Editing Nezumi (section)

===History===
The Nezumi, also known as '''Ratlings''', are the 2nd Great Race of Rokugan. Originally a non-sapient race bred as livestock by the [[Naga]], they evolved into sapience and established their own great empire, long before the rise of the Clans of Rokugan. Known now only as "The Before Time", it lives on in the oral traditions of nezumi Rememberers, but it once stretched from the southern reaches of Rokugan all the way to what is now the Deep Shadowlands.

Distorted by generations and the cultural indifference to accurate preservation of the past - history is less important than the present, in the eyes of the modern nezumi - the tales still speak of the nezumi accomplishing great things. Tales allude to the subjugation and even enslavement of the [[ogre]], [[goblin]] and [[troll]] races, and the building of a great city from which the Chief-of-Chiefs ruled.

That all ended when Fu Leng fell from the heavens; the spot where he landed, and the birthplace of the Shadowlands, was the center of the nezumi empire.

Devastated by the destruction of their homeland, the nezumi were reduced to scattered tribes, eeking out a comparatively pitiful existence amidst the ruins of what were once their home.