> Mikko Rintasaari wrote:
> >
> > There's that of course. Id say your average Shadowcat / Alynx is about
> > the size of a largish european lynx 20+ kg with the largest (and more
> > divine) individuals weighing up to 40 kg.
>
> You've been saying larger -- you've been saying Panther sized as they
> were in RQ. You can't have the arguement both ways.
Leopard (aka panther)
Mass: Male:20-82 kg
Mass: Female: 7-35 kg
So saying that it can grow to be as large as a smallish leopard (at 40kg) seems still quite apt to me.
> > Like a rural housecat, the Shadowcat doesn't really need much feeding.
> > They roam about hunting a large part of the time, and mostly support
> > themselves. The shadowcats also hunt with the odaylans and other human
> > hunters, and recieve their cut from the kills.
>
> I suggest you look into the food consumption of a large cat again.
> Particularly if they are as active as all that.
The European (20kg) lynx makes do with small rodents a large part of the time. I'd assume there's about 1 Shadowcat to 10 humans or so in a clan, and humans don't much eat rats, fieldmice and such. I don't think it's that much of a problem. Not more so than huntingdogs or cheetahs in other cultures.
> > You see the problem is, that the heorlings actually worship their
> > Alynxes, and their gods sometimes speak through them.
>
> Not in my Glorantha. That seems a bit too outre. They are helpful and a
> companion of one's god/ess but that's partially because they are so
> useful. The gods might do so, but they might also speak through fire,
> wind blown leaves. The only example we have is the one from Cults of
> Prax and, frankly, divine companions are _far_ rarer than they were
> under RQ where every Runelord/Priest seemd to have some funky companion.
Ok. I just picked that line from Storm Tribe, since I happened to be reading it at the time. Can't remember the exact reference at the moment though.
What I meant though, was that the Shadowcat is integral to the Heortling world, religion and otherworld in a way that the bobcat isn't in the humanistic west.
I'll still rather see them as the "shimmercats", moving with incredible grace even for felines and almost aglow with their own willful power.
> Now, its much rarer and noteworthy. I like that. Makes them special and
> wonderful to have rather than expected.
> Jeff
I agree compleatly. No more routine binding spirits into animals please.
-Adept
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