[Tartun Empire Military Affairs Department, War Command Council · Purification Order No. 10030: "Northern Frontier Extermination Edict"
In the name of the Emperor and the Bone Throne, the Blade of Tatuun had grown weary of hearing Rat Vermin gnaw.
Your filthy claws had defiled the frostbound lands, desecrated the burial ground of the Golden Bloodline with your stinking lairs, and seeped into the foundations of the Snow Mountain Fortress with plague-ridden slime. This was no invasion. It was a cancer upon eternal Order. Under Article Three of imperial law, filth was to be purged with steel and fire.
From the day this order reached the frozen lands of the Northern Frontier, the Second Redglow Guard Legion, Third Blackwatch Legion, Fourth Silverwing Storm Legion, Sixth Ashen Bone Punishment Legion, the Tartun Empire's Royal Magic Academy Mage Corps, and the Empire's conscripts would enact Chapter Nine of the Codex of Purification: unlimited authority to exterminate rodent beastfolk.
Every Ratfolk lair in Middle Earth and the Northern Frontier would have molten iron poured into its entrance to seal the exits, then be buried with high-level earth spells until it became nourishment for the land;
Captured Rat Mothers would have their wills broken. Every pup they bore would be trained as an Exploder Rat and sent back to the dung heaps where its fathers hid;
Under the Spoils Act, any Ratfolk ear longer than two inches could be exchanged by Professionals or civilians for a reward of five Copper Coins apiece.
Anyone who sold rye to the Ratfolk would be flayed and hung beside the army's line of march;
Anyone who sang a lament for the Ratfolk would be thrown into the Frostland Lizards' feeding troughs;
Anyone who showed the Ratfolk mercy would have their fingernails set into the stained-glass windows of the Empire's