#cat armor

Founder

Gezras of Leyda

"Take a contract from an Aen Seidhe over a dh'oine (human) any day, as you’re far less likely to receive a knife between the ribs in place of coin." - Gezras

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 more perilous⁠—as they work toward their final Trial, where failure is not so forgiving.

Cats did not have a permanent home they performed their training wherever they could, even within human cities.

Most of the witcher gals and elven (or half-elven) witchers were from the Feline school.

Cat Witcher Mentor

If you fall, it’s over. Your nine lives are up, kid.

Some Lore from Gwent

Each witcher school holds a unique reputation. Bears – sulkers and firebrands. Wolves – traditionalists. And Cats? Prone to use steel swords more often than silver. 

Unlike other witchers, those from the School of the Cat were not committed to a position of neutrality. As a result, they were often hired as spies and assassins. And it's no wonder – assassinating a nobleman usually paid better than slaying a drowner.

The ill repute of Feline witchers became increasingly notorious in royal circles. After a time, kings and queens began to fear in earnest for their lives. For the witchers, however, this came not as a point of pride, but one of concern, for rulers do not like to feel threatened...

One day, an army marched onto the grounds of the School of the Cat. For three days the blood-soaked slaughter persisted, but eventually every last defending witcher perished. As for those who were not present during the attack? They continue to roam the world's roads - embittered, hungry for vengeance, with nothing left to lose...

Armor

Cat school witchers 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.

Three More Witchers

Gaetan

“Murder me just to save few crowns? I’m supposed to protect whoresons like that?” ⁠— Gaetan

Brehen

Known as the Cat of Iello. A moniker earned not from origins, but as a result of slaughtering peasants there. More of a massacre, really.

Like most of his kin, Brehen was a rogue and an outcast. Prone to bouts of heightened emotion and erratic behaviour – attributed to the school's warped mutation process – Brehen's volatile nature was infamous. Mostly due to his hand in the massacre at the town of Iello, which forever branded him with the shady moniker: Cat of Iello.

(Young Brehen with more hair:))

Dragonfly

Born to imprisoned duchess, Dragonfly was to be murdered by order of her usurper uncle. However, when his servant ordered to kill the baby saw it, he decided to instead abandon it alive on a coast. A Cat witcher travelling nearby took the baby to Stygga, not realizing it was the same child he had been earlier promised by her father via the Law of Surprise.