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Try to find information about how hard it is to spot wolves in countries where there are plenty. (hint: you're only slightly more likely to find wolves as you are dragons). Wolves avoid humans, for good reason.

The thing with wolves is that even though a pack of wolves would have no problem at all taking on a lone human, they just don't. Humans just simply aren't on their menu. This *used* to be different at one point in time where due to all the wars there were human corpses aplenty lying all over the place, around that time wolves got a taste for human meat. Over time they unlearned this again (going extinct in most of the EU kinda tends to do that and as far as I'm aware it's never been an issue elsewhere either) as such the idea of attacking humans just doesn't cross their minds.

Note also that if you live in Europe you likely already have wolves visiting your country on a semi-regular basis (there's packs living in Germany and France and lone wolves have been spotted in Belgium) and within 10 years (and that is a very generous timespan) they will be pretty much all over the EU again (at least the mainland).

The only people that this might bother is idiots that don't manage to protect their pets or livestock. Also most (European) countries with wolves have reimbursement programs for livestock killed by wolves. Of course there's enough idiots that rather kill everything than adapt (which is why foxes are hated so much, learn to protect your goddamn chickens), but eh, the only absolute in the universe is human stupidity.

True story...
This irrational hatred and fear towards wolves, fed by tales and urban legends, is irritating at best.
They're fascinating, and their social structure is much more stable than ours, "civilised" beings.
But the most infuriating thing is that people still believe these so-called sheperds when they accuse wolves for the death of their livestock. So easy, so practical to rely on this ancestral fear, but I bet we wouldn't brandish the so-called wolf threat that often if state insurances were suppressed.
The sad truth is that we are bloodthirsty and that we need to kill living beings from time to time to appease this lust for death...
We better learn from the other species instead of massacring them for futile goals, we're in many ways inferior to them (pretty much about everything involving social interactions anyway)...

Sorry for the digression anyway. Back to topic, I wonder what kind of quests Larian is cooking us, involving animals.
Who know what they might have unexpectedly seen after all, that will be a good way to get some first rate infos.
They could even spy for us, in exchange for food, or distract the crowd while you're silently purloining a thing or two =D

Awesome rpely Asyreon and Dragon.
You have earned KARMA +10.

In a nother order of ideas, thats one scary looking cat :D, mounts would also be cool and this is one is epic!
People I got a idea every one please add some pics of animals you'd love to see in Original Sin :)The 3 headed lion has to be my favorite

a multibear would be fun i have been watchong gravity falls lately and this guy is just awesome.

What about this dude?

Or this little thing sitting on your shoulder doing nothing productive

Though I'm sure they'll be in there, the guys at Larian are probably more nuts about dragons than I am

Keep the extraordinary animals coming :P

I can already see the superb dialogue between Sloth and player.

Well, if there is one animal that needs to come back... The Killer Bunny is The One



Specially if you are an animal lover

I fully agreed with all this!!

In DD I accidentally killed a cat when I was trying to kill a rat and all cats now where angry ...

Here is one more animal famous in fantasy stories and games, that im sure many enjoy

Im sure we have all been there Joram, but i was curious to know what kind of animals you might like in Original sin. Here is one more of my favorites

Its a liger a lion and tiger crossbread, as you can tell by now i a cat person.

Yeah, all that schedule stuff for animals hunting animals is great in Skyrim, but it doesn't fit in a Divinity game which doesn't have respawning creatures.

If I were to put it on the priority list, it would be well after the 1M stretch goal and some other things I haven't thought of yet.

I could not care less about whether this game will let you kill virtual wolves or not. People say killing virtual people is okay because they're not real, why should it be different for virtual wolves. Could Larian put in a perk "Friend to All Animals", so normally hostile wolves won't attack, sure, that sounds great.

So Is the killer bunny and a few wolves the only dangerous animals we can hope for in this game come on developers tell me something about this animal empathy/variety thing! Please
WAIT! I just remembered in a trailer they had a polar bear skin rug so unleas they want no reasoning to how it exists there have to be polar bears