Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25230571-20150731101948/@comment-5379216-20150807053522

Yep I've been thinking about that too. He's either a Hellhound or a Phoenix. Both would be awesome. Though I don't get why he would bring the bodies to the Nemeton if he was a Phoenix. It would definitely makes more sense if he was a Hellhound. Like the mythology says, They often get assigned to guard the entrances to the world of the dead, such as graveyards and burial grounds or undertake other duties related to the afterlife of the supernatural, such as hunting lost souls or guarding a supernatural treasure.

Maybe Parrish's duty is to guide lost souls to the afterlife and he's using the Nemeton to do it. But we've only seen him take Chimeras, which leads me to believe that all Chimeras become lost souls after death. When Donovan died, he became a lost soul and was bound to the Sluagh in Eichen House. Why would they all become lost souls? Maybe because they aren't 'natural'. They're not supposed to be like that, they were made artificially and maybe that's why they cant become 'normal' souls and go to the afterlife on their own. This is all speculation but it makes sense to me.