Hellcat

Hellcats are devious predators native to the fiery pits of Hell. While the fiendish creatures resemble undead skeletal smilodons, bones smoking with heat and dripping with boiling blood, they're actually living hellspawn whose transparent flesh reveals their burning skeleton. A typical hellcat is 9 feet long and weighs 1,000 pounds.

Left to their own devices, hellcats spend their time hunting. As fiendish creatures, they don't need mortal sustenance but devour prey for the sheer pleasure of inflicting pain. They're also far more intelligent than most assume, and they resent being treated as unintelligent animals; those who treat a hellcat thusly might find themselves made into a trophy for its pack, as a hellcat will go to great lengths to coordinate elaborate revenge upon any who fail to show them proper respect.

Though they can't speak, hellcats know Diabolic and can communicate by telepathy with any creature capable of speech. They rarely say much except to whisper threats and acknowledge the orders of their diabolic masters.

Hellcats are quick to retreat if clearly outmatched or up against foes they're unable to reach, but they never forget prey that escapes them.