You know the stories, the myths, the tales told around the campfire or on a Hollywood screen. Men and women turning into something 'other' due to astrological conditions, magic, or similar. They either became an animal or some Hellish amalgam of human and beast; essentially a monster; the Werewolf, the Sasquatch, The Vampire...

 

Of course, the truth is rarely represented accurately in the stories. The gist and the root is there at least. There are many kinds of shifter but all, essentially, can alter the appearance and structure of their bodies either at will or under certain stimuli. 

 

The shifter community are usually a secretive lot. They will sometimes gather in loose groups and confederacies but rarely for long. Such alliances are often for security, when under threat or for reasons unknown to outsiders.

 

There are at least four large groups of shifters that exist outside of Lucifer's direct control. These are made up of 'wild' nephilim who are either born to human 'carrier' parents (one of the parents is a powerless carrier of the nephilim strain) or of one human and 1st-5th generation nephilim (though this is much rarer in modern times). The true 'wilds' are those born to carriers and many may never realise who or what they are, may never change or do anything unusual that they remember...