Nyrrah

The Nyrrah are thin four-legged creatures with thin wings and delicate antlers, almost liminal in nature. Their forms are delicate and fragile, not built for combat or hunting but for stillness and presence. Their skin is soft like silk and covered in pale feathers that can have all manner of cold hues, the color growing more distinct toward the extremities.

Even their horns are soft and tend to flow in the etherbreeze of the Veil.

The face is mostly taken up by Nyrrah's massive pupil-less eyes, which look like they contain the sky and the night trapped in liquid. The color is constantly shifting but tends toward the darker spectrum - unless the Nyrrah is feeding, in which case they will explode with gold and silver swirling mists of light.

Just beneath the spine and wrapping all the way to their chest lies the Nyrrhym, the Nyrrah's core organ which is a complex lattice that connects their nervous and emotional centers. It processes the ambient metaphysical signals and creates enzymes that feed the Nyrrah.

These creatures reproduce asexually and do not have genders. Though how this happens remains a mystery. All that is known is that memory can be inherited from parent to child, and no young Nyrrah has ever been seen in any material realm.

The Nyrrah do not need food or water to survive. Instead, they survive by forming psychic bonds with other sentient creatures. Through this bond, they feed on memory fragments and emotional residue, which is thought to indicate a metabolism that runs on metaphysical sustenance.

This process is symbiotic, not predatory. When healthy and mutual, both beings thrive. The host is left lighter and more clear-minded while the Nyrrah gains sustenance and glimpses of a world they themselves rarely interact with directly.

Nyrrahn bodies do not decay in the way that other creatures' do. Their bodies petrify slowly, becoming stone until the Nyrrah can no longer move or feed. These statues then disintegrate slowly inside the Veil, sending the Nyrrah back to the tapestry of the world. When the stone at last dissolves entirely, it is said that the echo of memories can be felt by those nearby, even if they are not on the same dimension. A sudden sense of peace or disembodied whispers could be a Nyrrah dying.

These are inherently empathetic and kind creatures who are attuned to the emotional state of every sentient being. They can seem distant or detached, but those who study them know that is far from the case.

They will willingly suffer the pain of trauma if it means helping a person in true need. When communicated with, they rarely lie but can often speak in implication, metaphor, or perceived truth, possessing no word-based language themselves.

Most Nyrrah experience a sense of identity drift over the centuries, as the memories and emotions they feed on become more vivid than their own.

High. The Nyrrah are incredibly perspective and emotionally intelligent. While they do not share our language, they communicate via emotion and instinct.

The Nyrrah do not see the world in a conventional sense, rather they experience it through perceiving sentience and psychic residue left behind by intelligent creatures. Because of their liminal nature, they pass through material, inanimate objects.

Daylight causes them pain, and they prefer to travel within the Veil or during the night. Their primary sense is echo perception; reading lingering thought patterns to guide themselves through the material realms when visiting.