The Rat-King

Summary
The Rat King is a character in The Black Pillars. The Rat King is a Fantasy of the Neverworld, a being who is born from the stories and imaginations of the sentient beings of the Everworld. The Rat King lives as an information broker in the upper layers of the Neverworld, though his network of rat spies extend through various layers of the Neverworld.

He is the "foster father" of Fiona Ni Sidhe, allowing her to stay in his home and caring for her when she was a homeless amnesiac child on the streets. The Rat King's motives are unknown.

Appearance
The Rat King is made of a mass of hundreds to thousands of rats all twisting together. This rat swarm typically forms a hunched but vaguely humanoid shape, though it is still too large, too wide and too shapeless to appear fully humanoid.

A large ragged dark green cloak hides the majority of his "body" from others, with a hood covering his "head". In the darkness of his underground home, it is almost impossible to see into the shadows of the hood, but if one looked closely, they would see pinpricks of light shining in the eyes of a dozen rats.

When the Rat King goes outside his home (which is rare), he wears a white leather plague doctor mask.

The Rat King does not appear to walk - rather he glides, on an ever shifting, skittering carpet of rats on the ground below him, the rats climbing over each other to move.

He is unable to raise his "arms" on his own so when he goes to grab items, he tends to raise his sleeves on a pillar of rats from the ground and have a few rat from his swarm come out to pick it up and deposit them in his sleeves where the rest of his rats move it into his mass and hold it there.

The Rat King does not have a human tongue, so he cannot speak normally. Instead, his speech is composed of hundreds of squeaks and chittering noises from his rats at different volumes and pitches that mimic speech in a barely understandable sound.

Personality
The Rat King tends to creep people out, due to his appearance and "voice" being deep in the uncanny valley. Because of this, they don't tend to trush him very much either. However, he is honest in his dealings, providing information in exchange for various forms of payments.

He is harsh towards Fiona, often berating her or being otherwise irritating to her. However, Fiona claims that he does care for her, as there were many times that he could have abandoned her, and he has done her several kindnesses.

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Alignment: True Neutral

Name: The Rat King

Origin: The Black Pillars 

Gender: Innaplicable, the genders of individual rats vary

Age: Several centuries, has existed since the concept of the Rat King in the middle ages

Classification: Fantasy

Birthplace: The Neverworld

Likes: Sweets, bacon, plague masks (he likes collecting them)

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