Monkrat

Monkrat was a mage and priest of the Dying God working with Gradithan's Liberators in the Pilgrim camp surrounding the Barrow of the Redeemer at Black Coral.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 8, US SFBC p.310 He shared the group's desire for vengeance against Tiste Andii. He was bald, short, and bandy-legged, and wore woolen robes.
Born in Malaz City in the shadow of Mock's Hold,Toll the Hounds, Chapter 18, US TPB p.603 'Monkrat' was a name he had only adopted recently as he felt that he was essentially "[the] Monk of Rats, priest and wizard, conjurer and binder of spirits".Toll the Hounds, Chapter 10, US TPB p.333 Monkrat had legions of rats serving as spies in the camp and city, making him a valuable intelligence asset for the Liberators.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.806 This did not stop Gradithan from treating him as a "horrid creature" with open contempt.
Monkrat felt he had left humanity behind long ago and held no sense of kinship for his fellow man. In his mind, every fool in the world was on his or her own, or they were slaves. He thought for himself and trusted only his own judgement. This view set him apart from the Dying God's fanatics.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.736-737
==In Toll the Hounds==
Initially, he worked with Gradithan in the pilgrim camp, helping to corrupt the worshippers of the Redeemer.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 8, US TPB p.254-255 After the Redeemer's High Priestess, Salind, fell ill and was brought to the Tiste Andii for care, Monkrat was excited to report that the Liberators would now be free to do as they pleased in the camp.
Monkrat routinely scouted Black Coral through the eyes and minds of his rats,Toll the Hounds, Chapter 20, US TPB p.663 and through them he learned that Seerdomin was murdering the Liberators in the city.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 10, US TPB p.333-334
Upon Salind's return, Gradithan ambushed her and ordered Monkrat to force Saemankelyk down her throat to bring her into service of the Dying God.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.470-472 When Seerdomin came looking for the High Priestess, Gradithan brutally beat him. Only Monkrat's efforts kept the unconscious man from drowning in his own blood.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.486
Use of the addicting and toxic Saemankelyk that was central to the Dying God's faith spread through the camp, but Monkrat refused to drink it, wanting to keep his senses clear. Gradithan, however, imbibed heavily and his growing fanaticism for the Dying God left a fearful Monkrat pondering an escape from the madness.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 18, US TPB p.602
Later, Spindle, a retired Bridgeburner, came to the camp as a pilgrim to the Great Barrow. He recognised Monkrat as a fellow Bridgeburner who had been reported missing and presumed dead during the Genabackis Campaign and interrogated him at knifepoint. Monkrat admitted he had been at the battles of Blackdog Forest and Mott Wood, fighting against the Tiste Andii and seeing the carnage unleashed by the dragon, Silanah. After all his friends were killed, he deserted.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 20, US TPB p.663-664 
Monkrat tried to warn Spindle to leave, but Spindle was enraged by the conditions he found at the camp and called on the deserter's sense of duty as a soldier to convince the priest to help him save as many of the camp's abandoned children as they could. Monkrat knew the children were to be rounded up by the new sect's fanatic adherents to be sacrificed as virgins to 'feed' the Dying God.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 22, US TPB p.733-735 Spindle and Monkrat managed to rescue twenty young girls, some in very bad shape through neglect, and take them away to the safety of the nearby woods.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US TPB p.800-801 Monkrat felt redeemed in spirit by their actions, telling the mage he would never forget what he had done for him.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.974-975
From their hideaway, Monkrat and a gleeful Spindle watched Silanah, take flight from her roost atop the New Andiian Palace and fly to the corrupted pilgrim camp to deal deadly payback to Gradithan and the rest of his evil followers.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US TPB p.809-810
==In The God is Not Willing==
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==Notes and references==
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