Iofur Raknison was large and powerful, even for a panserbjørn, but the thing that truly set him apart was that he thought like a human. Unlike other bears he kept secrets, used deceit and sought power, but more than this he wished to have his own dæmon and be baptized a Christian, making himself truly equal to the humans he emulated. This obsession led him to carry a human-shaped doll as a surrogate dæmon, his logic seemingly being that since humans have animal-shaped dæmons, bears would have human-shaped ones.