
They are shapeshifters. Once a proud, strong and independant race, they have been beaten down by humanity. The royal family, locked up in a zoo, seen only as animals. Their subjects spread across the land in zoos, labs and circuses. The few shifters left in the wild cower in fear, coming out only at night. They adapted to survive, becoming only shape-changing animals to the humans. Their own human side hidden, their ability to think like humans, to look and act like humans, put away for fear it will only make the humans see them as even more of a threat.
They are humans. Seeing themselves as a proud and superior race, once viewed the shapeshifters as a threat to that. Now, though, everything they once knew about shapeshifters has been forgotten. They still view them as dangerous, but no longer understand why. They study them in labs, breed them in captivity, trying to rediscover the meaning behind this long-standing fear. But if they will ever uncover the secrets this race has buried so deep... that, is yet to be determined.

