The World of Echoes of the Fall
Tiger. Wolf. Bear. Hawk1.
These are the Ancestor totems of the True People2 tribes. The True People live in the shadow of their Ancestors, from who they receive cultural identity, tradition, Stepping, and the Magic of their Shaman priests.
This is the eternal way, how it was and how it shall be.
1
It's a rather longer list than that; theoretically, it's all vertebrates.
2
Note that the people of EotF don't call themselves the "True People", mostly, and the name doesn't suggest that kinden are not real people or that they're not human.