Whizbang Dustyboots
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I think it's pretty likely from video games. EverQuest is from 1999, or thereabouts, and nearly every race's starting experience involves killing rats. There's literally a giant field of them on the inland side of Freeport, which feels like -- in a better-written world than Norrath -- it should be the subject of an interesting low level plot line. (Wererats? Rat people? A portent of a god of plagues and famine?)Maybe it comes from video games.
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