While in human form he always wears black clothing decorated with gold and gems of feline colors. He can transform himself into a black cat, a panther, or a hybrid of panther and human. The Cat Lord can appear as a dark-skinned human or a pale-skinned human with black hair. Additionally he could see in the dark and would always land on his feet. In his original entry he could heal his wounds by licking them. He has other magical abilities and minor spells at his disposal.
The Cat Lord can communicate with all cats and can summon them magically if necessary. This includes everything from regular house cats, to panthers, to lions, and even includes supernatural felines such as weretigers. He rules all forms of felines regardless of their size or origin. He is sometimes called the Master Cat and is a Lord of Balance. Today’s “C” topic is the Cat Lord, one of my all-time favourite D&D characters/monsters.įor those who may not be familiar with the Cat Lord let me tell you a little bit about him.
To make things even more interesting the title of each article will begin with a different letter of the alphabet. That’s 26 articles over the course of the month. The challenge is to write a new article ever day in April, excluding Sundays.
Throughout April Dungeon’s Master is participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. It’s hard to put my finger on an exact reason, but something jumped off the page and into my imagination that has always led me to believe that the Cat Lord is one of the most interesting creatures in Dungeons & Dragons. This monster was majestic in a way that only a powerful hunting cat could be yet he also exuded a sense of cool sophistication that has always stuck with me. I think it was a combination of the name “Cat Lord” and the accompanying picture (by Harry Quinn) depicting a feline humanoid. Something about this creature grabbed my attention and my imagination in a way that few other monsters ever have.
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I was flipping through the AD&D Monster Manual II (still the only AD&D hardcover rule book I don’t own) and there he was on page 22 – the Cat Lord. But like, in a neutral way.Ĭhaotic Evil: Voldemort, I guess? Chaos certainly follows him.Įdited to fix a factual error about the one ring.I remember it vividly. Neutral Evil: Severus Snape I don’t care what his fans say, Snape was evil. Lawful Evil: Dolores Umbridge is probably who Gary Gygax was thinking of when he invented alignment charts. True Neutral: Luna Lovegood is too pure to be anywhere else.Ĭhaotic Neutral: Rubeus Hagrid could be nowhere else on this chart. Lawful Neutral: To be frank, I wanted Ron Weasley to share Chaotic Good with Dumbledore, but that would mean acknowledging the time travel theory. Neutral Good: Harry Potter is good, but neither lawful nor chaotic.Ĭhaotic Good: Albus Dumbledore does things in a decidedly unorthodox, dangerous, and even mad way, but he does it for the greater good. Lawful Good: Hermione Granger read about it in Hogwarts: A History. Neutral Evil: Gollum probably didn’t start out on the evil side of the chart, but by the time we meet him the ring has corrupted him utterly–but he remains neutral, only caring about the ring itself.Ĭhaotic Evil: Saruman the White creates the Uruk-Hai.Īnd of course, I had to do the characters of Harry Potter as well. Lawful Evil: I know there will be some objections, but this is where Sauron, the big bad, belongs. Chaotic Neutral: Gandalf the Grey is manipulative, controlling, confounding and mysterious, but he does all for the greater good, probably.