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I made a catfolk rogue in one of the campaigns I play. I tried to look at any Pathfinder / paizo catfolk lore and I got nothing except they live in small tribes and help each other.
I know catfolk rogues are extremely potent as a build but I mainly play for the roleplay before a power build. While I allocated some stats and skills for my character's personality, he is still really strong.
My current issue is before the campaign started, in his background, he was cursed after getting an object in a Calistria tomb. He was pretty young and did this to impress a nearby girl that told him to get something from there. Immature with a lack of wisdom, he angered the Goddess of Vengeance who put a divine curse on him. The Goddess knew the reasons he was doing this and she knew what kind of girl he was trying to impress. The curse turned his male human body into a female catfolk body and since the human girl is straight, the only he can have a chance again is if he can get the Goddess curse removed which would take a lot of time. I base myself from Elminster that took years to remove his own curse.
In my background, he escaped with her but had to separate himself from her to protect his friend. His main goal was to find her one day which he succeeded and with Leadership he keeps her as a cohort.
Normally, he would separate from the group so he can get rid of the curse but my DM is now on the second step of his campaign and right now it's a huge wall to his plans. My DM decided to try the new technology and space features of Pathfinder and an army invaded Golarion and they let my party know they would hunt us so we aren't safe. Kingmaker rules will be applied and this will take years.
While my character is true neutral and I could be careless about it. They threatened me and my cohort while the balance of his world is at risk. My group feels forced and is really angry this invasion blocked them (I am not the only one with my project ruined) This is so the campaign turns into an epic space battle with mythic rules (Because we are aware of a Great Old One named Hastur)
I can't remove that curse simply by using wish or miracle. I'd need to do a long task and it would take years. While I can become immortal with mythic talents, the more time passes and more I feel my character should simply accept his fate. My party happen to have a priestess of Calistria which is ironic and he is driven by vengeance because his plans are screwed and he's actually adopting that philosophy of Calistrae despite the curse.
Despite not being a true Catfolk, my character does share similitudes with the race. But since he has gave up on the idea to get the curse removed my character has been moody and angry which never happened before. I even let an obvious hint on purpose so my group would figure his secret since he had never mentionned his curse.
His cohort is neutral good and feels bad because he wouldn't have got that curse if she didn't have dared him to do so. She also understand his feelings but to her, he's a close friend and nothing more. She would love to help him and one of the other PC said she'd help also. I was thinking trying to find other catfolks to help my character accept what she is. This is where my problem happens. I have found absolutely nothing about a known catfolk tribe nor my party have encounter another catfolk. My character doesn't even know the language but he shares the curiousity, help for community, center of attention and lack of common sense.
Does anyone have an idea how I should proceed? Should I simply ask my DM to make something or there's a known place in Golarion where Catfolks hangout. I know since it will take years to build a kingdom I could on the sideway try to cleanse that curse but I feel it would be much better for my character roleplay wise to stay like he is. I originally picked Catfolk because it would bring humour in the game and it was a success.