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Ok first off let me make clear this is not about the mechanics, I don't care what benefit the familiar actually gives you this is all about theme and nature of the familiar itself.
I have 3 familiars I'm tossing up between for a wrath of the righteous game fox, cat and cat-margay. I've ruled out the fox for a number of reasons so my current focus is on the cat or cat-margay choice. Now it may just be that the margay is a new variant I've just stumbled across but I like it. Can climb down tree's forwards and look at how cute it is . . .
However it is a tropical cat, its nocturnal and it lives most if not all of its life up in the treetops never seeing the ground (and can I just say giving birth to a litter of kittens in a treetop canopy is impressive). All of which argues against it as a familiar choice nocturnal vs players operating during the day, tropical jungle vs worldwound ground, treetop based vs operating at ground level or in cities. I like it but right now I reluctantly have to come down on the side of the regular cat. So please help me justify taking a Margay familiar to myself.
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If you're around the worldwound then wildlife might be well advised to live its life in the trees and out of sight. Gods and druids might even have encouraged some instant evolution.
An exotic pet that has acclimatized to the ground and day.
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Its a Cat that looks like a Margay (perhaps 1/2 Margay, but use cat stats).
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An exotic animal you bought from a merchant specifically for the purposes of bonding as a familiar...done and done. Once its a familiar (other than being a water breather) its natural habitat doesn't matter.
Depending on your characters race and/or homeland, the margay might be far more commonplace than a house cat... as a result, despite being mostly nocturnal and treetop dwelling, they would be a prime example of familiars for your region.
I don’t really know anything about the ecology of the region for that campaign setting, but based on what little I can find online about it, there do appear to be some jungle-like regions in the surrounding area... honestly it really comes down to how much you want a margay as your familiar or not. There is always a valid explanation around one corner or another. Some are just more apparent than others. If your from one of the more jungle-like regions, you’d absolutely have a margay as a common familiar option. The more estranged your origin is from their ecology however, the less likely and more exotic of a familiar option they become.
Really we can’t do much to help with your decision besides spitball ideas on how it might work... the best way to help us help you is to provide us with some background details for your character, thus allowing some insight into where the conflict might be occurring. The campaign setting itself is only as restrictive as you or your DM declare it to be. You could very well be a foreigner from a different land who’s found themselves wrapped up in the affaires of the region even...
True though this is for a wrath of the righteous character and I doubt think Margay are common there unlike say the snakeman one.
The area in wrath of the righteous is full of people from all over the world who were either sent by their kingdoms or go due to a religious crusade to hold back the worldwound. You don't necessarily have to be from there.
Also, again, exotic animal merchant.
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The character can adventure in the Worldwound, and yet be a native of another place, like a 'tourist' who has come to the 'bitterly cold north' from far-off Sargava or the Mwangi Expanse. Thanks to Sargava having a population of basically white colonial types (from Cheliax), your ethnicity doesn't even have to be native to the same region as the margay (although it easily could, as the native arcane casters have a tendency to travel, and a powerful arcane tradition associated with good outsiders and nature magic).
The Worldwound also has some funky affects on the surroundings. Perhaps this particular margay found itself in the region through some distortion caused when a wardstone interacted with a demon's attempt to teleport to the distant south for some perfidy, and instead of the demon going to the jungles, some innocent margay got caught up and brought north, where it promptly fled and later answered a call to be a familiar, since it was all out of sorts in the local environment (and perhaps still 'touched by magic' and more susceptible / accessible to that sort of thing)...