Degato

A Fae regent of the Selva, Degato takes a special interest in the Tabaxi but can be encountered by any who pass through the jungle. Most Tabaxi wear a round yellow stone pendant, usually made of citrine or quartz, to recognise zir and gain zir favour. Ardent followers wishing to gain zir attention carve obsidian into claw shapes that they decorate themselves with. Clerics or warlocks of Degato are rare, and always use one of zir great shed claws as their casting focus.

Appearance
Degato manifests as an enormous great cat with 10 toes and 6 legs, dappled the impossible green and black of the jungle shadows. Zie has enormous golden eyes that zie only opens to reveal secrets to mortals zie is tempting. Zir many claws appear made of black glass (obsidian), and can sometimes be found embedded in trees or at the forks in paths to help zir worshippers and adherents find their way.

Personality
If any mortal knows why Degato takes such an interest in the affairs of Tabaxi, they’ve never revealed it to the world at large. Degato is a fickle creature of mercurial interests, a lover of secrets and new experiences. Zie wants to experience everything, own everything - and once zie knows everything about something, zie disgards it and finds a new interest. Zie is sometimes silent, sometimes over-talkative, but always calculating in zir words and actions. One of zir common tricks is to appear to slip up and reveal some information zie didn’t want others to know - thus pushing the ever-curious Tabaxi further towards what zie always wanted them to do. Like nature, Degato is also completely unforgiving and brutal, sometimes destroying mortals on a seemingly random whim. Zie is easily flattered though, and enjoys having worshippers. Like a cat, if zie senses that an individual Tabaxi is avoiding zir or doesn’t like zir, zie will work even harder to infiltrate their life and make them pay attention to zir.

Worship
For Tabaxi, Degato isn’t worshipped out of love but out of a desire to avoid zir wrath. Wearing a token such as the yellow stone pendant or the obsidian claw is a way to survive any encounters with their overly-interested fae regent. Another common trick is to leave poems celebrating zir carved into trees at the edge of their territory, or to carve fallen trees into sculptures of zir. Non-Tabaxi who wish to worship zir do so via the usual Fae Court methods.

Tenets

 * Having something is only good if you can still learn something from it.
 * Be calculating, be shrewd, be playful, be mad.
 * Hoarding is for dragons. If you have something, you should use it.
 * Cut down those who would disrespect you, or make them respect you. Do what feels right, but don’t stand for their shit.
 * Shiny things are good things. If you need the shiny more than they do, you should take it.
 * I can be your friend, your enemy, or your lover. But I will NOT be ignored.