Grimalkins are a sort of "Lich" creature, a Kat that consumed so much magical content and grew so evil that when they died, they came back as a shadowy essence of malice hunting the living.

I vaguely remember the Scarlet Fortress having some Almirian tapestries. Perhaps some of the Kat tribe was investigating Almire? Or maybe they were squatting in an old burned-out Almirian castle, like the Royal Jelly. Maybe they used it as a base of operations against the Owlites?

Or maybe they just floated in after the Kataclysm.

PS: The Gunner faction was the Kat Seekers and the Bomber faction was the Kat Hissers, with heroes Preowa and Torair, respectively.

Haven't gotten my hands on 'da book' in order to battle the new pseudo-boss, but from the videos that have sprung up (and the fact that beating it drops the black kat hat), I'm assuming that the critter you fight is what's left of Margrel? That would mean that Grimalkins might be other kats, transformed by opening the Book of Grey Feathers, that went on to wipe out the rest of the tribe? Maybe?

Actually Divine and the Chaos sets don't have connection to Owlite race.

As for the Kats in Scarlet Fortress. Remember that Cradle is artificial construction made of shattered pieces of other worlds patched together. Those pieces are connected to each other and often groups of monsters migrates from place to place, leaving their "home piece". Kats may not be native to Scarlet Fortress, as they may not be native to Dark City or Gloaming Wildwoods. They may have just "leaked" from Candlestick Keep to haunt other places.

Well the it could be mean the gates...

@Happy

Didn't we learn all we know about the kats and owlites from the monsters at Moorcroft?

@Spold, Why do you think Gunslinger is correct form and Gunner is incorrect?

They are commonly called gunners by many players. And they have been for 14 months, you must be new. I cannot believe some hoity toity people think they are worth so much that they are able to go around making changes to the way we talk to fit their desires. If we were obviously grammatically incorrect, I would understand. But we aren't.

Taken from google......

Gunslinger - A man who carries a gun and shoots well.

Gunner - A serviceman who operates or specializes in guns, in particular. It's a freaking word, look it up.

"Oh my god - no way - the game calls us gunslingers, yet the players use the more modernized term gunner, and I cannot believe this because they do not have exactly the same meaning! I am so frustrated and am going to correct people - because everyone likes that - for the good of the community!"

You sound like someone who goes around telling people to say "Handgun" instead of "Gun" because they are called "Handguns" by the developers.

They both deal with guns, get over yourself. Nobody here can say that they want you here correcting us, or here at all. Leave. Bye. Please.

Thank you.

"Derp derp herp guys it call a bombslinger, i no let all say bomber, because adding "er" mean it NO A WORD!"

@The-Rawrcake

Calling them bombslingers still doesn't say anything either. I said it isn't always like that when you add -er at the end. I never said it's never like that.

The majority of the definitions I find don't have synonymous definitions to gunslinger.

I did read. While doing my "research", I decided to look at some images also.

I also googled gunner and I didn't get the definition you listed. I googled gunslinger however it said this. I need you to look at the synonyms also. There's only one and it's not gunner.

And now I feel guilty for asking...

But seriously I was asking because I'm not native English speaker and the difference wasn't clear to me - especially since SK used term gunner much earlier then term gunslinger). Suffix -er isn't something natural for me either. My question was really out of curiosity, not flaming or complaining about your post. Now I did some research and check google translator and how it translate gunner into my native language and I totally see you point.

And actually I'm one of those weird people, Rawrcake mentioned, that use term hanguns instead of guns, but I'm far from correcting anyone ;-)

Plus, I never, ever use term swordie. I call them fencers :-D

From what The-Rawrcake researched it said that a gunner was a soldier that uses guns however gunslinger relates to someone who specializes guns also so I guess I can consider them synonymous. The only reason that got me in this argument is because I've always heard that gunner was a definition of a guy in the military that specializes in guns.

Scarlet fortress is not a part of almire.
The flags in almire and scarlet fortress are different.
Royal jelly palace has the same flag as scarlet fortress.

Technically there is no Kingdom/Nation of Almire anymore, not as functioning state at least, whatever it was is now simply a fiery wasteland populated by the poor undead sods who use to be its citizens and I don't think Vanaduke is in any state of mind to sit down with peace talks with anyone. The curse that befell Almire pre-dates its absorption into Cradle, and all that did was give Vanaduke more 'beasts' to protect his beloved Kingdom from, he has no rivalries and qualms with anyone, he hates everybody, and if it weren't for a certain recon module no one would have any reason to come to Almire and would do their best to avoid it all together and anything to do with it, there is no diplomacy to be done or can be done with whatever is left of the Kingdom.

The Owlites are gone (as far as we know at least), and so are the Kats, or at least whoever they were before the event known as the Kataclysm where the Owlites were wiped out by the Kat Tribes who then unintentionally brought about their own end in a great big head-on mass extinction between two belligerent races. What we see are only the ghosts and echoes of what both these races once were, with the exception of a small enclave where some sentient mewkats host business conferences for Devillites and sell tickets for a train that never comes the Kats have have been reduced to ghosts who wander the the halls of where they had their final victory and met their own end.

Like Almire, I actually think the curse of the Kataclysm occurred prior to when the planet the Kats and Owls once inhabited was absorbed by Cradle, along with all the lore and tragedy that happened there, and much like Almire there really isn't any sort of Kat state/nation/tribe left to make any diplomacy with for the most part as all but a few have been reduced to mindless belligerence against everything. Black Kats are not a Kat 'faction' of any sort, Pembrooke at Moorcroft states they are mindless cursed souls who simply devour magical energy without any real cause or purpose.

I started writing about Stranger and Gremlin relations, but the size of that topic would pretty much be worth a thread on its own.

Well I mentioned in my guild Mumble that I thought Margel could have been 'summoned' from within the Conjuring Kat. Just a side theory of mine that I don't think holds any credence but might as well be spouted:

Margel, the unluckiest of Kats, sparks the Kataclysm
Whatever powers that be, to avoid seeing this immense power, seal it away (either in the Conjuring Kat or somewhere far far away)
Conjuring Kat either: Summons Margel (thus invalidating my theory) or is actually the 'sealed' form of Margel that subconsciously wants to be released. Thus the tome, thus summoning Margel from within the Conjuring Kat.

Feel free to ignore this btw. Just my 2 pickles.

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