Shapeshifters are naturally adept at reading into people and deceiving them. You have proficiency in the Insight and Deception skills. You have advantage on Deception skill checks when impersonating a person that you have previously spent at least 1 minute studying their voice, form, mannerisms and physical traits. You also have advantage on any Performance skill checks as an actor in a performance such as a play.

Your Charisma score increases by 2 and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Shapeshifters don't have known age but can live to be a little over 600 years old.

Shapeshifters tend toward no particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.

Shapeshifters can alter their forms but for their natural form, they vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice. Humans typically learn the languages of other peoples they deal with, including obscure dialects. They are fond of sprinkling their speech with words borrowed from other tongues: Orc curses, Elvish musical expressions, Dwarvish military phrases, and so on.

You are considered a shapechanger and immune to spells that detail they do not work on such like the Polymorph spell unless it is through the effect of a racial feature.

You can alter your form as though by the Alter Self spell at-will. This takes a bonus action and the duration is 'until dismissed' which is also a bonus action. This is a natural ability and not a spell. The altered form remains even if unconscious or dead. This feature can be used even when in a completely different form as from the Full Shapeshift feature and applies the benefits to that form where possible.

As a shapeshifter you can, as an action, fully transform yourself into a different form as though from a Polymorph spell but with the following differences:

• This is a natural ability and not a spell.
• The duration is 'until dismissed' which is a bonus action and is otherwise permanent, even if you are unconscious. You will, however, revert to your normal form on death.
• You keep your mental stats unless the new form's are greater. You may use either the new form's proficiencies and skills or your own, whichever are greater.
• Any damage is transferred between forms as a percentage, rounded up. If you had 50 Hit Points and took a form that had 100 Hit Points then took 20 damage this is 20%. When you return to your normal form you would be 50 Hit Points less 20%, which is 10, so you would be at 40 Hit Points. Therefore death in your shapeshifted form means death for you.

 The thoughts of a shapeshifter are hard to read as they possess natural telepathic abilities. As a shapeshifter you gain the following benefits:

• Telepathy, 120 feet. You can speak through your mind to any creature you are aware of within range. You may select a single creature, a specific few, or all creatures. This communication is one-way and is words only as they hear your voice. They need not speak the same language as you to understand you but must know at least one language.
• You have advantage on saving throws against Enchantment magic and effects to control your mind.
• Your thoughts cannot be read unless you want them to be and may choose what thoughts can or cannot be read by others. You can choose to render yourself immune to other creatures' telepathy.

Animals close to you react nervously to you and clearly sense that something is wrong with you. (Dogs bark, cats hiss, rodents flee, birds fly away, etc.)