Dominance
Dominance is a key element in werewolf social organization. The pack is structured in a clear hierarchy, and pack members move up or down by winning or losing challenges against other pack members.
* Although most dominance battles end when one participant backs down, leadership of the pack is only transferred by a battle to the death.
* A dominant pack member may issue any order to submissive member, provided that the dominant does not order the submissive to do anything illegal.
* A pack member may offer or receive "protection" to or from another member. A pack member must accept all challenges on behalf of any person to whom he or she has offered protection.
* Non-werewolves, may be classified as "dominant" to certain members of the pack, but may not typically be considered "alpha" or full members of the pack.
Were-leopards:
Were-leopards are substantially less numerous than its werewolf and were-rat counterparts. A likely reason for this phenomenon is the low contagion characteristic of cat-based lycanthropy.
The social rituals of the leopard pard is more difficult to discern in comparison to the wolf pack. There could be many reasons for this difficulty.
The principle social characteristic of the pard members is a need for physical contact as a source of emotional reassurance. Pard members frequently rub against one another and others they feel comfortable with.
An interesting and notable characteristic in were-leopard terminology is the existence of three different titles for their leaders: Nimir-Raj/Nimir-Ra, leoparde lionne, leopard passant. The titles do not affect the functional, internal authority of the leader, but they do describe the type of leader currently in power.
Were-rats:
The were-rats refer to their community as the Rodere.
Were-hyenas:
The were-hyenas are one of the major power groups in the shape-shifter community, together with the werewolves and were-rats. Their leader, has recruited only men as were-hyenas, because hyenas in nature are matriarchal.
Were-lions:
Were-swans
Were-swans are shape-shifters but not lycanthropes. Being a were-swan is most often a result of a curse or of heredity. They are also the only non-predator form of lycanthropy and therefore often risk being victimized as prey by the other species.
Female were-swans are referred to as swan-manes.
Were-snakes:
Of the were-cobras, the leaders are called Kadra (female) and Kashyapa (male). They have the ability to have offspring like mammals or like reptiles.
Were-bears:
The queen of this group is called an Ursa, which might imply there are more than a handful of members.
Were-tigers:
One of the rarest forms of lycanthropes and is the hardest to catch.
Were-dogs
There shape-shifting ability is inherited and is not tied to the moon; they are able resist changing during the full moon if they choose to. This enables them to carry offspring without risk of miscarriage.
Were-fox:
* Also notes that the were-foxes for the majority are hidden in China and remain the only were's in the country after the government had local wizards search and drive out the other were groups and witches.
Were-jaguars:
Other shape-shifters:
Pan-were's
Pan-were's have the power to transform into more than one type of lycanthrope. This could be a number of beast such as Leopard, wolf, lioness, tiger, and as of yet a numerous amount of undefined animals.
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