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Wayward Ratonga by Enertocter

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

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Only in EverQuest 2

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

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

This took me around 61-61 hours over about four days. I followed a little too closely on the background, I think- I was a little scared to turn off the reference layer and cut loose, but I can always try that in the future.

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As a pretty small child absolutely obsessed with fantasy role playing games and, lacking siblings to play with, I was pretty elated to be introduced the expansive universe of the MMORPG. As far as I was concerned, the genre included only one game, which was on the computer of my slightly older friend who lived far away and ignored content age restrictions. I was particularly enamored with the character option to play a humanoid rat person (with the humanoid cat person being a close second, if not tie), perhaps because of my affinity for the Redwall books. It was all my nerd child self wanted to do. But because my this friend lived far away and my mom didn’t want to buy media that she thought was too mature for my age, I only got to play the game a few times. I had a good imagination and spent years drawing and acting out my beloved humanoid rat character and biding my time until I could buy the game for myself.

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: