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no dumb beart we were huntiz. . .
Mom1 and Ethical Outlook
n some distant lands, I am
told, certain types of
lvcanthrooes exhibit moral
and ethicel outlooks that
1 are more or less benign.
F~2i i;:.; de, travelers have claimed
that were-bears have exhibited
concern for the general weal. Further,
though these creatures champion
individualism above all else, they
oppose those who spread pain and
suffering. Judging from still other tales,
there are werebeasts in some climes
that run the gamut of behavior, from
beneficent to indifferent to malevolent.
Such is not the case within the
realm of my experience. It is my
-From the journal of Zef Merrigan
considered opinion that virtually all
lycanthropes are highly malign
(although I must admit the actual
nature of their malignity can vary
somewhat). To be ever truthful, of
course, the nature of my business is
such that I am unlikely to encounter
any werecreature of a less than cruel
nature. As such, 1 must allow that
"good werebeasts can exist, though I
have yet to meet them.
Why are lycanthropes such
creatures of evil? My own guess is that
they are subject to the same strange
agencies that pervert magical wishes
and twist the spirits of those who trans
gress the unwritten laws of moral
behavior. Lycanthropy is a dark,
malign disease-a perversion of the
way life should be-and hence it is
somehow akin to evil itself. When
someone willingly kills a sentient
creature, this is, in my view, an act of
evil. Because such acts will ultimatelv
corrupt the mind of those who perform