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Reva the Rat Queen

A 4E Mentor NPC with Meeting Encounters

Encounters designed for characters of 6th to 9th level

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Reva the Rat Queen

long and hard with their tribal council. She convinced the

wererats that there were better places to live and most of

them left before the great hunt started. Amschel and a few

of his most ardent followers decided upon a course of death

before what they saw as dishonor.

Reva is a unique arcane spell caster who is something of

a mix between a wizard, warlock, and sorcerer. She has a

contractual attachment to the spirit of a dead wererat

sorcerer. She has learned her magic from this spirit.

Originally she cast the spells in the fashion of a wizard or

warlock but eventually they became part of her innate

powers making her something of a sorcerer.

She is designed to serve several different potential

campaign functions. She can be an information source about

underground activities in a city, the focal point of adventure

rumors, a potential grandmaster for training, and a source

of potential boons if those are in use for your campaign.

A story going around the seedier taverns ofWorlun claims that

the Southern Thieves Guild of the city once tried to invade the

Children’sWarren - an area where many orphans gather to live in

self protection down near the docks - with a plan to capture them

and sell them to illegal slavers. The plan fell apart when hordes of

huge wharf rats fell upon the guild’s raiders and drove them away

from theWarrens. The next night Natty MacDune, leader of the

Southern Thieves Guild, was killed in his home along with many of

his personal guard. Survivors claim that rats came up from the

basement and that Reva herself appeared, using magic spells to

defeat the traps and destroy the guards.

Some people say that the hit on old Natty was probably just a

standard Guild power struggle that had the rumors of Reva mixed

in to cover the identity of the real attackers. Maybe this is true, but

either way none of the four Thieves Guilds ofWorlun bother the

street urchins. For their part the orphans of the street proudly claim

the title of “street rat” these days even though that would have been

an insult just a few years ago.

Introducing Reva to Your Campaign

She is designed to best interact with characters between

the levels of 6 and 14. If possible, drop rumors and stories

of Reva into your campaign before the players reach sixth

level. The encounters here are for 6th to 9th level players.

In this supplement Reva lives in the sewers of a large

human ruled but multiracial city state called Worlun.

Worlun is located in the Realms ofWor campaign setting but

the DM can easily substitute the name of a different city in

places that Worlun is cited.

Listed below are some potential campaign events that

the characters know (or hear about) prior to reaching level

six.

About this event Reva will admit that she attacked Natty

in a fit of rage over his attempt to round up the children.

She will claim that she didn’t intend to kill him, just frighten

him into leaving the children alone. However the guards

tried to use alchemical fire pots to drive back her rats and

the house caught on fire. Natty MacDune and his cronies

died in the blaze after Reva’s retreat.

Several years ago the city of Worlun had to close down most of

their outdoor markets and bazaars because wererats kept attacking

from the sewers. A plan was formed to organize adventurers to hunt

down and kill the wererats and their leader Amschel. It is said that

20 adventurer groups scoured the sewers but only one found any

wererats. That one group encountered Amschel who reportedly told

them that the tribe had negotiated with “the Rat Queen” and left

the city to live in the wilds. There would be no more market place

attacks but as Amschel’s pride would not let him retreat from his

home he was leading the few warriors of his tribe that felt the same

as he on one final attack. The adventurers defeated Amschel and his

handful of remaining followers but were said to have commented

that it didn’t seem like the wererats were fighting very hard. It was

as if they wanted to die in combat rather than win and advance up

to further battles on the surface.

Rumors in Worlun About a “Rat Queen”

If you leave an offering of fruit, nuts or cheese to the rat queen

on your doorstep at night you can gain good fortune for your

children or protection for your food stocks.

The Rat Queen is a woman named Reva. She is a wizard or

warlock of great power who lives in the sewers and shuns most

contact with others except for children.

The Rat Queen and a lizardman shaman named Lrradd wage a

continual war between rats and reptiles for control of sewers.

If the players ever ask Reva about this event she will

confirm it as true. Amschel had gained control of the city’s

wererats by agitating that the wererats were denied their

just due by the surface dwellers and that the humans should

be driven from the city. It was a foolish and impossible

dream, but one that was attractive to the tribes. Reva

realized that the wererats would get wiped out and argued

The Thieves Guilds pay an annual tribute to the Rat Queen so

that her minions will not molest the thieves who use the passages

under the city for their “business travel”.

Reva dresses in filthy rags and can be easily overlooked as a

common beggar. She can roam the streets at will unrecognized.

Reva’s Personal History

Reva had an elven father and human mother. She was

born in the Forest of Hed, also known as the Elf-Woods,

where humans are only allowed by special permit. Her

father's family never accepted the cross-racial marriage.

Before she was two her father disappeared while on a

caravan run he had undertaken to secure rare healing herbs

her mother required. The family blamed the mother for his

loss and spurned her. Reva and her mother then moved to

the trading town on the edge of the forest.

As Reva's mother had been a warrior adventurer all her

pre-marriage life she had no skills with which to earn a

living that didn't involve edged weapons. Doing “muscle”

work for a local human crime gang was all she could find to

feed little Reva; a choice that further alienated the pair from

the elven community of the town. When Reva was five

years old the gang was wiped out by a elf led criminal group

and her mother was forced to flee to the city-state of

Worlun.

In Worlun lived Reva's grandmother (on her mother's

side). Grandma Hetty was a batty old woman who lived in a

shambling mound of a house that had once been quite grand

but was now falling apart. Reva's mother took to her

adventuring ways again, seeking treasure to bring back to

her remaining family. This meant that Reva was left in

Grandma Hetty's care most of the time.

Hetty was a warlock who had been driven partially

insane by the feywild powers she had bargained with. Reva

unconsciously memorized the rhyming nonsense her

grandmother often sang and internalized the basics of

warlock spellcraft along the way. It was a lonely life but

Reva didn't mind. She occupied herself exploring the old

mansion and playing with the rats and other small critters

that had also made the place their home.

The last time she saw her mother was when Reva turned

eleven. A large amount of coin was brought for Reva and

her grandmother to live off then after a five day visit Reva's

mother was off seeking adventure once again. Unfortunately

she never returned. The years stretched out and the number

of coins dwindled. As a young teen Reva roamed the city

streets performing petty crimes - usually the theft of food.

Her grandmother died when she was seventeen and Reva

found herself alone; except for her rat friends.

Three months before her eighteenth birthday she was

making her way home bloodied and in pain after a beating

from a city guardsman when she came across a group of cats

that had some rats cornered in an alley. Despite her own

pain she waded in with a stick and drove the cats away. This

action prompted the spirit Willifee, the great Rat Lord, to

take a direct interest in her. He whispered into her ear and

she responded to his call. He offered a path to power that

she accepted. Through her grandmother's old books, with

Willifee's coaching, she was able to attain full casting

powers.

When she was nineteen, the adult son of one of her

mother's old adventurer friends looked her up. It was from

this young aspiring warrior that she learned that her mother

had been killed during a battle in an old mine - which is why

she had never returned. Bernard (the son of her mother's

friend) felt sorry for the ragged, timid figure Reva cut and

decided to help her "get on her feet". He introduced her to

his adventurer friends and with Willifee's blessing she left

the city and undertook a number of treasure hunts. The

Great Rat King understands society better than Reva does.

He explained to her that there are ways and places that one

can plunder and steal that society condones and that

adventuring was one of them.

Reva had feelings for Bernard but did not know how to

express or act upon them. Eventually he was romantically

swept away by a lady druid who knew exactly how to ply her

feminine wiles. Reva returned to Worlun after that to

discover that her grandmother’s home had burned to the

ground and been replaced by a city run apartment building.

She went to the only place she had left - the underground

sewer of the city.

Making a lair for herself in an area of forgotten

underground storage vaults that connected to the sewers,

she undertook the effort to increase her arcane might. She

now views the southern portion of the city’s underground as

her personal fiefdom.

Willifee

Rat King Spirit

Willifee was a wererat king and wizard from a world of

lycanthropes that was invaded by beings from another realm

of reality that could control were-creatures. He fought

valiantly but was eventually slain. A deity then recruited his

spirit as a celestial servant. Willifee served for a while but

when it became apparent that the god had no intention of

freeing his people he stole a smidgen of divine power and

went rogue. His main interests are revenge against the race

that enslaved his world (the Drynn), securing a new mortal

body, and occupying his time as he gets restless easily. As

interacting with mortals attuned to him often proves to be

amusing and can serve his ends so he does so.

He would be best suited to a vestige pact warlock. At the

moment, Reva is his most favored mortal and Williffe takes

a strong interest in her welfare.

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