Taken from the Third Journal of Daemons & Otherworldly Species
By Jonos Kaid, House of Research, formerly of the House of Metal Forging

The Nariri (closest translation I can find is 'muse beast') are a fascinating species I had the blessing to study during one of my rare encounters with one of the daemon populations. An amphibious species, with an unusual love for uncooked Aziarian noodles, of all things, these creatures form a symbiotic relationship with their 'creator'. This relationship allows them to react to their creator's wishes, changing size, sex, and ties them to the life of the creator. Should they die, the Nariri dies.

These fascinating creatures are 'idea holders', storing the ideas of their owners within their own bodies, allowing the owner to think upon other things without fear of losing an idea. I am told the more ideas they hold, the fatter they become. My guide was quite happy to tell me of a Nariri that held so many ideas within, it's owner kept a half-dozen Soulless to move it around! No doubt an exaggeration from my guide, but an amusing tale nonetheless!

I asked it about how these creatures are 'created', and it told me that the energies from the more creative races draw the swamps to their lands. The rituals for each race is different, but it told me of the ritual for Guckvulchi, the most famous of one is named Aliesque, an advisor to a Master General.

Their ritual comes with a Guckvulchi reaches their Enlightening. They are sent into the swamps with little more than food and water, and are expected to survive for their version of eleven cycles (I have no idea what a cycle is, time is rather strange in the daemon worlds). Their only defense against the more aggressive creatures of the swamps are the intensities of their ideas, hopes, desires, and dreams.

After eleven cycles, those Guckvulchi that are still within the swamps are said to be visited by a Nariri essence that is drawn to their ideas. The Guckvulchi will then give them an idea, and if the muse beast accepts it, they are made manifest, and their fates are forever entwined with each other.

What I would not give to have a Nariri of my own during my travels, the looks upon the faces of those scholars who said my journeys were madness would surely be worth it alone.

~Jonos Kaid, Researcher and Explorer.

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