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“The takate is a felid found throughout the known world. They are a hybrid of African wildcats and Indian leopard cats which evolved on Pakardia, and domesticated cats introduced to the island by merchants from the Free-States. The most common pattern has brown or gold fur with spotting, although striped, mottled, and all black varieties are also common. The greatest distinction from domesticated cats is that half a million years high in the canopy has made their paws slightly larger. Although evolved on Pakardia, they have spread out throughout the mainland following intermixing with domesticated cats, and can now be found on both mainland continents and most of the southern and Kentarim islands. They specialize in rodents and small birds. As they do on Earth, these cats can be devastating to local wildlife due to how prolific and adaptable they are. Although the wildcat ancestors are skittish and avoided humans, the populations that have intermixed with domestic cats (which after 4,000 years is most of them) are comfortable around humans and the many breeds of wildcat are the most popular pet throughout Kaimere. Takate means ‘house panther’ in the language of the Hangogawi and is the standard term throughout the confederacy of tribes. They are beloved and revered by the Pakardiant and indeed every culture that has been exposed to them.”
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why isn’t it canon