Tauhoti
Tauhotis are a species of squirrel who trade food with other animals.1
Appearance
A tauhoti is a fluffy ground squirrel with long tufts on its ears.1
Ecology
In warm seasons, tauhotis range wide to gather food so they have enough to eat in the winter. They readily share what they have with other hungry animals and never forget those that they have given food to or taken food from, recognising them by scent. In the following season, tauhotis chirp and nip at their debtors until they are repaid. Some animals enter mutualistic relationships with tauhotis by giving them less accessible food in exchange for the tauhoti's aid or storage.1
Tauhotis have an extraordinary memory for facts, which they mainly use to remember food cache locations and specific animals' identities.1
Society
Drumans view kinship with tauhotis and believe that their owners are trustworthy, since they never forget slights and reward their companions well. They also breed an albino variant designed to appeal to Kalistocrats.1 Tauhoti breeding is part of the animal-breeding focus of Gulshire, a hamlet that serves the nation's social elite.2 Spellcasters can also take tauhotis as familiars.1
The Scales section of the Prophecies of Kalistrade includes a fable titled "The Clever Tauhoti", which describes a clever tauhoti who used her mercantile skills to negotiate an agreement between wolves, deer, and nettles that allowed all to benefit.3
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 . “Bestiary” in Druma, Profit and Prophecy, 63. Paizo Inc., 2019
- ↑ . “The Lands of Druma” in Druma, Profit and Prophecy, 44. Paizo Inc., 2019
- ↑ . “Overview” in Druma, Profit and Prophecy, 31. Paizo Inc., 2019
External links
- Red squirrel (real-world animal) on Wikipedia