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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 125 Joined: 21-March 10 From: Denver, CO Member No.: 18,325 ![]() |
As the topic says. Are they born that way? Do they wake up one morning with sapience? Does there need to be some trigger event such as a manastorm? Or is it just whatever works best for the player/character? I couldn't find anything in the 4th edition books. Any clarification would be appreciated.
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Great Dragon ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 ![]() |
They're born that way, like any other paracritter.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 604 Joined: 1-December 08 From: Sacramento, California Member No.: 16,646 ![]() |
Shapeshifters aren't hybrid creatures that are part man part animal. They are their own species, and as such, are born that way.
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
I think the question is more along the lines of what are they before magic is high enough for them to be able to change forms.
I seem to remember a thread about this before and some sources being quoted as saying shapeshifters are wild animals that can take human form. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 557 Joined: 26-July 09 From: Kent, WA Member No.: 17,426 ![]() |
With fresh Soycaf, if the rest of the team knows what's good for 'em!
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,290 Joined: 23-January 07 From: Seattle, USA Member No.: 10,749 ![]() |
I think the question is more along the lines of what are they before magic is high enough for them to be able to change forms. I seem to remember a thread about this before and some sources being quoted as saying shapeshifters are wild animals that can take human form. Shapeshifters are in fact animals who take human form, and not the other way around, which affects their perceptions on the world. That said, a shifter who spends most their young life as a human in a city will act differently than one who spends most their young life as an animal in the wild. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 125 Joined: 21-March 10 From: Denver, CO Member No.: 18,325 ![]() |
Thanks for the info. I knew they were animals (and any DNA tests will show as such), just wasn't sure exactly when in their life they become awakened.
With fresh Soycaf, if the rest of the team knows what's good for 'em! The shifter I'm making will be born in a zoo. I'm thinking introduction to Soycaf will be a very interesting experience. |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,444 Joined: 18-April 08 Member No.: 15,912 ![]() |
Ok, this makes me ask, shifters are animals which can change into metahumans. So are there any metahumans which can change into animals (not including through spells), with the reverse of the standard shifter? Or maybe a meta which can turn into another meta, or an animal which can turn into another animal. Cause to get techincal, we're all 'animals' in the scientific sense of the word.
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Shooting Target ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,989 Joined: 28-July 09 From: Somewhere along the brazilian coast Member No.: 17,437 ![]() |
Shapeshifters may be any animal who does not belong to the homo sapiens sub-species. Now, as far as I know, they are born this way. Running Wild has a lot of info on this. With a chapter talking about a parazoologist who spends some months with a wolf pack who had shapeshifters on it.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 604 Joined: 1-December 08 From: Sacramento, California Member No.: 16,646 ![]() |
Ok, this makes me ask, shifters are animals which can change into metahumans. So are there any metahumans which can change into animals (not including through spells), with the reverse of the standard shifter? Or maybe a meta which can turn into another meta, or an animal which can turn into another animal. Cause to get techincal, we're all 'animals' in the scientific sense of the word. Drakes are metas that change into an animal form. |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,444 Joined: 18-April 08 Member No.: 15,912 ![]() |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 150 Joined: 4-November 08 Member No.: 16,567 ![]() |
there was a story in a Shadowland magazine that had a shapeshifter in it. the creature was a nasty piece of work...
it would assume the form of one of its victims not sure if it was ever stated out, |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,424 Joined: 7-December 09 From: Freedonia Member No.: 17,952 ![]() |
Thanks for the info. I knew they were animals (and any DNA tests will show as such), just wasn't sure exactly when in their life they become awakened. The shifter I'm making will be born in a zoo. I'm thinking introduction to Soycaf will be a very interesting experience. hehe. Funny I had a Tiger shifter once that paid no money for a luxury lifestyle otherwise known as living in the seattle zoo. What better way to live for an egotistical runner? Sleep all day, get fed for free, and have many people coming by every day to admire how awesome he is. Then at night sneak out and go have fun in the concrete jungle. Oh and free security. |
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