Dragaera

Soul mate = Familiar?

Thu Apr 28 13:00:51 PDT 2005

We know from both Vlad and Morollan that a witch doesn't have more than one
familiar. Loiosh is Vlad's familiar and Blackwand is Morollan's familiar.

Turning back the clock a ways, Paarfi tells us that when Morollan and The
Warlock meet for the first time, that they have a discussion of the Art and
Morollan asks whether The Warlock has found a soul-mate. The Warlock
indicates that he has two, meaning his dog and cat. In response to a
question about his own status, Morollan declares that Verra is his
soul-mate. Understandably, The Warlock finds this rather presumptuous,
though Morollan insists that it's true. 

Paarfi waffles some. At one point he'll refer to The Warlock's animal
companions as soul-mates. Other times, he'll refer to them as familiars,
indicating that he's acquainted with the concept.

Now, Vlad clarifies that Rocza is NOT a familiar, whereas The Warlock states
that both of his companions are soul-mates. Either a soul-mate is not a
familiar, Paarfi is confused, or there's more to the topic than we currently
know about. I won't even get into the idea of having the Demon Goddess as
your familiar. Here again, either Morollan understands soul-mate to be
something different from a traditional familiar or else his relationship to
Verra has been a rather unique one, to say the least.