Ilama Ichor
General introduction
While Animal Bonding is a natural law existing throughout Samthô, not everyone possessing the Gift of Reason has the ability to bond with an animal. How and why this ability is given to some but not to others, is a mystery. There is no definitiv test to say, whether one can bond with an animal or not. it just comes to some easily, while others try it for a long time or dozens of times without being able to succeed. This has thrown some, who desperately wanted to form a bond, into despair. This circumstance has lead some to believe, that there is a way to find help and relieve oneself from the inability to bond. The supposed medicine to cure this ill is the Ilama Ichor, a juice of some kind, which can be found, depending on where in Samthô one is, at different sources.
The story
It is known from long lived whispers, that one can befriend an animal like a man. But some are rejected from this gift of friendship and can only live with them. As man and animal are both creations of Kashrannas, mother of all that is alive, one wonders if she took the gift from some and why or if she has not gifts enough to give to all her children. But as Kashranna herself was born from the earth, born from the blood of Paisana, so we can believe her gifts originate from her mother. Paisanas is among us as we tread on the soil below us, soil strong enough to bear us, soil strong enough to bear our holy food. And from the mountains this soil comes, imbued with strength to birth by Mishidis, who moistens our land. And where this soil so mighty grows, there also is a well so pure, it brings forth her very essence. And from this essence, the Ilama Ichor, comes the power to be fertile, coes the power to connect. This liquid of life forges bonds, as life cannot be without life. And so if befriend an animal you can not, so you can drink from this well. And life shall come to life.- one version of the story as told in Andaperna
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