In EE Knight's Vampire Earth which is actually more like military fantasy on the lines of Glen Cook's Black Company than it is 'vampire fiction' we have the Hunting Bears.
During the first incursion, these enhanced warriors were identified by animal fetishes that appealed to early man's atavistic nature. The Hunting Cats took their enemies by stealth and surprise, usually working alone as scouts, spies and assassins. The Hunting Wolves were pack fighters, whose specialty was stamina, endurance, and covering vast stretches of terrain at a steady, loping run. The most formidable of the Hunters were the Bears, pure killing machines of berserk power.
These are the near-unstoppable shock troops of the Human resistance. When modified by a Lifeweaver to become a Bear, a human soldier becomes "a walking tank", fighting like a berserker of old and possessing tremendous strength and power. Bear physical capabilities are actually on par with the Reapers themselves, able to fight and even kill Reapers in single combat. They also possess an incredible faculty for healing, to the point of regenerating nerve damage and internal organs that have been lost. Lost & Found, a Bear introduced in Valentine's Rising, actually revives from beyond clinical and physical death. Bears induce a trance-like state called "going Red", which seems to induce the berserker rage for which the Bears are famous....
That me - normally placid and even torpid - but watch out when the bear-shirt goes on! And I love that regeneration package.
Sorry, just can't leave the bears alone
During the first incursion, these enhanced warriors were identified by animal fetishes that appealed to early man's atavistic nature. The Hunting Cats took their enemies by stealth and surprise, usually working alone as scouts, spies and assassins. The Hunting Wolves were pack fighters, whose specialty was stamina, endurance, and covering vast stretches of terrain at a steady, loping run. The most formidable of the Hunters were the Bears, pure killing machines of berserk power.
These are the near-unstoppable shock troops of the Human resistance. When modified by a Lifeweaver to become a Bear, a human soldier becomes "a walking tank", fighting like a berserker of old and possessing tremendous strength and power. Bear physical capabilities are actually on par with the Reapers themselves, able to fight and even kill Reapers in single combat. They also possess an incredible faculty for healing, to the point of regenerating nerve damage and internal organs that have been lost. Lost & Found, a Bear introduced in Valentine's Rising, actually revives from beyond clinical and physical death. Bears induce a trance-like state called "going Red", which seems to induce the berserker rage for which the Bears are famous....
That me - normally placid and even torpid - but watch out when the bear-shirt goes on! And I love that regeneration package.