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How about some mythology for a change.

Ahktiktik is an Ordic spirit of regret that wanders lonely roads wearing a cheerful mask over their face. In life they were a proud and successful rhoha beloved by their gods. They had wealth, riches, and many children, but they became constantly hungry for more and stiflingly defensive of what they had. One day one of their pack fell for a traveling bard(in some versions of the tale, this bard was sent by the gods to test Ahktiktiks' hospitality). In a fit of jealous rage Ahktiktik murdered them both and set fire to their home to hide the crime, but the gods turned the winds back on them and destroyed the rest of their pack and everything they owned. Ahktiktik was left with nothing but ashes.

They wandered alone for years, too afraid to face the victims of their selfishness and let themself die. Instead they braided guilt into their fur to keep themselves weighted down to the world and have wandered lonely roads ever since.

Back when belief in this spirit was common medessians and south pole lellians would write down on scraps of hide wrongs that had been inflicted on them and tie those scraps to a branch or hide it under a rounded stone. It was thought that if the spirit took your claim seriously it would inflict disease on the person.

These days it's been appropriated by lellians as a figure for horror stories that entirely miss it's original context.

The winged figure is often interpreted as a lellian angel. Nasquasl is associated with scavenging and childbirth, a terrak-winged minor goddess who is a friend of Skjoll and hated by Shija. The difficulty rhoha have in bearing children is blamed on her grudge.

She's also the milk-mother of mortals, who she took pity on when Shija lost patience with them.

And some lellian kids of assorted ages. They're quadrupedal until they hit puberty and have a horribly awkward transition to standing upright full time.

Description
How about some mythology for a change.

Ahktiktik is an Ordic spirit of regret that wanders lonely roads wearing a cheerful mask over their face. In life they were a proud and successful rhoha beloved by their gods. They had wealth, riches, and many children, but they became constantly hungry for more and stiflingly defensive of what they had. One day one of their pack fell for a traveling bard(in some versions of the tale, this bard was sent by the gods to test Ahktiktiks' hospitality). In a fit of jealous rage Ahktiktik murdered them both and set fire to their home to hide the crime, but the gods turned the winds back on them and destroyed the rest of their pack and everything they owned. Ahktiktik was left with nothing but ashes.

They wandered alone for years, too afraid to face the victims of their selfishness and let themself die. Instead they braided guilt into their fur to keep themselves weighted down to the world and have wandered lonely roads ever since.

Back when belief in this spirit was common medessians and south pole lellians would write down on scraps of hide wrongs that had been inflicted on them and tie those scraps to a branch or hide it under a rounded stone. It was thought that if the spirit took your claim seriously it would inflict disease on the person.

These days it's been appropriated by lellians as a figure for horror stories that entirely miss it's original context.

The winged figure is often interpreted as a lellian angel. Nasquasl is associated with scavenging and childbirth, a terrak-winged minor goddess who is a friend of Skjoll and hated by Shija. The difficulty rhoha have in bearing children is blamed on her grudge.

She's also the milk-mother of mortals, who she took pity on when Shija lost patience with them.

And some lellian kids of assorted ages. They're quadrupedal until they hit puberty and have a horribly awkward transition to standing upright full time.