“With the requisite disclaimer that obviously our worlds aren’t identical and won’t line up exactly,” Strange starts, donning that explanatory tone of voice which goes so well with the title doctor, “Turning into a wolf is a well-known concept across history, where I come from. Or even just animal shifters in general, in folklore, mythology, oral stories. The most common idea is that it coincides with the full moon, a transformation once per month — although that’s additionally complicated by the fact that Thedas has two moons and I don’t know what that does to a lunar cycle.

“They’re usually believed to be fiction, but although I didn’t know any werewolves personally, I do know that there was truth to the stories back home. The Sanctum’s books made mention of it, that such a curse does exist. I don’t know precisely what the landscape is like here, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s similar— if some common concepts just recur across universes—”

Focus, doctor. He laces his fingers together, still looking at Gela now rather than his scattershot notes.

“Is there any similar lore or history about animal transformations here, that you’ve ever heard of?”