



He also placed two addenda on this curse: That it would be hereditary, passed down from parent to offspring and the MacFinn bloodline would never die out. Patrick cursed the ancestor of Harley MacFinn to become a loup-garou. The cursed ones can also contain themselves in a magic circle.Īccording to Chaunzaggoroth, St. This can be done by leaving for a remote location in the wilderness, or by shutting themselves in securely. There are several ways for the cursed person to avoid harming anyone during transformation, mostly through avoiding contact with potential victims. This fact might have to do with an element of sacrifice and is probably one of the sources for the modern myth of silver weapons and bullets being used against werewolves and other supernatural creatures. A loup-garou can only be hurt with a silver weapon inherited from a family member. Physical injuries sustained heal almost instantly, and they are immune to poison and to magic targeted at their mind. Loup-garou are very resistant to any form of injury and recover quickly. The transformed person is supernaturally fast, strong has supernatural speed, power, and savage. On top of that, Harry's lost the faith of his one friend and ally among the Chicago Police Department, Karrin Murphy.The loup-garou transformation is the result of a curse cast by someone very powerful, "like a major heavyweight sorcerer or a demon lord or one of the Faerie Queens." Īt the rise of the full moon, the cursed person transforms into a monster which proceeds to slaughter everything it comes across until either the full moon sets or the sun rises. The Windy City has been hit with an outbreak of savage werewolf attacks - a case made even more chaotic and challenging by the fact that Harry's uncovered no less than three lycanthropic groups, each seemingly in conflict with one another. , Harry Dresden is a private investigator whose clients require a detective with supernatural expertise - in other words, he's a wizard for hire.
