Chesapeake (PaxLair Times) – April 26, 2012 – by Ashlynn – Fickle humanoid creatures less than two feet tall with a pair of lustrous wings to keep them aloft. These denizens of the wild dance in the air as they hurl arcane fire at anything to which they take a dislike.
Some consider them creatures of good but they have attacked weary travelers unprovoked on more than one occasion, I being a past victim of their randomly malevolent nature. They are potent spellcasters but their bodies are frail and weak and easily cast down by blade or counterspell.
From the Writings of Argvol, Gargish Ranger of Ver Lor Reg
Our first encounters with the Meer were not particularly friendly and we skirmished with their scouts on more than one occasion. It seemed they were not very forthcoming with the reasons for occupying the former human settlement, nor would they shed any light on what happened to the previous inhabitants.
A human family at the nearby farmstead feared them though never claimed to have been attacked by the cat-folk directly. Still they believed they had perhaps eaten Lakeshire’s occupants and were more welcoming of us than of them.
Some of our initial expeditions would stop by at the farmstead before moving upon Lakeshire using the woods for cover. And that’s where we met them. Like little winged humans, they seemed cheerful and friendly but their attitudes could change quickly when they met with some of our number, often the mystics. They would hurl spellfire without warning and I recall we lost two mystics during that first meeting.
Subsequent encounters could be friendly or hostile, yet retaliation only brought a whole host of the giggling menaces out of the woods, occasionally with the aid of stronger, white horned horses that were equally, if not more adept in the art of magery.
I can only conclude that they are a fickle and dangerous lot. Their mood and mind epitomizes the very opposite of our own calm and controlled philosophy. Fortunately, while territorial, they do not wander far and for now we can simply choose to ignore them.