If it's alright with you (and anyone else that might be interested in this), I think we could approach this one of a few different ways. We could have either a wolf form or a werewolf form, but not both. Or, alternatively, there could be two types of werewolf forms - an actual were-wolf and a full wolf. Either could be just as powerful, but the two could serve different purposes. Obviously, if one were to have four legs, they'd be much more proficient runners, so traveling in wolf form would be easiest. Werewolf form would be more handy in combat on in situations where having hands and arms would be beneficial. Or, lastly, there could just be different werewolf species (which I'm probably most partial to), so that some people who are werewolves turn into a part man, part wolf, and others just became a massive wolf. What is your opinion?

I hadn't even thought about other lycanthropes, like big cats and other predators. I think that could be neat, but just to keep it simple, we should just stick to wolves, though that's just my opinion. Say differently though if you feel otherwise!

As for the werewolf questions, I really still favor this whole concept that I wrote up awhile back ago:

[b][i]The initial lycan was created when a rabid lone wolf, driven mad by its disease and starvation, attacked a villager in northern Europe during a full moon. The man collapsed, nearly having been killed by the mauling, but when he awoke, he was no longer himself, in body or in mind. He had become part man, part wolf, operating only on instinct and a powerful desire to hunt. Whenever he attacked a person and left them alive, they too would become infected with the condition, and so the trend would carry on.

Newly created lycans are only able to transform under a full moon, and they lose all their rational thoughts and their human mind and become a pure wolf. They are not in any form of control. As lycans age however, they eventually learn to adapt and adjust to their transformations. Around the time they become ‘adults,’ they are able to fully control when and where they transform, and they also have some degree of control over themselves, if not full control. Aged lycans never lose their human minds when under transformation and can even change into their wolf forms much more quickly and painlessly.

They are much more powerful than humans, but lycans are strong only when they are transformed. Additionally, lycans are deathly allergic to silver. Ingesting silver or having silver penetrate the body in any way will cause a lycan, whether transformed or not, to eventually die if the silver is not removed in time. Simply touching silver can cause serious rashes. 

Lycans are immortal, meaning they cannot age or die of old age, but they still can be killed by selective means. Silver, as mentioned, is one way of killing a lycan. Beheading is another, as is the complete dismemberment of limbs and body parts. Religious artifacts hold no power over lycans, but the cry of a fellow lycan will beckon other lycans, whether they belong to the same pack or not. Being social creatures, lycans depend and rely heavily on each other, and it is in their instincts to protect one another. Therefore, it isn't at all uncommon for men to have captured and wounded a lycan and left it chained and in agony as bait to lure in more of its kind to slay.

There are 4 different ages of a lycan: Adolescent, Youth, Adult, and Ancient. An Adolescent refers to a newly transformed human who has no control over their monthly transformations. A Youth is typically one who has gained some control over their transformations and may, at times, be able to transform upon will but who is not very powerful yet. An Adult is typically considered to be the most common type of lycan. It is someone who has been a lycan long enough to have complete control over their transformations and can also transform upon will. They are powerful creatures not to be messed with. Ancients are almost unheard of creatures, as they are the oldest living lycans whose abilities far surpass any other. They are usually the leaders of powerful packs and are highly respected. Ancient lycans usually evolve to appear much different than their original human selves. In their human forms, their eyes may look more like wolf eyes, if they’re male, they may grow more hair, their ears may grow pointier, and their nails become hard and tend to grow faster to resemble claws. In their wolf forms, other variations can be seen. They are much larger and far more muscular than they appeared as an Adolescent wolf. [/i][/b]

The way I imagined it, werewolves were always very widely known about and accepted as part of the real world in our history (or at least for the purpose of this RP), and so when this story would take place, they wouldn't be mythical beings. It's only because of their population decline at this time that they became legend. Therefore, hunters don't need to necessarily be secret or underground. 

Hunters can have knives, cutlasses, and blades of any sort, along with (flintlock or percussion single shot) pistols, (smokeless powder) revolvers, muskets, (black powder) rifles, and any other such weaponry that was introduced in the 1800's or earlier. (We don't need to get overly specific and name an actual date this roleplay is taking place in, so literally anything introduced within the 1800's is acceptable.)

I really like your plot ideas! I think 2 and 3 are my favorites, though if I had to choose, I think 3 could be really interesting. What do you think?

I just recently started playing Diablo 3 with my boyfriend, and there's this part where a man approaches you and says that his wife has been turned and that he locked her in a dungeon with everyone else, but he can't kill her himself. So you have to go into this dungeon and slay all these zombie-like people who have been kept there. (I'm probably really messing up the story of Diablo with that explanation lol, so I apologize to anyone who's a big fan. I just started playing and wasn't overly paying attention to the plot!) Anyway, as I was playing through that, I thought about how interesting it would be if someone were keeping a bunch of people locked up in a cellar somewhere who were all young werewolves, unable to turn upon will and thus transformed each full moon. The person keeping them prisoner could either be keeping them for a hunter to come slay or because they pity the werewolves and simply don't want them outside in a world filled with hunters who would obviously slay them. That could be something we could try incorporating into this roleplay?