Shifter strengths & Weaknesses
Regardless of their status as Alpha or not, the following applies to all shifters:
- Enhanced physical strength (2x human)
- Enhanced agility
- Enhanced sense of smell
- Enhanced hearing
- Average lifespan of 110 years
- Shifters age well – about 20% slower than humans. That means if your characters is 50years old, they will be able to look like 40, but not like 28 or anything like that.
- Immune to diseases and most poisons.
- Rapid healing after injuries
- Weakened by silver, silver compouds and derivatives
- Need to rest after shifting back from animal form to human form, unless they are alpha.
Additionally there are modifiers that depend on the age group. Age groups for shifters are defined by the time that has passed since the person was infected with Lycanthropy. In the extremely rare cases of a born shifter, they would be considered a baby shifter until age 18. Only once the shifter has gone through their human puberty, the beast's teenage years will set in. As an example for infected Lycanthropes (which applies to 98% of all shifters), you can technically be 50 years of age but still be seen as a young shifter if the infection happened less than two years ago. If your character is moving from one age group to the next, we expect it to happen gradually, over the time span of about one month (character modification request needed).
Baby shifters, aka cubs (up to 6 months after infection):
- Need 8 hours of rest after shifting back from animal to human form.
- Will -always- shift during sex
- Will not be able to keep their beast in check around blood or raw meat.
- Can not change into their beast form at will.
- Can not be alpha.
- Can not have powers.
Young shifters (6 months to two years after infection):
- Need 6 hours of rest after shifting back from animal to human form, unless they are alpha.
- Will shift during sex most of the time, unless they are alpha.
- Have a hard time keeping their beast in check around blood or raw meat. It's not impossible to keep control, but shifting might still happen despite their best efforts.
- Will still need a trigger to change into their beast form, unless they are alpha.
- Can evolve to alpha, but can not be applied for as alpha right away and have to RP it if they wish to become one (please keep in mind: one alpha shifter per player; character modification request for the "level-up" is needed)
- Can have up to 2 common powers in total (alpha powers are not included in this count and can be added if applicable). If only one power has been been listed in the initial character sheet, gaining the additional power has to happen in RP and needs a character modification request.
Adult shifters (two years to 20 years after infection):
- Need 4 hours of rest after shifting back from animal to human form, unless they are alpha.
- Will sometimes still shift during sex.
- Can keep moderate control of their beast around bood or raw meat. They face the same challenges the young do but they are more used to it and thus able to ignore it more.
- Will sometimes still not be successful when trying to change into their beast form, unless they are alpha.
- Can apply as an alpha right away (please keep in mind: one alpha shifter per player; character modification request is needed if the "level-up" happens after the original application).
- Can have up to 3 common powers in total (alpha powers are not included in this count and can be added if applicable). If only one or two powers have been been listed in the initial character sheet, gaining addtional powers has to happen in RP and needs a character modification request.
Mature shifters (over 20 years after infection):
- Need 2 hours of rest after shifting back from animal to human form, unless they are alpha.
- Will rarely shift during sex anymore.
- Can keep solid control of their beast around bood or raw meat. A blood bath will still bring their beast on the edge, though.
- Will rarely need a trigger when trying to change into their beast form, unless they are alpha.
- Can apply as an alpha right away (please keep in mind: one alpha shifter per player; character modification request is needed if the "level-up" happens after the original application).
- Can have up to 4 common powers in total (alpha powers are not included in this count and can be added if applicable). If only one to three powers have been been listed in the initial character sheet, gaining of addtional powers has to happen in RP and needs a character modification request.