Thinking about all the species that got a template in Magic and Martial Arts some very obscure (Sunbird, Turaco Glass Lizard) Some of familiar but less...Glamorous than species in the Basic Compendium (Examples of Animals that most Americans recognize Beaver, Moose Opossum, Turkey Jay, Robin, Pelican, Roadrunner, Tasmanian Devil, Small Parrots, Small Deer, Albatross, Stork Salamanders and Newts, Camels and Llamas, Koalas, Rats)
Watching this RPG Channel How to be a Great Game Master in particular this video
youtube.com/watch?v=fG7OaGtoEaU&t=780s
Imagining the example character he gave as Cats I asked myself Why Cats? Why not imagine the daughter of the evil Duke as a Songbird or a Rodent or an Ungulate? Culture has given me the impression that the logical thing is that apex predators are the royalty of Animal Kingdom while Animals lower on the food chain are the peasants even though I know that literally isn't the case with Shard different countries have different ruling classes Bakari has Ungulates Dur-Purum has Rodents Rakibar has Tropical Birds...Actually just Birds as Griffen said did say a Blue Jay and Cardinal would be nobles in Rakibar and those are both famous temperate forest species.
So just imaging playing maybe not royalty specifically but imagining a scenario like Guy describes where you are the relative of a Villainous Noble and your Jenu isn't a sexy Canine or Feline...Maybe not even a member of Order Carnivora at all like imagining some of the more comical Animals like a Turkey or Pelican being the Prince character
And of course there is the obvious that Janah breed freely within their own type...Like the Evil Noble in question IS a menacing Feline but the PC (Perhaps an illegitimate child of an illicit affair) is a Prey Species like a Mouse
Watching this RPG Channel How to be a Great Game Master in particular this video
youtube.com/watch?v=fG7OaGtoEaU&t=780s
Imagining the example character he gave as Cats I asked myself Why Cats? Why not imagine the daughter of the evil Duke as a Songbird or a Rodent or an Ungulate? Culture has given me the impression that the logical thing is that apex predators are the royalty of Animal Kingdom while Animals lower on the food chain are the peasants even though I know that literally isn't the case with Shard different countries have different ruling classes Bakari has Ungulates Dur-Purum has Rodents Rakibar has Tropical Birds...Actually just Birds as Griffen said did say a Blue Jay and Cardinal would be nobles in Rakibar and those are both famous temperate forest species.
So just imaging playing maybe not royalty specifically but imagining a scenario like Guy describes where you are the relative of a Villainous Noble and your Jenu isn't a sexy Canine or Feline...Maybe not even a member of Order Carnivora at all like imagining some of the more comical Animals like a Turkey or Pelican being the Prince character
And of course there is the obvious that Janah breed freely within their own type...Like the Evil Noble in question IS a menacing Feline but the PC (Perhaps an illegitimate child of an illicit affair) is a Prey Species like a Mouse