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Order of Saint Andrew – Google Docs
The Order of Saint Andrew
Lycanthropes — and other were-species, to be sure — have always been a difficult issue for the Church. Penitent vampires generally have been a self-correcting problem; intelligent artificial constructs have been cleared for the last two centuries by a secret Papal bull noting that the Almighty was just as capable of ensouling a created life-form as He was of a natural-born child; and if a non-human could survive the baptismal process, well, that was that. But werewolves were problematical. The cursed ones could be cured, of course; but the ones born into the condition were often harder to treat. At the same time, many of these people were genuinely good sorts who happened to turn into wild beasts during the full moon. They were ill, not evil.