Shifter

Shifters have extraordinary abilities derived from the animal world, allowing them to partially or fully transform into animals, granting them deadly fangs, refined senses, and other such traits. A shifter treads the line between nature and society, living with a foot in each. Most shifters are either descended from, or infected by werecreatures, or have influence from the plane of wildness known as the Beastlands.  In some cases, a deity or a nature spirit may grant a chosen individual the power to transform. Others have gained the powers of a shifter through a trick of the fey or an unusual reaction to polymorph magic. There are even rumors that some rare shifters might be shapeshifting animals that somehow gained the form of a sapient ancestry, rather than the other way around. Many shifters reside in the Kakani Wilds and live in packs away from civilized society to prevent harming others in their bestial fury.