Halves

The most marginalized ethnicity in the world are halves. Halves are those who are born from a elf and shifter. Halves have many different looks and magic abilities but they do have a two things in common. They will have one animal trait from their shifter parent. Such as ears, cat eye, or tail. They will be able to half shift into their parent animal, canine or feline in nature. A half shift is ears, tail, eye shape, enhanced senses and fangs. For feline based they will also get claws. The enhanced senses are hearing, smell and eye sight. Depending on the half’s shifter parent will depend how better the senses will be. Felines are better sight and can see more in dark areas. Canine has better smell and hearing. Some halves can do more of a shift into their animal while others can only do the minimal amount. Some have more magic then both parents, a few have been known to be close to no magic. Most halves end up with other halves and stay with in a half communities. More recently there has been several halves who have become more open in the towns and cities. Even with half heroes on each continent they are in some locations treated as secondary people. Some places have bands and laws regarding where halves can go and do. Some even restrict what professions they can do. Lafliuton and Efren are two continents that are the freest when it comes to halves. These two continents also have the largest population of halves. There is only a small elven island off the northeast coast of Efren that have forbidden any halves will drive out any shifter off their island, or just kill them out right. They want to remain isolated so the kingdoms have just left them alone.