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Egads, I have five minutes to type out something to say O.o  Truth is, after what Todd just did, I’m kinda speechless myself.  I’ll probably come up with something clever to say later.

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If you’re one of the many who recognized the <I>Into the woods</I> reference last week, yaaaay!

So… here’s the thing about Robin Hood: He was an outlaw.  Today, his story is heavily romanticized, just like vampires and werewolves are.  However, while it may seen silly, or perhaps a mistake on Todd’s part, in the Eldritch version of the world, yeah, Robin Hood was a werewolf.  “Why?” you might ask… well, the reason is simple: Back in the day, outlaws were sometimes called Wolves, or Wolf-Headed.  This basically meant that these outlaws were to be treated as wolves... as dangerous animals that needed to be killed, all human rights forfeit. 

This practice may have lead to some of our werewolf legends, such as one from Innsbruck, in which a werewolf corners a woman and demands her diamonds. At the end of the story, however, her diamonds are safe… but only because she traded her loving husband to the werewolf instead.  It makes one wonder whom the real monster in the story was?  Regardless, werewolves in Austria-Hungary and Spain were said to have a particular attraction to valuable precious stones, such as diamonds and rubies.  One could suppose that some of these alleged werewolves were only rogues and outlaws pretending 

to be monsters, in hopes of scaring people out of their valuables.  After all, Loup Garou and Wargus in some cases also meant outlaw. Or, perhaps, werewolves are as easily distracted by shiny things as we humans are. ;3

I suppose that a diamond is a werewolf’s best friend…

Please also see:

The Beast Within --Adam Douglas

The Book of Werewolves --Sabine Baring-Gould

Werewolves (Around the world) --Elliot O’Donnell

Were-wolf And Vampire in Romania – Harry A. Senn (Good luck finding this one. :C)

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*Puffs a breath* Urg… well, I got the page done in spite of loosing three days working time to the convention (It went pretty well, thanks for asking).  Truth is, I should have started on this sooner… I guess we all make mistakes.

Anyway!  So, yeah… Todd is dressed as Robin Hood… This was very deliberate, but why I did it is something that I will address in more detail next week.  However, whomever knows what he’s referencing there gets ten experience points.

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It seems the feline overlords have retreated from DA.  That means Faith can be a werewolf again!

Well, folks, I can’t ramble on for long… I have a convention this weekend and have been up since five-thirty, so, life’s been busy.  But anyway… yeah, that stuff about a werewolf being executed on Halloween?  It really happened.  It pops up in these books, should you wanna look:

The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and Other Monsters --Rosemary Guiley

The Werewolf in Lore and Legend --Montague Summers

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Werewolves --Nathan Brown

Werewolves: The Occult Truth -- Konstantinos

Happy April Fool's!

The Feline Overlords of Deviantart have demanded that I make Faith a werecat from now on XD

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So, in short… Seamus doesn’t age.  And he can jump through time… but only forward.  Oh, and he doesn’t pick when, but at least he can feel it coming on.  That kind of sucks. 

Time travel is tricky, and it’s way too easy to abuse it.  If he had absolute control over time, he could go back in time and ‘save’ faith from being bitten… but that would create a time paradox.  By forcing Seamus to only go forward, it allows me to play with time travel, but not in a way that can alter the consistency of the story.  It also makes him somewhat of a tragic character.  In this way, he’s a bit different from the initial incarnation I had of him.

When I first started coming up with Seamus as a character back around 2006, he was simply what I called the style of writing I used when writing my italicized descriptions for several of my pieces.  Unlike in Eldritch, he had no real family, because his main love was books. I playfully said he was from Neverwhen… that is, he resides in no time or place in particular, and can pop up anywhere and anywhen.  Well, for the aforementioned reasons, that wasn’t going to work for Eldritch.  It’d make it way too easy to make him a power character, and frankly, I know I’m not talented enough to handle a super-complex time travel story with a character that isn’t even the main one.

However, where it counts… Seamus is pretty much the same.  He loves science and myth and magic… he loves researching and of course… talking to others about it.  A Lot.  Besides, you can’t blame a guy for cramming as much information as he can into a conversation, since he never knows if he might accidentally leave or not.

Anyway… on to the next page.  Woo~

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