The Mindless Rook

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 75308

Though controlling, or even influencing, animals through magic was very difficult - their minds were insufficiently developed - Manathus eventually became impatient enough to make the attempt. He would try to heighten the rook's natural love of shiny things to the point where it would take the bait.

He reached out his mind to the creature, but was puzzled when he could detect nothing. He switched his attention to one of the other rooks, as a test. Sure enough, though its mind was weak there was no difficulty in detecting that mind. So why couldn't he "see" the mind of the rook that he was interested in?

Because it didn't have a mind to detect, he realised. Or at least not a mind of the sort that a living creature had. So it wasn't a living creature. That would explain how it could have been around for hundreds of years. So what was it?

  1. Manathus knows about automata, and comes to the correct conclusion
  2. Manathus doesn't know about automata, and assumes that it must be some sort of zombie or golem.
  3. Manathus realises that it doesn't really matter. He could have obtained useful information from a living bird, but almost certainly not from whatever this is.

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