Tabaxi

The real origins of the Tabaxi are unknown due to the lack of written historical documents, but the legends of the origins are passed on from generation to generation.
In the days of the first Tabaxi, they lived in small clans or hunts led by their oldest members. The lived in peace among each other and in harmony with nature. However, the Tabaxi had to hide or run from their many natural enemies that had bigger claws and stronger jaws, who viewed the Tabaxi as weak and easy prey. Other races viewed them as backwards and uncivilized since they did not walk on two legs and didn‘t know how to use tools and weapons.
It is believed that when the Cat Lord looked upon the poor Tabaxi he pitied them, shed a tear and vowed to lead them into a brighter future. Therefore the Cat Lord stepped down from the soft clouds from which he overlooked alljungles and mountains. With his sharp eyes, he spotted a well protected valley. The valley hosted a plentiful of mice and other small animals to hunt and from the mountain tops streams of sweet milk and pure water flowed down. The bright sun warmed the body during the day and trees of the valley provided shelter during the night.
At once Cat Lord decided that it was time to reveal himself and lead his people into a new era. The Cat Lord believed that his people would only have a future if they assimilated the habits of the other races. He united the many small hunts into a common kingdom. He taught them to walk on two feet and to use tools to look more civilized. He taught them to create and use weapons to fight off bigger and stronger enemies. The Cat Lord shed a tear of joy founded Krung Thep, which in the Common language translates to „The City of Feline, the Great City, the Eternal Jewel City, the Impregnable City, the Grand Capital of the World Endowed with Nine Precious Gems, the Happy City, Abounding in an Enormous Royal Palace that Resembles the Heavenly Abode where Reigns the Reincarnated God, a City Given and Built by the Cat Lord“.
However, the assimilation of habits also brought sin and evil to the Tabaxi society: greed and envy, pride and jealousy, wrath as well as sloth. More and more Tabaxi turned to seek riches, others to waste their days resting in the sun and more and more enjoyed killing not for the sake of gathering food, but for mere pleasure. Soon fights within the Tabaxi broke out and threatened to break apart the Tabaxi society. When the Cat Lord realized what he had created he shed another tear, this time a tear of sadness and he disappeared.
A few generations after the Cat Lord had disappeared, internal struggle had weakened the Tabaxi and mischievous eyes were lain upon the riches of Krung Thep and the valley. The Seven Beholders of Sin plotted to bring down the Tabaxi.
No-one was prepared when the first Giants emerged from the mountain tops and overran the redoubts around the city. In an eventually futile attempt to save their home, the Tabaxi prayed to the Cat Lord for help and fought fiercely. They were able to stop the Giants right outside the walls of the city. The Giants lay siege on Krung Thep for six years. Each of the six years, the Cat Lord shed one more tear and each year one of the Seven Beholders of Sin vanished into a burst of flame and acid.
When the Cat Lord had no more tears to shed, Krung Thep fell. The day when Krung Thep fell only a few Tabaxi were able to escape to the jungle. Everyone who stayed back was killed or enslaved. In order to prevent a tragedy like that from ever happening again, the Tabaxi tried to go back to the old ways. They live in small hunts and hide and run from enemies.
Some say that the day when the Cat Lord shed his ninth tear, he died. But there are others, others like me, who know better. The Cat Lord is still out there somewhere and when I find him, he will give us back hope and peace and we will never have to run and hide.