, but only one law: the strongest makes the rules. Might does indeed make right in lycan society. The packs rarely cooperate with each other and always compete to prove themselves the strongest. This philosophy has caused some problems for them with other races as their territory borders an elven kingdom and the two peoples have been at war for generations.