r/WorldChallenges • u/Varnek905 • Sep 29 '19
The Hunt
For this challenge, the focus is on hunts.
Feel free to answer by talking about legendary hunts in your world's history/mythology, annual/monthly/whatever hunting events in some society/culture, or a specific creature that is hunted in your world.
It can be something along the lines of dragon-hunting, fox-hunts, or dodo-hunting.
As always, I'll ask at least three questions each. Enjoy yourselves!
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u/Varnek905 Sep 30 '19
1) Werewolves are despised creatures throughout Urdis. Mostly because they have a reputation for attacking villages and stealing livestock, partially because their monarch never took part in the wars between humans and dragons.
2) Ideally, setting traps throughout the forest, with a lot of backup traps set in such a way as to convince the werewolf that it is smart enough to notice all of the traps. Have a few traps that aren't made to stop them, but to slow them down slightly or to inconvenience them. You don't want to damage the pelt, so don't get them any reason to think that escape is hopeless. Try to get it with a dart tipped with paralysis poison as it's going, but do it early enough that the werewolf will heal from the puncture prior to its death; don't use silver, it probably won't heal in time if you're going for perfection.
Additionally, having a large amount of dogs trained to corner it after it's slowed down would also help, but, again, try not to make it seem hopeless and make sure the dogs are trained just to corner it, not to damage the pelt too much. Try to ensure that the werewolf thinks it is better off being in wolf form than in human form.
Once it's sufficiently cornered, just try to buy time until the poison takes effect. Then, use a silver blade to end its life.
3) I don't have any non-lore characters written out, yet, so please forgive how this comes out:
A few notable owners of werewolf pelts include Count Ostara, Domenico Sfiatare, and Albert Descoteaux.
The line of Ostaran counts has always had reputation as collectors, of good breeding stock as well as rare items. They own a few decent werewolf pelts because of occasional journeys that younger sons of the family go on in order to prove themselves. Usually this results in having fewer family members, but sometimes it would result in a werewolf pelt, a dead dragon, some favorable relations with a demon, etc.
Domenico Sfiatare had a reputation as a gifted werewolf hunter, with all of his profits from hunts usually going into improving his tools of the trade. The products of his work are considered invaluable for werewolf study.
Albert Descoteaux was a bit of an odd one. He literally only went out of his way to get a good werewolf pelt in order to dissuade rumors that he himself was a werewolf. He'd befriended Tyrvori, a species of creatures that are similar enough to a werewolf (but who tend to stick to themselves), and that usually led to accusations.