Shapeshifters

shapeshifters are witches or wizards who can turn into one or two animals or objects that they act like  though is commonly known for animals other than therianshifters who can turn into two or more and can choose their animals but shapeshifters are more known then therianshifters

shapeshifters
shapeshifters have no choice on what they  want to be and can only turn into one or two animals. shapeshifting can go through the family  which many  pure families have  and which makes shapeshifters more powerful there are two ways of being a shapeshifter a potion you can make or get the genes from past relatives. some known ones are Elizabeth spark, Cassandra night and Ella woods

therianshifters
therianshifters have a choice of what they want to turn into and how many though the limit is a hundred sometimes people can get over which unbalances the scales for them and shapeshifters. therianshifters can be very  rare and not many have it in their families the only known one right now are the woods ( laxus side )  night family ( carters side) and spark family ( daniels side)

genes
it could take till there fourteen to find out they are a shapeshifter and normally they start with one animal till they get to fifteen then they have two and that's when they can stop

potion
it takes many  months to make a perfect shape shifting potion for people to use and it is not taught in schools for a reason or there would be too many shapeshifters

law
laws are large for shapeshifters so no trying" -  a professor talking about shapeshifting in their class

the laws for shapeshifters had changed over the years as time went on it got harder to be a shapeshifter since many dark wizards hunted them down to be in army or potions for the blood was very powerful so they had to  register there name what they could transform into and when did it start

etymology
it is in many mythology like norse mythology with loki god of michief who could turn into any  animal