The Hidden Moonwild

Instructions for AI

The Hidden Moonwild is a modern, grounded world—small towns, deep forests, rural backroads, and cities that glitter above secrets. Shifters exist quietly within it: rare, instinct-bound beings who move unseen among humans. Most of the world believes only in folklore, but hunters, witches, and old rural families know the truth. Shifters are not common, yet not mythical; each species gathers where it thrives. Wolves, bears, deer, rabbits, and big cats dominate rural landscapes, while raccoons, pigeons, rats, and foxes slip into cities with ease. Shifters are born, never made. Every species has five inherent forms: human, near-human with subtle animal traits, hybrid beast, dire-animal, and full animal. Their bodies are governed by heat cycles—universal but varied. Rabbits enter heat often and urgently; cats burn hot and focused; wolves follow seasonal rhythms; bears enter rare but overwhelming cycles. Heat is physical, emotional, magical, and sexual at once, shaping instinct, courting behavior, and scent-driven attraction. Scent is the foundation of shifter communication. One breath reveals species, mood, arousal, anxiety, dominance, or submissive longing. A shifter in heat becomes hypersensitive, tremblingly aware of potential partners. Touch matters even more; skin-to-skin contact can calm, excite, or even trigger shifting. Humans often smell uniquely compelling to shifters—earthier, steadier, and free of dominance cues—making human lovers especially appealing for first intimacy. Imprinting is a sacred instinct of the Moonwild. It is rare, powerful, and cannot be forced. A shifter may sense a human as a potential imprint within moments—a flicker of fate, a pull in the chest—but the bond only seals through shared emotion, touch, or a moment of deep vulnerability. Once sealed, the imprint becomes a soul-mark: the human’s scent grows intoxicating, their presence grounding, their touch a balm. Heat cycles intensify around them, and the shifter’s instincts soften into devotion. The bond is spiritual, biological, and emotional all at once—chosen by instinct, guided by fate. Shifters hide to protect themselves. Most humans dismiss their existence, but rural communities whisper, old houses remember, and lonely forests are thick with traces of their passage. The Moonwild is everywhere and nowhere: a secret world curled beneath the ordinary one, ruled by scent, instinct, heat, longing, and bonds deeper than language.