History TabletopGame / Pugmire

* CatsAreMean: Or at least they're strange and secretive and most dogs don't trust them. ''Monarchies of Mau'' goes into more detail on this. Cats aren't mean (well, ''individual'' cats can be, but the same is true for dogs), and so far as many cats are concerned the current negotiations to form an alliance between Pugmire and the Monarchies is a genuine effort founded on common ideals and interests, but their different philosophy and religion can rub dogs the wrong way (while both cat and dog religion revere the Old Ones, dogs place themselves as favoured servants of Man, while cats place Man as [[CatsAreSuperior the favoured servants of cats]]). It doesn't help that cats ''are'' secretive -- or rather, combine a fractious political structure full of intrigue with a seeming psychological need to maintain at least one secret even if it is only maintained by everyone around them politely pretending not to know.

->''"Be a good dog."''

* TheEmpire: Pugmire, technically, albeit a very small one - the capital city only has a single subservient province, Houndton. It had another in recent history, but Waterdog Port was first conquered by the cats and later became an independent city-state.

* EvilDetectingDog: Companion breeds and herders can learn a trick that allows them to smell the Unseen, and the Church of Man's tenants preach that they could do that before uplift as well, but Man unfortunately didn't heed their warnings.

* ClarkesThirdLaw: Name-dropped in the chapter on "Magic and Technology", which explains that in the Pugmire world, the terms "Magic" and "Technology" apply to the exact same items, and represent different ends of the same spectrum--something is "Magic" when it is irreplaceable and little understood, whilst it is "Technology" if it is understand and mass-producible. Thusly, the ancient relics of humanity are Magic, whilst things like chairs, armor, weapons, clothing, etc are Technology.

* ClarkesThirdLaw: Name-dropped in the chapter on "Magic and Technology", which explains that in the Pugmire world, the terms "Magic" and "Technology" apply to the exact same items, and represent different ends of the same spectrum--something is "Magic" wen it is irreplaceable and little understood, whilst it is "Technology" if it is understand and mass-producible. Thusly, the ancient relics of humanity are Magic, whilst things like chairs, armor, weapons, clothing, etc are Technology.

* ClarkesThirdLaw: Name-dropped in the chapter on "Magic and Technology".

* {{Necromancer}}: Cat "[[{{Whatevermancy}} Mancers]]" use bones as foci, and their spell list includes a fair bit of the necromancy school in contrast with Dog Artisans.

* UnreliableNarrator: Yosha and Pan disagree on plenty of things and are both clearly biased - she's SpoiledSweet, while he is wearing JadeColoredGlasses. Who is right on any given subject is up to individual gamemasters to decide. Also, it's strongly hinted that neither one of them really understand the cats and the other non-dog species, and that those are likely to have yet another different perspective on things.

* CatsAreMean: Or at least they're strange and secretive and most dogs don't trust them.
** ''Monarchies of Mau'' goes into more detail on this. Cats aren't mean (well, ''individual'' cats can be, but the same is true for dogs), and so far as many cats are concerned the current negotiations to form an alliance between Pugmire and the Monarchies is a genuine effort founded on common ideals and interests, but their different philosophy and religion can rub dogs the wrong way (while both cat and dog religion revere the Old Ones, dogs place themselves as favoured servants of Man, while cats place Man as [[CatsAreSuperior the favoured servants of cats]]). It doesn't help that cats ''are'' secretive -- or rather, combine a fractious political structure full of intrigue with a seeming psychological need to maintain at least one secret even if it is only maintained by everyone around them politely pretending not to know.
* TheClan: Dogs use the term "breed" to refer to what modern humans would call their "type", e.g. "companion", "fettle", "herder," "pointer", "runner", "worker", and "mutt". What humans knew as breed are instead "families" within a breed and indeed considered to be large extended families, though marrying distant relatives within your family is normal.

** Rats and badgers[[note]]technically all mustelids[[/note]] aren't particularly well-liked either. Generally thought of as criminals and barbarians, respectively, by the two city-building species.

* GoodRepublicEvilEmpire: Inverted, as far as the dogs are concerned - they are proud of being [[UndyingLoyalty loyal]], [[OrderVersusChaos orderly]] and [[GoodOldWays traditional]] and having a [[TheEmpire strong central government,]] while looking down their muzzles on the cats and their more individualistic collection of [[TheFederation loosely affiliated nations.]] It's strongly implied that the cats view things according to this trope, though.

* OneWordTitle / ThePlace: The kingdom of Pugmire, although it might more properly be called a city-state. There are also a number of other dog communities outside the kingdom.

* ElvesVsDwarves: Pugmire's group-minded, loyal-to-a-fault dogs versus the Monarchies of Mau's individualistic, intrigue-obsessed cats. They get along like, well, cats and dogs.

A companion game, ''Monarchies of Mau'', has been released, which spotlights the cats and their domains.

* FantasticRacism: The cats and dogs get along about as well as... you know...

A companion game, ''Monarchies of Mau'', is in the works, spotlighting the cats and their domains.