Was the term ever used before that movie? Can you find any such reference?

Does it matter if someone uses a shortened version of the word Lycanthrope? Is it some sort of cancer? No. Have fun.

Wow he saw Underworld and those who were referenced as Lycans turn into werewolves, but did not know our reference to Lycans is the same. No hope brother the blog is not long enough. We need at least 500 hits to accomodate a explanation for Gram. Maybe in the next DLC we can cast Lucian as a Companion for Grams sake of knowing a Lycan is a werewolf.

TES does not need to follow the norm for Werewolves. Its always been human flesh and it wil stay human flesh.

sigh

Yeah, I have fun. I guess it's just become a (minor) pet peeve of mine that too many people's entire consciousness of folklore only consists of things that were created in maybe the past ten years, the past fifteen tops. I'll take a wild guess and assume that the OP is almost certainly under 30, and there's probably a greater than 50% chance that he's not yet old enough to have graduated college. Nothing wrong with that; everybody was under 30 for a period of time - for the first thirty years of their life, to be exact.

But werewolves and vampires did exist in fiction prior to the debut of Underworld and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I promise you. Yesterday I mentioned - I think it was yesterday, my aged brain is getting foggy and the days of the week just blur together here in the old folks' home - I mentioned something about vampires not being able to cross running water, and one responder had never heard of such a thing. It's an old part of vampire folklore, along with garlic, holy water, crosses, not being able to enter homes uninvited, stakes through the heart, sunlight being deadly, and so forth. Werewolves change involuntarily with the full moon, can be killed with a silver bullet, and have an uncontrollable urge to kill.

None of this means that Bethesda is obliged to employ all the ages-old details of the folklore, of course. This isn't about how the developers work out their version of lycanthropy and vampirism. My point is just that young people seem oddly unaware of very much beyond maybe fifteen years ago. Werewolves are Lycans, because Underworld called them Lycans. Vampires have a "human form" and a "vampire form" and the vampire form has a bumpy forehead, because that's how Buffy portrayed them.

Fads will be the death of us all.

He obviously watched Underworld for calling them "Lycans". His avatar reinforced the claim.

Which as far as I can see has been the norm for werewolves in legend for centuries. Who's gonna tell tales about werewolves that go around eating nothing but deer?

Wow I slayed a a fresh hunt (Antelope), but I cannot eat it and prolong my form, now I have to look at my fellow hunters.

I only use the term lycan if I'm too lazy to figure out how to spell the full word. I have never seen a single Underworld movie.

Bandits are fabulously delicious!

Just spouting off about a minor pet peeve of mine. Haven't you seen my avatar? I also have little use for the batwinged, grey-skinned, bumpy-foreheaded vampire that seems to be the staple over too much of the past decade and a half or thereabouts. That's all right; I tend to kill vampires in the game pretty quick anyway.

Your avatar looks kinda like a rabid sock puppet. (Gram). Our you controlled by a guy under black tarp behind your chair.

_{Lycans need to improve in game. Hunting anything is the next logical change, along with adding freakish strength. This is better than a cool skin (hide, LOL), that dies easily.}

We need lunar transformations and enhanced abilities in human form.

I'd much rather just have a decent armor rating and forced lunar transformations.


That too. Night eye, and an increase in stamina regeneration rate would be a good start.

The Ring of Hircine better work like it did in Daggerfall.

Forced lunar transformations would be nice, as would the potential for simply going off your rocker as a werewolf and killing people randomly...but then they've kinda gone in the other direction with werewolves in TES, it seems. All the Companions with lycanthropy were able to control their transformations.

Yeah I did. You get both rewards if you do it that way.

Well, probably because people didn't like how Bloodmoon did it. Many do now, but it was probably very annoying at the time.

But they DO eat animals in the lore, yet seem to prefer the tastes of Man/Mer/Beast.

Lore like, I guess.

Feeding on big game shouldn't hurt the lore that much. Like giants, mammoths and trolls. They are worthy prey imo. Hircine thinks the same

I want to feed off internet trolls. Hehe.

Giants seem like they would be prey that a werewolf could hunt if it was feeling so insane, it had to die. I can't see a werewolf being able to take a giant.

I believe the reason behind that is because the Companions were given the gift by the Glenmoril Witch Coven. Other Werewolves can't always control it, as stated by Aela in one of the quests. Sinding seems to have good composure when he changes at will in the jail cell, but the reason he's in jail is because he couldn't control it either.

Just my two cents.

im pretty sure hircine's hounds must feed on sentient prey to satisfy thier hunger, you even die if you refuse to (or, you are sent pretty damn close to death, at least)

p.s. it is "hound of hircine." "hircine's hound," or "werebeast," lycans do not fit because that means werewolf, there is a lot more than just wolves in TES

Lycan(thrope/thropy) is a term used to identify any were-creature, not just werewolves. Another example of how Underworld seems to have "set the standard" so to speak. Everybody seems misinformed due to thet movie, that Lycanthropy/Lycanthrope (Lycan in short) is Werewolf only. Lycan is simply a shortening of the word, but it doesn't mean werewolf only.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Lycanthropy