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I'm a many forms oracle.
Unfortunately the nerf to alternative favoured class bonuses for elves etc means that the most you can wring from Many Forms before level 12 is small and medium magical beasts. But that's still useful. It includes the aurumvorax and the voonith. Your small and medium animals give all the movement modes. Even the humanoid shapes have their uses.
I built specifically to exploit Many Forms. I have the deaf curse, Eschew Materials and Still Spell, so I can cast by will alone in any shape. I am also an Ancient Lorekeeper so I have a few arcane spells: I use false life and displacement a lot.
I use the Cloak of Shadows revelation for armour that works in any shape I use, and Wings of Darkness for swift action flight also useable in any form.
At level 11 I'll take the void sight revelation that lets me see in absolute darkness. With Silence and Deeper Darkness spells I will be capable of fully functioning whilst depriving enemies of both sight and hearing.
Quenly is a fun character and all the parts work together.
Turning into a leopard to pounce with 3 natural attacks isn't bad at all; and then you can go lion by the end.
Mechanically though, Lunar Oracle is arguably the better shapechanger with Form of the Beast (Abundant Revelation?) and Gift of Claw and Horn, which lets you do something like turn into a lion and then grow a gore attack too because, well, lions without deadly horns are kind of pedestrian. Prophetic Armor helps a lot with the AC angle.
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Sadly you're not getting lion shape until you have greater polymorph at leave 15.
Many Forms specifically says "small and medium animals As Beast Shape 1" at level 7 and "small and medium magical beasts as Beast Shape 2" at level 11. There's no text giving large animal forms at level 11, but you do get pounce at that point. Voonith is a decent pouncer with 5 natural attacks.