Honey Paw

Honey Paws are big brown bear folk of the meadows and woodlands, built like Kodiaks: broad, heavy and fast, in scarred plate and hide, with a bearded axe in a heavy hand. Other folk call them Honey Paws, a jab at a sweet tooth that stuck because they do like honey. It is a name, not who they are. They are fierce, territorial warriors, very hard to stop, who defend their country, their den and their kin without a second thought.

A Honey Paw who thinks a den or their country is in danger stops what they are doing, rises in full armor, and is a great deal larger than anyone remembered. It is best not to come near them in autumn, when they are hungriest, and best of all never to cross their boundary stones.