Moved this over to keep it in this thread.

>this is a rumor that a certain player keeps repeating, repeatedly.

>it goes like this:

>what forms a shifter gets is determined by his name, i dont remember
>if it was dependant on the length (i think this was what he said) or
>the starting letter/ending letter.

Not true.

>i think this also held 'true' for conjie fams.

That was true with the initial implementation of familiars. How familiars are assigned was reworked at some point, and I don't know how it ended up.

>and another rumor; what fam you get is dependant on the area/time of
>day/mojo. personally ive had the same fam in
>wilderness/civ/weald/silverwood/whatever.

Not true, as far as I know.