Re: Re: "First Alynx" and other TR questions.

From: Mikko Rintasaari <mikrin_at_...>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:05:32 +0200 (EET)


On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Thom Baguley wrote:

> > From: "John Hughes" <nysalor_at_...>
> >Barring an authoratitive answer from Trotsky or Greg, here's my speculation.
> >The first alynx is female, and most of the other alynx of a particular
> >hearth will be her kits and periphally, her mates. They'll spend a lot of
> >time dozing by the hearth or in the rafters, but otherwise will come and go
> >with the winds. Because alynxes in the lodge are seen as a sign of good
> >fortune, a lot is done to accomodate them.
>
> I'd expect male, unless most male alynxes tended to accompany herders and
> hunters and hence were visitors to the hearth. This might make quite a nice
> pattern - with dominant males perhaps prowling over several steads.
>
> Thom

It can easily be female. My take on the Shadowcats is that their social patters resemble those of the orlanthi they live with. Propably the first Shadowcat can be of either gender. (btw I don't mean that only the males would hunt, or any such sillyness)

        -Adept

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