Werewolf claws don't work like that where I'm from. Or - maybe they do, and it's some awful, well-kept druidic secret. They have other uses. Alpha werewolves can take a person's memories from their body - alter them, rewrite them, remove them entirely. Anything we siphon from a person's mind is stored in our claws. Digging those claws back into someone's neck can restore whatever was taken or changed. Incredibly difficult, though. My mother was the only wolf I knew who could do it.
Like I said - it's incredibly difficult. My claws would have to dig into someone's skin and physically touch the very top of someone's spine. If I didn't do it right, a thousand different things could go wrong. Death. Paralysis. Complete memory loss. Brain failure.
[ so that's not a no, it's just a list of reasons why doing this to anyone any time soon might be a bad idea. ]
I mean, theoretically, if an Alpha werewolf thought of humans or even other werewolves as disposable, they could probably start a collection. Use them for practice. Surprisingly, this is not an avenue I would encourage.
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[ don't like that. ]
Werewolf claws don't work like that where I'm from. Or - maybe they do, and it's some awful, well-kept druidic secret.
They have other uses. Alpha werewolves can take a person's memories from their body - alter them, rewrite them, remove them entirely.
Anything we siphon from a person's mind is stored in our claws. Digging those claws back into someone's neck can restore whatever was taken or changed.
Incredibly difficult, though. My mother was the only wolf I knew who could do it.
Money is easier than all that.
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So this isn't something you're likely to do anytime soon?
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My claws would have to dig into someone's skin and physically touch the very top of someone's spine. If I didn't do it right, a thousand different things could go wrong.
Death. Paralysis. Complete memory loss. Brain failure.
[ so that's not a no, it's just a list of reasons why doing this to anyone any time soon might be a bad idea. ]
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I mean, theoretically, if an Alpha werewolf thought of humans or even other werewolves as disposable, they could probably start a collection. Use them for practice.
Surprisingly, this is not an avenue I would encourage.