I am attempting to create a City Setting, and I'm just curious if anyone knows of any sort of supernatural creature that eats or removes memories. I don't want to go the cheap way of "of course no one knows about them, they can take your memories away!" and see if I can pull on something real.The Baku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku_%28spirit%29) are dream eaters.
My original idea was a different court of Vampires that kept their numbers artificially low so they wouldn't be easily detected, and so that their weaknesses couldn't easily be figured out, but I didn't want to just randomly come up with a new court.
My original idea was a different court of Vampires that kept their numbers artificially low so they wouldn't be easily detected, and so that their weaknesses couldn't easily be figured out, but I didn't want to just randomly come up with a new court.
According to WoJ, there are three more Vampire Courts out there, but they're at the level of "mosquitoes".
Illithids?
And "mosquito" was more a reference to their impact on the level of international/interplanar affairs; individually, any vampire is still going to be deadly. And when we already have a class of emotion-eating vampires, other choice bits of what it means to be human--our memories--become a viable storytelling option. And as you said they keep their numbers artificially low, that's what made me think of the three minor courts.
My original idea was a different court of Vampires that kept their numbers artificially low so they wouldn't be easily detected, and so that their weaknesses couldn't easily be figured out, but I didn't want to just randomly come up with a new court.Well, the Yara-ma-yha-who (http://www.monstropedia.org/monster/Yara-ma-yha-who) is a vampiric 'identity' stealer. But, if you can fit them into your story, some fallout from
Let's go with the Memnovores thing, and try to get more specific. I really don't want them to be Fae if I don't have to...so I need a sentient creature, that gets more experienced the more memories it eats, and needs to be basically human with its wants and desires (can be bribed, etc.). Beyond that, those are my only real requirements.Have you decided what the Jade Court eats in your campaign yet? Even if it's Chi / Spirit / Life Force, it could affect memory either as a side effect or another power.
You could adapt the strigoi/striga/moroi/shtriga as a creature that eats memories. Maybe combine that with the baku and say that the folkloric creatures are two interpretations of the same beastie.