Post by Original Admin on Feb 9, 2010 18:53:31 GMT -5
There are 3 different kinds of shifters, 2 passwords for each. Shapeshifters, Weres, and Were-Animals (either bitten or born).
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General Attributes.
1. Shapeshifting shows at puberty for born shifters and weres. Puberty means preteens, tweens. No L one shifts any age younger then that.
2. In order to U produce a were or shifter child, the child must be the oldest child. Both parents must be shifters or the same animal were's as well.
3. There can not be more then one shifter child in a family. Unless they were adopted or from a N different parent (step-sister, half-brother, etc.)
4. It is extremely difficult for a shifter to conceive a child and miscarriages are very common.
5. Any form of a shapeshifter. MUST change if they see the full moon during a full moon. Some can avoid changing if they stay inside during a full moon, A but the full moon compells then to change and for must the urge is too strong.
6. If a were or shifter is turned into R a vampire, they will lose the ability to shift.
Weres (-wolf or -animal)
1. Weres can only turn E into one animal (Usually a warmblooded preadator).
2. Most can shift C whenever they want, and still must if they see the full moon.
3. Werewolves are the most common shapeshifters. When someone says were, they usually mean werewolf. They are far superior to all other shifters
4. Any other weres have a suffix of the animal they turn into. Ex. L Werepanthers, Werebat, Weretiger, Werefox, etc.
5. First born child of parents of the same animal. (Of the same type. Ex. Two werewolves will produce a werewolf as I their first child. Two werepanthers produce a werepanther)
6. Often organize in packs, depending on the P animal they turn into
Shapeshifters can turn into any animal.
7. Most were communities have their own hierarchy and laws. As well as rituals and culture.
8. Can spread their S ability, condition or curse as many call it to humans if they bite them enough times.
9. Big Animals such as tigers, bears and some other predators are VERY rare in the shiter world. Some E animals may not be approved because of this, so don't take it personally.
Bitten Weres
1. Have to be bit repeatedly by a pure were or shifter
2. Can only shift at the full moon and will NEVER turn into a full animal.
3. Not accepted much by the pure weres and shifters
4. Only turn into one animal (the one they were biten by).
5. Can never shift fully. Ex. not a full wolf, but hairy body, paws, teeth, and similar attributes. Just not a full animal, still retain some human qualities when they shift.
(In order to play a bitten were please state that the character was bitten and not a born were. If you wish to have your human bitten into a were or shifter you must get permission from the were character and from an admin.)
Shapeshifters
1. Full shapeshifters P are extremely RARE.
2. Have the ability to shift into any animal at their H will.
3. Must have the animal at A hand to imprint or model themselves after.
4. They usually have a 'go-to' animal S that they shift into most often.
5. Although their abilities are greater then other weres, they are considered the lowest in the shifter Ecommunity.
6. Are not organized and it is very rare to see groups of them living together. (Ex. Sam Merlotte lives alone. SDaphne Laundry is the first shapeshifter he had met.)
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More detailed info:
Born Weres & Shifters
- a pure shifter can turn into whatever animal they are the pure form of: two panther parents have a pure panther child
- heightened speed, strength, senses
- only wolves are considered true weres, anything else is a shifter
- take the form of warmblooded predators
- pack hierarchy, depending on the animal
- can change any time of the month, but will feel the pull of the moon
- must mate with another of their kind to produce another of their kind: panther must mate with panther to produce a panther
- only the firstborn child will be two-natured
- shapeshifting manifests itself at puberty
- a were or shifter can be turned to vampire, but a vampire cannot be turned to one of the two-natured
Rare Shifters
- very, very, very rare
- can take on any form
- heightened speed, strength, senses
- can change any time of the month, but will feel the pull of the moon
- only the firstborn child will be two-natured
Bitten Weres & Shifters
- hybrids
- can never be a full animal at any point
- less accepted by supe society
- will never be pure as the animal that bit them, will never fully transform, will still crave blood like a normal shifter
- will only transform a small amount: hair, face, hands, maintains human body
- still considered a very cursed existence
- heightened speed, strength, senses
- will only turn into one type of animal
- usually forced to do the bidding of pure weres or shifters
- can only change at the full moon