Akhlut

A hybrid shapeshifter between a wolf and an orca, ahkluts are extremely dangerous animals. When in the water, they take a form similar to an orca, shedding their fur and shrinking their long legs to a size more manageable for swimming. When emerging from the water, their legs and fur return but they keep the thick, finned tail and muscular head of an orca. The presence of an akhlut is identified by dense clumps of reddish brown fur and wolf tracks leading to and from the ocean. They usually keep to the sea, only coming ashore to hunt. However, they are formidable predators and will kill anything they can find, often stalking humans along the coastline.