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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 1550073" data-attributes="member: 14403">The alignment change is a manifestation of the were's instincts which eventually become so strong that a person's will cannot overcome it.  To me it makes perfect sense.  It is a werewolf's instinct to hunt and kill prey.  If some mild mannered scholar were to be infected by a werewolf they'd find themselves instinctively "measuring up" people they run across as worthwhile prey.  They might be horrified to discover that they are thinking that way about people but they have no control over that instinct.Let me give you an example and hopefully it won't become a flame war with people telling me I'm wrong.  I believe it is our human instinct to mate.  If you see an attractive woman walking towards you on the street your eyes will be drawn to the attactive woman and you'll consciously or subconsciously begin to size her up as possible mating material.  You may be happily married and have your wife next to you but in the end it is pretty much impossible to keep your eyes from roaming even if you never act on that instinct to attempt to have sex with the attractive woman.  What happens with a Were is that they lose the ability to suppress their new animal instincts and begin to perfom acts in accordance with their new instincts.  They may not see it as evil because to them it "feels" right to act on their instincts but then again I believe that most evil characters do not see themselves as evil anyway.Anyway... just my $0.02.  Hope I haven't offended anybody.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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