Mabari hounds are descended from pack hunters, and like their ancestors, they are highly influenced by a defined order of dominance. Ironically, despite the dread Fereldans have of werewolves, the legendary hero Dane was reputed to live as a werewolf for a time according to the popular Fereldan folk tale ' Dane and the Werewolf.' Since more than half the noble families of Ferelden claim to be descendants of Hafter, legendary Alamarri hero and son of Dane, who was reputed to be a werewolf as a consequence, many Fereldans believe they have some distant kinship with wolves and therefore also have a kinship with mabari.

The ability of normal dogs to detect a werewolf even when it is in a human guise is what first led Fereldans to adopt dogs as indispensable companions in every farmhold. Trained hounds can easily pull knights from horseback or break lines of pikemen, and the sight and sound of a wave of war dogs, howling and snarling, has been known to cause panic among even the most hardened infantry soldiers. The mabari are an essential part of Fereldan military strategy. Correspondingly, many Fereldans that frequently fight alongside Mabari will scent themselves with distinctively pungent body paint called вЂњkaddisвЂќ which allows the dogs to easily mark them as allies. Prefer) will often choose a distinct style of war paint to mark them with so that they can better pick them out from other Mabari at a distance in the midst of combat. Their masters (or вЂњpartnersвЂќ as many of those paired with Mabari Mabari are huge mastiffs with a touch of wolf blood that stand as tall as a dwarf and just as wide. Fereldans also believe that the mabari were bred from the wolves who served the Alamarri hero Dane and anyone they are paired with are believed by Fereldans to be a person of worth. When the Tevinter Imperium came to conquer Ferelden a long time ago, it is said that the mabari and their offspring eventually defected to the local barbarian tribes that the Imperium were fighting. Fenris claims that mabari were originally created in the Tevinter Imperium and were specifically bred by magisters. Ostagar's Kennel Master states that the mabari were bred by a mage to be smart and understand what they are told, and additionally to remember, understand, and carry out complex orders. Justly renowned, the Mabari are intelligent war hounds fully capable of understanding speech, perform complex commands, as deadly in a fight as any armed warrior, and loyal to one master until death do them part. Of all the dog breeds that the Fereldans have produced, none are so highly regarded or so widely famed as the Mabari.

Although fierce combatants, a mabari companion is shown to be a highly sociable animal, and though not capable of speech, they can clearly respond to speech with growls, whines, barks and several other actions that demonstrate intelligent comprehension. Each mabari chooses their master for life in a process called imprinting.

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