#nixhound

What do you mean you dont want the flesh i got u :((((( it's still warm...........

A word on diet of a Nix-Hound.

The public's well aware, I think, these creatures are hematophages i.e. they drink the blood of other animals. But blood's not the only (and not the most important) fluid they sustain themselves upon. Egg yoke is—indeed: ransacking egg nests is the primary way Nix-Hounds menace other animals (almost all of whom, on Vvardenfell, are egg-laying). Also, Nix-Hounds are the primary predator of juvenile forms of Kwama—worm-like Kwama Foragers—whom they are able to dig out of the ground with their enormous, spade-like feet. Kwama eggs thus are the quintessential delicacy and given the ubiquity of egg mines on Vvardenfell, this has ensured domestication of the species by the Dunmer people. A more exotic still example of a food source are the bulbous pustules of some Bittercoast fungi which Nix-Hounds drain of their fetid liquid—thus, evidently, aiding the process of spore dispersal through digestive action.

A Nix-Hound from Vvardenfell - Morrowind

Nixiel: Oh, that’s him and Nixiel.

Talvas: He named the nixhound after you?

Morrowind: Nix-Hound Cavalry of the Redoran Watch

It would indeed make sense - I mused, my incredulity abated - for a vampire to have a nix hound for a hunting companion. I imagine their sensory faculties are very much alike - if the account of Galur Rethari is to be believed. I'd normally not speak that name aloud, but the hour was late and the few guests of Varo Tradehouse had already retired for the night, leaving bar room all but empty. Didn't you say this undead ashlander has been around for centuries i.e. would this pet of his not have died by now? Ah - rejoined my interlocutor - surely you've heard of death hounds, flying bats and like familiars of western vampires? Perhaps this nix hound is immortal too. I imagine there are vampiric rituals to do that to mortal creatures. Especially those naturally drinking blood. On the cusp of being overwhelmed by images of mixed packs of nix hounds and vampires gaining on their prey with inexorable certainty, I prompted our conversation back on topic: Grazelands is a land of giant creatures, how come his is but a size of a dog? Yes, funny that. Dwarfism, I suppose, or somesuch. It's an advantage really - helps with hiding in the thick of wickweat fields, grazelandic nix hounds being tan of colour, as you know. It wouldn't help, I recon, any against cliffracers that flock the eastern slopes of Red Mountain, so tis well he has the mer to protect him.

Grazelands is vast and harbours ever stranger things, than a vampire coming to a rescue of a stranger, so by the time we parted ways I came around to half-believing in the story of this Fela-dryn.