Shifter

Shifters are sometimes called the weretouched, they are descendants of humans and lycanthropes. centuries of diluted lycanthropy has evolved shifters into a unique race. They are humanoids with a bestial aspect; while they can’t fully change shape, they can temporarily enhance their animalistic features — a state they call shifting. Each shifter walks on the knife’s edge between the wilds and the world around them. Do they embrace their primal instincts or the path of civilization?
Early in childhood, a shifter forms a bond with a beast within, the associated Loa will shapes their body and mind. Some shifters believe that their shifts are independent entities, and they may speak of Bear or Wolf as ancestors or guides. Most just see the beast within as a formidable expression of their inner nature, something that emerges as the shifter’s personality takes shape. The beast within is a pool of powerful instincts, and its influence is revealed by a shifter’s personality: a feline shifter may be cool and distant, driven by predatory instincts, while a shifter with a lupine half might be drawn to find and protect a pack. When a shifter fully embraces this beast within they physically transform for a short time.
A shifter’s beast within is reflected by the shifter’s subrace. Four subraces are especially common:

Beasthide

often signifies the bear or boar: stoic, stubborn, and thick-skinned.

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shifters typically have lupine traits and prefer to run with a pack.
Swiftstride are often predatory and feline, but a swiftstride could also be a cunning rat who darts through the shadows.

Predator

 shifters are born from any creature that tracks its prey.
While the beast within certainly has a physical impact on a shifter, it has a spiritual and psychological effect, as well. Two beasthide shifters share the similar strengths, but if one has the aspect of the boar and the other is more like a bear, they’ll be quite different in personality. With any shifter, identifying the beast within is a crucial part of understanding the character.
A shifter will commonly have a set of animal like traits constantly present, which become more pronounced when they channel their beast. These differences are primarily epigenetic. As such all shifters can breed with each other treating their beast as possible hereditary gifts. With that in mind sharing multiple shifter forms is incredibly rare.
Shifters have a strong presence in Joorduunim but can be found in wild areas across Barkarus, where they often live among other "Beast Folk. While they form powerful bonds to friends and kin, shifters place great value on self-reliance and freedom. It’s a shifter proverb to “always be prepared for the journey yet to come,” and most shifters strive to be ready for change or opportunity.

Scientific Name

Lycan sapien