This form represented the personality of their human. When the human and their dæmon reached maturity, the dæmon would settle into a permanent form. Asta believed it was a question of feeling ‘moleish’ rather than knowing about them. Sister Fenella did not know how dæmons were able to take forms they had never come across before but her dæmon, Geraint, used to be a mole when he was frightened. Uncertainty in children translated into uncertainty in which form to take. Asta was able to add the characteristics of one animal to another form. Frequent changing of forms and a wide variety of forms were generally thought to be a good indicator of intelligence in a child. This change could be due to emotion, need for a particular skill such as night-vision, or simply a whim. During the childhood of a human, a dæmon could shapeshift into any kind of animal. 2.1 People known to have been separatedĭæmons were named by the dæmons of the child's parents.
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