Goyle

A Goyle is a fairly common creature in many urban cities.

Pictured to the right is what is commonly sold as a pet goyle a distinct breed also known as a Fancy Goyle. They are renowned as intelligent and mischievous pets. They are favored by pirates for their trainability for thieving among other tricks.

Below the fancy goyle is the far more common urban variant. The ashy grey Goyles are common to the industrialized cities of the Republic. They gained their name as they are most often spotted in and among the gargoyles that crowd the looming rooftops. While the name stuck outside of the Republic, they tend to be brown or dun colored away from the smoke choked cities.

They compete with rats as urban vermin, though are far more intelligent than most give them credit for often forming symbiotic relationships with feral cat colonies for protection. It is not an uncommon sight to see a few goyles hitching a ride of cats in the city.

Goyles are quite intelligent and generally try to avoid people. It is said that hurting or killing a goyle will bring you a life time of badluck. There is some truth to this supersition as goyles recognize faces and more so actively steal from or inconvenience those who have earned their ire.

However, all goyles fear the ratcatchers whom use ferrets to flush rats and goyles alike from their roosts and burrows and cats or hawks to hunt them down in the open.

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