Wereowls

Mythic History
The Gwdihŵ-ddyn first became servants of Hafgan, the rival of Arawn. When he was defeated by Pwyll and caste from Annwn into the darkness, they found patronage with Blodeuwedd until she betrays her husband Lleu and is thereafter cursed by Gwydion. Thereafter, the gods reject the Gwdihŵ-ddyn as creatures of ill-omen. They do not participate on either side of the Cad Goddeu, hostile to both Arawn/Llŷr and Gwydion & the Children of Don.

Before the Interregnum
The owl changers continued as Hafgan and Blodeuwedd's messengers and a conduit between Gloam, rest of otherwold and the human world. Few in number, some would steal human babies and leave behind crimbils for the Bendith Y Mamau nobles. Others would attempt to claim the souls of suicides and murderers to take to Hafgan's Court to feed upon. They were sensitive to both salt, cold iron and the power of the saints. They were not able to disguise themselves as easily as archangels as their rivals, the Bran-ddyn.

The Plague Years
The Gwdihŵ-ddyn had traditionally hunted the llygoden fawr-ddyn, the rat servants of Llwyd as well as ordinary vermin. However, by the 1300s they had been driven from the human world. Blodeuwedd cast a curse upon humans that brought the Black Plague to Wales.

The Resurgence
Gwydion's curse on Blodeuwedd snapped during at the start of the Resurgence. Able to resume her human form, she immediately went into the human world accompanied by the Gwdihŵ-ddyn and lay claim to the Vale of the Glamorgan for herself, the Bendith Y Mamau and the Gwdihŵ-ddyn. She took up the title of "Queen of Air & Darkness" and enslaved some of the pooka, the hybrid shifters beloved to the Tylwyth Teg, breeding them with humans and creating the beautiful sensual, submissive slave race called the Diva. The Gwdihŵ-ddyn ignore many of the conventions of the Treaty Ivy. Instead most serve their Queen's whims, helping the Scarlet Circle, and fufilling their own desires. They are magically powerful and often get caught up in personal conflicts with the swan maidens and bran-ddyn.

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