#felinia: cordillera

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Allegiances drop (finally)

im happy to answer any questions about anything!!

Bound by the alliance, five groups of different species come together for mutual protection and the benefits of living together. The other kattii are unwilling to join, and free of the rules imposed by the Leagues, although they miss out on food and companionship on their journeys.

The Grasslands

Savannah Coalition

Emperor: Crane Song-Glide, a slender, long-furred mostly white molly with thin horns and grey patches

Consuls: 

Dark Song, a black and white tom with unusually long horns and green eyes

Mangosteen, (acting consul: Thunder)

Senators: 

Jackal Creek, a ginger tabby jack with yellow eyes and brown horns

Baobab Root-Soar-Claw, a thick-furred warm grey tabby tom with thick horns

Medlar Root-Soar-Claw, a grey and gold tortoiseshell jack with green eyes and curled horns

Mowana Creek, a pinkish grey mackerel tabby molly with blue eyes and short horns

Thunder Root, a slender grey tabby point tom with amber eyes and thick horns. 

Clover Bud-Creek, a pretty fair brown speckled tabby tom with dark blue eyes and black hooves

Cleric, Marrah Glide, an albino molly with pink eyes

Apothecary: Fern Antler-Claw, a pale ginger mackerel tabby molly with light orange hooves

Legionaries:

Salvinia Bud-Bones, speckled ginger jack with a significant scar on their belly 

Sumac Claw-Bud reddish brown mackerel tabby molly with long legs and green eyes

Syringa Bud-Fang, a brown tabby tom with a jagged white marking on his belly

Senna Bones, speckled cream tom with one missing leg and yellow eyes

Acacia Bud-Fang, swift mottled brown jack with short, sleek fur and streamlined horns

Vera Fang, a beautiful light brown tabby tom with patches of darker fur and black hooves

Lantana Glide, dawn-coloured molly with lighter chest and paws and pinkish eyes

Nutmeg Claw-Bud, a slim brown mackerel tabby molly with green eyes and long legs. 

Cinnamon Claw, a tall, slim ginger mackerel tabby molly with green eyes and a long tail. 

Pagoda Stem-Bud, spotted cream molly, partially paralysed with a broken horn.

Cassia Antler, a black and white jack with a large scar on their back and broken horns

Tirones:

Oak Song, a dark gold spotted molly cub with amber eyes, tutored by Thunder, Cassia, and Cinnamon

Pigeon Song, a grey-gold spotted molly cub with green eyes, tutored by Baobab, Lantana, and Syringa

Marula Creek, a dark grey-gold spotted tom cub with yellow eyes, tutored by Jackal, Sumac, and Vera

Motopi Creek, a light grey-gold spotted jack cub with blue eyes, tutored by Clover, Acacia, and Senna

Caregivers: Mangosteen Root-Soar-Claw, dark ginger mackerel tabby jack with blue eyes and white belly.

Cubs:

Combretum Root, big light gold spotted tom cub with a white belly and green eyes

Paspalum Soar, small dark gold spotted molly cub with a white belly.

Retirees: Kunai Stem, thin dark, pinkish-gold jack with long horns and a missing eye.

The Inland Sea

Broad Pod

Monarch: Sterlet, long-tailed sandy-red tom with white side stripes and a long muzzle.

Successor: Sprat, slim, sleek cinnamon tom with white side stripes and a short muzzle

Courtskats: 

Anemone, a dishevelled ginger classic tabby molly with long fur and green eyes

Coral, a huge orange tom with thick tail fins and blue eyes

Jellyfish, a massive dark ginger classic tabby molly with a cool grey underbelly

Bryozoa, a small, sleek pale red mackerel tabby jack with a grey belly.

Algae, a sleek pale ginger mackerel tabby molly with green eyes

Dulse, a big dark red classic tabby demimolly with green eyes and white spots

Cleric: Inri’rrp, a melanistic tom with blue eyes and cream paws

Apothecary: Crab, a sleek red classic tom with yellow eyes

Knights:

Kelp, a dark red classic tabby jack with dense fur and green eyes.

Trout, a cinnamon ticked tabby molly with a thick, bushy tail.

Rockweed, a small mostly grey tom with pale ginger tipping and yellow eyes

Abyss, a large red classic tabby jack with yellow eyes

Urchin, a messy furred dark ginger jack with a grey belly

Laver, a small dark red mackerel tabby molly with white spots and yellow eyes

Nika, a blue-grey tortoiseshell-tabby jack with red patches and green eyes

Shrimp, a red and white spotted tabby molly with blue eyes

Aurelia, a longhaired, slim spotted tabby molly with blue eyes and light red fur

Squires:

Lamprey, a sleek, nimble cinnamon point molly cub with green eyes, tutored by Dulse and Laver

Porpoise, a swift warm mink point molly cub with green eyes, tutored by Anemone and Aurelia

Red, a bright red classic tabby tom cub with a thick, bushy tail, thick fur and green eyes, tutored by Jellyfish and Rockweed

Grey, a mostly grey and white classic tabby tom cub with thick fur and green eyes, tutored by Coral and Nika 

Caregivers:

Rapid, a warm grey ticked tabby tom with blue eyes and a silver underbelly.

Scale, a heavily pregnant ginger tabby jack with green eyes. (Ginger, Rapana)

Cubs:

Storm, a grey ticked tabby and white tom cub with blue eyes

Splash, a massive grey mackerel tabby tom cub with amber eyes

Retirees:

Scorpene, a sleek cinnamon tom with white side stripes and a long muzzle

Katran, a big red ticked tabby molly with a silver underbelly and blue eyes

Wave, a grey classic tabby point molly with green eyes and cream

The Desert

Sand Skulk

Water guide: Papyrus, an agile, warm grey molly with faint stripes and golden scales

Guardian: Lotus, a sand-coloured molly with dark scales lined with gold 

Dune Council:

Cornflower, a beautiful grey and cream molly with golden eyes and scales 

Palm, a brown and gold trans-tom with bristly fur and hazel scales

Hollyhock, an elegant golden tom with a silver scar along his back and silver scales

Delphinium, a blue-eyed silver jack with warm undertones and silver scales

Henna, a ginger classic tabby trans-molly with green eyes and dark scales

Safflower, a cream-coloured jack with dark gold scales and white freckles 

Lychnis, a warm silver molly with amber eyes and silver scales

Cleric: Tohor, an albinistic tom with pink eyes and soft scales

Apothecary: Dill, a warm-toned grey molly with black speckles around her eyes and black scales

Wanderers:

Poppy, a cream molly with black freckles and scales

Doum, a tall cream classic tabby jack with green eyes and dark scales

Jujube, a nimble grey and cream molly with gold scales

Persea, a warm grey mackerel tabby tom with black scales

Mimosa, a cream mackerel tabby tom with white speckles and scales

Tamarix, a grey spotted tabby jack with green eyes and black scales

Cotula, an agile warm grey molly with spotted fur and pale scales

Pimpernel, a sun-faded white tom with a grey tail and gold scales 

Lovache, a cream mackerel tabby jack with dark cream scales and orange eyes

Nacazcul, a grey classic tabby tom with gold scales and spots

Sycamore, a brown mackerel tabby trans-molly with dark brown scales and green eyes

Pupils:

Poinciana, an orange jack with green eyes and grey overtones, tutored by Lychnis and Poppy 

Sunflower, a cream tom with thin grey stripes and dark grey scales, tutored by Safflower and Pimpernel

Samwa, a cream and grey classic tabby molly with green eyes and gold scales, tutored by Henna and Cotula

Balsam, a sturdy golden trans-tom with green eyes and soft black speckles on both fur and scales, tutored by Palm and Nacazcul

Caregivers:

Carob, a black mackerel tabby molly with burn scars and a broken scale

Nitre, a sturdy golden jack with an old thick scar on their paw and cream scales

Cubs:

Cattail, a small ginger mackerel tabby molly with a fluffy tail and black scales

Amaranth, a small pale brown tom with gold scales

Rush, a grey and gold molly with gold scales

Alhagi, a pale gold molly with black scales 

Retirees:

Sawgrass, a grey tom with an old scar on the back of his neck and speckled gold scales

Cressa, a pale brown tom with a fading short tear on his chest and pale black scales

The City 

Relevant Creatures

Thyra, muscular black smoke Court Kattus molly cub with lilac eyes.

Oak, enormous golden striped Court Kattus and Yeenix hybrid tom with protruding fangs.

Tojo, slim brown spotted Yeenix molly cub with amber eyes and a nose and earring piercing.

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The gays (Thyra (lesbian) is butch btw)

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The Cordillera

Mountain Goat and Snow Leopard hybrid.

Small and stocky in stature, by no means large kattii.

Very stocky, very cobby bodies. Fur is very dense and long, particularly around vital organs and on the tail,

They reside over the mountains, in an area none can find.

Long tails provide balance when jumping, and warmth when sleeping or wrapped around paws.

Extremely streamlined face, with fur tufts to guide water flow.

Fur between toes and on paw pads. Hind hooves are similar to Mountain Goat hooves, wherein they are very flexible and can spread to gain a better grip on rocky slopes.

Stubby horns protect them in fights, though they have become largely vestigial recently.

Small ears and small frames condense heat and provide fewer opportunities for heat loss.

Desirable traits:

Speed and agility. Being fast and able to maintain agility and strength high up on the peaks is both important and incredibly attractive to the Cordillera

Mottled and blotched grey cats, but particularly classic tabbies, are considered very beautiful because of the intricacies of their pelts and how they match the intricate landscape. A very attractive Cordillera could lie very still on a slope and not be noticed.

Warm undertones and sides are very pretty, as they add depth to a pelt.

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if the Kattii were show cats ... what cat breeds would they be?

i've been rotating this ask in my brain all day and now I have some answers (also gonna introduce yall to some more characters aside from Oak and Red)

Also this post got so long I put it under a readmore

Oak would be an ebony tortoiseshell Oriental Shorthair:

its got the shape, the skinny, the speed - and also the colouring

Red would be either a red laperm:

or a longhaired red Selkirk Rex:

because red and also fluffy!

Thyra, (new character), would be a black smoke norwegian forest cat

Dark would be an ebony and white Oriental shorthair

Pigeon is a dilute tortoiseshell oriental cat but in longhair:

Grey (Red's brother) is a blue tabby and white Maine Coon:

Storm is a silver tabby and white Maine Coon

Rapana is a flame point Birman

Thunder is this cat, a silver patched tabby and white Maine Coon

Crane is a lilac point Balinese

This lilac lynx point Balinese specifically is Marrah:

every single Canopy Kattus is a Bengal

Every single Cordillera is a siberian of various hues of grey

Cactus Kattii are some form of abyssinian or ocicat

Most Claw Kattii are Oriental cats of some form, e.g. Balinese, Siamese, Oriental Shorthair/longhair

And most Court Kattii are LaPerms or Selkirk Rex

I got 95% of these images from the Cat Fancier's Association, which is literally a lifesaver for stuff like this :)

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The City

i’ve been struggling with coming up with ideas for the city - they always seem too humanlike rather than the animals they need to be.

So. there is a focus on a system or group of parallel mountain ranges and physical fighting in the city. Groups are divided into six or so creatures, each of whom have elected one member of their group into a higher group, called a Peak. (these smaller groups are called Slopes).

The biggest, most important thing for a City creature is their faction. Divided into four colours: Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue, loyalty is defined solely on where you live. For instance, an entire town could be made up of Blue loyalists.

Champions are the most important creatures of all. There will be one champion per faction, and they are the creature who has remained undefeated for the longest. Every season, every combatant in a faction's fighters will be pitted against each other. The victorious creature will be named that season's champion. Champions usually have very long winning streaks, so much so that generations have been defined by which champion was winning at the time. Even when they lose their champion status, they’ll be trotted back out at every opportunity, appealing to an older audience and bringing even more creatures to the matches.

The current champions are Thyra, of the Blues, Einar, of the Reds, Cedar, of the Yellows, and Ginger, of the Greens.

Thyra, the gray and black molly in the centre, is a relatively young champion. She is approaching her fourth year, meaning that she is a little above 15 human years. So far, she remains undefeated on the mat. She’s a little bad-tempered, sometimes overly proud and reckless, but Thyra has a good heart.

unrelated art of older Thyra murdering someone. I imagine for a period of her life she dropped off the face of the earth, leaving her family, her faction, and her adoring audiences to wonder where she had gone, while she explored League ground. It would have been a dangerous part of her life. I don’t think she likes talking about it.

Einar, the horned Yeenix on the left, is a new champion but an older Yeenix, at 7 years old. (55~ human years.) He is fiercely loyal to his faction, almost worryingly so, and will be seen beside the ring, slathered in red dye, whooping and yipping to boost up the crowd. It’s rumoured that he’s considering retiring the spotlight and passing it onto his daughter, a Yeenix who has made a name for herself with new, flashy moves that captivated the audience.

Ginger, the small winged cat in the right corner, is perhaps the least likely champion. Still, she has displayed a remarkable propensity for violence, using her wings to glide out of the way of her much larger opponent, and her sharp claws are almost unavoidable. She is remarkably popular amongst almost every single creature, regardless of faction, and can scarcely leave her hut for fear of being spotted on the streets and confessed to. So far, she remains single, and remarkably popular.

Lastly, Cedar. An ancient court kattus and yeenix hybrid, he was probably around when Smoke and Dark still lived in the city. The father of Oak the Elder, he is a crowd favourite, even though now he’s trotted out less and less, and never for very high-stakes battles. He’ll probably have retired by the time Oak the Younger comes to the city.

Aside from fighting, the city also likes to indulge in “sophisticated” activities, such as partying, getting piercings, and elaborate tattoos. A mark of pride is to own extensive tattoos, and/or be a tattooist. The most important part of the tattooing is that it marks you as more developed than the League kattii. They keep slaves of other species and eat raw meat! Most kattii who think this way feel overly sympathetic towards those who fled the Leagues, putting on a display of ‘oh you poor thing, to have escaped such savagery!’ It’s a sentiment echoed on the other side, where some of those in the Leagues mark them as degenerates and bleeding-hearted fools.

Thyra’s first girlfriend, Tojo, was also the Yeenix who gave her her first piercing. Thyra asked about her tattoos and stared dreamily into Tojo’s while the yeenix talked about payment. Their first date consisted of a lot of nervous staring and eventually, the most awkward first month of teenaged dating you’ve ever seen. Eventually, Tojo came to watch the new champion of the Blues fight, and the new champion of the Blues endorsed Tojo’s tiny business. For a long time, they were the most popular and successful creatures in the city.

Religion is obviously different to that of the Leagues. Most kattii are agnostic, or otherwise unaffiliated with religion, but some gravitate towards a worship of the old world, where simple plants like acorns and grass are honoured for being “pure”, unfused with another creature. Those who follow this faith will pray in ancient churches of woven grass, leaving offerings of drawings, feathers, flowers and leaves.

Those who are particularly devoted will wear an acorn around their neck, to symbolise their faith. It is a high honour to be bestowed with an acorn, as their numbers are extremely limited with no hope of collecting more. Smoke was a quiet, withdrawn molly, but one who was extremely religious. Her acorn was incinerated in the fire that took her life, leading Dark to bring his daughters to the Coalition.

While they lived in the City, Smoke and Dark would have resided in smaller neighbourhoods, often just a few blocks which shared the same factional affiliations.

These neighbourhoods or streets, really, are tight-knit communities, often with one hut becoming a family home, passed down from parent to child. This means that a hut usually has an average of four creatures in it at any one time: parents, children, and the partners of children. Roughly half of their kids will move into the huts of their partner’s parents, as one hut can only fit so many couples. This unfortunately means that aromantic and asexual creature get left out in the cold, having to rely on friends or queerplatonic partners. As some aro and ace folks don’t wish to have to rely on their friends, and aren’t interested in a queerplatonic partner, they can decide to build a hut of their own in a neighbourhood with friends or family, or disappear into the league’s territory and try to join them. This is the less popular option, for obvious reasons, but one that more and more aro and ace kattii are taking.

Each faction has a council, known as a Slope, an elected group of kattii, each of whom are elected members from random regions: several neighbourhoods joined together. Three from each of these councils will be internally elected as mayor into a group known as an assembly, or a Peak : 12 creatures from a wide range of places responsible for making important decisions that concern all of the city. This government is affectionately, or disparagingly referred to as the “Cordillera”, a cordillera being a system or group of parallel mountain ranges. It’s a reference to how the government is a series of parallel groups working together to define the mountainous social landscape of the city.

So that’s the city. It’s a lot more comforting to see it written out, and remind myself that I have a good plan for it!

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The Cacti

Scorpion and African Wild Cat hybrid.

Very small, by far the smallest Kattii

Fur is very sparse and short, especially around the extremities.

They reside in the deserts, along a thin string of oases that provide water and prey in sufficient amounts to survive.

Venom-tipped tails provide self-defence, though they will not develop in cubs until the age of two years or 10 in human years.

Extremely big ears to provide heat dissipation.

Short, slender limbs, and fur on the bottom of pads to provide for the heat of the sands.

Extreme heat resilience in the form of low water needs.

Light golden scales reflect the sun's heat and serve as armour in fights.

Small eyes with a developed third eyelid to help in sandstorms.

Always warm colours, but warm greys are creeping up in fashion.

Desirable traits:

A large or long tail bulb, showing the potence of their venom.

Grey and gold pelts, particularly mackerel tabbies, are very attractive.

Green and blue eyes are very rare, but considered very attractive when they do crop up.