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Is the result a Metis? Do they just have a coin-flip chance of being one kind of shifter-kin or the other? Are there hybrid strains? And all that's not even thinking about the wereravens, who don't make more of their kind by reproducing (but who still absolutely can reproduce). So, the question: What happens when you start crossing the streams? A werewolf and a werecoyote having kids (since some of the latter pretend to be werewolves), werecats and werebears, whatever. Not all shifters seem to have Metis equivalents? But some do. The final complication: When a werewolf and a werewolf have a kid, the result is an unfortunate deformed, sterile individual called a Metis. Children who don't become shifters become Kinfolk, important parts of the shifter support network, and (I think?) people more likely to produce shifters if they have kids with the appropriate kind of shifter.
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The same is true of werebears, werecoyotes, and so on. For most of these shapeshifters, the way they make new shapeshifters is pretty straightforward: When a werewolf mates with a human or wolf, there's a small chance the resulting child (or one of them, in the case of litters) will be a werewolf. It establishes at least 12 kinds of shapeshifters, including the eponymous werewolves.