New research, new questions...

Now before you start asking questions, I have to pose a few of my own.

Every person in the world has dopplegangers, perfect look-alikes. In my research, I have come across this phenomenon several times. Now what I would like to know is this: when you unite the dopplegangers, what happens?

Even in nature, identical things are quite rare, but the fact that humans have have multiple identical copies of themselves wandering about makes one wonder if there is any supernatural power behind it...

I guess its time to pound the books on the subject.

An update on my Lycanthropy: I'm still a werewolf. I have been able to control my wolf form more and more over the past months, I'm not sure if this is a good or bad sign...

As I can control my inner beast more and more, it makes me wonder if the change is getting more and more permanent or if I'm just becoming accustom to having four legs and immense amounts of fur...

Still no breakthroughs on un-becoming a werewolf, at least, not through Sanguimancy. I'm looking into more archaic methods of reverting from beast to man, though none seem exactly pleasant... I personally don't like to have my essence leeched at by spirits from the aether...

As far as blood magic research goes, it has reached a dead halt. While in the frozen wastes, the locals discovered my secret and burned my house while I slept. Fortunately, the wards that I cast about myself and my living area saved me, unfortunately they did not save my books...

Thankfully I always keep my field book on my person, so I am not completely without magical protection, though some of my tomes were the last of their kind... Many of their authors were long ago laid to rest or burned at the stake for practicing "witchcraft" and "black magic". So once again, I must ask of you, my faithful followers, do you have any spare books?

And now for the part you've all been waiting for:
I've been gone for more than a year. I must apologize for this before I explain.

After my living with the humans up north, I wandered.

I wandered for months without hope or reason, dropping into deep wells of sorrow for I thought all was lost and I would remain a lycanthrope forever. This is when I had a spark of genius.
I saw Adamant... or more correctly, someone who looked exactly like Adamant. A doppleganger. Which led to a very awkward conversation and my escaping again.

Now, I recalled a bit of my research and coming across the term a few times in some of my older books, and this made me curious.

So, in need of more knowledge, I traveled across the ocean to get to the root of all this magical mess, where I could find the cure for my disease and more magical history, more tomes, more spells... I made my move into Europe.

This time I was smart, I avoided small towns (they seem to know a werewolf on sight) and stuck to the larger cities and the woods. But I still had no leads... no scent to follow to my prey...

Until next time, Darton.

Halfway there...

The moon was half full last nigh and I am beginning to worry if I will ever be able to cure this Lycanthropy... Looking through the old magics left me with one of two unpleasant options: Get stabbed through the heart with a silver knife, or get beaten to death with a silver mace of some kind... I believe that my exact words upon discovering this were: "Oh... Fascinating..." But, seeing as I wear silver jewelry, I don't think that will work.

Found a few more promising books at the library but they turned out being novels. I don't want to read some imagined person's struggle with what I am dealing with! I want a cure for the werewolf!

While at the library, I did some research on the web. Mainly lore and old wives' tales, but there were a few interesting points I stumbled across: As a normal thing, Lycanthropy is a curse or it is bestowed upon you by the Devil. Some stories indicate werewolves being warriors of God. Personally I like the second one. There were many ways, I found, to become a werewolf, but none to revert to human form permanently.

Oh well. I will find a cure eventually.

Adamant is still away, (not that I expected different) I really wish he could write me, I could use some instruction on how to read these blasted books of his... what are they written in, Demonic?

My presence here remains unnoticed by the Order of the Benign, but this is always questionable. I do not know if they are interested in my kind or not, they might be too busy chasing after Adamant, or they might not know I exist... I give it about a week before I have to move again...

As for my updates on the Blood Worms, they turned out to be around two meters long and five of them sprouted from my hand... ouch... I knew being a Bloodmage would hurt, but I never thought it to be this bad... I found in chapter thirteen of my grimoire that you can not only summon familiars to do your bidding, but you can also form your body itself into a weapon! One item of interest to me will take some time to master, but will be worth it. Summoning Blood Golems.

I will keep you posted.

Dusting off the... dust...

I am not planning on hearing from Adamant for a long time, if at all...

This morning I started to search for a cure in his books, to no success. Apparently one needs to know several archaic languages in order to read these tomes...

I would consider my new center of operations rather secure... and dusty... I hope dear Addy likes the sand, seeing as there is lots of it here. I found an English translation of the Necronomicon in this vast library I had to transport, and I will be searching through it as well as some of my own books. I don't expect to find much at all...

I will attempt to go and find a bookstore or library nearby with new reading materials tomorrow and I am hoping for the best.

Adamant, my friend, if you are reading this, go west.

Back in action.

The Brotherhood caught up to us at our last location, Adamant left, saying he had something to do...

Whatever he is doing had better help me cure this thing or I may just get upset. After carrying all his equipment to our new location I was very tired. Books are not light, needless to say thousands of them would follow that trend.

I will update more later, as now I need to rest and recover my strength for the upcoming cycle...