Shifters

These things are true for all Shifters. If you feel like it, you can also have other standard shifter characteristics, like an allergy to silver, but those are optional extras that you decide on, and aren't universally true.

Vampires, shifters, and changelings are all immortal if they take care of themselves. The most common cause of 'death' is Crossing the Rainbow - losing your grip on reality and plunging into the abyss between worlds.

You can play a character from age 18 up to any age you wish, but this will have no mechanical effect on you. It may affect your fashion choices. Modern clothing is on-brief but so is any kind of historical fashion.

You are aligned to the full moon.

One of your parents was a shifter, or the gift arose in you spontaneously. Destiny calls you to take spectacular actions to protect this world and the people you love so much within it. Your inability to solve problems like a true human often does cause you issues with that, though. Nobody appreciates anywhere near enough all the work you put in! It’s unfair!

Physreps for shifters include patches of fur, claws, spikes, scales, feathers, and animalistic character traits. One animal only, but it can be any non-extinct animal. They can also look human enough that most people don’t notice, and there are no physrep requirements.

The term “werehuman” is derogatory, as it sort of implies you are mostly an animal and therefore a slave to your instincts. E.g. “Did you hear a shifter group are plotting to blow up the Corpus Clock because they don’t like grasshoppers? Ugh, they’re such werehumans.”

Species-specific terms like werewolf, werecat, werebadger and werespider are non-derogatory and in regular use.