* Restricted: Rat Cultists only
The Rat Cult is widespread across the Underworld and the
Overworld, wherever Rats are to be found.
Unlike its rivals the Scorpion and Snake Cults, which are fragmented into
different Cults, the E/L Rat Cult is one Cult, but organised like a Temple with
many different local Chapters (which can sometimes feud over territory).
RATTUS, E/L Demigod of Rats, is the Patron of the Rat Cult,
appearing as an enormous Black Rat.
RATTUS is one of the leading False Gods, with many worshippers, and it is said
the only reason He has not already achieved Godhead is that nobody else likes
Rats. RATTUS Clerics have their
Spells granted by WAGREN (formerly LOFIR), as RATTUS is part of His (formerly
Her) Host of Evil Law, and Cast Cause Disease as a Level 4 Spell.
Occasionally a heretical Lycanthropic Chapter or splinter Cult worships
MIRIMI, but the Orthodox Cult stamps these out when discovered.
The Cult is more tolerant of TERRIK-worshippers, as TERRIK is Allied with
WAGREN and is associated with Dumps where the Rats like to feed.
SITH, E/C Harbinger of Pestilence, also has an association with Rats.
Most Chapters of the Rat Cult are Thievish and the City
Chapters are usually Thieves’ Guilds in their own right, with HALKI as Patron
God of Rats and Thieves being heavily involved with the Cult.
Such Chapters are common around the docks in ports, with the
Dock Rats
being a major Chapter with branches in all the major Port Cities.
Rat Cultist Thieves have access to certain Restricted Thievish
Activities, and (unlike most City Thieves) are well aware of the uses of Scent.
SOROK is involved with Chapters based in Necropoli, which
use Rats to strip corpses for the creation of Skeletons (or to give Zombies or
Ghouls a suitably gnawed look), and keep a few Undead Giant Rats or Wererats.
JAPAL supports the Cult’s Beastmaster Druids through Her
Rat Spirits. Rat
Beastmasters have a specific Druidic Spell
List, with Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade) as the unique medium for their Rodent
Cycle of Spells. Some Chapters in
remote wilderness areas are more Mystical and their Shamen can enter the Endless
Catacombs, Dream Kingdom of Rats, using their Enter Power or via the Sacred
Circles and Totems of the Cult.
Cultist Binders Summon NORVEGICUS, Demon of Rats, E/L Demon
Lord and Servant of RATTUS, Who appears as a huge Brown Rat, provides Rat
Familiars and grants Powers to Giant Rats and their riders.
Lycanthropy, Regeneration, Earthwalking and Enter the Endless Catacombs
are favourite Powers of Cultists.
Lycanthropy is endemic in the Rat Cult, with many followers actively seeking
to become Wererats. Most Chapters
outside the Cities (and a few inside) breed
Giant Rats, some of which
are Lycanthropes.
Rat Cultists have affinities with Earth and Water, but an
aversion to Fire (though they do not count as Fire Vulnerable).
Their Elementalists favour
Earth and Water Spells.
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