Ratmen

The Ratmen are a downtrodden and poor race that lives amongst the settlements of New Maktia. Since the Imperial colonisation of Humaria they have largely lived in the sewers and outskirts of the new cities.

Ratmen share much in common with both of the species from which their Common name derives. Their skeletal and muscular structure is much like that of a human, albiet of a shorter stature. The main difference is their tail which extends from the bottom of the back.

Their body is also covered in short hair, apart from their nose, tail and paws. This hair's colour is usually grey, though some have brown and black, and a very rare few are whire furred.

Ratmen live to be around twenty, though before the humans arrived could live slightly longer.

In the past, the Ratmen were one of the several races that shared Humaria before the Maktig Empire. They primarily lived amongst the fields, in small warrens they would dig out from the ground. Of course, this came in direct conflict with the Maktigian settlement plan - the Ratmen were evicted from their fields to make place for farmland.

For a fair period of time, the Ratmen acted as antagonistic force against the settlers from the Maktig Empire. Although the fractured Ratmen had very little in the ways of communication between the different families, much had an innate desire to remove the humans from their lands.

