While not wererats, per se, they are very close in appearance. They are divided into many clans , each seeking power. These include Clan Moulder, mad users of alchemy and mutation magic , Clan Pestilens, the plagued rats, Clan Eshin, a secretive assassin clan, and Clan Skryre, insane magic engineers. All clans use the mysterious Warpstone to further their causes in their own backstabbing ways.
The Skaven are treacherous, backstabbing and ever mistrustful towards each other; it has been hinted that this infighting is the only reason they have not yet taken over the world. Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura , wererats are enemy monsters that can be found in the wild, in the sewers and in other places. While there is no shapeshifting per se, there are normal-sized rats with human intelligence, humans who change size to pass between human and rat society, humans who are half-rat, and a rat city below the human one.
Wererats also appear in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton , see wererats in Anita Blake mythology and wererat characters in Anita Blake.
The rats changed into men are characters in the fairy tale Cinderella and star in various adaptations such as the children's book I was a Rat by Philip Pullman. Yuki Sohma , from a popular manga series, titled Fruits Basket , transforms into a rat when hugged by a member of the opposite gender or when weakened. In the American Manga Gold Digger wererats were one of several lycanthropic races created by an enchanter named Iceron later revealed to be the Wererat elder Gothwrian.
Five characters important to several recent events are wererats. Splinter from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe is an anthropomorphic rat who learned the ways of ninjutsu from his owner and master, Hamato Yoshi. He is the Turtles' sensei and adoptive father. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , the reader learns that the young wizard Ron Weasley 's pet rat, Scabbers, is actually an animagus one who can transform into a particular animal named Peter Pettigrew.
Traits Shapechanger: The wererat can use its action to polymorph into a rat- humanoid hybrid or into a giant rat, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. A wererat is a therianthropic creature in the shape of a rat. The term is a neologism coined in analogy to werewolf, used in the fantasy or horror genre since the.
Pettigrew learned to become a rat when the friends of werewolf Remus Lupin became animagi to ease the pain of Lupin's lycanthropy, and later spent twelve years in rat form after faking his own death. The "were-rat" is also one of several animals that comes back to life by becoming monsters in Tim Burton 's Frankenweenie It is explicitly named as such on the promotional cards given out in theaters.
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Learn how and when to remove these template messages. The wererat has advantage on Wisdom Perception checks that rely on smell.
Multiattack Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only. The wererat makes two attacks, only one of which can be a bite. Bite Rat or Hybrid Form Only. If the target is a humanoid, it must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be cursed with wererat lycanthropy.
Shortsword Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only. Wererats are cunning lycanthropes with sly, avaricious personalities. They are wiry and twitchy in humanoid form, with thin hair and darting eyes. In their humanoid and hybrid forms, wererats prefer light weapons and use ambush tactics rather than fighting as a pack. Although a wererat can deliver a nasty bite in its rat form, it favors that form for stealthy infiltration and escape rather than combat.
A wererat clan operates much like a thieves' guild, with wererats transmitting their curse only to creatures they want to induct into the clan. Wererats that are accidentally cursed or break loose from the clan's control are quickly hunted down and killed. Wererat clans are found throughout urban civilization, often dwelling in cellars and catacombs.
These creatures are common in the sewers beneath major cities, viewing those subterranean areas as their hunting grounds. Rats and giant rats are commonly found living among wererats. The character gains a Dexterity of 15 if his or her score isn't already higher.