II Mythos Races then depart to live alone A mother cat has a powerful defend themselves as a race An example of this is when love of her kittens and will die to protect them But the Dreamlands cats’ militia preempted an attack even for her, once a kitten grows up and moves on, that by the zoogs Dreamlands cats can very effectively consuming love fades and is replaced by a lower level fight in a coordinated fashion as demonstrated of affection against moonbeasts The mother trains and teaches her kittens how The cat vocal apparatus is not built very well to to hunt, where to hide, and all about her habitat, speak humanoid languages However, cats are perfectly so the kittens reach adulthood with a near perfect capable of understanding these languages, and they understanding of the area around their home and the can learn any of the languages spoken in their home creatures and wildlife that populate it area Other people must learn the cat language to Life Cycle The age of sexual maturity varies from cat to cat, and can range from 4–10 months Most cats are considered to have reached adolescence by the age of 5–6 months A cat’s pregnancy lasts 64–67 days, at which time she gives birth to a litter of kittens The young cats are born blind, deaf, and helpless At about two weeks, their eyes and ears open, and the kittens begin to react to their siblings and others Usually, the kittens are weaned around the age of six weeks, though they still stay with their mother At 12 weeks, though they are not fully grown, they are fully socialized and able to leave their mother A Dreamlands cat often mates with normal cats, and any kittens it produces are normal kittens, though the kittens, as with all cats, may later become Dreamlands cats themselves Society As normally solitary and often capricious hunters, cats communicate with their fickle feline companions Fortunately, the cat language is fairly easy to learn In fact, most people who own a cat are probably halfway there already A one-week association with a specific cat allows a character to understand that specific cat without needing to learn the Cat language This does not allow them to understand other cats unless they spend a week with those cats as well The character can spend one week with multiple cats and understand them all after that week When a cat speaks, it meows or caterwauls, but when humanoids speak to cats, they speak in their normal tongues It is quite a different situation from most communication, in which both parties must speak the same tongue to get anything done Communicating with cats is a combination of learning what some of their meows and whines mean and also understanding patterns of behavior A cat understands what party members are saying, and soon enough those party members usually learn how to talk with the cat don’t really have a society in the humanoid sense of Cats not have any sort of written language, the word Cats are able to live in large groups, but but a Dreamlands cat is able to learn how to read or not cooperatively hunt or organize With their greater even write, though its lack of thumbs does handicap it intelligence, Dreamlands cats can work together somewhat in this regard to go to war, gather for raids, and hold celebrations Otherworld Cats Dreamlands cats have been known to form a militia of sorts, including having military ranks, to proactively Many other worlds have cat-like organisms of their own This is so common that many researchers theorize 13