Beasts differ from their corrupt and diseased cousins, the Shifters, in many ways. Firstly, they are animals. They are born a beast and stay a beast, never changing form unless. Their social natures are also a wide range of possibilities from staying in large clans to being solitary. They are a colorful variety of half man half creature, bulls, birds, cats and then some.

 

They wouldn't be able to learn magic, they only speak animal.