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Saint Christopher. The 12 foot tall werewolf Saint. Seriously.
Apocrypals fanart.
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On a more serious note, one wonders if the idea of Saint Christopher being LITERALLY dog-headed originally derived from The Saint wearing a dogskin cap (the Davy Crockett hat of the Classical Era!), with that anecdote being distorted a little in transmission? (not quite as hilariously Awesome as Saint Chewbacca, but ... alright, I've got nothin').
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Apparently it may have come from someone confusing the word "Canaanite" with "Canine."
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It's always fascinating to trace the subtle distortion of History by this ongoing game of "Chinese Whispers" which even the best can find themselves playing (by accident or design).
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You might think Saint Christopher is the only peculiarly-canine Saint in the calendar; reader, you are proved entertainingly wrong - courtesy of the Blessed Saint Guinefort!
I'd make a joke about all dogs going to Heaven, but that would seem a trifle redundant at this point.
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I guess he's somehow related to this character perhaps?:
I've been seeing alot of Christian aligned Werewolves lately from your part but I wonder where's the stand ins for more evil or villainous Werewolves that resemble the ones from Universal's "The Wolf Man", Dog Soldiers, American Werewolf in London, The Howling, Stephen King's Silver Bullet, etc and such or rather the ones that do nothing better but to rip people to shreds and maw on them?
I also wonder if there's non-christian aligned Werewolves that are more attuned to Shamanism and Animism ala the ones that resemble the ones from Werewolf the Apocalypse and Forsaken games from White Wolf (yes the same developer who made Vampire the Masquerade) in your world? Or maybe neutral Werewolves like the ones in "Ginger Snaps"?
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Yeah, well, St. Christopher is specifically a Cynocephalus, ie a man with the head of a dog. They were believed in Medieval times to be a race of people from somewhere far away (either in Africa, Asia, or some other remote region). Calling him a werewolf is a little misleading, but I find it funny.
And, yes, I do plan of relating St. Christopher to the "Hounds of God" concept, but there'll be other kinds of werewolves too. I honestly don't know much about mythical werewolves or werewolves from early fiction, but it's something I plan to start researching at some point.
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One word of warning though, the further research you go deeper on Werewolves, the more they start to blur with Vampires as if they're one of the same creature well especially the Vrykolakas especially since I don't think there's a whole lot of Werewolf characters from the 19th century unlike Vampires though especially since whole "Fullmoon" concept is entirely a Hollywood invention.
There's also the "skinwalkers" or rather the pratice of putting on Werewolf skin and you transform into a Wolf that way.
Speaking of which, I don't know if you have any plans on your take on the whole "Vampires vs Werewolves" trope that is popularized in films like Underworld and of course in White Wolf's World of Darkness games, especially "Werewolf the Apocalypse" Werewolves kill Vampires on sight because they're "of the wyrm" i.e. part of the spiritual corruption if they're aware of it or not (since in the WoD, the Wyrm is part of the Triat that are the cosmic forces in that universe) but not so much in the Chronicles of Darkness with Forsaken though.
Also notes on the Dhampyr character you've mentioned about long ago in that page, I take it that this particular Dhampyr happens to be Dracula's son Alucard ala paying allusion to the Castlevania games?
Also I've realized that the reason why Vampires can't be straight up heroes well if you look up the epistemology of the words "Hero" and "Villain" I guess you'll find why because Heroes protect the natural order of the world (and of course the status quo especially so with Krackle incorporated) and Villains threaten it hence what Vampires represent. Otherwords I guess it perfectly makes sense that Dhampyrs are "Heroes" while Vampires themselves can only be Anti-Heroes and Anti-Villians but never Straight up heroes though since they're seen as "Evil" and "Villainous" by the eyes of society despite no matter how noble and "good" their intentions are which is what makes villainous characters more compelling and complex than Straight up hero characters. I guess this is what you intend with the characters from "Undeath" I guess.
Then again as I learned from the "Space Nazis Must Die" issue, Heroism depending how far you're sticking to the status quo always has a risk of slipping into Fascism you know which in Reade's case, it serves as a cautionary tale. Which BTW I think this is my opinion on the Vulderberg Foundation which slaying vampires may sound "noble" in the eyes of society at first but since they have Genocidal intent, I can see them falling into the same pitfall as Reade's Krackle incorparted but then again I wonder if there's other Vampire or Monster hunting organizations that exist in your world don't have genocidal intentions at all but more like bounty hunters or rather they only hunt dangerous vampires and monsters but they spare others though?
In short: Everytime a Apex Society member punches a Nazi, what they're punching is not a "Villain" in a traditional stance but rather a mirror image of themselves that they're struggling not to become and I guess that's the "Personal Horror" of being a hero especially the fact there's alot of links of heroism and fascist ideology.
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