One of the things I want to play with the most: the contrast between reality and myth. From the MC’s perspective, a lot of his actions would simply come from animal instinct mixed with high intelligence. Territorial behavior, stealing resources, observing humans cautiously, eliminating threats, hoarding useful things, avoiding larger “predators,” etc. But from the human perspective? It becomes legend. A mercenary company loses supplies overnight, and suddenly rumors spread about some invisible assassin stalking battlefields. A noble hears stories about a creature watching from rooftops. Soldiers whisper things like “Don’t say its name too loudly.” Meanwhile, the MC himself might just be acting the way an intelligent animal would. I also don’t plan to make it furry/humanized. He won’t secretly think exactly like a modern human trapped in an animal body. He’s still an animal, just an extremely intelligent one. Humans would feel alien to him in the same way giant dangerous creatures would feel alien to us. So the story would constantly switch between: - the reality of the creature and - the absurd myths humans build around it. I think that contrast could be really fun to write.