rpg-character. some session has been leading a bunch of children down a dungeon, and they found some undead mysterious people... and this fine ratling here, who has been led this way by the same mysterious figures (without him knowing. the treasure he found ain't really real, either). so now he leads a group of noisy, whiny human children even deeper into the earth, and into one of the ratlings' cities-below...

some of the ratlings wirld elemental magic. like earth, wind, fire and water, they specialize on metals/iron, stone, plantlife and mushrooms, and so on. (some say there is a shadowmage, too, but nobody has seen them). Skidran now, is an apprentice iron mage, and the slingshot he's holding is the first thing he successfully shaped.