Nerbie

Nerbie before THE INCIDENT occurred

**Nerbie** was a major ally present in the Six-Eyed Daughter Saga, specifically in Arcs 7, 8, and the first half of 9. She used to be the pet rat of Krako Brusai and participated in plenty of cons with Krako in order to earn money for him and food for herself. She was initially a street rat living in the city of Serail, but Krako earned her trust and allowed him to take her on his perilous journeys.

## **Biography**

### *Trash and Treasure*

Growing up as a humble street rat in Serail, Nerbie didn't do many notable things in her life before meeting her master. She only ate, drank, slept, and did necessary functions whenever she needed to. Additionally, she had a fondness for eating thrown away parcels as it was the type of food that she grew up with. Nerbie seemed to be wary of people and actively avoided being near them for most of her life. Whether this was because of survival instinct or a hatred for humanoids is unknown.

### *City of Water*

When Krako was still getting acquainted to being apart of the Sovereign Slayers, he felt like he needed a true ally that would help him. Ort-Ort was treating him like a pawn and Patterson constantly belittled Krako, so having a friend to confide in would help ease the transition. Therefore, he decided to tame a street rat and have it help him in cons he would pull on the citizens of Serail. Nerbie didn't trust Krako at first, but through animal handling (and good food), she became more accepting of the aarakocra.

She would often stay in Krako's shirt pocket, hiding when he went into battle. During the quieter times, she would sometimes sneak into a unsuspecting denizen's clothes to search for valuables and shiny things. Krako would reward her with food if she was successful.

After the downfall of Orlando Pierce and the massive consequences it had on Serail, Nerbie felt a newfound anxiety and tended to hide in Krako's pocket more and more.

### *Highfall*

What didn't help Nerbie's anxiety was the pure hatred Krako felt when the party traveled to Highfall, hoping to find a way to cure Ort-Ort's ever-growing affliction. Unknown to Nerbie, Highfall housed a dangerous person from Krako's past. It was evident Krako no longer felt joy in pulling schemes anymore to steal from dumb aristocrats. Her master was more prone to violence and to throwing himself into dangerous situations, which worried Nerbie very much. But, at this point, she came to trust the safety of being with Krako.

Even more stress came because of the battle between the Slayers and the Empire in Highfall, but once it was over, Nerbie had hope for things to go back to normal.

### *Deserts and Dragonlords*

Sadly for Nerbie, things did not go back to normal. Although the battles of life or death decreased in frequency, the bond between Krako and Nerbie was being squandered. Krako forgot to feed Nerbie as often. Their days of conning were pretty much over. The dry, blistering heat of the Scorchking's Desert was miserable for a rat acclimated to warm, temperate days and cool, breezy nights. That didn't stop Nerbie from holding onto hope, though.

While working with the Raz Alshayatin, the party raided a Golden Empire convoy delivering resources to one of their occupied settlements. The Imperial forces defending the supplies were better equipped than the party thought and the battle was bloody. Krako took a nick in his shirt pocket, surprisingly feeling unphased. Until it hit him... Blood dripped from his shirt and saw Nerbie fighting for her life. Krako killed the Imperial soldier and tried to heal her in time, but it was too late.

Krako buried Nerbie in the sand, regretful of the way he treated her near the final days of her life.

## **Description**

### *Appearance*

"The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, wharf rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat, Norwegian rat and Parisian rat**,** is a widespread species of common rat. One of the largest muroids, it is a brown or grey rodent with a head and body length of up to 28 cm (11 in) long, and a tail slightly shorter than that. It weighs between 140 and 500 g (5 and 17+3⁄4 oz)." [Wikipedia - Brown Rat].

### *Personality*

"The brown rat is nocturnal and is a good swimmer, both on the surface and underwater, and has been observed climbing slim round metal poles several feet in order to reach garden bird feeders. Brown rats dig well, and often excavate extensive burrow systems. A 2007 study found brown rats to possess metacognition, a mental ability previously only found in humans and some other primates, but further analysis suggested they may have been following simple operant conditioning principles." [Wikipedia - Brown Rat].

Also, Nerbie tends to get bored easily and needs constant stimulation in order to be entertained.

## **Relationships**

### *Krako Brusai*

Nerbie's relationship with Krako was a little more complicated than that of a master and a pet. While Krako genuinely wanted a partner in crime/friend to share his experiences with, Nerbie thought of her "friend" as more of a dunce and an easy way to get food. It didn't help that Krako had no sense of survival instinct since he constantly threw himself into intense battles. But, Nerbie grew an interesting attachment to Krako once he showed that he was willing to protect her. After that, their bond was snug and secured. For a time...

While in Highfall, Krako's resentment for Lux led to Nerbie being ignored and their shenanigans as friends being set aside. Nerbie didn't like this change, but there was nothing she could do about it. Goofy hijinks were few and far between but their friendship and their cons were practically cemented as over.

Traveling through the Scorchking's Desert, the neglect Nerbie faced was at an all-time high. But, she could never blame her master, as she held onto hope that some part of him would return to his slippery, charismatic self. In the rest of her lifetime, he never did.

### *Lux the Lich Killer*

The anger that Krako had for Lux wasn't the same feeling that Nerbie had for the Golden Warlord. The pure power and malevolence he exuded scared the poor brown rat, leading to lots of the stress she felt in Highfall. Luckily, Nerbie had a limited number of encounters with the Golden Warlord, so her fear was not debilitating. Additionally, Krako was the one who killed Lux, so that made their bond even stronger as Nerbie felt like Krako could protect her from anything after that.

## Trivia

* Nerbie got her peculiar name because of an inside joke in the DND group.
	+ Basically, it was based off the fact that some other members of the old friend group tried DND way back in the Divine Age and they ended up not liking it. So, they called DND "nerdy and boring" because of it.
	+ Nerbie's name was based off the "nerdy" part of the joke and then she was given the personality trait of being bored easily, hence the "boring" segment.
* Nerbie actually died a really sad death because of Krako not feeding her enough to sustain her hunger, but AnerexoMexo embellished her death for the wiki because NO ONE CAN STOP HIM.