The templars relied on superior numbers to overcome the enemy, but one to one they were grievously outmatched. Specialists had silvered halberds, greatswords, and arrows but most templars had to rely on silvered daggers to bring down their foes. This was complicated by the fact that the templars couldn’t afford to silver every weapon. One to one, only the greatest templar champions were a match for an individual lycanthrope. Werewolves could go either way, sometimes overrunning their enemies and other times hounding them, striking swiftly and then disappearing. Weretigers and similar types preferred to toy with templars, stalking them, laying traps and ambushes.
Some-especially wereboars-would rely on brute force, charging directly into enemy forces. Werewolves, wereboars, and other lycanthropes were feral and bloodthirsty.
#SECRETS OF THE LOST TOMB LYCANTHROPY MOVIE#
In the open forest you had a movie that was a blend of Aliens and Predator. So in looking at the actual battles of the Purge, there were essentially two movies playing out at the same time. But shifters also formed the bulk of the forces of the Wild Heart, and lycanthropes were hidden in almost every shifter village. Shifters were the civilians of the Towering Wood. But the templars never believed that all shifters were lycanthropes or that all shifters were the enemy. So there were all too many incidents where innocents died.
Wererats worked to convince templars that innocent shifters were scheming lycanthropes, and to convince shifters that the templars were butchers and that their only chance for survival was to strike first. And templars didn’t jump to this conclusion alone wererats hidden among shifters and templar forces delighted in sowing chaos and turning people who should be allies into enemies. Why did the templars fear shifters? Why was it so easy for them to believe shifters could be lycanthropes? Because the majority of the lycanthropes they fought were cursed shifters, taken by the Wild Heart before the templars came into the region. But who were those lycanthropes who triggered the crusade? Where did the forces that raided Aundair come from? The curse began in the Towering Wood, and it was the people of the Towering Wood who were the first victims of the Wild Heart-and the majority of them were shifters. After securing the region they realized the threat was based deep in the Towering Wood-and that they would have to push into the woods to fight it. The Templars of the Silver Flame came in response to lycanthropes raiding western Aundair. This is important because the lycanthropes being fought weren’t blessed by Olarune or champions of the natural world they were cursed by an overlord and essentially demonically possessed.
This IFAQ article discusses different strains of lycanthropy-in particular, the Curse of the Wild Heart, the primary strain involved in the Silver Crusade. This Dragonmark article provides basic information about the Silver Crusade, now often known as the Lycanthropic Purge. It was a war between the servants of the Wild Heart and everyone else shifters just suffered the worst of it.įirst, let’s establish some basic facts. The Silver Crusade wasn’t a struggle between templars and shifters. What is often overlooked is that countless innocent shifters died before the templars ever came to the Towering Wood. Everyone knows that shifters died in the conflict and that it created a deep rift between the shifters of the west and the Church of the Silver Flame. When people think of the Lycanthropic Purge, they often think of the final stage-the slow decades in which the zealots of the Pure Flame sought to eliminate every last lycanthrope, heedless of how many innocents they harmed in the process. Entire villages were brutally slaughtered, while elsewhere hunters tortured innocents as they sought to root out hidden wererats. Countless innocents died, but none suffered so much as the shifters of the Towering Wood. In my Eberron, the Purge began when the archfiend known as the Wild Heart awoke in the Towering Wood and spread its power across the region. Should I have my players make characters on both sides and alternate between them, or would that be too confusing? On the Manifest Zone podcast you mentioned running a one-shot with a mixed party during this time, and I was wondering if you have any suggestions. I’d like to run a campaign set during the Lycanthropic Purge. As always, my answers are based on what I do in my personal campaign and may contradict canon sources: notably, this article is based on the premise that the Wild Heart was the cause of the Lycanthropic Purge, which is just one of the options presented in canon. When time permits, I like to answer interesting questions posed by my Patreon supporters.
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