This is already a thing. The story is about a Cait Sith, a creature from Scottish folklore based on stories of the real-life Kellas Cat, a hybrid species that's born in Scotland sometimes from feral domestic cats breeding with Scottish Wildcat, the resulting hybrid being larger than either parent species. Cait Sith in stories could transform between human and cat form, but only 9 times before it would be permanently stuck in cat form. Overtime, this morphed into the superstition that cats have nine lives. They also supposedly had the ability to either bless or curse people, which always took the form of good or bad luck respectively. They could even supposedly consume spirits if they walked over a grave. I hope this was helpful.

Ancient Magus Bride includes a kingdom of supernatural cats with a strong sense of justice (along with every other sort of fey)

My humble offering (cobbling together halfling with a couple other things). Ability Scores: Choose one of: (a) Choose any +2; choose any other +1 (b) Choose three different +1 Size: Small Speed: Your walking speed is 25 feet, and you have a climbing speed equal to your walking speed. Creature Type. You are a Fey. Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray. Instinctive Talent. Thanks to your connection to the fey realm, you gain proficiency with two of the following skills of your choice: Insight, Performance, Perception, Persuasion, or Stealth. Lucky. When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll. Nine Lives. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest. Feline Stealth. You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for your character.

I like Svittens, as if theyre some how related to Sphinx, although the species has lots of names from city to city as when asked, they would be evasive of the question and reply "Well, I'm me of course, one of a kind". Common alternate names would be Feylines, Flufwitch, Moppets, Pipers and Satanic Bastard Cats. Fun things thay can do, would be to hypnotize mice and rats with ease. This may be used to simply have people offer them homes to sleep in and food to eat, or more horrifically used to eat corpses they wish hidden or destroyed.

perhaps Grimalkin could work as a name, seeing as its both used as a name for one of the witch's familiars in Macbeth and I believe is also a kind of fey cat in folklore.

The Studio Ghibli Film "The Cat Returns" would be some great source material for a Fey/Cat race

I absolutely love this idea! It's instantly being added to my campaign. 😂

Another 2 great cat stories in the weird genre are Lovecraft's The Cats of Ulthar (the cats appear again in the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath) and Blackwood's Ancient Sorceries. Sandy Petersen already handled the first in his Cthulhu sourcebook, offering the Dreamland Cat as a PC option.

9:56= good one I get it Proof= the lich is changed but spirit will still there Example: Skeletor goal is to kill He-Man so even if he being changed has a cat by Orko he still want to kill He-Man 😂🙄🥱🫡

I would absolutely watch The Cat Returns if you haven't already for more inspiration with this idea!

0:46 idk, I just see a void with eyes, not a cat.

BLACK KITTY!