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==About== | ==About== | ||
;Common Names: | ;Common Names: Mnemovore | ||
;Classification: | ;Classification: | ||
Mnemovores are only known by their depredation on the memories of other sapient creatures, due the nature of their activity their victims do not have any recollection of the encounter. | |||
==Description== | ==Description== | ||
;Size: | ;Size: As per base species | ||
;Appearance: | ;Appearance: As per base species | ||
;Sexual Dimorphism: | ;Sexual Dimorphism: As per base species | ||
==Ecology== | ==Ecology== | ||
;Habitat: | ;Habitat:Anywhere other sapient beings dwell, typically larger population centres. | ||
;Diet: | ;Diet:Mnemovores being living creatures will eat meals of a similar diet to their base species. | ||
==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
;Social Grouping: | ;Social Grouping:Solitary. It is believed that Mnemovores do not form exclusive social groups, but may pass as members of their base species and share social behaviours with those. | ||
;Temperament: | ;Temperament:Wary. Mnemovores are cautious predators, they target lone prey to further avoid detection. | ||
;Intelligence: | ;Intelligence:High | ||
;Reproduction: | ;Reproduction:How these creatures come into existance is unknown. As members of their base species they can interbreed with others, but whether the offspring of such couplings will also suffer the curse is unknown. | ||
;Memory Stealing: It is generally believed that they are cursed people, who suffer from extreme memory loss themselves, and their need to consume the memories of other sapient beings is an effort to form new identities and understand the world. Some speculate that mnemovores borrow parts of the identity of their victims as they lack their own, but even the stolen memories will fade in time, forcing the mnemovore to feed again and again, reinventing itself from the fragments of their victims' past. | |||
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==Stories== | ==Stories== | ||
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==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
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[[Category:Cryptid]] | [[Category:Cryptid]] | ||
Revision as of 15:43, 27 October 2025
About
- Common Names
- Mnemovore
- Classification
Mnemovores are only known by their depredation on the memories of other sapient creatures, due the nature of their activity their victims do not have any recollection of the encounter.
Description
- Size
- As per base species
- Appearance
- As per base species
- Sexual Dimorphism
- As per base species
Ecology
- Habitat
- Anywhere other sapient beings dwell, typically larger population centres.
- Diet
- Mnemovores being living creatures will eat meals of a similar diet to their base species.
Behaviour
- Social Grouping
- Solitary. It is believed that Mnemovores do not form exclusive social groups, but may pass as members of their base species and share social behaviours with those.
- Temperament
- Wary. Mnemovores are cautious predators, they target lone prey to further avoid detection.
- Intelligence
- High
- Reproduction
- How these creatures come into existance is unknown. As members of their base species they can interbreed with others, but whether the offspring of such couplings will also suffer the curse is unknown.
- Memory Stealing
- It is generally believed that they are cursed people, who suffer from extreme memory loss themselves, and their need to consume the memories of other sapient beings is an effort to form new identities and understand the world. Some speculate that mnemovores borrow parts of the identity of their victims as they lack their own, but even the stolen memories will fade in time, forcing the mnemovore to feed again and again, reinventing itself from the fragments of their victims' past.
