<< How big are they? "The largest are the size of a large dog." it says in
the Narrator's Book, which is about the same as a lynx. Earlier sources
always said "From the size of a house cat to..", which always irked me, as it
gives a very large span for a single species. A very large lynx weighs up to
45kg, about as a largish dog.>>
But dogs vary from the size of a housecat to the size of a largish dog, and they're one species. Wild alynxes are about lynx sized (though slimmer and with a longer tail), its the domesticated ones that vary considerably.
<< All this, of course, given that Shadow cats are related to our
cats/lynxes, and
not to our larger felines, like lions, tigers, hunting leopards, etc.>>
Correct.
<< Are there ordinary cats in Glorantha? >>
Certainly.
<< Are they as well liked by heortlings? >>
They're not specifically disliked, but the heortlings don't actually keep any - there's really no need when the murni alynxes (the housecat-sized ones) do everything that a cat can do anyway. Such cats are kept in pretty much all the non-heortling agrarian cultures of Genertela, but possibly not in Pamaltela, where they likely have some other small feline to fulfil the same function.
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
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