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The ratking is a symbol beneath which many rhynnym rule; stories are told of the things as though they are old friends or lost relatives. A ratking is told to be unaging and undying, but eternally doomed to a half life-- blind, constricted, and of the mind of another. Any surrounding, regardless of form, are said to bend to its will until they finally rot from the inside out. None have seen one of these beasts, leading to a consensus of falsification, or potentially severe rarity. - Excerpt from The Oral History and Tradition of the Greater Cryinic World (1332H, Opehlla Geviu)

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- Excerpt from The Oral History and Tradition of the Greater Cryinic World (1332H, Opehlla Geviu)

Patient's body shows signs of blunt force trauma, minor lacerations to the face and shoulders, and severe bruising. Fur and skin on the patient's right arm, snout, neck, torso, and other regions of significant bruising appear to have been stained to a near-black color. When moving the patient into the holding wing of the infirmary, staff attempted to remove their mask; the patient responded by jolting fully upright and pleading for them not to. They were awake for four (4) minutes and fifty-eight (58) seconds before losing consciousness. No further attempt has been made to remove the respirator.

-History and Culture of the Timeless Empire (2870), Tekreniv Pulsadda

And when is it, that living becomes a hobby more than a given fact? How long must we drag our paws? I confide in you my pain because I understand that it will far outlive you, even so I may only express as much as this face may lend to my throat. I may live extant to your story, a voice among the wind, but I scream into your narrative that we stand upon the same ground. Relinquishing this time to you, your ears, bear me no pity, no second thought; slay my echoed memory the moment my name leaves your tongue.