#ratonga

Wayward Ratonga by Enertocter

Illustrated novel, each page consisting of one image and 80-150 words. Also features a fan favourite dark elf 😸

You see a rat this fancy riding a...bird?

Everquest 2 screenshot redraw! My character Clipper and his husband, Paxos.

When I was twelve I begged for the game World of Warcraft, completely convinced that it was the same game and was subsequently highly confused that there was no rat humanoid character option. Dismayed, I told all of my friends and family about the game I had played as a small child but they were all convinced that I had completely dreamed up the rat people (and the cat people for that matter). I googled furiously to try to find this mysterious game of my youth but was foiled by the 2007 internet. It turned out that WoW wasn’t even old enough to be the game of my early childhood. I was devastated that no one believed me, but I had waited years at that point and I knew I would find it eventually.

Then, just yesterday, I was talking to someone about old school gaming and they mentioned that there was an MMO celebrating its twentieth anniversary. I could feel it in my bones. That game would have had to have come out when I was three. I felt this stirring in my heart, “I’m going to find my rat people at long last.” Indeed, it was the same game, EVERQUEST, which comes with a humanoid rat people character option called the Ratonga and humanoid cat people called Vah Shir.

So, over a DECADE after I bought WoW thinking it was the game of my childhood, almost TWENTY YEARS after I first played that game, after all this time, I just want to say that I am VINDICATED that the rat people (and the cat people, for that matter) do exist:

Everquest 2 - Characters (Personajes)

1. Human Berserker

2. Human Paladin

3. Wood Elf Ranger

4. Ratonga Assassin

5. Erudite Illusionist

6. Orc Berserker

7. Drakkin Beastlord