Rat Swarm

Spoilers ahead. This page says what this creature is, where it waits, and how it fights.

The game wants you to meet it in the dark first.

Turn back

Eat what the others leave.

Rat Swarm

Low

The kennels, and the rooms by Jerome's door

What it is

Never one. They come as a carpet, and they eat what the others leave: the bones in the kennel were picked clean by them, not by the hounds.

Up here they are money, though not much. Some grow dark grey, with iron for skin. Those are not for eating.

How it fights

Small bites at your arms and legs, a lurch at the head, and a frenzy that makes the next bites land much harder for a turn.

Kill them all at once, before they get going.

What you were told

Abel's notes

Eat what the others leave.

Never one. They come as a carpet, and they eat what the others leave: the bones in the kennel are picked clean by them, not the hounds. They stay low - hands and legs, never higher - and they bite deep. Kill them before they spread - a swarm that has fed is a bigger swarm.

Henry says

Money. Not much.

Rats are money up here. Not much money. Bring me a dead one and we'll talk. They go for your hands and your ankles, all at once - so kill them all at once.