The Witcher 3: Werewolves Are Slaves to Their Insatiable Hunger

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The world of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is home to all sorts of monsters. Though hideous and grotesque, some of these creatures are closer to humans than one would expect. This is the case for the werewolf, as can be assumed from the monster's mythological origins.

The player comes across multiple werewolves in The Witcher 3. One challenges Ciri as she flees from the Crones and the Wild Hunt, while the rest have to be dealt with by Geralt.

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Werewolves in The Witcher 3 appear as hunched, bipedal beasts with the features of both man and wolf. Their long, sharp claws make it easy for them to incapacitate their prey and they have a superior sense of smell, even better than a wolf. Given their half-best nature, werewolves often hunt harmoniously with other wolves and canine animals, but they notably dislike werecats.

Werewolves are labeled as cursed creatures in The Witcher 3 and thus have little control over their abilities. They usually change into their beastly form at night and are much stronger during a full moon. In this state, they acquire an insatiable hunger for raw flesh, with no regard as to what their prey is. They’re still capable of human speech in this form, and once the night is over cursed werewolves revert to humans with no recollection of what they’ve done the night prior.

The number of ways a person can be cursed with lycanthropy isn’t specified, although one known cause is being bitten by a wolf. Still, there’s very little chance of this happening. As for lifting lycanthropy curses, the bestiary entry mentions there’s no one way to do this, and that attempting to do so requires plenty of patience.

Despite their classification in the game, not all werewolves