{"id":179,"date":"2024-10-24T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aeternopia.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2024-10-24T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T12:06:07","slug":"log-3-rodentia-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aeternopia.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/24\/log-3-rodentia-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Log-3: Rodentia Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vile and smirky, skrats are found almost everywhere on \u00e6ternopia
M\u00e9prisables et narquois, les Skrats sont pr\u00e9sents presque partout sur \u00e6ternopia<\/mark><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Skrats are like a Plague. Emerging one day from nowhere, no one managed to really guess where did they came from. Some says they are the cursed children of the numerous savage rats from beyond the Tempest, others that they are escaped failed experiments from the secret labs located under the 13th ”Melancoly” Hill. No places on \u00e6ternopia are truely free from the permanent presence of these creatures, half-human half-rodent, stealthy and imaginative, yet always narrow-minded and very short of trust. They are considered a necessary evil, helping decaying industries or managing to bring science to the most lost regions of this world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Les skrats sont comme la peste. Apparus sans pr\u00e9venir un beau jour, nul n\u2019a jamais su d\u2019o\u00f9 ils venaient exactement. Certains supputent qu\u2019ils seraient les enfants maudits des rats sauvages de par-del\u00e0 la Temp\u00eate, d\u2019autres le fruit d\u2019une exp\u00e9rience rat\u00e9e men\u00e9es dans les sombres laboratoires sous la M\u00e9lancolline n\u00b013. Le fait est qu\u2019aujourd\u2019hui pas un seul endroit du monde ne grouille de ces \u00e9tranges cr\u00e9atures mi-hommes mi-rongeurs, inventives et discr\u00e8tes, mais toujours \u00e9troites d\u2019esprit et de confiance. Ils sont un mal n\u00e9cessaire, pourvoyant \u00e0 une industrie d\u00e9cadente ou au manque de moyens technologiques des r\u00e9gions les plus recul\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Their tribes are vast and far, but easily distinguishable by their colorful coat: almost all Skrats are visually-impaired, so to recognize their fellows (or foes) they use bright single color coded clothes, in order to show their membership to a certain tribe. Due to that, they are generally prone to failure in recognizing and identifying other lifeforms when any of their other senses are incapacitated (specially their sense of smell!). For that reason Skrats will often protect against all odds their face before anything else, including their limbs, because should they fail to do so, they will be considered useless to their society and cut short of it… permanently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Leurs tribus sont vastes et \u00e9tendues, mais facilement reconnaissables gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 leur livr\u00e9e color\u00e9e. En effet presque tous les Skrats souffrent de d\u00e9ficience visuelle, et donc pour reconna\u00eetre leurs pairs (ou leurs ennemis) ils ont adopt\u00e9 une mode vestimentaire simple qui consiste en grande partie \u00e0 ne porter qu\u2019une seule couleur chatoyante en signe d\u2019appartenance \u00e0 la tribu. Cons\u00e9quence de cela, ils ont g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement du mal \u00e0 distinguer et diff\u00e9rencier les autres formes de vie quand un de leur autre sens est incapacit\u00e9 (odorat en t\u00eate) ; pour cela qu\u2019un Skrat cherchera souvent \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger son visage plut\u00f4t que ses membres, afin de rester utile \u00e0 sa soci\u00e9t\u00e9 et donc de ne pas mourir pour l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat g\u00e9n\u00e9ral.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This member of the Yellow Kins is a proficient master in blades.<\/mark><\/em>
Ce membre des “Rats en Jaune” est un habile manieur de dagues.<\/mark><\/em>
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This is no secret that Skrats are cruel indeed. Favoring biological warfare and cheap tricks, they are ferocious political opponents and their sly warbands are far more dangerous than their (apparent) number might pretend to. So even if every other species gladly trade with them, with as much mistrust toward them than for any other, there is one, Gnoblinz, that vowed a permanent and very old hatred toward “the Moles from Beyond” that they keep responsible of their misery and doom…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Car les Skrats sont cruels. Adeptes des armes bact\u00e9riologiques et des coups bas, ils sont de f\u00e9roces opposants politiques et leurs maigres bandes de guerre sont bien plus nuisibles que leur nombre (apparent) le laisse pr\u00e9tendre. Alors m\u00eame si chaque esp\u00e8ce fait all\u00e9grement affaire avec eux sans plus de m\u00e9fiance qu\u2019avec n\u2019importe quel autre voisin, il en existe une, les Gnoblinz, qui leur voue une haine si farouche et h\u00e9r\u00e9ditaire, qu\u2019ils seraient pr\u00eats \u00e0 tout pour venger les leurs des \u2018\u2019Taupes de l\u2019Au-del\u00e0\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Of course Skrats explain why Gabriel (see my previous Log<\/a>) is working on this project. Once I decided \u00e6ternopia would have ratmen hanging out, I knew I had to commission the Rat King himself for appropriate artworks. It is no wonder too that ratmen are present, since I am a long-time fan of rats in general (it used to be my favorite animal for quite a long time), especially Skavens, the very same-miniatures that pushed me into wargaming back in 2003…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bien s\u00fbr les Skrats expliquent la pr\u00e9sence de Gabriel (voir article pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent<\/a>) sur ce projet. D\u00e8s que j’ai int\u00e9gr\u00e9 leur concept \u00e0 mon univers je savais que je me devais de lui faire croquer ses derniers. C’est d’ailleurs l’une des esp\u00e8ces qui peuplent ce monde qui me tient le plus \u00e0 coeur, joueuse Skavens de longue date (2003)… ce sont m\u00eame d’ailleurs les figurines qui m’ont fait me mettre au jeu, ayant toujours eu le rat pour symbole et animal favori pendant pr\u00e8s de deux d\u00e9cennies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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By the way, if you want to really know, each Skrat tribe have a specific quirk to name their member: I name them after a dedicated cheese from a designated country. As such, The Blue d’Eau-Vergne are named after French ones, while the Yellow Kins are named after Italian cheeses. Meanwhile the last tribe, yet unnamed, follows an English\/American cheese naming pattern. Bon app\u00e9tit!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pour finir, fait amusant, chaque tribu Skrat poss\u00e8de \u00e9galement une nomenclature sp\u00e9cifique pour chacun de ses membres: ils portent tous un nom de fromage d’un pays sp\u00e9cifique. Ainsi les Bleus d’Eau-Vergne portent tous des d\u00e9nominations fran\u00e7aises, alors que les Rats en Jaune des sp\u00e9cialit\u00e9s italiennes. La derni\u00e8re tribu (encore non-nomm\u00e9e) quant-\u00e0-elle est orient\u00e9e cr\u00e8merie anglo-saxonne. Bon app\u00e9tit!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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~Lady Numiria~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skrats are like a Plague. Emerging one day from nowhere, no one managed to really guess where did they came from. Some says they are the cursed children of the numerous savage rats from beyond the Tempest, others that they are escaped failed experiments from the secret labs located under the 13th ”Melancoly” Hill. No … Read moreLog-3: Rodentia Dementia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-building"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aeternopia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aeternopia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aeternopia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeternopia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeternopia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/aeternopia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/aeternopia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aeternopia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeternopia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aeternopia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}