Bestiary
Who lives on the islands, as far as any cat is willing to say. The rest you find out yourself.
Cats who came before you
Old Bury
An old grey cat in an olive tunic. Came through the portal long ago, and now waits on the tutorial island's jetty for every new cat, with a first tool for the road and not much patience for questions.
Merchant
A cream cat in a red coat and a round cap. Buys and sells on the market, and his prices remember what everyone sold before you.
Dealer
A black cat in a dark hood; only the ears and the yellow eyes show. Runs the black market: buys weapons and armor made in town, and what he buys turns up later as loot on the animals in the forest.
Animals
Hare
Lives on the tutorial island and at the forest's edge. Raises its head when you come straight at it, bolts if you keep coming, and lets you closer if you stop between steps. Tires in a long chase.
Slime
Wobbles about, minds its own business until hit, then spits a puddle that slows you down. Its gel brews healing potions. Each part of the forest colours them a little differently.
Fox
Keeps its distance in the Old Wood. Wound it and it fights back, and follows you a little way when you run.
Stag
Grazes among the pines of the Misty Forest. Skittish until you hurt it; then it turns and fights to the end.
Boar
Alone or in a herd of two or three near the forest's heart. Some are only skittish, some charge on sight, and a herd fights as one. A charge runs in a straight line: step out of it.
- Coming back later
Wolf
Hunts in a pack and comes at you on its own. Not on the islands this season.
- Coming back later
Bear
Everything smaller runs from it, and so should you. Not on the islands this season.
- Coming back later
Ent
What an old tree is when it stops pretending. Sweeps with its branches, roots you to the spot, and goes home if you run far enough.
- Coming back later
Iron golem
An ore vein that got up. Hits like the rock it is made of.
- Coming back later
Werewolf
Hides in a wolf pack. Watch for a silver glint in the fur, and don't wound it halfway.
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Something lives in the heart of the forest. Nobody who saw it has written it down yet.