Moreau are known by many names: called Shifters by the common folk, Hengeyokai in the Empire of Seven Dragons, or Weres by those who mistake them for lycanthropes. The exact origins of this race remain unknown, and the information pieced together by the various sages and scholars who have studied them tends to go suspiciously missing. Moreau are a naturally secretive and elusive race, though some few of them answer the call to become adventurers.
Though they often appear human, all moreau are intrinsically linked to a single type of animal and gain traits of that animal, carrying some minor animalistic features. Particularly powerful moreau may even learn to change their form, shapeshifting into their linked animal. Though many have debated the question, none outside of their own knows whether the animal or the human is their natural form.