Tidal Blades
With a little patience and training, arcets can make great companion animals for a character who Befriends Beasts These large green-and-gold-striped cats are fierce jungle hunters, slinking through the underbrush and stalking their prey without sound. They are dangerous alone, but even more so in a pair—and they are nearly always in a pair. They have excellent night vision and can smell other living creatures from as far as a mile away.
Arcets are smart animals, and have learned how to take advantage of the people living nearby in various ways. Some may approach a camp or marketplace to seek out food, heat, and possibly even companionship. Others use their young as bait for ambush attacks, sending one or more kits out to mew plaintively, having learned that someone will almost always come to the rescue. Some arcets develop an attachment to a particular person and will treat that person as a member of their clan, even going so far as to protect them and travel with them.
Motive: Comfort, hungers for flesh, companionship
Environment: Forests and jungles
Health: 16
Damage Inflicted: Moderate wound (4 points)
Armor: 1
Movement: Short; long when jumping or running
Modifications: Initiative, Speed defense, and stealth as level 5
Combat: Arcets attack with an advantage, such as surprise or higher ground, whenever possible, leaping up to a long distance to pounce and inflict damage with their long, curved claws or teeth. They typically fight in pairs, with one arcet attempting to stun or daze a foe with its pounce, while the second one attacks.
Interaction: Most of the time, interacting with arcets is like interacting with any wild animal. However, some are receptive to creating relationships with people, particularly if they have food.
Use: The characters are traveling through a forest when they come upon a group of people being attacked by a clan of arcets. It's rumored that here's a breeder of domesticated arcets somewhere in the Fury Isles, and one of the characters would like to find them and see about getting an arcet companion.
Loot: The meat of an arcet can feed up to a dozen people, and the fur, claws, and teeth are sometimes used in jewelry and clothing.
GM Intrusion: The light is just right to perfectly camouflage a second nearby arcet that's about o attack. Any attempts the characters make at noticing it, including using perception, sensing danger, and tracking, are hindered.