King Lycaon is the most famous example of a canine "shifter" - a grecian myth of a king being forcibly turned into a wolf after doubting Zeus, as well as Sigmund and Siggier, nordic myths about men wearing wolf skins turning into werewolves. Werewolf and Were-canine myths are also very prevalent, mostly in European cultures, however the loup garou also exists in some African cultures. Most are about wolves, however there are also some stories of Wild Dog and fox shifters.
Wolf Shifters
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Wolf shifters are, as their name suggests, shifters who can turn into wolves. The species of wolf highly depends on where the person is from. A european wolf shifter will very likely be a eurasian wolf when shifted. As wolves are very similarly sized to humans in mass, it makes sense why wolf shifters are popular and seem to have the highest success rate of shifting.
There is not much to say about wolf shifters as information is rather basic. They turn into wolves, and fur colour is dependent on hair colour, white wolves with blue eyes are a genetic impossibility, etc. Wolf Shifters follow the same shifting paths that all other shifters do. In fact, the PhMP method of shifting was created by group of wolf shifters.
Wolf shifters, commonly referred to as werewolves, have been featured in legends long before the 16th century, and many still roam today, though they are rarer than they used to be. They have spurred many different interpretations and appearances among human kind, the most popular one is the 'hybrid' that you often see in films and tv series. Contrary to popular belief, they do not change by the light of the full moon and are regular shifters. Albinism is regarded as an impossibility among wild wolves due to it never being documented, though it can and will happen. This information goes for wolf shifters, as well. Another feature of wolf shifters is that fur colour is highly dependent on your natural hair colour... So if for example you were to have brown hair, your wolf self would have that. You aren't going to have pure brown fur of course, as wolves don't come in pure colours, but you would have the colours of a wild brown wolf.
As far as eye colours go, they can go with any wide range of fur colours, though white wild wolves seem to be the only exception that has a few set of eye colours, being yellow, brown or orange/amber. Blue is not a natural eye colour among shifters nor adult wild wolves, though wild pups and possibly shifter pups are an exception to this rule. You would not see a shifter with white fur and blue eyes, this goes the same for heterochromia. Unless it was a genetic mutation, it does not happen naturally. Though wild gray wolves are the only "true wolf" species out there, a wolf shifters' species varies on where they come from. Heritage does play a factor in this. If your family is european, you would be a eurasian wolf.