Shape shifters. I wanted to do a serious story with something that wasn't the standard werewolves forEVAR, but never really had a good base to work from. in 2006, I start kicking around the idea for a story where a world is plunged into a post apocalyptic state after killing a God. It was more a horror story at the time, but it has the same early ideas I ended up using for Asis.