Rats
The most common vile creature in Yliakum, rats have become a pest in the large towns. They proliferate where food is freely available, and always seem able to find some way to get it. They will eat the rotting corpses in sewers as well as the fresh meat in someone's cupboard. They have been known to attack people if they got too close, however they are generally so inoffensive that kids often tease them just for fun.
- Appearance
- Rats in this world are quite large and covered with greyish fur. They have one eye and a skinny tail. They use their sharp teeth to attack, and while a Rat's bite can be quite painful, it does not inflict too much damage.
- Strength
- Because they are quite easy to defeat, fighting them is a good way for the weaker adventurer to gain experience.
- Natural Habitat
- Rats can be found in the sewers of Hydlaa, or in the warehouse district of Ojaveda.
Subspecies
Wrathrat
Wrathrats are very much like common rats in shape, however, their appearance is dramatically different. Only half of the head has flesh, the rest is skeleton; their bodies are skinned, bare muscles are open to the air and held together in places with coarse stitchings. It is unsure whether they feed or not since they do not seem to be alive in the natural sense. Some speculate that a sorcerer cast a spell upon some rats, dooming them never to rest in peace.
- Appearance
- Wrathrats have the same physical shape as common rats, but their fur is of a bloody red and their skin adheres to their skeleton by only a few stitches here and there.
- Strength
- Wrathrats are far more powerful than common rats; their big claws can inflict serious damage to the careless or unskilled fighter.
- Natural Habitat
- Unlike common rats, wrathrats live in the Death Realm, and have never been seen in Yliakum.