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Tailchaser's Song1985 · standalone · the cats' epic
Tad Williams's 1985 debut — a heroic fantasy told entirely among cats, in the lineage of Watership Down. A feral tom named Fritti Tailchaser leaves the Folk to find his vanished love and stumbles into a war of cat-gods beneath the world. Williams built the cats a whole mythology, language, and law from whisker height.
governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0)
instance · AVAN (locked)
subject · Tailchaser's Song · TCS · by Tad Williams
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The Books
web-verified — US first editions
- Tailchaser's Song1985the debut — a feral cat's heroic quest, with an entire feline cosmology invented whole
The Roster — 8
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Fritti Tailchaser — the ginger questing tom
The brave, curious tomcat who leaves the Folk to find his vanished love — the hero of Williams's debut cats' epic.
Hushpad — the lost beloved
The she-cat Tailchaser quests to find — discovered at last living among humans.
Pouncequick — the loyal kitten
A young kitten who joins the road and becomes Tailchaser's faithful companion.
Roofshadow — the last of her clan
A she-cat, sole survivor of a slaughter, who allies with the travellers.
Eatbugs — the mad god in disguise
A filthy, gibbering old cat who is secretly Tangaloor Firefoot, the hero-god, walking unknown among them.
Grizraz Hearteater — the furless god below
The villain — an ancient, monstrous cat-god scheming from his underground realm of Vastnir to unmake the world.
The Cat Gods — Meerclar's children
Meerclar Allmother and the Two (Harar Goldeneye, Fela Skydancer), and their sons Whitewind, Hearteater, and Firefoot — the cosmology Williams built whole.
The Folk & the Court of Harar — cat society, mythologized
The elaborate naming, law, and lore of the cats — a whole culture seen from whisker height.
“Before the great human epics, Williams gave the cats their own — gods, law, language, and a quest, all from a tom's eye height.”
Catalogued, not owned. Tailchaser's Song and its world are © Tad Williams (and co-authors where noted); catalogued personifications under the DLW standard — render-not-invent, commentary not endorsement. Bibliography & rosters dual-agent web-verified.