Urdlen, the chaoti c, e vil gnome deity, attacked several rural gnome communities, leaving in his wake the curse of lycanthropy, which turned the survivors into weremoles. 'Lycos' means 'wolf', not 'mole'. You need another prefix, perhaps 'talpanthropy'.
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