Greater Erwan foxcat

Obligate carnivores, greater foxcats feed on magic creatures, often tackling beasts larger than themselves, weakening them by syphoning their magic with an initial glancing attack before tracking them over several days and a killing bite when they are too weak to strike back.

Despite being capable hunters, greater foxcats, like their lesser cousins, are opportunistic feeders and will also eat carrion.

Found throughout the North Erwan lowlands, greater foxcats are solitary hunters.

Females maintain a smaller territory than the males - between 20-100 km2 vs 500-1200 km2.

Although more than large enough to predate ialy, greater foxcats have entered into a service-service relationship with the species, protecting small communities by eating the things that would predate on them. In return, the ialy keep the foxcat's den clean by eating indigestible leftovers such as bone, tending to wounds obtained during hunts or territorial struggles, and protecting it while it sleeps.

Greater foxcats often follow groups of ialy travelling though the wilds, forming a transient symbiosis. Other sapient species are able to leverage this surface-level identification by painting themselves to look like ialy - foxcats appear to be unable to differentiate between species but are able to recognise an ialy's characteristic aposematic markings despite the wide variation in colour.