Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-121.217.63.151-20141006053221/@comment-4723271-20141010213912

Paul.rea wrote:

Killer kev wrote:

Paul.rea wrote: No - druids do not have the ability to shapeshift.

The darach used the sacrifices to change her appearance. While the direct mechanism is not known, we know that it was not "shapeshifting" in the canonical sense.

Druids are just people with skills - they are not, by themselves, supernatural. “Druid” in Gaelic means “Wise Oak”. Within the Mythology of Teen Wolf, Druids act as advisors, emissaries, to the werewolf packs.

This connection formed in ancient Greece after King Lycaon and his sons were turned into wolves by the god Zeus.

The Druids had shapeshifting abilities and, while they could not undo the curse, they taught Lycaon how to shift back and forth between human and wolf.

So, druids are shapeshifters, like I said. They had "abilities" or, as I said, "skills" - they were not themselves shapeshifters. if someone has the ability or skill to shape-shift that makes them a shapeshifter, thats how the druids we're able to teach lycaon bc they were shapeshifters