Skravenak

**Scravenak** (more commonly known as Scrive) is an ambitious and ruthless **Urakta**. He is the **Lord of Rat's** messenger and often partakes in the Lord's work personally. He takes extra steps to ensure his Lord's work is done, much to the displeasure of those below him, for he is ruthless and often times sadistic, revelling in the misery he can inflict upon others. Scrive has a strange appearance and is clearly disfigured, covering the region of his eyes with a dirty rag and nearly the entirety of his left arm being covered with scar tissue. Most odd however is his second mouth, mutations are common amongst the strange genetics of the Rats, but this is often seen as unique even amongst them.

## Background

Being born in the central warrens, Scrive was already born to be a stand-out amongst his peers, with a much better diet and living condition he grew up rather coddled, but was fervently devoted to his species as a whole even if on an individual level he was cold and callous. His mentors within the nursery warrens took note of his determined attitude and seeming authority over the other rats in his age group and reported their findings to the Lord of Rats, who was still selecting Rats to be entrusted with a special education in order to create a generation of devoted and talented individuals.

He was raised privately with others, including **Esketta** and **Kaspen**, their carers took notes of their natural talents and tried to emphasize on them as best they could. In Scrive's case they focused on his presence, his ability to command, which was hard to determine the cause of, but it was clear that other Rats listened to him.

Scrive soon developed a habit for repeatedly appealing to authority, especially the Lord, and undermining those beneath him at any chance he could get. He used this to his advantage to quickly gain a reputation, finally noticing the personal attention of the Lord. Scrive was utterly devoted, the Lord was the only thing he was unquestionably loyal too, all other authorities were often just an attempt to raise his own standing amongst his kind. He soon became the Lord's messenger, and in this found himself taking on very personal tasks to the Lord.

One of Scrive's first major assignments was to locate and order the newly deemed rogue Kaspen, a fellow 'gifted' Rat, to leave. She had apparently strayed far from the discipline they tried to instil and was now running amok with her own personal band of followers and a horde of expensive resources. He accepted the task unconditionally, feeling personally wronged by her disobedience to their cause. Quickly Scrive and a band of followers located her stockpiling goods in the water purification chamber at the mouth of **Outwash**'s river. He took his time to belittle her, feeling pride in telling her that she was a disappointment to the rest of her brood. But in a moment of vulnerability he was pushed by her, obviously reaching her boiling point. Scrive fell into the uncleared, noxious waters, severely burning him and damaging his sight beyond repair in the process.

Scrive's followers managed to give chase, but lost morale as their leader agonisingly crawled from the chamber and back to the lord on scent alone, his pride shattered, and his ego tempered, he found himself changed, much more twitchy and easy to anger, he became vicious towards his underlings. The Lord still had faith in him however, were it not for his determination Scrive would have been removed from his station as quickly as he rose to it.