Turşu

Turşu is the familiar of the mage Katherine in the Sürgün Günlükleri ("Exile Chronicles") campaign: a summoned spirit in the shape of an owl, with dark brown feathers and honey-coloured eyes. It eats seeds and pickles as well as flies, and Katherine sends it ahead to scout.^{1 2}

Walking into a silenced storeroom in a hideout, Turşu set off an old glyph, and its body was destroyed in the blast of fire; it was a summoned spirit rather than an ordinary animal. Katherine later burned herbs in a copper bowl and called it back in a new body. It struck her first with a wing, then nestled against her and ate a pickle.^{3 4}

At the Porvis forest house it kept watch over the surroundings, and in the fight with the mercenaries of the Bloody Coin it clawed at the eyes of the man fighting Kemp Corvus, giving Kemp his opening.^{5 6}

During the siege of Sarpyar, Katherine watched through its eyes the rebel camp in the ruins of a burned village, too large to count exactly but numbering in the hundreds. On the eighth day of the siege it reported the enemy marching away in good order, and on the ninth it saw the relieving cavalry approach.^{7 8 9 10}

In Tal'gard it followed Ephorus by night to a tavern at Kuyubaşı and kept track of where he was taken, then told Katherine what it had seen; what was said inside reached the company only through Ephorus.^{11 12 13}