Enali comes from an earth-like universe where the lines between the mundane and the supernatural are more blurred. Long, long ago their race *was* human. But while most of man embraced technology, Enali's people embraced and respected nature.

Anything their people killed was respected, honoured, and carefully used to its fullest including wearing the beast's skin. Having customs to share the spirit of the animal whom was taken. Nature spirits had long watched the tribe and their rituals and blessed them with the ability to shapeshift to the beast they most closely relate to. The appearance of their beast often matches their personality and color of their soul. Performing a ritual in which the spirit of the creature binds with them making them a selkie. This has been their way for an incredibly long time. Most children have chosen their spirit animal and become a selkie growing up as a selkie. Normally in anthro or beast form most of their lives. They generally only reveal their human forms when they need to blend in with other man who have slowly emproached their lands. But work to protect and preserve nature as it's guardians.
(Description credited to Dav. Thank you Dav!)

Like our own world, those who live soley among nature are having their lands shrink smaller and smaller over the years, and contact with humans has been rapidly more necessary as the decades trudge on. Enali's people in particular live in seclusion on an archepelago far in the northern hemisphere (not one to one, but roughly where the real life Alexander Archepelago is).