These days, movies, via CGI, can do just about anythings. Naturally, the 'monster flicks' have become more and more popular, and that includes movies about werewolves. Unfortunately, each movie tends to recreate its own 'version' of the werewolf myths. Add to that the fact that the myths themselves are pretty varied, and it can get a little confusing. So, I've decided to write a bit about what 'my' werewolves are like, since I know it's going to come up at some point in the future.

First off, most werewolves are changed humans. For a werewolf female to conceive, and actually carry to term, is unusual, since the stresses placed on her body by the day-to-day (for example, Shifting, the official term for 'shifting' from one form to the other) often causes her to miscarry. Add to that the fact that it's hard to conceive in the first place ... and, well, you don't get many born werewolves.

When it does happen, however, there is a gestation of nine months, and the female gives birth, normally to twins (the compromise of the human's one and the wolf's litter). Triplets are rare, but not unheard of. Singles are even more rare, and anything bigger than three is very, very uncommon. It should be said, however, that 'born' wolves have a much easier time of it than 'bitten' wolves. They adapt to their dual reality far easier.

A werewolf can Shift at any time, and any part of their bodies, or any combination. For example, a werewolf in human form can Shift his hand into a wolf paw to reach into a tight space. However, they must Shift on the night that they were bitten. On that night, they loose their human minds, and are a wolf in mind as well as body.

A werewolf in wolf form can be quite large. One of the basic laws of physics is that matter can be neither created nor destroyed. Weight is a direct result of mass. Therefore, even a petite woman weighing 110 lbs (or 50 Kgs) doesn't look so petite anymore as a 110-pound wolf. Other than their size, however, a werewolf in their wolf form looks like any other Canis lupus, so much so that even the most observant biologist, specializing in the timber (or grey) wolf, wouldn't be able to tell them from their wild cousin.

Shifting doesn't heal wounds, but it certainly helps speed up the healing process. It also 'resets', so to say, the body. Therefore, for a werewolf to get any disease worse than a case of the sniffles is next to impossible. They also do not age past maturity, as Shifting restores the cells of the body and stops decay.

It should be noted, however, that the main character of this comic, Ylva, doesn't know most of this. As she was bitten and then abandoned, literally everything she knows about her race is through trial and error.