Children of Ulric

"I once stayed with a woodcutter’s family on a fierce winter’s night and heard the story of the Children of Ulric. It is a very old tale that I’ve never heard any Priest of Ulric mention in a sermon, but it has lived long around the hearths of the peasants. Long ago, when the world was young, Ulric raced through the northern woods hunting, though he could not describe what prey he sought after, he knew only that he needed. The story is long in the telling, for it is meant to pass a long night, but Ulric, after learning more than a few cautionary lessons along the way, found what he sought in the person of Birgit, a fierce Northern maid that he took as his lover. They were happy for a brief time. She died bearing Ulric’s child and his howls of grief still ring on the northern wind. Their son was the first of the Shape-strong, the Were, those who can walk as both wolf and man. Make of it what you will, but I have found that the tales of peasants often carry the echo of truth."

– Alexei Dronal, Knight of the White Wolf

Source

 * Warhammer Fantasy RPG 2nd ED -- Old World Bestiary
 * pg. 59