I and Link come from different lands so our understanding of Lychantrope differs as the effect and influence also differs between lands. It's true that Link has friends that have embraced the power such a curse can bestow in other lands, and they believe it's a boon. I've met some of them, and I can tell you they do not control their curse as much as they believe, or they started as very callous, aggressive individuals. For some that is a reasonable trade off in order to have power to fight off what threatens their lands. Losing yourself to the power and rage is not the solution, and the suggestion that you ever truly learn to control it only goes to show how deeply Link's love of the power it provides clouds his judgement.
To give you some history, my own affliction came as a backlash to a ritual ment to create an item to restore life to the fallen, an item that is still carried to this day by the company, although it's power is almost certainty waning at this point. I inflicted six with the curse, or those I was able to cure three before it was too deeply set in the rest to remove, at least with my abilities and understanding. We resurrected over a dozen people that first night and I skill have nightmares about it. Even with what control I have my friends and family spend much of their effort watching me for warning signs, knowing that with only slight provocation I will find myself loosing the lease I have on my rage.
I will tell you plainly Grimshaw, it is not worth it, everything I have accomplished with the rage could have been better done without it, by asking for help and working with others. While I do not share the fact often I have continued to look for a way to rid myself of this curse, and the best, only solution I have found is to pass my aspect to another. Don't allow yourself to become as lost as I, while I for the first time see a path where I might finally be rid of my bear it will be another year or turmoil and strife and will depend largely on the commitment and bravery of another.
Don't Be tempted Grimshaw, Link, and most of the People of his land are tempted by power and spend much of their time in the blind search for it, some turning themselves into monsterous races, or making pacts with various planar powers, his own history is not something you want to emulate. I beseech you, let me cure this while such a cure is still an option.
-Lord Enan Bluewater