The randomly selected mythical creature of today is the familiar. A familiar is a personal lesser spirit that helps with magic, gives advices and overall helps the person.
Sometimes called daemons, they most often take the form of small animals or humanoids, although bigger animals like big cats, bears or horses have been seen. It would appear the bigger the familiar, the more unpredictable it gets.
They are invisible and inconsistent in the physical plane, but their voices can be heard without problem. In the astral plane, it is easy to see a familiar. Some spells bind a familiar to an animal, giving him a corporal form. The animal itself is not capable of speech but the familiar with communicate with its master via telepathy.
Some say they feed of dream, some other think they find nourishment in the energy of their master.
To attract a familiar is quite simple. Milk and honey put in a fey line will surely attract one, the hardest part is to bargain for its services.
If mistreated, a familiar might turn on its master, and bring bad luck, mental instabilities and the evil eye.
Socrates was thought to have a familiar, which he sometimes wrote about. For exemple, he once wrote that he changed path on his familiar advice, when his friends all continued on the usual one. Arrived at the destination, his friends were late and covered in mud for they had crossed path with wild hogs.
Some unusual capacities of familiars can include physical presence, seer capacities, a predisposition to alchemy, aura seeing and giving their powers for a moment to their master.
Tl;dr : Useful spirit is useful.
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