The kattar resemble feline humans, with short golden-brown fur over their bodies and the face and ears of a cat. They come from the tropical peninsula of Minj, where they are the dominant race, and from where they spread first to Batubatan and then to the coastal kingdoms of temperate Selentia. Like humans, kattar rarely live for more than a century, and are proverbially curious and prone to traveling.
The origins of the kattar are unclear: while the humans resemble the giants, the kattar have no obvious antecedents. It may be that the old legends about their journey south from lands far north and east of the island of Vien are true. In those legends, the kattar are the survivors of a once-great empire that sank into the Great Northern Ocean in a great cataclysm. Why this land is not known to the giants or the dragons has not been explained.
Although most kattar in Minj are pagan, they do not worship the gods of the humans. Instead, they worship the local fey. Kattar can interbreed with the elves, and the offspring of such unions are fertile.