It would indeed make sense - I mused, my incredulity abated - for a vampire to have a nix hound for a hunting companion. I imagine their sensory faculties are very much alike - if the account of Galur Rethari is to be believed. I'd normally not speak that name aloud, but the hour was late and the few guests of Varo Tradehouse had already retired for the night, leaving bar room all but empty. Didn't you say this undead ashlander has been around for centuries i.e. would this pet of his not have died by now? Ah - rejoined my interlocutor - surely you've heard of death hounds, flying bats and like familiars of western vampires? Perhaps this nix hound is immortal too. I imagine there are vampiric rituals to do that to mortal creatures. Especially those naturally drinking blood. On the cusp of being overwhelmed by images of mixed packs of nix hounds and vampires gaining on their prey with inexorable certainty, I prompted our conversation back on topic: Grazelands is a land of giant creatures, how come his is but a size of a dog? Yes, funny that. Dwarfism, I suppose, or somesuch. It's an advantage really - helps with hiding in the thick of wickweat fields, grazelandic nix hounds being tan of colour, as you know. It wouldn't help, I recon, any against cliffracers that flock the eastern slopes of Red Mountain, so tis well he has the mer to protect him.
Grazelands is vast and harbours ever stranger things, than a vampire coming to a rescue of a stranger, so by the time we parted ways I came around to half-believing in the story of this Fela-dryn.
P.S: Fela-dryn and nix hound Scuttler are @jenarion 's OCs.
