Fiction:Vermin Kingdom

"You are below rats. You are below us. Leave us, or die."

- The Vermin King

The Vermin Kingdom is a crude but extremely populous empire residing at 's underground. Its sole inhabitants are the.

Early History
The Terefah race was created around 600 years before the New Age, when a population of was cursed and transformed into rats by an unknown entity, believed to be a sorcerer or witch. These rats were then exiled to live underground to serve as the entity's slaves. With time, the rats bred, creating more of themselves into their numbers were huge in number. Years alter the curse, rats eventually turned over their curser and tore him or her apart, but the current generation of rats were not reverted back their original forms, for they had already been born as rats. Naming themselves the Terefah and forming the Vermin Kingdom under the rule of the Vermin King, the rats decided to rule over the underground realms of Koldenwelt, growing resentment and hatred toward the inhabitants of the surface in the process.

Society
Between each other, Terefah are equal and have no social ranks. All rats work together to gather food, water and other resources for all the population. While the Terefah show equality between themselves, their half-rat servants are not treated the same, and are only accepted as members of their society once they have proved themselves worthy in the eyes of the Vermin King, usually by defeating intruders or bringing a great treasure to the rats.

Technology
The rats possess no technology of their own, instead using scraps stolen from other races to make extremely rudimentary mechanisms. The rats infest their lairs with traps to deal with intruders who manage to invade them.

Habitat
The Vermin Kingdom extends through the Tropical Lands and to the Eastern Plains. The capital of the Kingdom is located at the Eastern Plains, in the rat city of Maldicium. Terefah citizens live in caves, grottoes and very rudimentary buildings made out of stolen pieces of equipment belonging to other races.

Individuals
The Vermin King=

"Get out of my sight, two-legged freak. You are not welcome in the kingdom of rats."


 * Name - Vermin King
 * Affiliation -
 * Status - Active

The Vermin King is the supreme leader of the Terefah race and the entire Vermin Kingdom. Leading over his race, the Vermin King has the unique power of spreading the rat curse, turning individuals of other races into half-rat hybrids to be his servants. The Vermin King is both named and titled as such, and like the rest of the Terefah, he holds a deep grudge for the inhabitants of the surface world. His position as transmitter of the rat curse makes him biologically immortal, and he is the only member of his race who remembers their Deiwos origins.



Allies
"You...are friends with rats?"


 * N/A

Neutral
"Begone from here, non-rat."


 * - Men. Deiwos.
 * - Elves. Deiwos.

Enemies
"We will gnaw your bones clean."


 * - Underground belongs to the rats.
 * - Monsters of rock and crystal!