Shumil

A shumil is a feybeast that can be found in Ehrenfest's forests. It's prime season is the summer and it loves the summer fruit rutreb.

A shumil looks like a small rabbit and due to its cute appearance and tiny size it is a popular pet kept by nobles. While they can have a variety of colourations, the most common colours are a very dark shade of blue for the fur and gold for the eyes. Sylvester compares Myne to a shumil due to her hair- and eye colours and making her chirp "pooey" (ぷひ puhi) which is a shumil's cry.

Shumils are among the weakest of feybeast, weak enough that even commoner children can hunt them when foraging in the forest.

Shumils yield meat, pelt, bones, feathers, and fat that is considered useful to commoners. When commners want to hunt shumils, they gather together in groups, one group chasing the prey and the other group holding the net. The net group waits up a hill, as shumils have the habit to escape to high places. The chase group looks for shumils in the vinity of rutrebs plants with stones in their hands.

After successfully trapping them in the net, they stab their knives into the trapped prey to slice the shumils' throats and hope not to kill them of to early. Following that, they remove the shumil' talons which are poisonous on the front feet. The next step involves the river. They drag their prey to the river and butcher it there. One needs to be careful when butchering a shumil. If the feystone near their heart is hit or scraped with the knife, any part of the carcas that is still connected with it will melt and evaporate into nothingness. .

They are a popular pet among the nobility. Some nobles even go so far as to create highbeasts that look like a giant, winged shumil.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 1 Shumils are also the most popular motive for those attempting to create a drivable highbeasts, a kind of highbeast pioneered and recently introduced at the Royal Academy by Lady Rozemyne and since copied and adapted by Professor Hirschur.


 * Sylvester kept a shumil called "Blau".
 * Shumils make "phiiih" or "pooey" sounds.
 * Shumil's meat is soft and delicious especially in summer.
 * Hunting shumils also meant saving the commoners' rutrebs' share.
 * Shumils are scaredy cats but if their children are in danger they will attack the predator, whilst their eyes shine rainbow-colour-ish.