Answer: According to many modern vampire stories, the vampire and the werewolf are natural enemies. In some stories it has to do with competition for prey, in some the werewolves exist to protect humans from vampires, and in others there is an ancient feud between the two factions that has continued through the centuries.
There's no right or wrong way to tell a story when it comes to vampire and werewolf fiction. If you think about it, these two make great enemies because they are both powerful creatures especially at night , who are not known to have any other natural predators. Who better to stop a vampire than a werewolf, or vice versa? Yet, there is a difference between fiction and myth.
Myths may well be stories invented by ancient storytellers to explain the world around them, but at the same time there is plenty of evidence to suggest that many myths have their origin in reality. Furthermore, films have portrayed vampires to be able to walk up walls, and they have the ability of regeneration. Since they are beings without a soul, they are immortal as well. They sometimes possess other magical abilities due to their usual connection to satanism and witchcraft.
Weaknesses: Vampires are slaves to the sun. No matter the telling, the sun and vampires do not mix well at all, because it completely burns them to ashes, like in Fright Night Wooden stakes, crosses and holy water are classic enemies of vampires. Wooden stakes were once upon a time considered one of the only ways to truly kill one.
They are also restricted by being required to be invited into your home in order to enter. Lastly, werewolves have always been the equal opponent to vampires, completely made to be able to kill each other.
TV shows like The Vampire Diaries have shown that just a single bite from a werewolf can poison and kill a vampire. Other renditions show that werewolf teeth are strong enough to dismember and decapitate even ancient and most powerful vampires. Personality : Werewolves have always been the complete opposite of vampires — biologically and even psychologically.
Werewolves are always portrayed as nomadic and gypsy-like, like in Underworld and Skinwalkers They usually have a hard time coming to terms with their beastly-hood, and they are more in touch with their humanity than vampires, since they are still human most of the time of their life. They have families and stick together, always keeping a pack mentality in every form they take. They are usually seen as stubborn, downtrodden, and looked down upon by vampires. Even series like The Mortal Instruments deem lycanthropy as a horrible curse, demeaning your social status.
Physical Attributes : Werewolves are shape shifters. They transform back and forth between their human form and the forms of either a wolf or a full beast.
In many modern film portrayals, they are usually not well groomed when in human form, but others have portrayed that they are. They have red or yellow eyes, and when in beast form they are significantly larger than the average wolf. They have superhuman speed, strength, endurance and agility. In beast form they are animalistic predators with monstrous teeth and claws. In all forms they have hyper senses, including smell, sight and hearing. Furthermore, they have night vision that can be triggered in both forms as well.
Because they have superhuman healing abilities, they are almost immortal like vampires. Lastly, because they travel in packs, they also usually have telepathic abilities which enable them to communicate with each other. Weaknesses : Werewolves are slaves to the moon. They are mindless beasts. That was simply because you had these two awesome supernatural creatures and wanted to see who'd win; pure pulp fiction. It wasn't until later that the whole "Fur vs Fang" thing was fleshed out by novelists and screenwriters to provide more of a historical source for the feud.
Obviously the only similarity between most of the more popular backstories is that they don't much like each other:. Underworld has the two races sharing a common ancestor, with the wolf ancestor being an uncontrollable monster that most of the vampire race were created specifically to counter.
The wolves were then enslaved by the vampires, which eventually fostered a hatred among werewolves that led to the war. Both perpetuate the species by "infecting" humans with a virus, and apparently it takes a pretty strong human to survive the ordeal and "twist" the virus's effects to gain immortality.
Harry Potter mentions that vampires and werewolves exist, but doesn't go very deeply into their backstories and mentions no racial animosity; the only vampire I remember from HP is pretty much comic relief in one of Slughorn's parties.
The werewolves are covered more, as Lupin, a prominent backstory and supporting character, is one, and the affliction is considered a disease that is incurable but manageable. In Twilight the Quileute "werewolves" are actually more "shape-shifters" that came upon the ability genetically, completely independent of their encountering vampires. The hatred is mostly on the part of the werewolves towards the vampires due to their first encounter with a vampire; the vampires usually could care less until they have the pack nipping at their heels.
Real "Children of the Moon" also exist, but they are little more than a throwaway mention in the last chapters of Breaking Dawn, to differentiate the Quileutes from the vampires' ancient enemy. True Blood makes werewolves relatives of "shifters", along with were-panthers, were-tigers etc all under the general heading of "two-natured" beings. Being a "were-something" is mostly genetic, and the books and HBO series apparently disagree on whether it's possible to become one or something like it by being bitten; the book says it's possible, but one bite won't do it, while the HBO series had it fail to work in the same situation.
Being a shifter is purely genetic; you can't become one by being bitten, and apparently it is a dominant trait the two children of Maudette Pickens with her non-shifter husband, including Sam Merlotte, are both shifters. There's a low-lying antagonism between vampires and all two-natured, but they're not sworn enemies. Vampire Diaries apparently hasn't gone too deep into werewolves YET other than that they exist and vampires fear them because they're actually a match for them, kind of like in Twilight , and I don't follow the show, so I can't speak too much for it.
All of this more recent fiction about vampires and werewolves is mostly along the lines of "wouldn't it be cool if That's ALL pretty recent; as recently as the early s, even the rumor that someone was either of these things was cause for a lynch mob. It wasn't until later, with the rise of mass media and commercialization, that we come to the state of affairs we're at now. There are several cases in lore where werewolves are used as protectors against vampires - in gypsy lore they are used to protect the caravans.
Also in Irish lore there is a story of a priest stricken with lycanthropy who protects travelers on the way to a monastery from vampires.
If you look hard enough there is also a predecessor to the two species. I can never remember the name. It's Wyrshn I've only come across it once in a actual book, never on the web. It turns out it was entirely populated by werewolves, who liked the out of the way location. Vampires decide they want the town for the same reason and lock up all the townsfolk in a basement without realising they are werewolves.
The Ghostbusters free the villagers, who then turn into werewolves when they step outside it's a full-moon night and battle with the vampires. Vampire bites a werewolf, and the werewolf becomes a vampire. Werewolf bites a vampire, it turns into a werewolf. The heroes run away before all the monsters becomes the same type!
This episode had them as enemies as they were both after the same resource, an out of the way village to live in. I imagine competition for prey humans would also lead them to fight each other. The first prominent example of an ongoing conflict between vampires and werewolves is in Vampire: The Masquerade , a tabletop RPG released in set in the Old World of Darkness universe.
Earlier examples of vampire and werewolf conflict in fiction are very sparse, and apparently not as influential on later media.
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