How it fights
A skirmisher will not stand and trade, and cannot be made to. It arrives, cuts, and is somewhere else before your answer lands, and the frustration of swinging at the space it just left is not a side effect of the fight but most of how it is won. There is very little of it to kill. Catching it is the entire problem, and everything spent on empty air is spent all the same.
Field notes
The great rats live where people do and thrive there, in the walls, the drains, the granary, the ship, and they are the first creature a new place gets and the last a dead one keeps. They run the same lines along the walls and the lines are greasy where the fur has rubbed. They gnaw to keep the teeth down and will gnaw anything. Where they are many the cats have given up.
Where it is met
Met in The Cinder Warrens, Sworn Bastion, Silent Ruin, Old Mine, the Broken Bastion, Quiet Vault, Painted Temple and the Singing Dunes, by travellers of levels 1 to 20.
Known by these names
Known by these names: rat, field mouse, pit rat the size of a dog, water rat, wharf-rat, cart-rat, mouser cat and ration-packer.
What it leaves
Worth hunting for the sharpening and hardening it leaves behind, when it leaves anything.
The roll
Under this kind stand four of the least sort, six of the common sort, one tough and one champion.
Where to look
Kin on this ground
Met in the same places.
The record
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Generated from the game, 17 August 2026.