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n. (context fiction English) A shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a rat.
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A wererat is a therianthropic creature in the shape of a rat. The term is a neologism coined in analogy to werewolf, used in the fantasy or horror genre since the 1970s. The concept has since become common in role playing games and fantasy fiction inspired by them. Were-rats are commonly portrayed as sewer-dwelling scavengers and opportunistic thieves. Brad Steiger has written about wererat sightings in Oregon, mostly by children.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the wererat is one of several different types of animalistic forms. They are classified as " lycanthropes", despite the fact that the term reflects a lupine, or wolven, form.
Usage examples of "wererat".
Bobby Lee, who was actually a wererat, that came forward enough for me to see him.
It was Bobby Lee, who was actually a wererat, that came forward enough for me to see him.
Besides, the wererats are still there, and most of them are ex-mercenaries, or something in that ballpark.
The last time the wererats helped me I got one of you killed, and another one cut up pretty badly.
He threw his own gun spinning across the room, and the other wererats followed suit.
The men and women, wererats all, with their guns nicely pointed, moved back in two lines so the vampires had to walk between them to reach Musette.
One of the wererats was staring at the gun in his hand as if it had suddenly appeared.
The rats parted around the kneeling wererats like they were big rocks in a stream.
I found one of the guns that the wererats had discarded and felt instantly better.
Jack Larson glanced at his game plan, trying to decide how long it would be necessary to wait before letting the wererats eat the people who gave him a hard time.
Indeed, he had done some of his best work down there, but recognizing the disadvantage he faced against infravision-using wererats, he held his powerful sword before him and commanded it to bring forth light-hoping that it, like many magical swords, could produce some sort of glow.
Few wererats did since Entreri had murdered one of the more legendary of their clan in Calimport, a conniving and wicked fellow named Rassiter.
Sharlotta Vespers purred, moving over seductively to put her long fingers on the wererat leader's shoulders.
With the powerful Wroning satisfied, Domo Quillilo of the wererats and the younger and more nervous leaders of the Rakers could hardly protest.
It did not pain the guildmaster to see wererats dying - a few well-placed bites out in the streets could replenish the supply of the wretched things - but Pook knew that the heroes cutting their way through his guild would eventually wind up in his face.