About half of the time, leaders were aided by shamans. Each ramada was built from wooden poles with grass roofs. Īlthough tabaxi lairs were sometimes just temporary, they were more often small villages of ramadas. The Hunts patrolled the area around the clan's lair. Each clan had several Hunts each made up of two to eight individuals. Clans were split evenly between males and females with 3 to 12 young. ĭue to their knowledge of hunting, intelligence and sense of smell, it was practically impossible to trap a tabaxi. Tabaxi were quite capable of adapting to new technology or salvaged weapons. Their preference of simple weapons was not due to a lack of capability.
Tabaxi were just as likely to use weapons as they were to use their claws and teeth. These weapons would often be made from wood, bone or stone. įor weapons, tabaxi favored bolas, slings, macas, and javelins with atlatl. Tabaxi clans did have berserker warriors within them, these were known as blood-stalkers.
Groups would often drive prey into ambushes, sometime playing with their doomed foe before killing them. Their hunting skills and intelligence made them formidable tacticians. Tabaxi were even known to disguise their scent with aromatic herbs. Speed and stealth combined with their natural camouflage meant that tabaxi were particularity skilled at surprise attacks. Tabaxi were exceptional hunters and utilized these skills in combat. Tabaxi riding atop giant toucan aerial mounts. Some found safer ways to satisfy their fleeting obsessions by becoming traveling minstrels and tinkers, often accepting interesting objects and stories as payment for their services. Not all tabaxi were motivated by curiosity to leave their homeland, however. Once an item had been thoroughly examined and studied, and its secrets revealed, it would lose its allure and the tabaxi would quickly lose interest and pass it on. In general, tabaxi did not care for wealth, but they had an almost obsessive interest in ancient artifacts, relics and magic items, not for the items themselves as much as the stories and secrets they held.
However, as each tabaxi possessed a specific feline trait, some had an innate curiosity that compelled them to travel and seek out stories, artifacts, new experiences and knowledge, never remaining in the same place or obsessing over the same piece of lore for too long. Tabaxi were a reclusive people who often avoided interaction with other intelligent races.
The way the tabaxi pronounced their own name also varied the "leopard-folk" pronounced it ta-BÆK-see, and the jaguar-folk tah-BAHSH-ee. Tabaxi with solid spots were sometimes called leopard-folk and tabaxi with rosette spots were called jaguar-folk. Etymology ĭepending on their region and fur coloration, tabaxi were known by different names. They had a good sense of balance and an acute sense of smell. Tabaxi were competent swimmers and climbers as well as speedy runners. Tabaxi eyes were slit-pupilled and usually green or yellow. Tabaxi fur color ranged from light yellow to brownish red. Like most felines, Tabaxi had long tails and retractable claws. Their bodies were slender and covered in spotted or striped fur. Tabaxi were taller than most humans at six to seven feet.
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