what's a daemon?
awesome question LOL my blog has slowly become a passion project for this
so daemons are from philip pullman’s his dark materials/the golden compass series. in the series, a daemon appears as an animal that is the physical manifestation of your soul. during childhood and adolescence your daemon could change form at will, but as you reached adulthood, your daemon would “settle” into an animal that best fits you — your personality and your soul.
this concept has gained a lot of traction i would argue pretty separately of the book lore, sparking a community of people who are curious about what animal best represents them, and, for some, developing what their daemon would act and speak like. the concept is similar to finding your patronus in the harry potter series. whether you get into it because you just want to know what unique, precise animal you’re most similar to or whether you want to engage in the connection between a person and daemon, it’s essentially a group of people who analyze animal behavior and determine what would be the analogous human behavior. i personally like using it as a personality test and a way to spark introspection and self-understanding. and also learning random animal facts :)
