There is an odd entity that the academics call the Mirror Intelligence. They do this by default, because it has never deigned to give anyone its actual name.
The Mirror Intelligence has a consciousness that exists in the intervals of time when sentient beings see their own reflection. It experiences everything that happens in the reflections, and it remembers everything that it experiences. The quality of the reflections give the intelligence its flavour - a bad reflection (as in a muddy pool) gives murky thoughts and unclear experiences.
The Mirror Intelligence is a single mind that occurs whenever there is a reflection. It speaks its own pattern language, and converses tersely with those that take the time to learn it.
It will explain things that it knows (it knows a lot - many, many things have been done in front of mirrors over the years), which might include specific esoteric skills, the specific conditions of a murder, a forgotten language, the location of a buried city, etc. etc. In return it will ask you to source things it doesn't know so much about, and show them to its reflection minds. It will also seek to increase its own intelligent computational power (since its mind runs in as many instances as there are reflections of sentient beings) by commissioning the production of more mirrors.
There is some debate amongst the academics in the capital as to whether the Mirror Intelligence should be helped or hindered. Many people believe that it is this strange being that gives other entities their horror of reflective surfaces.
So far there is no evidence that the Mirror Intelligence can do anything other than speak.
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