Lore
The card represents the deuteragonist Sorro from "The Legend of the Woods", a famous legend originating from around 900 AF. It may seem odd to include a likely fictional character in a system designed for education; however, including culturally recognisable figures was hoped to increase public engagement with the project, especially among the middle and upper classes, who are far removed from the monster hunting faced by the lower classes.<br><br>Academically, the depiction of Sorro raises many questions about how monsters were viewed during this period. Firstly, the very idea of depicting a monster sympathetically suggests that the region was unlikely to have suffered significantly from monster attacks. Sorro himself is also depicted as strangely weak compared to modern werewolves, to such an extent that the servant girl is narratively implied to pose a serious danger to him even while he is transformed. Finally, he displays a far greater level of mental coherence in his werewolf form than modern werewolves are known to possess.<br><br>These differences could simply be the author creating greater stakes for the characters, a consequence of Sorro's young age, or even the result of cultural differences among the Pooka, a now-extinct culture originally found in the western forests. The most frightening theory, however, is that the story preserves evidence of a genuine escalation in monster strength between the past and the modern day.