Editing Werefox (section)

==Common Werefox==
[[File:1e Werefox.png|thumb|right|300px|Old-school D&D art... wasn't the best.]]
[[File:Werefox MM 2e.png|thumb|left|200px|With art like this, it's no wonder the furries didn't jump all over this.]]
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The "Common" werefox (a term only used here to distinguish it from its [[Mystara]]n counterpart) is also known formally as the ''Foxwoman'' and the ''Vixen''; it is a strain of therianthropy only communicable to women, and is formally portrayed as the [[elf|elven]] counterpart to the [[werewolf]]. In their "human" form, foxwomen appear as exceedingly beautiful silver-haired [[elf]]-maids; they can assume the form of silver foxes (a kind of magical silver-furred fox native to fey-touched or [[elf]]-inhabited forests that moves tracelessly through the wilderness) or [[furry|surprisingly beautiful silver-furred anthropomorphic vixens]].

The beauty thing isn't a joke. Foxwoman [[regeneration]] is so potent it actually causes scars and other blemishes to fade away month by month until they vanish into nothing. That's not the weirdest aspect of foxwoman biology. The "[[elf]]in" part of their curse is as infectious as the fox part. What does this mean? It means that any woman infected with this form of therianthropy (originally, only [[human]]s, [[elves]] and [[half-elves]] were susceptible, but in 3e any humanoid can be afflicted) will find themselves changing irrevocably into [[elf]]-maids, complete in every detail! Another biological oddity is that foxwomen are sterile; uniquely amongst therianthropes, they cannot bear children, and instead rely on spreading their curse to propagate, and are willing to enact adoption or kidnapping to claim an heiress to raise.

Unlike most [[therianthrope]]s, foxwomen are little inclined towards brutal rampages. Self-serving, vain and hedonistic, foxwomen only care about appeasing their desire for luxuries and comfort. Between their beauty, their great control over their feral instincts, their bewitching gaze and their propensity to train as [[bard]]s or [[enchanter]]s, they have little trouble attaining what they want.

Foxwomen debuted in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition in the Monster Manual II - however, a prototype version, more overtly connected to the [[Kitsune]] appeared for OD&D in [[White Dwarf]] #19. They gained a patron goddess called [[Eshebala]] in [[Monster Mythology]], and were converted to 2nd Edition in first the Monstrous Compendium and then in the Monstrous Manual. In [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]] they would not be converted till [[Ravenloft Gazetteer]] I. 

Precisely why it was [[Ravenloft]] 3e that brought the foxwomen back, who can say? Although foxwomen are common in the [[Demiplane of Dread]], they are found in other settings, including the [[Forgotten Realms]], with the splatbook "[[Elminster]]'s Ecologies" saying they are particularly common in Cormyr, Sembia and the Dalelands.