[Anguirel]

Blast it. If I could only have found an ounce more hellebore...the spell would surely have gone off perfectly...

Ahem. The conventional characteristics of villains in Ruritanian ballads include a certain, ah, debonair, er, air, casualness and confidence.

Supposing some of our werewolves are villains of this sort, then the two who come to mind here are Diamond and Durelin.

I must say I thought Durelin's attempt to staunch accusations most peculiar. My dear ladies, education, or detective work, can only be brought to tuition by the Socratic method, that is, by questioning, and, ah, accusing.

I am surprised that Gurthang has yet to speak. A cowardly knight he may be, but I think we're going to need that broadsword he bought off an ironmonger...