Hey there, and thank you for your question! All of those abilities would be nerfed upon entry into the game, as all characters will be restricted to "normal human" capabilities. You could say he's a little stronger or a little faster than someone who's never been trained to do such a thing, but it still would not be anything far beyond what your average human being can do in the real world, and he would not be able to shapeshift.

As for our NPCs, they do look exactly like their icons, eyes and limbs and everything! Our lore is very, very loosely based off of Norse mythology; I would go so far as to say some things really only kept the names. Haha We'll see if some parallels may come to pass in the course of the game, but for now, everything is as it seems on paper.

I hope this helps, and please feel free to less us know if you have any more questions!