Foulmar
Salt-and-pepper grey through the back with a rust wash at the neck and flank, and a stiff black stripe of guard hair running the spine and the length of the brush. The shoulders are heavier than the base, the forelimbs longer, the claws hooked and semi-retractable.
They are the only canid line that climbs, and everything follows from it. A Foulmar dens in the high branches and works upward, and in a town its range is measured in rooftops as much as in ground.
Body
Salt-and-pepper grey through the back with a rust wash at the neck and flank, and a stiff black stripe of guard hair running the spine and the length of the brush. The shoulders are heavier, the forelimbs longer, the claws hooked and semi-retractable. They are the only canid line that climbs, and they den in the high branches.
The rest is base Foulen and the base leg is unchanged: digitigrade, silent, one breath of sprint and nothing after it. The difference the claws make is that a Foulmar does not need the sprint as often, because the escape is upward, and a dog on a wooded road is a smaller problem to a Foulmar than to anyone else on this species' list of enemies.
Country
They work upward: roofs, lofts, upper windows, the second storey of an inn. A Foulmar range is measured in rooftops as much as in ground, and in the towns they are the reason shutters are barred on the top floor.
The Verge is still the Verge, the band where the woodland stops and the houses start, but a Foulmar crosses that band overhead, and a worked district shows the same marks as a worked field edge: fewer nesting birds in the eaves, more dogs on the street, and a slow retreat of the trees away from the houses where somebody has worked it out.
Regard
Ressik of the long bench is a Foulmar of the tree-brush line, the canine patron of the taverns, who buys information rather than drinks and has never been seen to arrive, which is a joke about the kin as much as about the individual.
They keep the brush-marks, and a Foulmar's are cut where a ground-walking Foulen will not find them: gutters, ridge-tiles, the top rail of a stair. A reading of the marks on a roofline will tell you which inns on a street are being worked, and there are people who sell that reading too.
Lore
Summary
Extended Lore
Still unwritten in the record for this entry.
- Which towns and wooded districts hold the heaviest Foulmar traffic
- What Ressik buys information for, and who pays him
- Whether a Foulmar range is auctioned at the two Nights like a ground range
- How Foulmar live in country with neither tall trees nor town roofs