Wereboar

A wereboar was a humanoid or giant lycanthrope that was bitten by another wereboar. Wereboars were often of neutral alignment but hunted anything for food. Any humanoid or giant that survived being gored by a wereboar could be infected with the curse, thus becoming a wereboar themselves.

Description
A wereboar in humanoid form tended to be a stocky, muscular individual of average height, with short stiff hair or fur. Wereboars had three forms: a boar, the normal form of whatever creature it was normally, and that of a hybrid host/boar mix with tusks. They usually wore simple clothes they could quickly take off when changing or readily repair or replace if not.

Abilities
As lycanthropes, wereboars could shift between their three forms: boar, humanoid, and hybrid.

Their lycanthropy was transmitted via goring with their tusks.

They had empathic communication with their boar-kin, from normal boars to dire boars. They also had keen sense of smell.

Combat
Ferocious as regular boars, they were able to charge a foe, goring their targets with their tusks, potentially dealing terrible injuries and knocking them prone.

These creatures were relentless in battle; on the verge of death, they would still fight on, none the weaker.

Personality
Wereboars were bad-tempered and crude, and were wary of strangers. They did not care who they infected with their lycanthropy, enjoying that the more their victim struggled against it, the more of a savage animal they became.

When in their humanoid and hybrid forms, they favored heavy weapons such as mauls or battleaxes with javelins.

Society
They formed small family groups, dwelling in distant forested landscapes in crude huts or caves. They encountered alone, in pairs, broods of 3 or 4, or in troupes of 2 to 4, with a few companion boars.

They spoke Common, though not in boar form.

Relations
They occasionally allied with orcs.

Known Wereboars

 * Balin: a half-orc wereboar that was a member of Rusk's group of lycanthropes.

History
In the Year of the Keening Gale, 1050 DR, the family of Prince Natan was attacked by three wereboars. The prince died saving his family.

Appearances

 * Fiction:
 * Black Wolf
 * The Yellow Silk
 * The Rose of Sarifal


 * Video games:
 * Neverwinter Nights: Infinite Dungeons
 * Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms