Editing Roddun (section)

==Origins==
Nobody is quite sure where the roddun - or "ratters" - came from. They first appeared in the wake of a terrible plague that struck the Reign of Men about a century before the present. The disease came to be known as the Blue Death, and the era in which it consumed every city in the Reign of Men is called "The Time of Blue Fire", because the corpses of those sick with the Blue Depth produce deep blue flames and a sweet smell when burned. The plague got so bad that the officials of each city-state walled off the ghettos where the infected had been sequestered and left them to rot whilst the Blue Death ran its course.

And when the plague ended, and the walls came down, they were very surprised to learn that these ghettos had picked up new residents. From some unknown place, the roddun had emerged and sequestered themselves within the plague-ghettos; immune to the Blue Death themselves, they walked amongst the dead and dying with impunity, trading for food and goods, caring for the sick and burying the dying, and generally doing what they could to make life easier for their new neighbors.

And when the walls came down, the rodduns were adamant that they weren't going anywhere.