A large wolf with long, white fur and black eyes pads its way into the rows of corn and vanishes. A chorus of dozens of howls echoes from every corner of the field at once.+

Smart Prey.

The roggenwolf has a taste for the flesh of intelligent beings. It stalks the fields of rural settlements, rendering its prey immobile with its strange howling before dragging the creature away into the fields to feast. It will ignore sheep and goats unless shepherds and servants are unavailable; it lurks near fountains and wells, where people come for water, or along paths between small villages.

False Trails.

A roggenwolf possesses just enough intelligence to understand a little of how humanoids think, and it often leaves the bones of its victims arranged in ways that mislead or cast blame on others. It may take a bone into a hunting kennel or place a scrap of cloth in a shepherd's hut to mislead others.

Extracting Payment for Services.

Once seen ans minor deities who received sacrifices in exchange for protecting fields and isolated farms, roggenwolves have adapted to take what they once were given. They do still provid eht esame protection, but this is entirely incidental; they deter orther predators to protect their own source of food. Some rituals still call them up to service, harming enemies or chasing off wolves or monster.