Familiar

A familiar is a grimalkin who enters into a mutually beneficial relationship with a hominid. A hominid who has a familiar is known as a warlock.

Benefits
The relationship between warlock and familiar is obviously beneficial to the warlock, as they gain the services or tutelage of a fey. However, there are a number of benefits for the grimalkin as well. For one, grimalkins need to eat because they are inhabiting the body of an animal; the warlock can provide shelter and sustenance without the grimalkin needing to hunt for it (which fey often find boring).

In some countries, being a familiar also carries legal benefits. For instance, in Gumi it is illegal to exorcise a familiar without due process (i.e. the fey was found in a court of law to have committed a crime); this protection does not extend to grimalkins who are not familiars.

A familiar may also enjoy a societal benefit in some countries who frown upon fey influence, as familiars are seen as more acceptable and under control than rogue grimalkins.