Hellcat
Hellcats are intelligent smilodon-like predators native to Hell.1
Appearance
A hellcat in bright light is effectively invisible, and becomes clearly visible only in dim light. When it can be observed, it resembles a smilodon burning with the hellfire that functions as its blood, and the light of this hellfire becomes muted in darkness. Its transparent and invisible flesh grants it a skeletal appearance.1 Hellcats are as large as tigers, measuring 9 feet in length and weighing 1,000 pounds.1
Abilities
Though incapable of speech, hellcats are sapient and understand Diabolic; while they can communicate telepathically, they rarely do so except to acknowledge their orders and threaten foes. However, they use their telepathic abilities to sense other nearby hellcats and seamlessly coordinate their movements with them, making a pack of hellcats difficult to outflank. Hellcats can also emit a low, menacing growl that frightens and disorients other non-fiendish creatures, and have a keen sense of smell.1
Ecology
Being fiends, hellcats do not require food, but enjoy hunting and consuming prey for the pain that it inflicts. Hellcats quickly retreat from battles they cannot win, but always remember those who escape, track their prey, and coordinate assaults and surprise attacks with allies that they recruit.1
Society
Due to their intelligence, hellcats are offended by the idea of being anyone else's pet and devise complex plots of vengeance against those who disrespect them. An even greater disrespect is to make any comparison between hellcats and hell hounds; hellcats derive their greatest pleasure from tormenting hell hounds, which they consider to be nothing more than verminous pests.1
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 . “Monsters A-Z” in Bestiary 2, 141. Paizo Inc., 2020