Story Time

You [story] shout: Once upon a time
You [story] shout: A long long time ago
You [story] shout: there was a race a shapeshifting demons called rakshasas
You [story] shout: they were very powerful and feared all over the lands of wyvern
You [story] shout: One day, a paladin named Ver wanded into their village
You [story] shout: Ver was very loved by everyone in the lands of wyvern
You [story] shout: He was young and careless
You [story] shout: But he was very loving
You [story] shout: He went into a rakshasas home and was immediately killed
You [story] shout: When word of this got back to minath, the citizens were enraged.
You [story] shout: All of the paladins grabbed their swords and the mages readied their spells.
You [story] shout: There was an epic battle like never before
You [story] shout: It lasted for several days and nights
You [story] shout: One brilliant wizard named rhialto saw that they demons were evenly matched with the mages and paladins
You [story] shout: So he casted a spell that destroyed the dna of every rakshasa within its range
You [story] shout: The spell took away the rakshasa's ability to shapeshift and they were stuck in whatever form they were in at last
You [story] shout: And to this day, rakshasas are stuck in simple cat forms and have been expelled from the paladin's guild
You [story] shout: The end.

[Salkand]

The logic that a shape shifting demon would all assume a cat like form during a battle (the entire race mind you) is faulty.

For the entire race to lose this ability, and to be in one of four cat like forums, it would have had to take generations to happen, or part of the spell cast by rhialto reverting them into this form.

Anyway, mages would never trust smelly paladins or join their cause! Down with pallies, up with mages!

Yeah, I was going to put more detail into the story but there were too many interruptions and I kept losing track of what I was going to say next. So, whatever.