Antherion

An antherion was an animalistic shapechanger than could transform from an animal into a humanoid, or an animal-humanoid hybrid.

Description
Antherions were essentially the opposites of lycanthropes, which they were very often confused with. Antherion parents passed on their condition to their offspring, and could not pass it on from attacking foes. Their names often took the animal name as the prefix and were as the suffix.

Behavior
Antherions despised lycanthropes, as lycanthropes despised antherions, and would attack them on sight.

Combat
Antherions often fought in their hybrid form, where they could make the best use of both humanoid and animal traits. Unlike lycanthropes, such creatures could only be hit by cold iron, instead of silver. Both, however, were affected by magical weapons.

Notable types

 * Wolfwere
 * Jackalwere