The creature before you is a grotesque patchwork of fur, scales, and twisted limbs, its bloated stomach dragging along the ground. Jagged tusks protrude from its gaping maw, and green-black tubes pulse across its massive back.
Origin and Creation
The Rat Abomination is the horrific culmination of twisted Skrag experiments fueled by the dark powers of the Abyss. Using Warp Potion and unholy magic, the Skrags combined the remains of many creatures—most notably the once formidable Rat-Ogre—into a monstrous, painful hybrid. This patchwork of flesh, bone, and corruption was stitched together through dark sorcery, leaving a nightmarish creature whose very existence is agony.
Physical Appearance
The Rat Abomination is a grotesque fusion of different creatures. Its elongated, serpent-like body drags on the ground, burdened by a bloated stomach that constantly shifts with the movements of starving, trapped Ratlings, its future would-be offspring. Its body bears the mark of countless mutations, with mismatched appendages from different beasts—legs of different creatures fused together—while powerful, rat-like limbs dominate. The head of the abomination is a massive, decayed rat skull, with tusk-like protrusions beneath its gaping maw, pulsing with dark energy. Along its back, various tubes filled with Warp Potion snake across, their green-black liquid the only thing keeping it from spiraling into complete chaos.
Dark Magic Control
The only reason this abomination remains under the control of the Skrags is due to the constant infusion of Warp Potion, which flows through the tubes implanted into its body. This dark liquid, capable of mutating creatures and manipulating their very biology, acts as both a stimulant and binding force, ensuring the creature obeys its creators' will. However, it remains in a constant state of agony, each movement causing untold pain.
Bloated Belly and Trapped Horrors
Perhaps the most disturbing feature of the Rat Abomination is the bloated, grotesque stomach. Packed within are the starved, writhing bodies of Ratling Beast—ferocious, ravenous creatures that wait for the moment of the Abomination's death. Once the beast expires, the Ratlings will burst forth from its belly, eager to tear into whatever life forms they encounter, driven by a primal hunger. The Rat Abomination’s stomach is a ticking time bomb, waiting to unleash more horrors upon the world.
Tactics and Behavior
Despite its immense size and pain, the Rat Abomination moves with terrifying speed and strength, driven by the horrific urge to feed and tear through its surroundings. When cornered or threatened, it lashes out with its multiple mutated limbs and its gaping mouth, seeking to crush and consume anything within its reach. When its time comes to die, the world will be forced to witness the hungry Ratlings tearing free from their twisted prison, adding further chaos to the devastation.
Environment:
Skrags are humanoid rat-men, a grotesque blend of human and rodent features. Standing between four and six feet tall, their bodies are covered in patchy, matted fur of varying shades of brown and gray. Their elongated snouts, sharp teeth, and beady eyes give them a perpetually hungry and cunning look. With wiry, nimble limbs ending in clawed hands and feet, Skrags are well-suited for climbing and scavenging. A long, hairless tail trails behind them, often used for balance and manipulation of objects.
Once a noble race of Ratfolk, the Skrags have devolved into their current state due to their addiction to a mysterious drug called "Warp.
" This substance has not only altered their minds but also their bodies, transforming them into diseased and twisted parodies of their former selves. Prolonged exposure to Warp has granted them a peculiar resistance to necrotic energies but left them vulnerable to holy or radiant powers.
Scavengers of the Desolate
Skrags are drawn to places of death and decay, such as graveyards, fallen battlefields, and abandoned barracks. These locations offer ample opportunities for scavenging shiny objects and remnants of value. Their obsession with anything that glimmers drives them to steal from even the most dangerous foes, including orcs, ogres, and occasionally, dragon hoards.
Nomadic Tunnels
Skrags inhabit complex tunnel systems and underground warrens, which they constantly expand and fiercely defend. These labyrinthine homes allow them to move swiftly and unseen, making it difficult for enemies to track or catch them.
Wealth Equals Power
In Skrag society, the accumulation of shiny objects is the primary measure of status. The individual with the most wealth is considered the King of the Skrags.
However, this position is often short-lived, as other Skrags will stop at nothing—including theft and murder—to increase their own wealth and usurp the throne.
Anarchy and Competition
Skrag society is chaotic and cutthroat. Alliances are temporary and based solely on mutual benefit. The constant competition for wealth and power keeps the Skrags in a state of perpetual tension, where betrayal and backstabbing are commonplace.