Who are your favourite non-human characters in a book?

Stories need people in them to bring them alive. There are so many types of interesting people who we read about in books If characters are written well, we can feel as though we know them or perhaps become friends with them. So when they feel something, we feel it right along with the characters.

But something I don’t see discussed much here are the whacky non-human characters. The familiars, the daemons, the Spren etc. So I want to know about your favourite book creatures that are not the human characters.

I have two that I want to mention. The first is a creature from the second Stormlight novel and beyond. He’s called Pattern and he’s hilarious. The funny things that he takes so literally. The fact that dispite seeming like a weirdo, where e’s from, he’s considered a schollar. Or so he says anyway.

The second is from the Farseer Trilogy from Robin Hobb. Spoilers incoming I don’t still understand the spoiler tag so any help would be helpful. The wolf is one of the cutest, most interesting animal sidekicks I’ve ever met. The way Robin writes from the imagined perspective of the wolf really allowed me to feel as though I was hunting or talking in a boy’s head. He shares strength but at the end of the day he’s the teacher who’s lesson is to live in the now. Wolves don’t have to be caught up in worry all the time. He is such a well written character all on his own and even though he’s bonded to a human, he so has his own personality which is awesome.

Also as a bonus, Vivacia from the the Live Ships trilogy. I can’t even talk about her because she’d need her own full post. But she is multifaceted and but dispite not being a human has some very distinct personality stuff going on.

So now you tell me yours. I need all the familiar love.

by musicwithbarb