When I was traveling last year I heard rumors about weretigers. I've heard them before. There have long been legends of weretigers in East Asia and Southern Russia.
There are legends of werelions amongst the Kung bushman of the Kalahari. The werelions did not bother the Kung as long as the Kung did not bother them. There were laws, abided to by both species. It was not until Europeans arrived in the area that troubles began, when werelions began attacking European colonials. The Europeans thought it was insurgents. Their weredogs knew better, and took the fight to the werelions, who were all either killed or driven off.
John Harry Caldwell in the 1920s killed a lot of tigers in northern China and souther Russia and was often told by local elders that they could not be tigers simply because a man killed them.
The Wu Guild was started by a bunch of weredogs in China that had just dealt with and eradicated and run off a large pack of werewolves that had been preying on locals in a nearby district. A dog guild is a pack with a very focused mission.
Given that their mission was to serve and protect humans they investigated, assuming it was another group of werewolves masquerading as tigers. After several weeks, the story goes, they were confronted by an enormous weretiger who spoke to them and seemed as surprised about their existence as they were of his. According to reports, the guild leader tried to talk to the weretiger, but was killed for his troubles. The rest of the pack attacked.
That weredog guild fought and tracked and hunted and and finally killed that weretiger. It took them nearly a month. But only three of that guild pack made it out of those mountains, claiming they killed the weretiger, and carrying just two of their friends bodies. No rumors were ever again heard of a weretiger or any other kind of werefeline, dog be praised.
Until recently.
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Chester, what would you do if you personally came across a weredeer of some sort? Assuming they're out there, of course. I'm pretty sure I know what would happen with werewolves...
Chelsea, I've never heard of weredeer, or any type of shifter that wasnt derived from a predator species. It is an intriguing idea.
But, for the sake of argument, if I did come across and see and meet for the first time a weredeer, I would first seek to determine if it was a threat or not. If it was not I would try to relate to and sniff it, as my curiosity would be very strong about it.
Keep in mind, this depends on many factors. If there were such as a weredeer then that creature could assume 3 forms, just like other werefolk - deer, human and weredeer. AND, like other werefolk, s/he, or they, would be able to fight and defend themselves with their weapons of those 3 forms.
A werewolf might try t g at it right off, especially if s/he was hungry, for meat or just for killing. But maybe not, depending on his or her assessment of the creature and if there was one or more. Many werewolves might so stunned at the sight and smell of a weredeer that they might just do nothing but whine or howl.
All werewolves are not mindless killing machines or monsters, as depicted in movies. I have met few like that. Most are very intelligent and calculated.
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