If a shifter is shifted for too long will it have any affect on the mentaly or physically. And how long would it take for them to get to that point.
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Heyo! SO fun question!
There will be an audio for it later in June hopefully and that will be a little more graphic of an explanation but essentially, if a shifter mainains their shifted form for too long, they end up losing themselves in the idea of the animal they've shifted into.
Balance is key in being a shifter, it is understanding what it means to walk as both the primal animal and civil person. It is holding back on the animal to be trusted by other humans and forgetting your humanity to survive amidst the wilderness. For ghoulish shifters, it's dfferent but maintaining these two sides of one's self is the key.
When you use your shifted form, it requires you to forget that you're operating as a human that is acting as an animal and that means it's easy to get lost in that facade. If you spend long enough in it then you can lose pieces of yourself, make yourself think that you have always been the animal and not the human. You slowly deteriorate as a human and the animal starts making more sense to you.
You forget what is human and accept only what is needed as an animal. When you were human, you needed to worry about times and schedules but as an animal, you are driven only by instinct to survive. You can lock yourself into a mentality of being that animal and if you do shift back into a human, you won't know what to do with yourself because humans and wild animals do not follow the same standards of living.
