RIFTS? Never heard of it…
(Just kidding. Sound off here with a post if RIFTS is your jam, you filthy casuals…)
For those who don’t know, RIFTS was the game that was such a hit in the 90’s that it kept Palladium on life support for the next twenty-five D&D-dominated years, and was even optioned for a movie (and then discarded into development hell as a cashed-in bargaining chip in their strategy to get a better price for the rights to the Transformers franchise. But still, a Hollywood movie! That’s never worked out horribly for the RPG in the past except for every single other time it’s happened…)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ashmedai are shapeshifting worms that hail from (but may not be native to) the Darklands, the dark dimension of bad guys that’s just adjacent to Nightbane’s Earth (behind every mirror). They’re the closest thing to Aku’s “race” in the Megaverse that I’ve come across, and they’d be easier to play than a RIFTS shifter, for sure.