Talk:Familiar/@comment-43309486-20190919100504

The contract between a summoner and his familiar brings benefits not only to the summoner, but also to the familiar. Since ordinary magicians can summon only animals or magical creatures, there must be a compensation for their services. First and foremost, this remuneration is likely to persist in an extension of the lifetime. Even animals with a short lifespan will age much more slowly or not at all when they make the pact with a summoner. In addition, they are fed, kept well and loved. And they too love their summoner and serve him to the best of their ability. They also serve the summoner as additional sensory organs - the summoner can, if he wishes, participate in the sensory perceptions of the familiars. Familiars tolerate one another, even if under normal circumstances they are natural enemies or predators.

It seems a little different with the familiars of void magicians. These can only win people or elves to familiars, and since they have greater mental independence than animals, it is not said that both parts of this pact get along well. Disagreements can increase to the point that the Familiar turns against his Summoner (See Sasha and Brimir, or Saito, slapping Louise).

In general, however, the family serves its summoner with all its might, an attitude that can go as far as the self-abandonment of the familiar (see Saito, who attacked an army of 70,000 men alone to prevent Louise sacrificing herself for her childhood friend, or Sheffield, who sacrificed King Joseph and himself to prevent him from being further humbled by his defeat).