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School of the Cat

School of the Cat is a school of ragtag witchers formed after a student mutiny against their former masters. Headquartered in the traveling Dyn Marv Caravan, they were one of the only schools to successfully make non-human witchers before the time of the Conclave.  

Overview

  Training   Cat students hone their balance by walking a tightrope blindfolded. Failure is easy to shrug off at first, but throughout their training, the walk gets higher and the danger increases.   Characteristics The Cats developed fighting styles focusing on speed, precision, and agility. As a result, Cat school witchers as well as their equipment do not deal a lot of raw damage, but can inflict deadly critical hits. By extension, their gear was designed to maximize flexibility and provide the greatest possible range of motion.   Because the Cats did not have a permanent home they performed their training wherever they could, even within human cities. The schools adapts would throughout their years of training hone their balancing skills by walking a tight rope while blindfolded. The walk would get higher as time went on building towards the final trial, where failure would be deadly.    

History

  The earliest witchers that can be seen as spiritual ancestors of the Cats were a group of between 15 to 20 members of the Order of Witchers. Following the unrest caused by Arnaghad's violence against a fellow Order member and the subsequent formation of the School of the Bear and Viper, disputes arose in the Order concerning what exactly constituted the basis and code of the witcher profession. The aforementioned group of over a dozen young Order members believed that they could improve the mutation process and build a better order on their own, surpassing their predecessor and commanding the respect of both the poor and the mighty of the Continent. They left by night, stealing a significant collection of mutagenic compounds and alchemical tools. 
  The School's success was only temporary. The efforts at creating improved, completely emotionless witchers went well at first; the first Cats created at were almost flayed of emotions, giving an impression of almost alien race.It was not enough for the mages, who worked on a new process, designed to dull the emotions of would-be witchers even more than usual. Apparently given free hand by the School's masters, the sorcerers caged a "failed batch" of students whose emotions were not dulled but enhanced and performed further tests (including vivisections) to derive a final solution.   Upon waking in a pile of discarded corpses, barely alive, a student named Gezras managed to crawl out and free those of "test subjects" that remained alive. Miraculously managing to escape with a few other survivors, they found refuge among a local elven group who provided them with a safe sanctuary from those who still sought to abolish their past mistakes.   Sated by revenge and free from the past, the surviving witchers led by Gezras moved north, bolstering their ranks with renegades and badly mutated outcasts from other schools. They gathered together to form the Dyn Marv Caravan, and since then has traveled the contitnent.

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