Wældreór

A Wældreór is a Wesen suffering from a rare blood disease similar to. The disease only affects canid Wesen and Wældreór are the inspiration of the Chupacabra legend.

Symptoms and Characteristics
The disease is exclusive to Wesen and is transmitted through bodily fluids, mainly blood. Consequently, mosquitoes can serve as vectors of the disease. The main symptom of the disease is a high fever, though another possible symptom may include the presence of a rash around the location of where the mosquito transferred the disease.

Wesen infected with the disease turn into into dog-like creatures with blood-red eyes and sparse, mangy fur. Bloody patches also appear on their skin.

Wældreór are not very strong and can be restrained by Grimms with relative ease.

The disease can be treated by injecting the cure into the spine. While the cure takes mere seconds to take effect, it must be administered within 48 hours. If not, the victim will continue to turn into a Wældreór with increasing frequency until they are trapped in their monstrous form. Once the afflicted reach this stage, they do not have long to live.

Behavior
When woged as a Wældreór, victims are savage monsters with an appetite for blood. With their normal personalities suppressed, they will even go after friends and loved ones to slake their thirst. Wældreór feed by tearing open a persons neck and sucking up the blood. Sufferers retain no memories of what they did as a Chupacabra.