Ratnirans

"From beneath-under rock we skittered from, yes-yes. Find many strange-things on surface-world, many enemy-things, too many bright-things. Great Ratnir commands-orders we murder-kill bright-things! WE OBEY-LISTEN!"

-Verminlord Skrol, Leader of Clan Blight, upon first emerging into sunlight with the Warriors of Clan Blight

The Ratnirans are a mysterious and secretive people, out of both cowardice and xenophobia. They prefer the comfort of overwhelming numbers to more honorable duels between individuals, an advantage they usually will hold thanks to their massive and ever-expanding population that hides beneath the ground, only to burst forth from tunnels in a massive swarm of rat-warriors, overwhelming any in their path.

Originally, the Ratnirans came from the realm that laid beneath the Overworld and above the Nether, the Under-Rock, trapped by layers between layers of bedrock and the deadly emptiness of the Void. Thus far, only one group of Ratnirans, Clan Blight, has managed to squirm their way into the Overworld, led by their Warlord, Skrol, who was in turn guided by their terrifying god, Ratnir.

The Ratnirans are all apart of the Cult of Ratnir, not out of piety or faith, but solely out of fear of their vengeful (and moody) god and creator, the Great Ratnir.

Since arriving on the surface, Skrol and Clan Blight have claimed the ruins of an ancient, forgotten city in the far western regions of Rathnir, underneath which they have founded the land of Under-Blight, their new home and first conquest. The first of many, or so they say.