Where I came from...

Wow what an adventure it has been so far. I think I need to start even before my beginning as I am now.
Many, many moons ago before I became sentient, I was a regular mimic in a dungeon. I would do the regular thing you would expect of a mimic in a dungeon. Disguise, trick, fight, and eat. Those were simple days.
Over time I would hear stories about my kind and started to learn about others like me in other areas of the world. There were rumors, fables, tales, and stories of kinder, meaner, bigger, stranger mimics out there. As time went on for me, something started to stir in me about these other mimics out and about.
Now you need to understand this was over a great many years, where I was actually growing and getting smarter, like a pet that learns more and more but not yet sentient like I am now. I do not recall how old I had become in that time, that is why I say my age is that of when I became sentient.
Oh yeah, I suck at telling stories in the right order, but there is some sense and information all about in the telling of it. So here are the things I heard in the dungeon long ago about what is known of mimics.
The first adventurer to find and succeed against a mimic was a brave soul named Gygax, I named myself after him. We are able to mimic stone and wood naturally, as well as inanimate objects. We are neither good or evil, just an animal is neither good or evil, just wanting to live. The smaller we are the more intelligent we are. We are always hungry but can be spoken to if found out. Throughout our years of living, we individually learn the languages adventurers and other creatures speak around us. A scholar, HaHaHa, by the name of Maerlun studied us as a creature and found the we have thick, tough skin as our defense, and classified us as aberrations. We are slow to move in most cases as we use our pseudopods to pull our selves along, the older and trickier we got we found the pedal, legs, way of moving. Our means of sensing our environment is by use of “eyespots” that sense heat, light, and vibration. We are good at grappling and using our sticky substance to our advantage.
There are many types of mimics out in the wide world. An adventurer named Detweiler found a metal mimic that could change its color and shape to copy any man-made metal object. Most often found as money or rare and dangerous looking weapons. The metal mimic differs from most mimic types as the smaller it is deadlier it is.
Deep in dark abandoned woods are house killer mimics. They disguise themselves as buildings and eat what ever creature enters it. They are slow and not very bright, but very effective and dangerous. Not much else is known about them.
Later in years mimics learned to better alter their coloring to look more like objects that animals and adventurers recognized and wanted. Around this time also is when it was learned that mimics can not change their mass but only their shape. This is with the classification of the common mimic, rather than just mimic. It was also learned that mimics are immune to acid, mold, green slime, and various pudding monsters.
There is a very odd story I heard about an adventurer the left the world and found a space mimic. The adventurer was known as B. Heard. He is known to have said that space mimics originally were enslaved for magic user’s purposes but became unreliable and abandoned in space. They learned the innate ability to cast spells like an illusionist. These space mimics eat as any other mimic but have adapted to eat magic as well, and learn new spells this way.
Then there very few tales of greater mimics. Their origin unknown, but speculation says they are either very old or were altered by some strange magical means. Either way these mimics have become very intelligent and have learned to alter their shape to become multiple objects at the same time, like a shack filled with furniture.
Later in time adventurers believed that mimics had lost intelligence due to their lack of ability to speak multiple languages, but in fact mimics had learned to hide this ability for preservation purposes so as not to be hunted for study. Around this time an adventurer and scholar named Bricken had ranked us in a list of top 12 most dangerous monster to encounter, he says obnoxious but I think dangerous is better.
Once I heard a fable about a race of mimic folk. They a shy and private and very difficult to find. Thay are very good at hiding do not understand other creatures or beings’ belief in law. Not only are they hardy, but also very easy to speak with when confronted with one. It is said that these folk were either an experiment of magic or a magical experiment of fusing humanoids and mimics together. Either way both these ideas end the same, the experiment was left on its own when done with.
Ah but I almost forgot about the adventurers that learned to be like a mimic, the mimic class. There are few that take this path. Those that do are prone to do so from birth, as most stories have told. They learn to imitate other appearances of creatures as well as mannerisms. Over time the more an adventurer becomes a mimic the more they lose of themselves.
So that is what I had learned about my species in the dungeon I was inhabiting. This over time become something of a looping thought. The more the creature me had the thought the stronger the feeling that I wanted and needed something more than what I was doing. Then one morning “I” awoke to who I am now. I had shrunk in size from 15 cubic ft to 1 cubic ft. but I realized I was able to change and move about more freely and thinking was easier, there was also less of a creature drive to live and more of a sentient drive to learn and discover. That was when “I” was born and left the dungeon to explore and learn about the myths, fables, tales, stories, and legends about my species.
 
And now for the telling of my adventures as a sentient mimic.
 
Following from here on are tales fables and facts about Mimics from around the world.