Editing Roddun (section)

==Biology==
Roddun look, and in many ways are, rats that have developed human-like stature, bipedalism, and full-fledged sapience. They are a quick-spreading race; females can produce a litter every six months, and this litter will contain 6-10 ratlings, although most of those will die young; only one to three survive to be young adults. But they live almost as fast as they breed; a roddun is an adult by the age of 1 or 2 years, and is middle-aged by 15. They can live to be about 30 years old, but generally die in middle age; rodduns culturally prefer to die in a ritualized suicide once they feel they have gotten too old to live much longer.

There is also the presence of the tsituks: strange, mutant rodduns, larger and fiercer, with a vast array of mutant abilities that can be both strength and weakness. The precise relationship between rodduns and tsituks is unclear; the rodduns don't talk about them.