One of my main characters is basically my version of a lycanthrope: at a cycle approximately coinciding with the full moon, they go berserk and transform into the most fearsome creature their subconscious self can think of. In our case, the character is from the Yoruba Empire (around current Benin) and therefore the predator par excellence is the leopard.
Chapter 2 in the current version of the novel is a recollection of how they were bitten while being held captive in the cabin of a Portuguese woman with the same condition, and we get to see two transformations. After the second one, things are much more under control and the ship cook brings up a tray of things my main character thinks will help after a night like that. My main character has been a shapeshifter for almost a century, now, so we assume he knows.
On the tray, one of the things he had prepared is a sort of mead alternatively called metheglin in this chapter and mirth in a previous flash-back from the 1540s. So I thought I could give you some references and recipes.
It’s today’s post on my Patreon.
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