#werevolves

Also, it would be very interesting through the lense of character study and social commentary. Think about it: all we know about werewolfs it's that their artificially "created by magicians" way back before the Empire, that their transformation are only partially controlled by them, as they are triggered by anger or/and, mosly terrifyingly, pain, which makes them incredibly difficult to "manage". Also, they are always cops.

We never see werewolfs outside of the police. It is shown they can be magicians (one of the officers was summoning minor imps for the chase in AoS), but the only openly werewolf character who holds any high positions is Duvall himself, and even he doesn't seem to be that depended on spirit labour, especially compared to other magicians, like Mandrake or Whitwell. They seem to be chained to their job inside the police the same way magicians are chained to politic duty and spirits are chained to magicians. In 9.5/10 situations, they hold no value outside their work, because they were "created" to be the bodyguards. Full human beings, who are no seen no more than violent protection machines that need managing and control and constants supervision inside the police establishment to be allowed to exits...and isn't that all magicians care about? Setting power. Dominance. Control. Making someone seem less "human" than them even If they are humans through and through.

Now, Jane Farrar is both shown doing pretty difficult magic (e.g summoning a spirit for spying and using the silent bubbles and th e Charms, all sorts of stuff) and holding a very high spot in the government. But here's where the most interesting part comes in.

We don't know If there's any stigma around werewolfs (this wasn't explored much in the text because the details of it weren't very important for the story the author is trying to tell), but there's almost most certainly is. They are shown and told to be incredibly violent and uncontrollable and scary™ and sure, that's what probably happens when you are artificialy changed to be incredibly violent and uncontrollable and scary, but also it does mean they should be seen as someone who has no value outside of police establishment or therefore shouldn't have a place in society. We don't know how they manage it and how they live on after having to live outside of the police establishment, but there's a chance it is actually individual to each person and is build on their unique human character. Which probably means not all of them would be outright scary and violent and uncontrollable. But no one would telll you this because they are most probably being told that they are. Duvall is the exception and even he was looked upon and no one even tried to argue when he was thrown out of the room and then dead, because magicians do not fucking care, not about their "colleagues" and certainly not about werewolfs.

Now, Jane Farrar wants to have a high positions she gains. She is that image of toxic authority and perfect obedience within the system. Her being the apprentice of someone's in the Council even weightens the expectations put on her by others and by himself. However, that doesn't mean she's not a werewolf. That means she would probably have to hide it, having her mentor as an unfortunate example for 1) being not careful with your will to power 2) showing your status as a werewolf. She has great will and she is pretty careful, although with quite strong and maybe "loud" character, not that she wouldn't struggle with it, but there's a great chance she does succeed in what he wants to succeed in. Including hiding being a werewolf. After all, she is taking the position of her mentor (even if not "formally", as Deveraux decided to be Chief of Police himself) and centering her personality around it (remember her in the end of PG? The constant "I'll get my wolfs" speech does indeed sound familiar)