Fox, Creamfoot Fennec (3PP)

This tiny cream-colored fox tilts its head, its large ears ever alert for both prey and predators.

ECOLOGY

Environment temperate and tropical deserts and plains
Organization solitary, pair, skulk (3-8)
Treasure none

Creamfoot fennecs, like their brushtail and firefoot cousins, are the smallest wild canids, with black tips on their sleek tails and oversized ears on otherwise completely sandy-colored pelts. They are superbly adapted to hunting burrowing prey in brutally harsh desert environments. Wild creamfoots are intensely curious, especially of humanoids, and they make excellent pets and familiars when weaned young and handreared.

In the native human settlements and cities of the tropical plains and deserts, they are widely (and mistakenly) believed to supernaturally ward off fiends and undead. Across the Great Sea, at least one northern nation previously imported them as a cheaper substitute to firefoot pelts, but this superstition led to their bloody purging upon ascendency of a fiend-backed royal family. Both wild and pet creamfoots often meet mysterious, gruesome deaths in this nation now, as warnings to any who would think of upsetting the current Hellish power structure.