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Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Anyway, "werewolf" basically means "manwolf", and thus other werecreatures are things that involve a male human turning into something else. Note the order of the construction; the first part is the natural state of the thing, and the second is what it turns into.
Canursine is pleasing to the ear, and being ungendered Latin serves as an analogue to lycanthrope (where the order is reversed from the werecreature construction). Though Canines would include coyotes, dingoes, dogs, & jackals (not just wolves).
Werursus?
Huh. I guess a Bear Pig would just be Ursus, which is no different to just being a bear...
How about Porcurswer instead?
...I have questions
I'm trying to figure out under what circumstances a bear would want to turn into a wolf. Unless there were a pack of them. Five wolves is probably better than five bears.
Of course, I also can't think of a whole lot of situations where a human who can wield weapons would want to turn into a wolf...
Old school D&D was absolutely rife with monsters that were just two things smooshed together.
Coping with food scarcity?
So, like, a journeyman wolf?
Werecanporc ?
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I logged in to say the same thing. Awasos is awesome.
Alternatively, the same article says the Ancient Greek term for bear is arktos. Since the anthrope part of lycanthrope means person, I suppose we could call them a lycarktos.
Yes, I know I'm overthinking this but that's part of the fun.
They at least went to the trouble of giving them fancy names instead of calling them lionbatscorpion.
*this is where someone corrects me and says that manticore is just an ancient Greek portmanteau of those 3 words.
Now I want to look up more of those ancient monsters. I imagine a parade of names that when translated would be "ohhellno", "fuckthatshit", "sweetjesus", and "youvegottabekiddingme".
I've heard the theory that griffins are based on triceratops fossils.
a formal scientific/sage name, something that only shows up in dusty tomes, usually in Latin italics or their equivalent in the setting ("Psuedoarborealus croceus");
the fancy-schmancy name that the same over-educated scholars use to show off their huge vocabulary in the local "Common" language ("Gygax's lesser ochre snaretree");
and what everyone who actually has to fight or run from the damn things (i.e., peasants and/or adventurers) calls 'em ("yella fake tree fuckers").
please don't kinkshame
Josh McIllwain interviewed me at Gen Con about the Apocrypha Adventure Card Game, which Tycho contributed to. He played a game which had a high school football team made up of werebears (and another that, sadly, wasn't). When Josh wrote this Polygon article, he accidentally wrote werewolves. Which led to this correction:
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the lycanthropic condition of the teenagers in Candlepoint. The teenagers in question were werebears, not werewolves. Polygon regrets the error.
Which is the best correction associated with one of my games since Betrayal at House on the Hill's Underground Lake was moved from the upper floor to the basement.