Mnemovore

About

Common Names

Mnemovore

Classification

Cryptid

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.

Stories

Desire (fifty word fantasy)