Patraghy
The Patraghy is a small crawler of the forest floor and undergrowth, its slick pillow-feather coat and perpetually half-starved appearance belying a wiry, tenacious survival instinct. It steals whatever it can carry, bites what it cannot, and scurries between mudholes, fallen trees, and the territorial margins of larger beasts. A meal, a nuisance, a thief, and a survivor, the Patraghy thrives in the margins and gaps of the ecosystem.
Key traits
- Slick pillow feather keeps the small body dry and mobile in the wet forest-floor environments where it makes its living.
- Sharp claws and an opportunistic omnivore's diet allow it to exploit every crack between the territories of larger creatures.
- It relies on speed, small size, and sheer opportunism rather than strength or stealth, scurrying with desperate energy through the undergrowth.
- Considered vermin in settled areas; no domestication has been documented.