Daggerfall:Lycanthropy

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Contents 1 Quests where Were-Creatures may be Encountered 2 Getting Infected 3 Living as a Lycanthrope 3.1 Advantages 3.2 Disadvantages 4 Magical Items 4.1 Hircine's Ring 5 Curing Lycanthropy 6 Exploits

In Daggerfall, characters may be infected with two forms of lycanthropy: the curse of the werewolf or the wereboar. As of patch v2.13 you now become a werewolf if bit by one. Information, apparently from Bethesda itself, seems to indicate that before patch 2.13 the character can only become a werewolf in certain locations. One possible spot is via the Cyndassa's quest in which you must kill her brother, a werewolf. Another way to make werewolves appear is by accepting the "Deliver Potion" quest at a Witch Coven. During this quest you'll be ambushed at night by vampires and werewolves.

[edit] Quests where Were-Creatures may be Encountered

Wereboar

• Cure for Lycanthropy
• The Desecrated Temple
• A Great Errand
• Hircine's Quest
• Hunt for a Lycanthrope
• A Special Mixture
• Deadly Diplomacy

Werewolf

• Clavicus Vile's Quest
• The Desecrated Temple
• Hunt for a Lycanthrope
• A Prized Herb
• The Rich Merchant
• A Special Mixture
• A Treasured Potion
• Valuable Pages
• The Werebeast

At lower levels it is also possible to randomly encounter were-creatures in dungeons and in the wilderness. Upon reaching higher levels you will encounter them very rarely.

[edit] Getting Infected

When you are hit by a lycanthrope, there is a chance of 0.6% that you will contract the disease. Once you have it, the only warning you get is when you sleep for the first time after you were infected. A dream sequence will appear and a voice says:

You dream of the moon and of a man, who is less than a man.

72 hours after you have contracted the disease, you will turn permanently into a lycanthrope, until this point you can cure yourself using a temple's healer, a potion or a spell.

[edit] Living as a Lycanthrope

When you arrive in a settlement while in were-form the streets will be vacant; only when you transform back will the citizens show up again. The citizens will not vanish if you transform into your were-form while in town. You can still rent a room, or purchase services. However, no NPC will talk to you when you are in were-form, nor is it possible to purchase anything, since you can't access your inventory. If someone gives you something while you are in were-form (e.g. the reward for a quest), the game will crash.

It must be pointed out, that every crime you commit while in were-form is charged only to your were-from. Your humanoid-form will not be affected. In principle and also for the game-engine, you are two different beings. Therefore make sure you are always in were-form when you kill innocents to sate the hunger for blood.

[edit] Advantages

Attributes

• +40 on Strength, Speed, Agility and Endurance, but no score will go above 100.
• +30 on Hand-to-hand, Climbing, Running, Stealth, Swimming and Critical Strike. These advantages are for human form as well as wereform. The 30% boost does not count toward level gains, you can increase it to over 100% even if you weren't at 71 or above when you were infected.
• Immunity to iron- and steel weapons while in were-form. Since most humanoid enemies and many orcs are equipped only with these types of weapons, you are immune against their attacks. Other means of attacks e.g. spells, hand-to-hand etc., can still harm you nonetheless.

Spells

• Access to the ability Lycanthropy can be used twice a day for no cost, changing the character into their wereform and vice-versa.

Special Trait

• All Lycanthropes are immune to diseases, according to the character sheet, although this does not seem to work one-hundred percent of the time.

[edit] Disadvantages

• You need to hunt innocents at least twice a month -- more precisely, every fifteen days (fourteen days plus the day you start counting). This means you have to kill a peasant or a guard. If you do not do this, your hit points will decrease very rapidly, leaving you with at most four hit points. When you have sated your hunting instinct, you have fifteen days until you must hunt again, or run around with reduced health points.
• Whenever there's a full moon, the character changes into were-form, and will stay in that form for a full twenty-four hours. However, you will not change into your were-form during fast-travel. You will not change back automatically on the next day; you must use the shape-shift spell in your spell book to return to your humanoid form. Take a look at the Calendar to learn how phases of the moon are calculated in the game.
• Once every year you get a letter from a werewolf hunter that he has selected you as his next target. He'll give you a quest to get rid of the lycanthropy curse, or try to kill you. Trying to kill you means sending two to five of his henchmen after you, usually warriors, rogues, assassins, nightblades or archers. If you kill these they'll leave you alone for another year.

[edit] Magical Items

[edit] Hircine's Ring

As the Ring's description says, the Hircine Ring gives a character all the advantages of being a Lycanthrope with few of the disadvantages. The Hircine Ring quest can be started by contacting a witch, or the Glenmoril coven and having them summon Hircine. Hircine gives your character a quest to go kill another Lycanthrope and offers the ring as a reward for its completion.

Hircine's Ring will stop you from getting the need to hunt innocents and you won’t automatically transform during nights of a full moon. Plus you can use Hircine's Ring to shape shift as many times as you like instead of just once per day. Doing this, however, expends charges and eventually wears out the ring.

[edit] Curing Lycanthropy

At some point after you become infected with lycanthropy, you will be sent a letter offering you a chance to be cured. If you follow the instructions in the letter you will be sent to a person who will give further details.

After following the instructions on the letter, you will be sent to get a sample of your blood to infect the last member of a hereditary family of lycanthropes with. The shock of your infecting them will cure you. Unfortunately, when you get to the town where this person lives, you find that they have died, leaving behind them only a young daughter who will need to be infected in order to remove your curse. For more on curing lycanthropy by doing this quest, see its quest page.

If you are unwilling to take this route, the Coven of Glenmoril offers another chance at removing a character's lycanthropy. Accepting their quest to deliver a potion will instead give you the potion for removing the lycanthropic curse.

[edit] Exploits

• A slight delay between the automatic shift on a full moon means that you can use the Lycanthropy ability to switch back and forth between human and wereform, in order to loot enemies while in a dungeon.
• Your health will always be fully restored when you shift to your were-form and vice-versa.
• You can still use potions, magical items and cast spells, which is pretty illogical since you should only be a wild beast while being in were-form.