Werecats

Mythic Origins
The Cath-ddyn were beloved to Dôn and her children. They frequently participated in Gwydion's escapades and fought with trickery and illusion on his side during the Cad Goddeu. The Cath-ddyn did not have to shed their skin into a cloak like many of the Skin-Changers. Their tynged was that they could not speak an utter truth- if they did, they would become enslaved for a year and a day to whoever they had given their honesty too. The Cath-ddyn were also gifted with nine lives; whenever they died, they would revive the following dawn but with total amnesia of who they had been and with a different gender and body before, just the same age.

After the Cad Goddeu
The sensual and curious Cath-ddyn found humans to be wonderful playmates and toys. They had countless lovers and spread their feyblood widely. Children born to female Cath-ddyn became Cath-ddyn; children born to human women from Cath-ddyn typically became gifted magicians, healers, seers, etc., but lacked the other Skin-changer traits.

During the Age of Saints
The Cath-ddyn could be trapped in circles of salt and rendered powerless and killed. They suffered greatly during the War of Salt & Silver and most retreated to the otherworld. They went extinct in the human world during the Interregnum.

During the Bygone War
Never a warrior-race, the Cath-ddyn aided the fey following the Resurgence by tricking and seducing specific human (or other) targets. When they killed, it was typically acts of assassination or misdirection.

Modern-Day
Steffan and Sion are two Cath-ddyn siblings featured in a Blood Reign novel.

go to the Changer Main Page