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	* Cats from Uranus appear in ''[[Mythic Iceland]]'' as "Fingals" (see "Faerie Cats", below), and otherwise seem to be an invention of Chaosium, appearing in		* Cats from Uranus appear in ''[[Mythic Iceland]]'' as "Fingals" (see "Faerie Cats", below), and otherwise seem to be an invention of Chaosium, appearing in
	''[[S._Petersen%27s_Field_Guide_to_Creatures_of_the_Dreamlands\|Sandy Petersen's Field Guide to Creatures of the Dreamlands]]''.		''[[S._Petersen%27s_Field_Guide_to_Creatures_of_the_Dreamlands\|Sandy Petersen's Field Guide to Creatures of the Dreamlands]]''.



			=== Cats from Yuggoth and Beyond ===
			Cats are accomplished dreamers who are sometimes susceptible to a strange wanderlust that takes them to very weird and distant places. Dreamers might almost certainly encounter cat travelers in the dark and starry astral voids of Solar and interstellar Trans-Neptunian space, given enough time and luck. Cat wanderers have tread carefully and quietly in the shadows of [[Yuggoth]] and [[Nithon]], peeked afrightedly upon the terrible mysteries of [[Kynarth]], ridden strange and alien galleons to distant stars, and drifted patiently alone and solitary through the darkness of [[Astral Plane\|Astral space]] to satisfy their feline curiosities about the secrets to be found in the places where no sun has ever cast its light. A few pioneering cats have even chosen to call these dim worlds of the outer rim and beyond their homes, and by necessity these cats may be the most secretive and elusive cats of all, for these are worlds where it it seldom wise to be easily seen.

			Entities which were in mortal life the wisest and most ancient of cats, worshiped by man and monster in their times as gods, might also be found perched high upon the poorly-explored upper reaches of the [[Seven Planes]] in search of deeper enlightenment and spiritual perfection, while serving ancient and mighty works of arcane magick both great and benevolent, and dark and terrible: for both white and black lodges of deeper mysticism and sorcery on the higher planes have recruited ancient and powerful cats into either of their respective ranks, whichever best suits the whims and temperaments of the cat witches and wizards who have joined them.



	===Faerie Cats===		===Faerie Cats===
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	* ''[[Cat People (1942 franchise)\|Curse of the Cat People (1944)]]''		* ''[[Cat People (1942 franchise)\|Curse of the Cat People (1944)]]''
	* Various forms of Faerie Cats can be found in ancient folklore from around the world, including modern "cryptid" reports of large black phantom cats in the UK and Ireland.		* Various forms of Faerie Cats can be found in ancient folklore from around the world, including modern "cryptid" reports of large black phantom cats in the UK and Ireland.




	== Quotes ==		== Quotes ==

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Faerie Cats

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	Large, wicked, and terribly wise cats once ruled the waking world with terror, keeping tiny humans as servants and for sport, but humans made bargains with the Old Ones and dreamed of an Earth where large humans ruled over tiny cats, and slew the largest cats and drove them into the wild places of the Earth and into the [[Dreamlands]]; in the [[Daylands]] the ancient enmity has been largely forgotten by many men and most cats, and even in the Dreamlands, where cats still hold shaky positions of respect and power, there are a few places left where humans and small cats maintain a truce and live side-by-side in uneasy peace (Ulthar is one of the last). But, in the wild places of the Dreamlands, the vicious large cats called Cath-Shee or "Faerie Cats", survivors of the reversal of roles in the waking world and still ancient and wise and evil, to this day can be found stalking the men of the Dreamlands on lonely roads, pouncing on them from the shadows of wild forests and hills. Some Cath-Shee even pass over the thin places between Dream and Day into the waking world, returning to Earth in vengeance to spread terror and slaughter and wickedness in the world they once ruled in the form of large, menacing, phantom black cats; instinctively, its human victims still remember a time when man still feared the terrible claws and yawning jaws and mighty roar of cats.... (''Sandman'')		Large, wicked, and terribly wise cats once ruled the waking world with terror, keeping tiny humans as servants and for sport, but humans made bargains with the Old Ones and dreamed of an Earth where large humans ruled over tiny cats, and slew the largest cats and drove them into the wild places of the Earth and into the [[Dreamlands]]; in the [[Daylands]] the ancient enmity has been largely forgotten by many men and most cats, and even in the Dreamlands, where cats still hold shaky positions of respect and power, there are a few places left where humans and small cats maintain a truce and live side-by-side in uneasy peace (Ulthar is one of the last). But, in the wild places of the Dreamlands, the vicious large cats called Cath-Shee or "Faerie Cats", survivors of the reversal of roles in the waking world and still ancient and wise and evil, to this day can be found stalking the men of the Dreamlands on lonely roads, pouncing on them from the shadows of wild forests and hills. Some Cath-Shee even pass over the thin places between Dream and Day into the waking world, returning to Earth in vengeance to spread terror and slaughter and wickedness in the world they once ruled in the form of large, menacing, phantom black cats; instinctively, its human victims still remember a time when man still feared the terrible claws and yawning jaws and mighty roar of cats.... (''Sandman'')

	The Faerie Cat carries a great deal of "liminal" symbolism, creeping through the shadows or boundaries between two worlds. The Faerie world they originate from ([[~~Dreamlands~~\|Tir na Nog]], The Land of Youth, a place of eternal youth that is neither life nor death) is said to be closer at times of birth and death (dusk & dawn), [[Halloween\|Beltane]] (or [[Halloween\|Walpurgisnacht]]) and [[Halloween\|Samhain]] ([[Halloween]]), at crossroads, springs, caves, shores, rivers, fords, passes, bridges, mists and fogs.... (folklore)		The Faerie Cat carries a great deal of "liminal" symbolism, creeping through the shadows or boundaries between two worlds. The Faerie world they originate from ([[Deep Dendo\|Tir na Nog]], The Land of Youth, a place of eternal youth that is neither life nor death) is said to be closer at times of birth and death (dusk & dawn), [[Halloween\|Beltane]] (or [[Halloween\|Walpurgisnacht]]) and [[Halloween\|Samhain]] ([[Halloween]]), at crossroads, springs, caves, shores, rivers, fords, passes, bridges, mists and fogs.... (folklore)

	The traditional "[[Halloween]]" black cat, with its back arched, teeth bared, and hair erect, is a representation of the Cath-Shee, and it is often portrayed as a witch's [[Rat-Thing\|familiar]]; the infamous [[Hell Fire Club]] was said to be haunted by a large, black, demonic cat. Some stories say the Faerie Cat isn't a cat or a faerie, but a witch that can transform into a cat nine times (remaining a cat on the ninth); this is related to legends of the "nine lives" of cats. (folklore)		The traditional "[[Halloween]]" black cat, with its back arched, teeth bared, and hair erect, is a representation of the Cath-Shee, and it is often portrayed as a witch's [[Rat-Thing\|familiar]]; the infamous [[Hell Fire Club]] was said to be haunted by a large, black, demonic cat. Some stories say the Faerie Cat isn't a cat or a faerie, but a witch that can transform into a cat nine times (remaining a cat on the ninth); this is related to legends of the "nine lives" of cats. (folklore)

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	[[File:Fairycat.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Faerie Cat, or Cath-Shee]]		[[File:Fairycat.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Faerie Cat, or Cath-Shee]]

	Faerie Cats (or Cath-Shee, Kasha Cats, Bagheeta, Nekomata, Senri, Fingal)		Faerie Cats (or Cath-Shee, Wampus-Cats, Wampus, Kasha Cats, Bagheeta, Nekomata, Senri, Fingal)

	Large, wicked, and terribly wise cats once ruled the waking world with terror, keeping tiny humans as servants and for sport, but humans made bargains with the Old Ones and dreamed of an Earth where large humans ruled over tiny cats, and slew the largest cats and drove them into the wild places of the Earth and into the [[Dreamlands]]; in the [[Daylands]] the ancient enmity has been largely forgotten by many men and most cats, and even in the Dreamlands, where cats still hold shaky positions of respect and power, there are a few places left where humans and small cats maintain a truce and live side-by-side in uneasy peace (Ulthar is one of the last). But, in the wild places of the Dreamlands, the vicious large cats called Cath-Shee or "Faerie Cats", survivors of the reversal of roles in the waking world and still ancient and wise and evil, to this day can be found stalking the men of the Dreamlands on lonely roads, pouncing on them from the shadows of wild forests and hills. Some Cath-Shee even pass over the thin places between Dream and Day into the waking world, returning to Earth in vengeance to spread terror and slaughter and wickedness in the world they once ruled in the form of large, menacing, phantom black cats; instinctively, its human victims still remember a time when man still feared the terrible claws and yawning jaws and mighty roar of cats.... (''Sandman'')		Large, wicked, and terribly wise cats once ruled the waking world with terror, keeping tiny humans as servants and for sport, but humans made bargains with the Old Ones and dreamed of an Earth where large humans ruled over tiny cats, and slew the largest cats and drove them into the wild places of the Earth and into the [[Dreamlands]]; in the [[Daylands]] the ancient enmity has been largely forgotten by many men and most cats, and even in the Dreamlands, where cats still hold shaky positions of respect and power, there are a few places left where humans and small cats maintain a truce and live side-by-side in uneasy peace (Ulthar is one of the last). But, in the wild places of the Dreamlands, the vicious large cats called Cath-Shee or "Faerie Cats", survivors of the reversal of roles in the waking world and still ancient and wise and evil, to this day can be found stalking the men of the Dreamlands on lonely roads, pouncing on them from the shadows of wild forests and hills. Some Cath-Shee even pass over the thin places between Dream and Day into the waking world, returning to Earth in vengeance to spread terror and slaughter and wickedness in the world they once ruled in the form of large, menacing, phantom black cats; instinctively, its human victims still remember a time when man still feared the terrible claws and yawning jaws and mighty roar of cats.... (''Sandman'')

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	In the distant past of Martian history, Soraks were kept in the households of [[Martian_(Barsoomian)#.22White.22_Barsoomian_Martians\|White Martian]] royalty, and sometimes worshiped as gods. Today, even Cats from Earth and Earth's Dreamlands tend to find Soraks to be peculiar, aloof, solitary, arrogant, capricious, mischievous, and given to strange ideas, humors, and habits. Martian Cats are said to sometimes serve small and eccentric Martian gods (at least, to the extent that any cat can be said to "serve" anything), and from time to time Cats from Mars, generally regarded as either mad or as perpetrators of some elaborate Sorak hoax, have been known to travel to Ulthar and even to Earth on the pretenses of trying to recruit Earthly cats into peculiar alien cat cults dedicated to working through absurd means toward a confusing "enlightenment" over unearthly cat mysteries.		In the distant past of Martian history, Soraks were kept in the households of [[Martian_(Barsoomian)#.22White.22_Barsoomian_Martians\|White Martian]] royalty, and sometimes worshiped as gods. Today, even Cats from Earth and Earth's Dreamlands tend to find Soraks to be peculiar, aloof, solitary, arrogant, capricious, mischievous, and given to strange ideas, humors, and habits. Martian Cats are said to sometimes serve small and eccentric Martian gods (at least, to the extent that any cat can be said to "serve" anything), and from time to time Cats from Mars, generally regarded as either mad or as perpetrators of some elaborate Sorak hoax, have been known to travel to Ulthar and even to Earth on the pretenses of trying to recruit Earthly cats into peculiar alien cat cults dedicated to working through absurd means toward a confusing "enlightenment" over unearthly cat mysteries.

	Still, from time to time, these Martian Cats have been known to break their aloof distance to help cat and human travelers and Dreamers to Barsoom or Mars out of a tight spot for any of a variety of peculiar reasons (such as the opportunity to play a game of riddles, or for company, or to strike a bargain for a favor in return, or just for the creatures' own strange amusement), but these secretive and inscrutable creatures otherwise tend to keep their mysterious motives and goals to themselves.		Still, from time to time, these Martian Cats have been known to break their aloof distance to help cat and human travelers and Dreamers to Barsoom or Mars out of a tight spot for any of a variety of peculiar reasons (such as the opportunity to play a game of riddles, or for company, or to strike a bargain for a favor in return, or - perhaps as often as not - just for the creatures' own strange amusement), but these secretive and inscrutable creatures otherwise tend to keep their mysterious motives and goals to themselves.

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	* Soraks originally appeared in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' "Barsoom" novels.		* Soraks originally appeared in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' "Barsoom" novels.




	===Cats from Saturn===		===Cats from Saturn===

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Cats from Mercury

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	In variations on this legend, Mercurial cats are said to have the power to possess the bodies of Earthly cats as they Dream, or even to reanimate the bodies of lifeless cats, becoming undead cats of strange and unnatural habits and abnormal, sorcerous magick - a power which has perhaps led to the legend of cats having "nine lives".		In variations on this legend, Mercurial cats are said to have the power to possess the bodies of Earthly cats as they Dream, or even to reanimate the bodies of lifeless cats, becoming undead cats of strange and unnatural habits and abnormal, sorcerous magick - a power which has perhaps led to the legend of cats having "nine lives".

	Many Mercurial cats have joined abominable cults that worship unspeakable horrors which their priests believe to lay ~~hidden and~~ dreaming deep under Mercury's crust, whose strange shrines are hidden in shadowy caves ~~deep beneath~~ Mercury's polar craters, into which Mercurial cats drag terrible things to be left, decaying, on the doorstep of the shrines, or precious objects which the cats bat underneath the altar-stones, in monstrous sacrifice to their unspeakable, secret gods.		Many Mercurial cats have joined abominable cults that worship unspeakable horrors which their priests believe to lay dreaming deep under Mercury's crust, and whose strange shrines are hidden in shadowy caves leading to their forbidden chambers from Mercury's shadowy polar craters, into which Mercurial cats drag the torn bodies of terrible things to be left, decaying, on the doorstep of the shrines, and sometimes precious objects which the cats bat underneath the altar-stones, in monstrous sacrifice to their unspeakable, secret gods.

	Though rarely seen even on Mercury, the graceful form of the cat is well-known on that world, where even the natives of Mercury believe the creature to be a universal myth, comparable to the Earthly vampire or dragon; a vast sphinx can be found at the rim of one of the planet's deepest crater-lakes, carved into a shocking resemblance of the familiar Earthly cat, positioned such that the creature seems to be basking in the light of the sun while watching over the crater. The carving is so ancient and weathered and so absurdly like ~~the~~ Earthly cat that early visitors from Earth believed it had to have been naturally formed into the accidental semblance of a cat by some freak of chance, though it was in truth actually carved by unknown intelligent beings dwelling in the darkness of Mercurial antiquity, from a living model.		Though rarely seen even on Mercury, the graceful form of the cat is well-known on that world, where even the natives of Mercury who have never seen one and believe the creature to be a universal myth, comparable to the Earthly vampire or dragon, can recognize its shape and form; a vast sphinx can be found at the rim of one of the planet's deepest crater-lakes, carved into a shocking resemblance of the familiar Earthly cat, positioned such that the creature seems to be basking in the light of the sun while watching over the crater. The carving is so ancient and weathered and so absurdly like an Earthly cat that early visitors from Earth believed it had to have been naturally formed into the accidental semblance of a cat by some freak of chance, though it was in truth actually carved by unknown intelligent beings dwelling in the darkness of Mercurial antiquity, from a living model.

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	* Cats from Mercury created by [[Shadowwalker (author)\|The ShadowWalker]], based on her dream.		* Cats from Mercury created by [[Shadowwalker (author)\|The ShadowWalker]], based on her dream.




	===Cats from Mars and Barsoom===		===Cats from Mars and Barsoom===

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	* The Cheshire Cat of Lewis Carroll's ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass]]'' might be thought of as a Dreamlands cat.		* The Cheshire Cat of Lewis Carroll's ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass]]'' might be thought of as a Dreamlands cat.
	* A cat appears in [[Roger Zelazny]]'s "[[A Night in the Lonesome October (fiction)]]", as a witch's familiar and in pastiche of Lovecraft/Dunsany [[Dreamlands]] fiction.		* A cat appears in [[Roger Zelazny]]'s "[[A Night in the Lonesome October (fiction)]]", as a witch's familiar and in pastiche of Lovecraft/Dunsany [[Dreamlands]] fiction.
	* A cat appears in [[Edward_Plunkett,_18th_Baron_Dunsany\|Dunsany's]] Dreamlands tales "[[A Shop in Go-By Street (fiction)]]" and "[[The ~~Defender~~ of Perdondaris (fiction)]]", as a wise, aloof, proud, and sarcastic witch's familiar.		* A cat appears in [[Edward_Plunkett,_18th_Baron_Dunsany\|Dunsany's]] Dreamlands tales "[[A Shop in Go-By Street (fiction)]]" and "[[The Avenger of Perdondaris (fiction)]]", as a wise, aloof, proud, and sarcastic witch's familiar.

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	* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] refers to cats in detail in his stories "[[Cats of Ulthar (fiction)]]" and "[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]", and his essay "[[Cats and Dogs (essay)]]"		* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] refers to Dreamlands cats in detail in his stories "[[Cats of Ulthar (fiction)]]" and "[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)]]", and his essay "[[Cats and Dogs (essay)]]".
	* Scenarios with Cat NPCs: "[[A Ring of Toadstools]]" (faerie cat), "[[A Chill Down Your Spine]]" (a cat briefly speaks to one of the PCs), "[[Lemon Sails]]" (a cat is a companion of a major Dreamlands NPC)		* Scenarios with Cat NPCs: "[[A Ring of Toadstools]]" (faerie cat), "[[A Chill Down Your Spine]]" (a cat briefly speaks to one of the PCs), "[[Lemon Sails]]" (a cat is a companion of a major Dreamlands NPC)
	* Neil Gaiman's ''[[Sandman]]'' comic ("[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman:_Dream_Country#A_Dream_of_a_Thousand_Cats A Dream of a Thousand Cats]")		* Neil Gaiman's ''[[Sandman]]'' comic ("[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman:_Dream_Country#A_Dream_of_a_Thousand_Cats A Dream of a Thousand Cats]") reveals cat legends about their fall from grace as Earth's masters into the shadows of humanity.
	* Lewis Carroll's ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass]]''		* The Cheshire Cat of Lewis Carroll's ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass]]'' might be thought of as a Dreamlands cat.
	* A cat appears in [[Roger Zelazny]]'s "[[A Night in the Lonesome October (fiction)]]", as a witch's familiar and in pastiche of Lovecraft/Dunsany [[Dreamlands]] fiction		* A cat appears in [[Roger Zelazny]]'s "[[A Night in the Lonesome October (fiction)]]", as a witch's familiar and in pastiche of Lovecraft/Dunsany [[Dreamlands]] fiction.
	* A cat appears in [[Edward_Plunkett,_18th_Baron_Dunsany\|Dunsany's]] "[[A Shop in Go-By Street (fiction)]]" and "[[The Defender of Perdondaris (fiction)]]", as a wise ~~but~~ sarcastic witch's familiar.		* A cat appears in [[Edward_Plunkett,_18th_Baron_Dunsany\|Dunsany's]] Dreamlands tales "[[A Shop in Go-By Street (fiction)]]" and "[[The Defender of Perdondaris (fiction)]]", as a wise, aloof, proud, and sarcastic witch's familiar.


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	[[File:Cat from uranus.png\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Uranian Cat]]		[[File:Cat from uranus.png\|200px\|thumb\|right\|Uranian Cat]]

	The Uranian Cat is closely related to the Saturnian cat, but far more hideous and malicious. It is also larger and has fang-like teeth as well as six spike-like whiskers around its head, which sages assume serve as antennae that can detect certain forms of energy over large distances. Powerful in appearance and dark of hue, a Cat from Uranus has a thick coat of black, blue, or green webbed tentacles and a long tail. The creature resembles a very large cat, almost the size of a sheep. Shy and alert, and very fleet of foot, a Cat from Uranus is very intelligent and can even speak human language, as well as communicate with other Dreamlands cats. Its skin is very valuable for the fact that it cannot be cut or pierced in any way by steel, only by silver — perfect for the making of armor that will protect the wearer from anything save weapons made of silver. It is said to be very dangerous to hunt a Cat from Uranus, however, as their gaze can kill any man. Popular wisdom says that the only way they can be killed is by magic or with silver-headed arrows.		The Uranian Cat, which dwells in the bizarre Dreamlands of Uranus, is closely related to the Saturnian cat, but is far more hideous and malicious. It is also larger and has fang-like teeth as well as six spike-like whiskers around its head, which sages assume serve as antennae that can detect certain forms of energy over large distances. Powerful in appearance and dark of hue, a Cat from Uranus has a thick coat of black, blue, or green webbed tentacles and a long tail. The creature resembles a very large cat, almost the size of a sheep. Shy and alert, and very fleet of foot, a Cat from Uranus is very intelligent and can even speak human language, as well as communicate with other Dreamlands cats. Its skin is very valuable for the fact that it cannot be cut or pierced in any way by steel, only by silver — perfect for the making of armor that will protect the wearer from anything save weapons made of silver. It is said to be very dangerous to hunt a Cat from Uranus, however, as their gaze can kill any man. Popular wisdom says that the only way they can be killed is by magic or with silver-headed arrows.

	Dreamers who have traveled to regions beyond Uranus have sometimes reported Cats from Uranus roaming the Dreamlands of Neptune and Yuggoth, and beyond.		Dreamers who have traveled to regions beyond Uranus have sometimes reported Cats from Uranus roaming the Dreamlands of Neptune and Yuggoth, and beyond.

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	Most Earthly cats look like (and indeed are) ordinary house cats of any breed or variety, however some cats have spent great amounts of time in the Dreamlands of other worlds, and have adapted to those strange worlds in ways that have left them looking, thinking, and behaving in ways quite alien, bizarre, and frequently hostile or malevolent in comparison to Earthly cats.		Most Earthly cats look like (and indeed are) ordinary house cats of any breed or variety, however some cats have spent great amounts of time in the Dreamlands of other worlds, and have adapted to those strange worlds in ways that have left them looking, thinking, and behaving in ways quite alien, bizarre, and frequently hostile or malevolent in comparison to Earthly cats.

	Cats in ''[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'' seem to have some informal form of government ~~in the form of a meritocracy~~ in deference to trusted and respected elders of their kind, who might hold councils and form and lead armies of cats into battle.		Cats in ''[[Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'' seem to have some informal form of meritocratic government in deference to trusted and respected elders of their kind, who might hold councils and form and lead armies of cats into battle.

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