Wereboar

A wereboar was a type of lycanthrope that could take the form of a boar or a boar-like hybrid. They were one of the more common breeds of lycanthrope in Faerûn.

Description
A wereboar 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 easily take off when changing or readily repair or replace if they were torn.

Abilities
As lycanthropes, wereboars could shift between their three forms: boar, humanoid, and hybrid. They had all the common traits of lycanthropes. They were stronger and tougher than they would be otherwise.

Their particular strain of lycanthropy was transmitted via goring with their tusks. It could also transfer a sickness called "moontusk fever", weakened the victim's resistances while it was wounded.

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

Combat
Ferocious as regular boars, they were able to charge a foe and gore their targets with their tusks, potentially dealing terrible injuries and pushing them back or knocking them prone. They enjoyed throwing their weight around in close-quarters combat, and took any chance they got to adopt their boar or hybrid forms.

These creatures were relentless in battle; even on the verge of death, they would still fight on, none the weaker. When injured, they fought all the harder, and even at the point of death they might make a dying blow.

When in their humanoid and hybrid forms, they favored heavy weapons such as mauls or battleaxes together with javelins. They often wore hide armor.

Personality
Wereboars were bad-tempered, volatile, brutish, and crude. They provoked conflicts and looked for fights in taverns and on the streets, and didn't take much for them to transform into hybrid form. They were wary of strangers but 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.

Society
They formed small family groups, dwelling in forested landscapes in crude huts or caves. They were encountered alone, in pairs, broods of three or four, or in troupes of up to four with a few companion boars, or even groups as large as eight.

They spoke Common, though not in boar form.

Relations
They occasionally allied with orcs. Orc wereboars, in turn, could be formidable champions of their tribes.

Some wereboars joined the People of the Black Blood, a cult of Malar-worshiping lycanthropes. Thanks to their physical strength, they readily became Bloodmasters. Some 22 Black Blood wereboars laired at Claw Hollow around 1372 DR.

Lands
Wereboars usually dwelled in dense and remote woodlands or similar enviroments.

In the mid–14 century DR, wereboars might be found in the starwoods region of Cormanthor. In the Silver Marches, they might be found in the Moonlands and in Adbar Vale, Cold Vale, Rauvin Vale, and Sundabar Vale. The Forest of Mir was home to a contented settlement of wereboars and wild boars in its southeast. A more ambitious and organized colony was established in the Spider Swamp.

Notable Wereboars

 * Adhavox the Render, leader of the Spider Swamp colony.
 * Totoruan of the Chondalwood, a shield dwarf member of the People of the Black Blood
 * Ulthrang the Mad, orc berserker of Dark Arrow Keep.
 * Balin: a half-orc wereboar that was a member of Rusk's group of lycanthropes.
 * Lord Antoine Baccha, in the service of Halaster Blackcloak
 * Jolliver Grimjaw, a member of the Cult of the Crushing Wave
 * Elok Jaharwon, captain of The Dragonfang

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