Translations:Codex: Lurelings/11/en

Reproduction

As lurelings themselves are secretive and averse to contact with settlers (aside from through their marions, at least), little is known about their biological processes. Several researchers studying them have, however, postulated that the breeding of marions seems to be related to breeding more lurelings, as the newborn children of the puppets are almost immediately dominated in turn by young lurelings (who themselves are only strong enough to control a young and unresistant mind). Some speculate that breeding marions may even be necessary for the lurelings’ reproduction, as this may psychically trigger some sort of breeding response in the creatures. This seems to be corroberated by several native legends and stories telling of whole families of marions encountered in secluded places in the ice-caves, raising their children as their lurelings raise their tadpoles before eventually separating.