The Kindred
Fauna Type: Anomaly, assumed to be spirits
Mod Status: Mod Input if PC is a child. No use for adult PCs.
Quick Facts: Imaginary friends with a protective streak
Height: Varies
Width: Varies
Length: Vaires
Weight: Varies Depending on host toy/object
Meta-Location Found: Within the homes of children in Yaralon do the Kindred live.
History: There are many fables surrounding them, from lost toys always coming home to their owners to those who are cruel to children disappearing only to be found days later stuffed with cotton and with button eyes
Appearance: A Kindred lives within the dearest possession of the child with whom they protect. In that form, so long as the child takes moderate care of the toy or object, it will prove nye impossible to break or sully. As for how they appear otherwise, to the child they ward over, they appear in all sorts of shapes generally something borrowed from the child's imagination. This includes everything from talking dogs to simple balls of light. To those who have endangered their ward, however, their forms change to all manner of bestial entities and other horrifying imagery that is rarely spoken of due to the lack of people who have survived such a sight.
Habitat: With their child, outside of that it is unknown where they reside but it is hypothesized that they live in Emea.
Lifespan and Development: Generally speaking they attach to children soon after their first years, once they've survived infancy and proven they likely have a long life ahead of them. From that point forward, they attach to the child and act as both guardian and playmate until adulthood.
Diet: To the knowledgeable, they do not eat, though some cynics maintain they take a sliver of their host's soul.
Temperament: Protective, they make a mother bear seem mild. To their ward, they are a protector and friend; to anyone who would harm their ward, they are fear incarnate. It is said that if one were to kill a child with a Kindred, the Kindred would spend the rest of their days hunting their wards killer.
Abilities: Invisible to all but their ward and those to whom they make their presence known. A second ability of theirs is that they have a psychic like ability they use on their host that makes them generally unwilling to mention their kindred to anyone outside of simply referring to them as their friend, and upon the Kindred leaving their ward once they are sufficiently grown the ward is left wondering if it was simply all their imagination. It is, however, thanks to this that, within Yaralon, at least the idea of a child having imaginary friends is not frowned upon.
Credit:Brother