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[[User:Ywhateley|Ywhateley]] ([[User talk:Ywhateley|talk]]) 04:38, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
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Perhaps I'll get around to describing the cats of other worlds as part of describing the [[Old Solar System]] setting.
=== Mercurian Cat ===
 
ShadowWalker described a dream to me in which she pictured a Mercurial Cat at a dwarven, brutish, translucent thing with vacant eyes, a glass (silicon-based?) tale that rattles when it shakes before pouncing, and an eerie, thin, bird-like cry: "maaaah?  mommy, meeeeeeee...."  They are strange and solitary creatures, rarely seen, and Mercurians, human colonists, and Dreamers consider it unlucky to see such a cat, believing that it chooses a victim when seen, stalking for months or years unseen in the shadows where it cries and rattles ominously, before pouncing at last, stealing its victim's heart....
 
  
As rare as they are to see on Mercury, it is rarer still to see them elsewhere, even the Dreamlands.  Dreamlands cat legend suggests that in the Dreamlands, Mercurial cats look almost indistinguishable from Earthly cats, as they have the power in Dream to disguise themselves as ordinary cats almost perfectly, save for their unblinking, wide, vacant, staring eyes and strange, slow, silent movement, as if walking in a daze or sleepwalking... it is in such a disguise that Mercurial cats can pursue their victims unseen even into Dream, until ready to strike; ordinary Dreamlands cats and humans who are familiar with normal cat behavior are said to be able to easily recognize these imposters, but those humans who do not know cats well may not recognize the strangeness of these cats until it is too late...In variations on this legend, Mercurial cats are said to have the power to possess the bodies of Earthly cats in Dream, or to reanimate the bodies of dead cats, becoming undead cats of strange and unnatural habits and sinister magical powers.
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=== Cats from Venus ===
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Old Solar System Venus is a rainy world of alien swamps and dense jungles; there would be cats evolved to live both in the Venusian Dreamlands, and on waking Venus.
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=== Cats from Jupiter ===
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Varieties of cats might exist on one or more of Jupiter's alien moons, while strange and alien cats prowl the cool, dark and gelatinous world of Dreamlands Jupiter itself.  One suspects that these moons hold little or no lure for Earthly cats, and likewise do not attract the cats of the outer worlds beyond Jupiter.
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=== Cats from Neptune ===
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Neptunian cats are probably very similar to the other bizarre and dangerous cats from the outer worlds.
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=== Cats from Yuggoth and Beyond ===
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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 luckCat 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 space to satisfy their feline curiosities about the secrets to be found in the places where no sun has shone.  Entities which were in life the wisest of cats, worshiped as gods by men, might also be found scattered throughout the [[Seven Planes]] in search of deeper enlightenment and perfection and serving works of magick both great and benevolent, and dark and terrible, as powerful members of both white and black lodges of mysticism and sorcery.

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Perhaps I'll get around to describing the cats of other worlds as part of describing the Old Solar System setting.

Cats from Venus

Old Solar System Venus is a rainy world of alien swamps and dense jungles; there would be cats evolved to live both in the Venusian Dreamlands, and on waking Venus.

Cats from Jupiter

Varieties of cats might exist on one or more of Jupiter's alien moons, while strange and alien cats prowl the cool, dark and gelatinous world of Dreamlands Jupiter itself. One suspects that these moons hold little or no lure for Earthly cats, and likewise do not attract the cats of the outer worlds beyond Jupiter.

Cats from Neptune

Neptunian cats are probably very similar to the other bizarre and dangerous cats from the outer worlds.

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 space to satisfy their feline curiosities about the secrets to be found in the places where no sun has shone. Entities which were in life the wisest of cats, worshiped as gods by men, might also be found scattered throughout the Seven Planes in search of deeper enlightenment and perfection and serving works of magick both great and benevolent, and dark and terrible, as powerful members of both white and black lodges of mysticism and sorcery.