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Other thoughts:

The "Pari" is another new maybe-race we haven't heard mentioned before. Is it a proper folklore thing? Does one of the other journal entries go into it?
This one we can look to the source material.

'Pari' is 'fairy' (you can probably see the loan word now that I say it), this particular figure is lifted right from Arabian Nights. Like in most folklores the term isn't exactly a taxonomic thing, you see 'pari' used to refer to plenty of figures that more modern fantasy would split apart; Darya would probably be referred to as a pari as well.

What that means here is a little hard to tell, save that this is definitely some kind of magical being; closer to an elemental spirit than a human. She might be a fae by the definition used by Il Mheg, which is the same sort of loose definition used by folklore itself that somehow puts pixies and the amaro in the same category, but that's the best we've got. It's even debatable if she exists to be categorized in the first place, because we're dealing with a fictional story.


Also, clarification on a particular thing for the middle route boss, just because I was confused until I found it myself:

She uses Concentrativity--explicitly named as such--if you're on the way to path 11. Which is the thing that more or less explicitly marks this skillset as being the one Zenos stole.

Route 11 also provides some of the clues for how to get to the secret route boss, but not all of them. I haven't found the rest of them yet.