Also (because i had to comment the above before having actually read your updates ), i am now intrigued about the Nydigovia business. Now of course, this is your fantasy world, and you alone control the ratio of historic-speculation-to-pure-fiction, but, unless by complete chance, your choice of the year 101 AD would suggest you have some knowledge of the history of the region later known as Transylvania. And, if so, if you are acquainted with the Dacian/Getae tribes of Scythian descent living there, it would make much more sense for werewolves, rather than vampires, to have crossed over from that area. Just a thought

Glad to have been of help with the Vikings

As for Transylvania, well it's only known (in pop culture) as Vampire HQ because of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' novel of the late 19th century. Now Stoker simply did what most commercially successful fiction writers do, namely take a smattering of real-life data and wrap it around with thick layers of historic speculation, and especially his own sheer imagination (not dissing him, since i do that myself). He knew he needed a scary and seductive creature of the night, but more than anything else he needed a context to place it in. It was possibly by mere chance, his discovery of the Saxon chronicles about Vlad the Impaler aka "Dracul(e)a" before, say, those about 'Bloody Countess' Elizabeth Bathory, that the world now only thinks of Transylvania (and not Hungary, or Bohemia or various Slavic regions) when mentioning vampires (the genuine ones, not the sparkly ones). Plus, "Trans-sylvania", "The Land beyond the Forests" in Latin, does sound much more, well, Gothic and dungeony than other geographic names around it

But speaking of Latin, the year you found, 101, marks the beginning of the invasion by the Romans of what was the sizeable country of the Dacian tribes (called Getae by the Greeks), a land partly conquered, pillaged and reorganised after 2 consecutive wars (101-102 and 105-106 AD). By the mixture of Roman settlers with Dacian natives, you eventually got what today is known as the Romanian people (typically known as Wallachians in the Middle Ages), whose folklore does know of certain forms of vampirism (as does most of Eastern Europe), but wolves feature much more prominently therein, from your typical Moon-devouring werewolves (folk explanation for solar eclipses) to St. Andrew, the patron saint of Romania (yes, just like Scotland), being also the "guardian of the wolves". Sure, there's many animals that Romanians hold dear, and have historically fetishised, such as the aurochs (European buffalo) or various mountain eagles, but only wolves have their own saint (coincidentally… the patron saint of the entire country) and are most typically invoked in folk magic. And how would they not be, when, on one hand you had the Romans revering their Lupa Capitolina, surrogate mother for founder twins Romulus & Remus, while on the other, the Dacians with their infamous rattling battle-flag depicting a fantastic beast with a wolf's head and a dragon/fish's tail (it was shaped kinda like a windsock, so when the bearer ran with it in battle, the wind would cause it to roar, howl, etc., making it look rather frighteningly alive… you know, FX of the BC blockbusters…)

Okaaay… i've really been lecturing here *blush* But tl;dr: Transylvania would have been a Team Wolf, rather than a Team Vampire. But oh well, not ruling out overlaps, i guess Er… hope this helped?

Fair enough. It was just the mythology historian in me that couldn't keep quiet on this one

Hi, Kaylin
No worries, you're not forgotten, nor is your work (just that "real life" tends to be a party-pooper like that sometimes and e.g. some of us need to finish their theses asap… i.e. by tomorrow OTL )
BUT
Good job on the Lupi – it's a nice touch how the natural ones are more in control of themselves/their abilities and have more natural social interactions (the Dom/sub relationships – err… not like that :p), which is a cool wink at that good-ol' "there are things man must not tamper with" (or Lupus, in this case). Now i just wonder what happens if, say, a berserking Fenris bites a dragon. (sorry if you've already made provisions for that and i've missed them).
As for the humans – cool, it seems Kairula's southern continent (name?) is turning into a little bit of our Middle East (you got some Jews and Egyptians already – uh oh, Moses situation about to go down… – now more Arabs got through someone's gonna get all kinds of persecution complexes ). As for the Moorish settlement's name, i'd suggest الخارجية الجنة ([el-Halujee al-jin'nah], unless my ears deceive me, "Foreign Paradise"). After all, they were fairly into earthly paradises, and the pronunciation manages to sneak in some 'Jinn' element, so
Keep up the good work! ^^

p.s.: Yup, you've also inspired me with the wikipage, but i'm not sure it really works for me after all (not technologically, more like conceptually/stylistically. we'll see). Plus i haven't had much time to allot to that lately.