Giant rats are relatively easy to breed. They are probably the cheapest item available to hire on Moulder's catalogue of monsters.
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| - Giant rats are relatively easy to breed. They are probably the cheapest item available to hire on Moulder's catalogue of monsters.
- Just like Splinter, who named his turtles based on his favorite Italian Renaissance artists, the Rat King has given names of roman emperors to a few of his loyal giant rats such as:
* Caligula - "Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus", was the Rat King's mount.
* Claudius - "Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus"
* Nero - "Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus"
* Commodus - "Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus" According to the concept art the giant rats measure about 12 feet long with their tail.
- A Breed of huge rats once made it's home in many Underdeeps such as Moria or Gundabad.Although these rats were aggressive and dangerous, the Orcs avidly hunted them for food.
- These rodents of unusual size are a good indicator that there is a environmental problem in Britannia. Giant rats might be not a big threat in combat, but they carry all kinds of disease; one unlucky bite can be enough to cause a serious infection, which has to be treated at once. Because of this, giant rats are less of a mortal threat than they are a danger to the public health and the food stocks in the cities. Giant rats usually dwell in caves and dungeons, but can also be found in the wilderness, and often seek out food in human encampments.
- Many Giant Rats have additional heads, sets of extra limbs, multiple tails, or even more monstrous additions. Spines, spikes, tusk-like incisors, or vast hunches of bony plates can be almost commonplace, while some of the more grotesque creations have exposed ribs, enormous mounds of throbbing buboes, or worse. Giant Rats have even been seen walking upright in parody of man, or gifted with odd technical parts such as wheels or mace-enhanced tails. Regardless of their bewildering variations, all Giant Rats are vicious, wicked, and eternally hungry.[3a]
- Giant Rats are often much more vicious than their real-world counterparts and actively seek humans or other animals out as a source of food- they often have much more demonic features than a normal rat, with sharper fangs and claws, as well as glowing eyes or other traditional "evil" modifications to make them appear more chaotic or frightening.
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- Ultima V
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| - This filthy, overgrown rodent is a severe hazard to the health of human beings. Immune to poison and too large to be trapped, this creature has a voracious appetite for garbage and carrion. When it roams in packs it loses its natural fear of human beings. The bite of a giant rat can cause a variety of potentially fatal diseases.
- These voracious, overgrown rodents have evolved over the centuries in the dank, inhospitable sewers that honeycomb the levels below some castles. Having grown immune to most poisons, they are difficult to exterminate. Even a single bite from one of these giants can cause disease or plague.
- Away from towns, cities, and domestic settings, rats grow to the size of cats or even small dogs. Such rats usually live underground, eating smaller vermin, scavenging refuse left by other cave-dwellers, even occasionally cooperating to bring down larger prey. The giant tan rat is the most common of these creatures, but in the lower depths a thing called the great grey rat has been increasing its numbers. The knight who reported this to us soon succumbed to an unidentifiable feverish disease, perhaps contracted as an infection from the many bites found on her legs and torso.
- Natural agility and sharp teeth are rats' chief advantages. They are not strong and do not hit very hard. The mortal danger rats pose to knights comes from their capacity for passing on noxious germs and substances. Seldom do knights tangle with rats without someone in the group becoming ill with poison. At worst, the result of such an encounter is infection with plague.
- A larger cousin to the common rat, the giant rat has fattened itself on corpses found in places wherein only the strong survive. Attacking in numbers, these foul creatures have no fear of man, but respond well to vigorous counter attacks. Most strikes come from the side with a hasty retreat following.
- The underground passages of the Realm are prowled by oversized rodents, the result of Mondain's necromancy and an abundance of food in the form of victims of the Evil One's minions. The Sosarian Giant Rat is a vicious predator and should not be taken lightly.
- The Great Gray Rat is found in the lower depths, where it feeds upon the refuse washed down from higher in the chasm. Consequent to their revolting eating habits, these rats are universally infected with noxious germs which they pass on with every bite. Seldom do our Knights tangle with Great Gray Rats without someone in the party becoming ill. Fortunately, these rats can often be avoided, or driven off with a spirited defense.
- Much larger and fiercer than its smaller brother, the giant rat is the king of carrion. When several are found together, what little fear they possess for humans vanishes entirely. Both here and back in Sosaria, we sought to eliminate the local population with poison, but whatever it is in their metabolism that causes them to feast on refuse has also granted them immunity to most toxins.
- The common Giant Rat, while not evil by nature, will still enter human camps in search of food. They pose a threat to any dungeon explorers foolish enough to startle them.
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- The First Age of Darkness
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- Beyond the Serpent Pillars
- A Safe Passage Through Britannia
- Memoirs of Sir Cabirus
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| - Giant rats are relatively easy to breed. They are probably the cheapest item available to hire on Moulder's catalogue of monsters.
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