Usually, the Worg are a nomadic people, following food and resources across the wilds in tribal packs, living in relative harmony with nature.  Their racial talent is the ability to transform animal matter, using fire and water.  They can do amazing things with leather, bone, sinew, and urine.   Since they are carnivores and can preserve meat as jerky, they are not as reliant on humanity’s cooking talents as many of the other civilized races.

They can also use their talents to heal wounds and mend bones.  Self-modification is a common fashion, with facial sculpting and hair styles changing with the seasons and trends among mating youths, while particularly advanced practitioners can even transform their own flesh into other forms.  It is not uncommon for warriors to use a campfire to grow claws and toughen their hides before battle, and it is said that any Worg can transform fully into a wolf by bathing in a pond under the light of a full moon.   They cannot change their mass, however.   A 70kg Worg will turn into a 70kg wolf.

Culturally and conceptually, the lives of the Worg can be likened to our modern conception of how the native american tribes lived and existed outside of the cities and towns of the continental settlers.  The Worg dislike towns and walls, and much prefer the open plains or the endless forests.   Their oral traditions are long and full of historical songs.   The moon is their primary goddess, and the tribes stay culturally connected through their connection with her.   They sing to the moon, and the moon shares their stories with the other tribes.  Her memory is short, though, as she resets every month.  A long-standing tradition among the Worg is to sing the moon’s own stories to her, to remind her who she is.

While there are occasional Worg settlements built on high mesas and into the faces of cliffs, the tribes are usually nomadic, packing up their leather homes (a cross between a teepee and a yurt) and following the game they hunt in long circuits.   They have domesticated pack animals to haul heavy materials, but they are capable endurance runners, able to outrun a horse over long distances (as some particularly fit humans can) and generally travel on foot.

Primarily carniverous, they mostly hunt game and have no need for agriculture.   Unlike most of the other races, the Worg maintain a strong symbiotic relationship with their quadrupedal ancestors, the wolves, and they run together.   The Worg have a particular disdain for what humanity has done to dogs with selective inbreeding.

Pemmican is a thing, though.  And alcohol is a weakness.  Human civilization still has its temptations for the Worg.

Visual appearance is constantly in flux among the Worg, but they have no difficulty identifying each other by scent.  Their olfactory senses are very stong, and their hearing is exceptional, although their color vision is limited – they see colors very differently.  Functionally, their senses are very similar to a wolf’s.  By default, their ears are long, pointed and dexterous, and their eyes are typically grey, brown, golden, or blue in color.  Their natural hair runs the full gamut of colors and textures you might find on a wolf, although it is very easy for a Worg to change any of these details at will.  If they wanted to devote the time and practice, they could completely pass for human on any visual inspection.   Another Worg (or Fe) would readily spot them by scent, but humans are practically scent blind and too reliant on sight.

Worg breed in seven year fertility cycles, and have litters of three or four (occasionally up to six or eight.)  A mother will modify her body to grow her mammary glands as necessary to feed her pups until they are old enough to eat solid food, and then minimize them again when they are no longer needed.   The children grow and mature on a similar timescale to humans, becoming fertile between their 14th and 21st years.  It is culturally encouraged for young Worg to skip their first breeding cycle and wait until their second before they start having offspring.

Even as the Worg have no particular love for humans, they also have no particular dislike for the Onk.  The Worg trade and associate with the Onk, and maintain as relatively civil relations as they do with the other “civilized” races.  It is not uncommon for some Worg tribes to adapt their appearance more toward the Onk facial characteristics and body shapes, if they live in the same regions.