shapeshifter -- motel face-thief (playable Lineage) Born-only at create -- no bite-turn into this Path. You steal a living person's face: painful shed, mimic voice, retinal flare when someone looks at you or when security tape catches your eyes. Silver through the heart finishes you; glancing silver only burns and can out you. You are not a Werewolf, not a Skinwalker, and not a Ghoul. Top stats lean FIN / PRE / POW. How you play 1. assume <name> copy someone in the room (living: face + surface job/background; corpse: face only) 2. assume wear a face you already banked 3. shed drop the mask (painful wet-skin channel unless noshed or grace overlay) 4. form show your true motel face 5. facelock pin the banked face so a new steal cannot overwrite it Living copies deepen over time -- job tags and mannerisms knit in while Mimic holds the mask. Deepest secrets take ticks; immediate assume is face plus surface cover only. Empty Mimic forces a painful shed (or drops the mask when noshed). Silver burn vs kill: contact with silver (weapon nick or picking up silver gear) sears and can reveal you -- it does not proper-kill. Committed silver through the heart still finishes you. Rare archangel grace vial (drink) grants a short overlay: silver-immune, behead-only. No-shed: World Alphas are NPCs, not a player rank. At tier 3 and above you may shed without the painful skin pile; forced empty Mimic still drops the mask. Lethal assume (kill-and-wear) is not built yet. Do not confuse with werewolf / skinwalker beast-changers -- help shifter ghoul corpse-fed Visage -- help ghoul leviathan black-goo consume -- help leviathan Hunters: research shapeshifter; look for retinal flare; silver in the heart. See also: help assume | help form | help shifter | help ghoul