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Originally Posted by Anders
I would make them pastoralists. They are well suited for that anyway; there's a reason people use herding dogs. Pastoralists can have well-organized societies and can be a serious threat to civilized societies.
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Many pastoralists spend a lot of time hunting anyway; the sharp lines classifying economic and social types are a convenience for Ethnographers but vaguer in practice.
I could see pastoral wolf-folk too. They would not be as much a threat, not being as well armed. Pastoralists in the past were a threat because they had incredible mobility, and a weapons system perfectly matched to their lifestyle which they could practice with in normal life. Lupine graspers are simply not efficient enough to manage armed conflict as well as humans. The lupine jaw does not match the human hand, and humans have two hands and a mouth making a versatile flexibility in weapons and communication. The fact is humans are far more formidable even at close range. And even sedentary humans are probably about as mobile as wolf-men in a forced march. It took the advent of gunpowder for sedentarists to outpace nomads militarily. Whereas humans will outfight wolf-men almost right away.
In peacetime wolf-folk would be as efficient as human pastoralists and that would certainly be a way for them to provide a food supply that can sustain a large population.