Editing Werewolf: The Forsaken (section)

==Other Shifters==
A lot less focused on in this setting, but still present. There were two excellent books - World of Darkness: Skinchangers, for "humans who change shape through magic" and "spirit-melded shifters" types and War Against The Pure for more "mythical shapechanger" types. 

There's also the absolute '''atrocity''' known as Changing Breeds, which is basically every single fucking awful thing about ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'' wrapped up in one shittastic package. Don't believe us? It was largely written by [[Phil Brucato]]. Still not convinced somehow? Or maybe you just want to witness the Goatfucker at work. In any case, [http://destroythis.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-max=2014-07-31T18:46:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=7&by-date=false&m=1 these two] [http://projects.inklesspen.com/fatal-and-friends/kurieg/changing-breeds/ poor saps] who dared to try and dissect its awfulness chapter by chapter.

Needless to say, nobody talks about Changing Breeds, mainly because War Against the Pure did the concept a whole lot more justice and wasn't nearly one-tenth as shit besides.

What critters did those books actually add?

Skinchangers gave us:
* '''Scavenger Wolf:''' A wolf-spirit who steals human skins, in an inversion of the traditional skinthief role.
* '''Black-Eyed Toads:''' Mystics who know a ritual that lets them pluck out their eyes and stick them in the sockets of a living toad to take over its body.
* '''The Coalblacks:''' A family of thieves who use a magic ritual to become crows.
* '''Tusk-Runners:''' Mystics who can invade the body of a living elephant to control it.
* '''Horned Hunters:''' Hunters who use ritually claimed antlers to become [[minotaur|stag-horned deer-people]].
* '''Spirit-Skinners:''' Mystics who physically bind spirits and then draw their essence into themselves.
* '''The Stray:''' A poor homeless man who, through the whims of fate and the love of a loyal dog, can now temporarily take on the bodies of dead stray dogs.
* '''Doctor Ape:''' A mad doctor whose experiments in ape-to-human skin and flesh transplants gave him the power to become a chimpanzee, though he occasionally returns to human form to heal the sick and injured.
* '''Barsarks:''' Warrior-mystics who use bear skins to become werebears, straight out of [[Viking]] mythology.
* '''The Invisible Man:''' A man who discovered he can mentally possess and control a whole swarm of fire ants.
* '''The Black Flock:''' A collective of crow spirits, ''Thar Akuru'', the accidental result of a raven spirit's attempt to cheat death by reincarnating through a human host.
* '''[[Kitsune]]s:''' A unique Choir of fox-spirits able to transform into or hide inside the bodies of humans.
* '''Kanaima:''' Jaguar-shaped vengeance spirits who can possess the bodies of those who die whilst seeking revenge in order to enact their wrath.
* '''Leopard Men:''' The human hosts of the ''nemur sakar''; leopard-spirits of horror and pain from West Africa.
* '''Bouda:''' Women who serve as hosts to hyena spirits as a result of an ancient pact.
* '''Serpent Guardians:''' A choir of serpent-spirits of knowledge and protection who take human bodies to gather and guard knowledge.
* '''Patches:''' A strange shapechanger who can assume the form of any person or creature whose flayed flesh has been added to its leather coat - in fact, it may be the coat itself is sapient, taking the forms of its victims to try and live.
* '''Chimera:''' Science-spawned abominations in the form of the ''Animera'' (an animal granted superior intelligence through the splicing of human genes) and the ''Humera'' (a human twisted into a half-beast through gene-splicing).
* '''Circe's Brood:''' A general name for humans turned into animals against their will through vengeful curses and dark magic.
* '''Lobison:''' A cursed lineage where the seventh son of a seventh son transforms into a bloodthirsty, werewolf-like monster based on a maned wolf.
* '''The Devil's Daughter:''' The spawn of an unholy pact, a seemingly ordinary party girl who can transform into a giant, man-eating rattlesnake.
* '''Familiars:''' Shadowy spirit creatures that can shift between beast and human forms, frequently summoned by unwitting spellcasters.
* '''The Devil of Deacon Hill:''' A strange, territorial entity that can shift from panther to human.
* '''Zoonotics:''' Mutagenic diseases that transform human victims into animals.

In contrast, War Against the Pure offers:
* '''The Colony:''' Justice-seeking werecats.
* '''The Distant Ones:''' Arrogant werefalcons who largely spend their lives playing out a cross between a modernistic mythology and a soap opera.
* '''The Brineborn:''' Shapeshifting [[Deep One]]s whose own mythology describes them as rejected by their creator, and who just want to be left alone.
* '''The Unclean:''' Wereroaches who just want to be left alone.
* '''Baal-Hadad:''' Sun-worshipping [[minotaur|werebulls]] (there are women, but they have horns too) with a god complex who transform Wolf-Bloods into their own kind.