The animalis is not so much a feral shapeshift as it is the manifestation of the most primal instincts and urges within one’s soul. And Gardyan’s species mastered the symbiosis with these impulses like nobody else beyond the veil. That a realm of demigods inherited such animalistic traits from their divine progenitors proves that even deities are not immune to what can easily be deemed the most archaic nature of living beings—and Gardyan's men were the most susceptible. It w