Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-121.217.63.151-20141006053221/@comment-13965604-20141015023243

Killer kev wrote: LadyX wrote: I think there is a difference in someone who has special abilities, one of which may be the ability to change their shape, and being a shape shifter. It's one of those hard to define grey zones, but there is a difference. And as Jester said, they had the ability at one point. That doesn't mean they still do. I dont see the difference, a shape-shifter is defined as a entity with the ability to physically transform into another being or form, so how is that different from what you said?

If I have to pinpoint a difference, it would lie within the range of the abilities. A shapeshifter, that's all they do:they can change their shape. A Druid has abilities beyond that. There is also the fact that we don't know that they can still shape shift. Just that they used to know. There are lost arts all over the place. Whether you consider what they used to be able to do shapeshifting or not, we haven't seen them be able to do it now. What we saw the Darach do wasn't shapeshifting, that was casting an illusion.