Rule of the world

Diet & biology miscellany

  • 6.646 SHIFTERS ONLY DRINK WATER — “Shifters need a lot of water, more than food. Staying hydrated is crucial for them,” gallons a day — and anything else “will turn our stomachs.” Taming Kane Ch 18; Forgiving Levi Ch 21; Claiming Gabriel; Saving Jacob; Chasing Ebony Ch 1, Ch 9; Snatching Jackie Ch 7; Stalking Lauren Ch 3; Loving Amir Ch 14; Guarding Kendra Ch 3
  • 6.647 Adulterating a shifter’s water makes him sick for a week. Chasing Ebony Ch 1
  • 6.648 EXPERIMENTAL EXCEPTION IN TESTING: “if you add a bit of fruit flavoring, say lemon, taste can calm our animals down. It’s being tested with one of the orphaned lion shifters.” Snatching Jackie Ch 18; Freeing Nala Ch 11
  • 6.649 SHIFTERS DON’T COOK MEAT: “Supernatural shifters don’t cook our food. We hunt and eat the meat right after the kill.” Human food is tolerated for a mate’s sake — unseasoned, barely past raw — and adults have “built up a tolerance.” Redeeming Nia Ch 16; Forgiving Levi; Snatching Jackie Ch 18; Chasing Ebony Ch 15; Freeing Nala
  • 6.650 Shifters are harmed by sodium and sugar; dragons dislike sugar; lions refuse processed food outright; dragons need fresh kills and processed meat does not satisfy the dragon. Saving Jacob; Stalking Lauren Ch 24–25; Taking Amaya Ch 12; Finding Claude Ch 4; Claiming Aya
  • 6.651 BABY SHIFTERS: “The only milk we drink is from our mother,” until they come of age. Claiming Gabriel; Chasing Ebony Ch 1; Freeing Nala
  • 6.652 BOUDA drink only water; other liquids are rejected or cause vomiting. Guarding Kendra Ch 3
  • 6.653 VAMPIRES drink blood and are not limited to water; blood is stored bagged or jugged, served in a glass, and Damon mixes it with coffee. Chasing Ebony Ch 1; Crowning Anora; Resisting Damon Ch 5
  • 6.654 Carla’s spiders feed on lost souls in limbo. Craving Carla; Healing Hazel
  • 6.655 NO ALCOHOL is served in Wintermoon except in the tourist area. Claiming Gabriel
  • 6.656 Michigan was chosen for Wintermoon partly because “Shifters require plenty of access to fresh water.” Claiming Gabriel
  • 6.657 BEDROOMS ARE SACRED TO SHIFTERS — another woman’s scent near a male’s bed enrages his mate. Saving Jacob
  • 6.658 Food cooked by a mate carries her scent, which is why mates crave it specifically. Saving Jacob
  • 6.659 Shifters can sense weather without instruments: “I can smell it in the air. I don’t need a forecast like the humans do.” Taming Kane
  • 6.660 Bouda are functionally immune to frostbite and melt snow by proximity (6.321); shifters generally are unaffected by cold (6.279).
  • 6.661 SPECIES TERMINOLOGY: dragon children = hatchlings (but NOT laid as eggs — “Claude assures me I’m not going to lay an egg”); wolf children = pups; bear children = cubs; lion/wolf hybrids = pup-cubs; dragon/wolf hybrids = hatchling-pups. Stalking Lauren Ch 25; Freeing Nala; Claiming Aya
  • 6.662 The supernatural GRAVEYARD has no smell of death — “the air is sweet, almost fresh, like a garden after rain” — is sacred ground restricted to “Supernaturals only and no unfated,” and local legend holds that the dead come back and it’s annoying. Forgiving Levi Ch 43
  • 6.663 The clan love-gesture (Frost Clan): tracing fingers from the forehead, down the nose, across the lips. Snatching Jackie Ch 11
  • 6.664 Michigan seasons apply on Wintermoon — short summers, long winters. Snatching Jackie
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