The Mother of Felines
Bast is both a mother and destroyer, a healer and murderer. It is rather fitting than that her holy animal is the cat: both cuddly and loving, but also sadistic and predatory. Across the world, small cults devoted to Bast and her dual nature stay hidden, their purpose to maintain balance of good and evil in the world.
These individuals often appear in courts as advisors, scribes, or archivists, keeping close watch on the important happenings of the mortal sphere - but secretly all answer to Bast herself, the Denmother. These Paws of Bast are shadows in the night, light footpads upon the roofs of cities, long tails disappearing into the darkness of wharves. Her eyes are everywhere, hidden behind the uniform cat masks her followers wear.
- from the publisher's blurb