Many tales are told to children about the adventures of the Mouse King who is usually portrayed as a good-natured scoundrel, full of mischief, who stands up to bullies and takes them down a peg using trickery, quick thinking and the help of his tiny allies.
The Mouse King is the King of all rodents, and he spends his days looking after the concerns of all his subjects in Mera. Wherever people wonder what goes squeak in the night, the Mouse King won’t be far. In some of the darker stories, his adversary is Chitrik, a shapeshifting warlock who usually takes the shape of a wererat and who tries to use the Mouse King’s subjects for evil purposes. In those stories, the Mouse King defends his kind against the machinations of the evil warlock.
Often, the King also is at the head of a guild of thieves, always in some clever disguise. He schemes to make sure his wealth continues to grow, which often means entering into conflict with other gangs. When it comes to making money in the tales, he considers what is best for the long‑term prosperity of the city in which he operates, which he rightly believes is crucial to his own success and that of his subjects. He is a great proponent of trade of all kinds, and his subjects have found their way to every corner of the world the in the company of sailors, merchants, and drovers. Especially the children of halflings and gnomes and those of the human population of Nagendra love the Mouse King’s adventures.
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