Shadow Shifter

°A Shadow Shifter's true form can only be revealed the moment it hatches. Usually they are a complete obsidian black.

°Shadow Shifters are believed to be totally genderless in and of themselves, as it is theorized that it can become any gender for breeding purposes.

°Children believed to be Changelings were often in fact half human - half Shadow Shifter.

°Shadow Shifters are believed to be extinct as the last one seen was killed in 1852.

°Though it can turn into any life form it wants, it will always have the primal instincts and actions of a true dragon.

°The Shadow Shifter can live for an eternity, however it is not immortal, and can be and have been killed.

°Its shed skin or other body parts turn into ash when it falls off.

°A Shadow Shifter that has taken form as a human female, cannot reproduce. Nor can its female offspring.