Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-2020973-20180130030426

So I have been thinking about the Skinwalkers from season 5. Noshiko describes them as powerful shapeshifters though we do not see them transform. They do show a number of supernatural abilities that make me wonder if they can be defined as a supernatural race or are actually something more akin to Banshee's and Druids.

We never see mountain ash used against them, Banshees and Druids are both capable of using it because Banshee's are part of the supernatural but not controlled by it like other shifters and Druids are men and women who tap into supernatural powers through mystical and arcane means.

In myth Slkinwalkers use animal pelts to transform into the animal they desire and the Skinwalkers we see see are wearing leathers and furs, we never see them use it to transform. That is not to say they can't, it could be they just didn't demonstrate this power.

Now as I said before we saw them use a number of abilities. Controlling the earth, enhanced fighting abilities, helping Kira fix her sword, the ability to communicate with the dead as well as the ability to open some kind of doorway to the hell they had Kira send Theo to. Powerful abilities to be sure but that does not mean they can be put in the same class as Werewolves or Kitsune.

Though it is true we have seen a few other shifter races use magic. The Kitsune and Kate Argent when she became a Werejaguar used rituals to summon Oni or cause a man to revert to his teenage years. So it stands to reason there are other supernatural races with natural mystical abilities.

However Druids of old were said to have been able to shapeshift and taught Lycaon and his sons to reassume their human forms and Banshee's have displayed several psychic abilities as well as their banshee wail and we saw what the Darach was capable of when she was tapping into the power of the Nemeton.

In myth the Skinwalkers are described as being evil witchs. So it could be that the Skinwalkers are a race similar to Banshee's in that what they are is in their blood and their abilities are part of their bloodline or they could be humans who have tapped into the supernatural through mystical means like the Druids.

What do you guys think? 