Can I ask for Ms. Blindlady McDouche? With pets?
Right, Shaeryl also exists, I forgot about her. Oops?
Ever since Shaeryl had become the great Oracle in one of the last temples of Ahmestar, the Moonchild, it had been a custom that any white animals were considered holy and had to be kept at the temple. Over the years the collection had grown to include not only common pets like white doves, cats, or dogs, but also rare specimen like albinistic peacocks, snakes, and even a white raven.
The rarest of all however is a pair of pure white gryphons, said to have been bred to specifically look like their long since gone ancestors, the Anai Gryphons. Most people believe the species to be extinct now, as there is nothing but an ashen wasteland covering the lands where they used to roam.
While this isn’t exactly a lie, Shaeryl knows more about this than she would ever admit - these two, a male by the name of Shai, and his sister Nau, are actual Anai. She knows, because she had been there when the last of them were brought to safety on another plane, and then she had broken the spell and the closed the portals herself, hundreds of years ago.
But she would never let the public know that they are her friends, and not the mere pets they seem to be in the eyes of humans. This is just one of the many things she keeps from the world, for better or for worse.