I'll talk about the cat homeworld now before getting to Tumeken.
Cats likely first evolved on New Domina. The skypouncers are native there. They likely share an evolutionary history with the other lion/cat creatures we see, mostly found in Saradomins armies. Growler for example. At some point I suspect Saradomin and the Icyene started breeding Skypouncers to make expensive pets which were then imported to Terraguard, where the rich, such as Robert the Strong would own them (Odysseus).
Now Tumeken possessed cats and dogs. It's not clear when he came into possession of these animals. If it was after he came to gielinor, he could have gotten them from Saradomin and Guthix's humans, but consider this:
On New Domina, life revolves around sun and water. Life is a constant migration to keep inside the sun's warmth because to leave is to die from the freezing temperatures. So if you were a culture on such a planet, the sun is your life, and your culture would likely reflect that including your god. Tumeken himself passes himself off as the "sun", it would make sense to do that if your follower's culture revolves around the sun. His wife if often associated with water, another major characteristic of New Domina culture. Awhile back, the question for why the desert people are black was raised. The desert isn't old enough for natural selection to yield black skin, so the people there must have previously developed on a planet where they were exposed to a lot of sun, such as New Domina. Finally, New Domina cultures have to migratory, wasn't it also said that the desert folk was also quite migratory before the desert....
I think it's highly likely Tumeken was a god on New Domina before Saradomin had claimed the place as his own, and had recruited his people from there. He also may have visited the werewolf homeworld and recruited people there, or he picked up some dogs once he settled into gielinor.
28-May-2017 17:22:25
