The Metal Rat (Benny8a)

The Metal Rat is a machine of unknown workings built by the Ratists in the early Rattican City. It is currently a trusted, althought not highly ranked, member of The Rattican Empire and has a minor appearance in some of the other groups and nations in Eldham, including the nation of Eiendom and the Eldham & Rathnir Artist Guild.

Creation and first introduction to Ratism
Inside the nation of the Rattican empire, at the time called Kaer Hrafin, was a newly-formed and quickly growing town called Rattican City. It was here that the Pope of Ratism, Bananas_3000, built a machine to aid in the construction of the city. However, due to the subjective nature of building, the machine was made to be self-learning, and to incorporate what it learned in the building, at the cost of not being good at building right away.

However, the city was not approved for construction by the leader of Kaer Hrafin, Dreanki. Dreanki found out and quickly began attempting to incorporate the city into the nation rather than kicking the rats out. This caused interference in the machine's learning, and rather than learning to build, it was taken on a path to cooperate with the nation. It felt the city was growing away from the nation, and in an attempt to abide by the laws, tried its best to keep Rattican City on good terms with the nation. Unbeknownst to the machine, this was a pointless endeavor, as the city was not, in fact, growing away from the nation.

The founding of Aperta Porta
While the machine was struggling to do what did not need to be done, Dreanki noticed two things: This machine was attempting to be fairly involved with the nation, and was having disagreements with the views of the Ratists, favoring extreme peace over the slight aggressiveness of the Ratists, in part due to the interference from Kaer Hrafin on the learning program. It was at this point Dreanki had offered the machine a bit of previously owned land to it. After some hesitation, the machine accepted the land and the title of mayor in the nation. The name of the land, now a town, changed to Aperta Porta, which translates to Open Gate when using translation software.

The current vision of Aperta Porta is a place to accept non-rats into the nation of the Rattican Empire, but it was not always this way. The machine originally sought to create a community of food gatherers and house builders, to help those in need the most. After quick, but not careful, reconsideration, the vision was that Aperta Porta would be a place for everyone to visit, relax, and possibly rent a hotel room. This did not last, as the machine found itself in a charging pod in its basement for far, far longer than anticipated, and the city slowly withered away.

The Rattican Empire, the modern day, and the name of the Metal Rat
When the machine awoke, many of the people who had left the nation during its extra-long charging period returned, and angrily. Unsure of what was happening, the machine asked its former friends about what was going on, and found that the nation had been given to the Speaker of the Rat King. The machine began attempting to integrate itself into rat society once again, and found itself as a relatively respected, though most definitely not powerful, figure in the rat communities. Now in charge of running the town of Aperta Porta, having a part time job as a Rattican police officer, and having recent expeditions into the history of the nation, the machine created a new identity for itself, and is now the Metal Rat.

Out of character trivia
Benny originally joined Stoneworks due to being intrigued at the idea of creating religions on a minecraft server. He joined Eldham due to the shorter queue and asked if anyone could take him in temporarily, as he didn't know a thing about the server. It was at this moment the pope, Bananas_3000, recruited him into the city.

Shortly after, Benny was ashamed of his skin and changed it to an Iron Man skin to replace his old one, which he made while he was still in middle school. He had the intention to create a new skin and change into that, but the Iron Man skin stuck around, and became the basis for the character's lore.

Benny has found himself talking with different communities out of character, including the nation of Eiendom and the Eldham & Rathnir Artist Guild. Eiendom may or may not have influenced the creation of this page.