I'm also pretty tired but I'm struggling to think of a power source for the transformation, that's the thing. The examples given above all have world-altering consequences - primals kill a little bit of Hydaelyn every time they're summoned, voidsent generally don't want to leave a vessel once they've inhabited it, and heretics can only transform into aevis because they carry the blood of a long-dead Great Wyrm in their veins.
Some kind of... manifestation of shaped aether, almost like a carbuncle, but tiger-shaped, and also you're inside it??
The hereditary thing... maybe it is voidsent-related, to do with an ancient pact of some sort??
I'm sure there's ideas to play with but I'm sleepy and failing to come up with anything that's quite like what's been seen in lore before that isn't, like... MSQ-worthy in terms of its wider consequences beyond the individual. x_x
Some kind of... manifestation of shaped aether, almost like a carbuncle, but tiger-shaped, and also you're inside it??
The hereditary thing... maybe it is voidsent-related, to do with an ancient pact of some sort??
I'm sure there's ideas to play with but I'm sleepy and failing to come up with anything that's quite like what's been seen in lore before that isn't, like... MSQ-worthy in terms of its wider consequences beyond the individual. x_x
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