Miaurises
Miaurises are human-derived lives broken into emotional episodes: Time still moves forward, but Memory and Will arrive in flashes, making a genuine act of choice rare enough to become metaphysically important.
A Self in Fragments
The miaurises are easy to misread if their feline appearance is treated as the important fact. In the Aurelion source, their defining change is temporal and mnemonic. They remain living, human-derived beings, but their linear Time breaks into episodes. Memory is strongly emotional rather than continuous, Function often takes the form of play, and Will appears as impulse - real, but difficult to sustain. A miaurise can remember with extraordinary intensity while still failing to connect that memory to a stable narrative of the self.
This makes them one of the clearest examples of the setting's distinction between consciousness and Soul. The taxonomy allows a rare Soul to arise when a miaurise makes a genuine choice that survives the emotional fragment in which it was born. The moment matters because the usual pattern is otherwise discontinuous: feeling flares, identity reorganizes around it, and then the next episode arrives. A human philosopher might call that instability. The Codex treats it more carefully. A self that must be reassembled repeatedly may be fragile, but fragility is not the same as absence.
Their origin is recorded in two overlapping forms that should not be collapsed. The race table describes miaurises as a biological human-derived population associated with dense fairy influence. The historical chronicle records the Blue Plague as an epidemic that transformed part of the human population into miaurises, calling them the 'cat shadows' of the Council. The earlier race-origin summary likewise links them to the Blue Plague. The source never explicitly states whether fairy influence caused the plague, whether the plague merely accelerated an existing transformation, or whether two different miaurise populations were later grouped under one name.
That uncertainty suits the people unusually well. Their own metaphysical problem is continuity, and their history is preserved as discontinuous explanations. Even the Council association remains suggestive rather than explained. What can be said is that miaurises occupy a narrow but important space in Aurelion: beings whose Will is not absent, only intermittent, and for whom one sustained decision may carry more ontological weight than years of ordinary behavior.
