The origin of these massive rats remains a mystery, but their populations can grow to overwhelming numbers, infesting entire regions with little warning.

Some individuals within the species display surprising intelligence, occasionally wielding crude tools and constructing strange shrines or totems for purposes yet to be understood.

The Verdan Hunters actively pursue and study these creatures, though a few, like the hunter Varek, have developed an unsettling obsession with them, venturing deeper into their mysteries than most would consider wise.