 They all also possess extraordinary shapeshifting skills on par with the Ols, usually assuming the forms of wolves.While Thaegan is similar to a fairy tale witch, her children are like other monsters from folklore such as trolls, ogres and goblins of other fairy tales (and the fact that her children can shapeshift into wolves makes them similar to stories about werewolves).Most of her children are divided into sets of twins having similar-sounding names, most of them being identical twins.