Category:Ratkin



Setting The Ratkin are Gaia’s balance for the Humans, created when they began to grow and learn too rapidly. The Ratkin specialize in toxins and disease to kill and making human deaths look “natural” is a specialty of theirs. They work well with Red Talons and Rokea, as both desire to cull the numbers of humanity; however the Red Talons really distrust the Rat Kin while the Rokea have only small instances of working with them, and only the Ronin Ratkin. Ronin Ratkin aren’t like Garou Ronin, but are the sea-faring Ratkin who travel via ship constantly. Occasionally the Ratkin will help a Rokea Betweener accomplish a task in exchange for a favor down the line, which usually the Rokea agree too simply because their task on the Surface demands it.

Now you might consider the Ratkin weak, but you’d be a fool to discount their abilities because they are the smallest of all non-spider changing breeds. They are plenty lethal and just because they work in the shadows using disease and turning technology against humanity does not mean they are weak. They just work in specific ways in order to avoid more suspicion, as humans tend to see one rat and assume infestation and bring in exterminators. Because of this, the Ratkin are careful to avoid being seen.

Of all the changing breeds the Ratkin excel at killing humans. They do not do so in small numbers of one or two in the woods, or a single swimmer; they kill bus loads with explosives, collapse buildings, or use biological warfare to cull groups at a time. They also have learned they can spark wars this way, and have done so in the modern era. However, with the Caern Plague of 2012 affecting their Nests, they had to double down on protecting what was theirs and lessened off on their human killing activities to keep their species alive.

The Ratkin have a Truce between themselves, the Bone Gnawers, and Nosferatu. A truce of non-violence, and trading information. This has been in existence for the better part of a century and has yet to be violated by any of the three. This has been a great boon to the Ratkin, letting them make friends in unexpected places, and get knowledge they otherwise would not have access to.