The Hoard-Wardens

15 creatures confidence: high community #42

guardians of hoards, thresholds, and sacred waters (pixiu, mehen, mucalinda, campe, orthos); guardianship×10, treasure-guardian×3 [named families-04 kinship-03] [carried from v14, overlap 0.60] [carried from v15, overlap 0.50]

What binds them

The shared documented vocabulary this family coheres around — each link lists every carrier of that motif or power.

• guardianship (power, shared ×32)
• portent sound precedes death (motif, shared ×3)
• treasure guardian (motif, shared ×3)
• death omen (power, shared ×3)
• hypnotic enchanting song (power, shared ×2)
• drags victims underwater (motif, shared ×1)
• multi headed body (motif, shared ×1)
• silent flight (motif, shared ×1)

Spans 9 tradition families: european ×4 · east-asian ×2 · south-american ×2 · celtic ×2 · north-american-indigenous ×1 · african ×1 · south-asian ×1 · norse-germanic ×1 · middle-eastern ×1

Members

• Arzshenk
• Campe
• Cù Sìth
• Cwn Annwn
• Hiisi
• Iara
• Kamikiri
• Kirkegrim
• Mehen
• Monster of Lake Tota
• Mucalinda
• Orthos
• Pixiu
• Pytho
• Qalupalik

Affinity families assert documented resemblance — shared motifs and powers that beat a null model — never genealogy. Descent is a different claim, made only by the gold curated-kinship edges on the constellation. Discovered by deterministic community detection; see all affinity families.