Ratmen—strange creatures that appear in most fantasy stories.
They're generally described as bipedal creatures that look like giant rats scaled up to human size. They tend to live in dark corners, peering at the sunlit world with malicious eyes, and have greedy bellies and voracious appetites.
They usually appear as villains. Unfortunately, on this land imbued with psionic energy, ratmen seemed to have inherited their "fine traditions" as well.
Murphy didn't know whether these giant-rat-like humanoids were a "specialty" of the Dark Mountains, but he knew he was unlikely to get a definitive answer from anyone else. There were simply too many different creatures in the Dark Mountains!
Even the Bloodsworn Knights, who constantly patrolled the area around them, could hardly claim to know every creature in the Dark Mountains.
This mysterious region was full of strange terrain, and had been almost completely sealed off for the past thousand years. Add in the presence of tainted psionic energy, and it was understandable that all kinds of creatures might appear inside.
But while all those other strange races were one thing, ratmen were another.
"They come pouring out from every direction. They only seem to move at night, as if they're afraid of sunlight. But as the war fog keeps spreading, it's become hard for light from outside to get in. Now these rat bastards have started strutting around at dusk, attacking us through their tunnels."
Captain Bloody Babro approached Murphy, carrying half a bottle of liquor. The wild, middle-aged vampire spoke with utter disgust:
"I used to think the wave-riding fishmen out at sea were the most disgusting things in the world. Turns out you land-dwellers have it rough, too. If you've been holding off things like these all these years, then even I, a pirate, would pray for your