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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8353602" data-attributes="member: 22779">This is wrong.Note, a Gingawazim does have to eat.  Sure.  So does everything else.  But, there's no particular reason that it's eating people.  It doesn't feed off fear or something like that.  It just needs to eat something that's living.  I imagine that in a normal (wealthy) household - one that is large enough to have a library with rare books in it - a gingawazim could live there for a considerable time simply feeding off rats and other vermin.  It's not mindless, although it's not a lot smarter than an animal, it is pretty smart.  There's no reason that a this thing could live in a household for years and no one would be the wiser.  Just a lack of vermin around.  Heck it can shapechange into a tiny beast - say a bat or something like that - fly off to hunt, come back before anyone knows.  The only reason the one that attacks the party didn't do this is because it's been stuck in Candlekeep for a week and it was told to remain in book form.  Heck if they sold the fake books but instructed the Gingawazim to only feed secretly, they wouldn't have gotten caught at all.They aren't guilty so much as not terribly bright.</blockquote>