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Hookay! I think I may have decided on an acceptable mythbase for my Jeany. I did some research on chupacabras when I was still going with the Wolf Girl story, because they occupied the same general area and had some similar traits. So, I can probably convert Jean Mollie to a chupacabra, if it's okay for Fa'edom. I skimmed over the quest thread titles and I don't think anyone's doing chupacabras yet. Correct me if I'm wrong.


There are multiple versions of what the chupacabra's supposed to look like, and one of them is supposed to be like a dog on its hind legs. Using that I could retain Jeany's canine qualities without scrambling to find an actual mythical dog story. I've heard chupacabras called 'Mexican werewolves' though, which comes into Silver's territory. Personally I prefer the idea of chupacabras being animalistic, without the human traits and silly cliches that come from werewolfs. I would make the chupacabras an intelligent but pre-verbal social animal, that gathers in packs headed by an alpha who has pysichic control over its pack members (hence Jeany's hivemind ability).

The part I'm unsure of is the mythbase's magical qualities. Like the Wolf Girl, they're a bit too easily categorized in the natural world. They do have similarities to both vampires and werewolves, and can hypnotise and paralyze their prey, but is that enough? One theory says that they could've existed in Medieval Europe, and people modeled gargoyles to look like chupacabras, but other theories call them aliens or genetic experiments, which definitely wouldn't be valid for Fa'e.

I'll definitely look into the more magical theories about the chupacabras, but I might have to make up a lot of stuff on my own, which goes too close to an original myth.

So basically, I'm asking if looking down this path is worth the effort, or should I keep looking for another mythbase?

Vampiric as in drinking blood would be okay (because that's the myth I've heard), just steer clear of ONLY consuming blood and the usual vampiric weaknesses... Just call them blood-drinking wolves XD

It sounds more likely to be able to become an Ancient than the feral myth, so that's fine by me. Just think about what she'd become as an Ancient or what powers she'd have by then. Otherwise I'd say it's perfectly valid.

They're not undead, after all, which I think is the main problem for vampires not being able to become Fa'e.

That guardian idea sounds very cool, Meagrose. So the legal guardian won't be the actual magical/fa'e guardian? I like that! ^_^

Revamp'd! The exact details of Jeany's new backstory aren't entirely fleshed out, but the basic details are there. Good so far?

I'm working with the Golem idea and was wondering if I could create my own Golem to destroy. They mention some golems in the myth but a golem is something created from clay, flesh, or steal and becoming animated by a soul or some other force.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem