Prologue
Long ago, werewolves and Wendigos lived side by side. There was a treaty and trade between the two races.
The werewolves were divided into three factions: The Felhands, warriors in their own right, were the largest and most powerful race and known for their unmatched strength.
The Ivory Blades, the second guild, were known for their speed and intelligence and dealt with the economic and financial concerns of the palace.
And third, the Frostmantels, though fewer in number, were the most feared and were revered for their gifts such as mind reading and mind control and were called upon when trouble came to their land.
As time went on, the Wendigos became more numerous and thus hungrier. Humans were no longer enough for the cannibalistic beasts, and only the flesh of werewolves could satisfy their bloodlust; the human race was on the verge of extinction at this point.
The Wendigos spoke of a truce, an agreement that each faction would produce at least one hundred offspring each year and offer them as sacrifices and food sources. The werewolves flatly refused. And so the battle began. The Wendigos killed with uncontrollable bloodlust and the Werewolves retreated to their lands and a new rule stated that a Wendigo should be hunted down and killed on sight.
When the gates between the two worlds closed, the werewolves were wise enough to allow crossbreeding between the factions so that each species carried all three supernatural elements: the gift of mind control, the gift of strength, and the gift of speed. This gave them a fighting chance against the Wendigos.
On the day the treaty between the two races was broken, both witnessed a historic event. The queen mother of the Wendigos, who died from bloodlust, put a curse on the werewolves out of revenge and anger.
If a wolf hasn't been mated and mated by its seventeenth birth, when midnight strikes, it's bound to its wolf form and would inherit the bloodlust of a Wendigo, which turns on its kind.
The werewolves silently rage for revenge for their people... and wait for the right time.