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The '''weredemon''', {{black|&}}, is a [[monster]] that appears in [[EvilHack]]. It is a former lesser demon that has been infected by a werewolf, and is the most powerful of the [[lycanthrope]]s present in the game. They are able to shift into a hell hound-form, {{red|d}}, and can summon actual [[hell hound]]s and/or other [[demon]]s to help them. Like all other lycanthropes, they can infect others with their bite.
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The '''weredemon''', {{black|&}}, is a [[monster]] that appears in [[EvilHack]]. It is a former lesser [[MH_DEMON|demon]] that has been infected by a werewolf, and is the most powerful type of [[lycanthrope]] present in the game. Weredemons are able to shift into a [[hell hound]] form, {{red|d}}, and can summon actual hell hounds and/or other demons to help them.
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A weredemon has a claw attack and a bite attack that confers lycanthropy in their demon form, and has a bite attack that confers lycanthropy and a fire [[breath weapon]] in their hell hound form - this makes them one of the few lycanthropes to have an infectious bite in both forms. Weredemons possess [[fire resistance]], [[poison resistance]], [[drain resistance]], and a [[vulnerability]] to [[cold]].
  
 
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Weredemons are the only demon-class monster that can spawn outside of [[Gehennom]].
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Randomly generated weredemons are always hostile, and are created in demon form. Unlike most other major demons, weredemons can randomly generate outside of [[Gehennom]].
  
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A weredemon [[Corpseless|does not leave a corpse]] upon death.
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In 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty."  The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday."  The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day.
 
In 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty."  The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday."  The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day.
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The weredemon, &, is a monster that appears in EvilHack. It is a former lesser demon that has been infected by a werewolf, and is the most powerful type of lycanthrope present in the game. Weredemons are able to shift into a hell hound form, d, and can summon actual hell hounds and/or other demons to help them.

A weredemon has a claw attack and a bite attack that confers lycanthropy in their demon form, and has a bite attack that confers lycanthropy and a fire breath weapon in their hell hound form - this makes them one of the few lycanthropes to have an infectious bite in both forms. Weredemons possess fire resistance, poison resistance, drain resistance, and a vulnerability to cold.

Generation

Randomly generated weredemons are always hostile, and are created in demon form. Unlike most other major demons, weredemons can randomly generate outside of Gehennom.

A weredemon does not leave a corpse upon death.

Encyclopedia entry

In 1573, the Parliament of Dole published a decree, permitting the inhabitants of the Franche-Comte to pursue and kill a were-wolf or loup-garou, which infested that province, "notwithstanding the existing laws concerning the chase." The people were empowered to "assemble with javelins, halberds, pikes, arquebuses and clubs, to hunt and pursue the said were-wolf in all places where they could find it, and to take, burn, and kill it, without incurring any fine or other penalty." The hunt seems to have been successful, if we may judge from the fact that the same tribunal in the following year condemned to be burned a man named Giles Garnier, who ran on all fours in the forest and fields and devoured little children, "even on Friday." The poor lycanthrope, it appears, had as slight respect for ecclesiastical feasts as the French pig, which was not restrained by any feeling of piety from eating infants on a fast day.
[ The History of Vampires, by Dudley Wright ]

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