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I do hunt. I grew up in the south and hunting was like second nature. I’ve used dogs quite often (beagles, spaniels, pointers, retrievers, etc.) for small game, especially birds and rabbits. And I use a gun for small game, usually a .22 rifle or a 12 gauge shotgun with bird-shot (BB or BBB depending on the bird). The largest game I’ve “hunted” is deer and I’ve never used an animal for that. I no longer hunt deer (unless it’s with a bow) because I don’t consider sitting in a tree stand covered in camo and deer urine, waiting for a deer to walk by, to be actually hunting. The thrill of the hunt, which is what I hear the Norn characters talking about (when they’re not talking about drinking LOL), is, I imagine, what it’s like to hunt with an animal. Tracking down your prey, training dogs to run a rabbit in front of you, the howls the dogs send when they’ve found what you’ve sent them looking for, the pride in a retriever’s eyes when he brings back the duck you just shot down. Add to all that that I am also pagan studying Native American lore. I think the Norn is the PERFECT race for a Ranger character.