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As a (mostly) retired pred who lives in polite society, Fastpaw only gets to eat people occasionally. Try to rob the orphanage he runs, for example, and if you're small enough for him to swallow you'll get a nice if temporary raccoon-fur coat.

The Lord Maker has also had so many complaints about kender, a smallish race with an inbuilt lack of sense of "That thing belongs to someone else", that Fastpaw has blanket permission to eat any of them he encounters. He's eaten so many that his grape arbor is made out of hoopaks (the kender staff/sling shot weapon seen here).

As a charismatic individual, he usually manages this with the hoary old "Could you see what's stuck in my teeth" trick. Any kender who tries to help him out learns how untrustworthy he is in this sort of circumstance.

This sort of trick only works once on any given person, but it's hard to learn from your mistake when the result of your trust is a sudden trip down the gullet of a hungry raccoon.

Drawn at Denfur and colored the day I got home.

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ArcaneSigil

Posted by ArcaneSigil 3 years ago Report

Wait... Kender... why is that familiar... what book is that from?

Strega

Posted by Strega 3 years ago Report

Dragonlance. The writers of that series didn't like hobbits/halflings and replaced them with a really annoying race of tiny kleptomaniacs.

ArcaneSigil

Posted by ArcaneSigil 3 years ago Report

That's the one.

YouCanFreshMyFresh

Posted by YouCanFreshMyFresh 3 years ago Report

By killing kender indiscriminately, he is doing the world a service.

Gloom

Posted by Gloom 3 years ago Report

Convenient snack sized fantasy creatures!

Strega

Posted by Strega 3 years ago Report

Kender max out around 4 feet tall and many are as little as three feet tall. At 5 feet tall Fastpaw towers over most of them and many a kender has discovered that trusting the (to them) large but seemingly friendly praka ends up with them hearing a burp from the inside of the predator that just swallowed them. Powerful adventurers are outside of his prey range but quite a few just-starting-out kender wanderers find their career ending in a trip through a raccoon's guts. 83

Gloom

Posted by Gloom 3 years ago Report

Raccoon guts - AKA the toughest starting dungeon.

Jurodan

Posted by Jurodan 3 years ago Report

And absolutely *nothing* of value was lost.

Wingman846

Posted by Wingman846 3 years ago Report

Never thought I'd see something from dragonlance here. Very interesting. Now I want to read it again :T

Strega

Posted by Strega 3 years ago Report

Kender show up in a number of Fastpaw pics. 83

Misasura

Posted by Misasura 3 years ago Report

Usually inside of him.

Strega

Posted by Strega 3 years ago Report

Sometimes they start outside. 83

Wingman846

Posted by Wingman846 3 years ago Report

Good to know

Shadowclops2

Posted by Shadowclops2 3 years ago Report

Quite the catch for the lucky coonie, that’s a really big meal that should keep him kept for a little bit ❤️