S Lumley / s piotto wrote: > Ok, there's Loiosh... and Rocza.... > > And that's about it. > > Why don't we ever see any of the other Easterners in the books with familiars? I could be wrong but I always assumed Noish Pa's cat was his familiar. And I am fairly sure Vlad bugs Morrolan about getting a familier in one of the books and the strong implication given is that Blackwand is his familiar. The impression I got was that you only needed a familier when you got a to particular stage/ability level and then they became useful helping you manage the energy etc. Probably there is a large amount of superstition, some of it deriving from or maybe even being low level witchcraft, among the Easterners but I doubt there are very many competant witches and I can't see many of them taking more than a few apprentices at the most (maybe keeping it in the family - it strikes me as a very one-one teaching process). Since witchcraft is a skill you need to learn rather than something you get automatically I suspect few people really have the time to waste when they could be earning money to feed their families. ;-) Fides