Plague Rats

The Plague Rats was the guild of top thieves, assassins, and wererats, bitter rivals of the Xanathar's Thieves' Guild, operating throughout the Western Heartlands, North Faerûn.

Activities
The Plague Rats operated the temple of Talona in the Rat Hills, called the Rat's Maw. The Maw was an underground complex, part of the guild's headquarters, and was a complex, entertaining system of tunnels, rooms, and warrens. The regular sacrifices to Talona by the Rats were humanoids and other creatures infected with a wide array of plagues and afflictions while keeping them alive and suffering on the temple's shrine.

Base of Operations
The main headquarters of the Assassins' Guild was located somewhere deep within the Rat Hills and had a multitude of underground connections to Undermountain of Waterdeep. Its exact location was a fiercely guarded secret.

Relationships
Plague Rats served the goddess Talona, the Mother of all Plagues, alongside a few other organizations consisted of thieves, rogues, or vermin.

Members of the Confluence, aided by the Church of Selûne, closely monitored activities of Waterdeep's lycanthropes. That included the Plague Rats.

Plague Rats were bitter rivals of the Xanathar's guild based in Skullport. The Rats' members often monitored the Xanathar's estate not missing an opportunity to shiv careless members of the Thieves' Guild or attempt to recruit their opponents.

History
The Plague Rats were reportedly unaffected by the Rat Hills Conflagration of 1367 DR.

Appearances

 * Gamebooks
 * To Catch a Thief
 * Organized Play & Licensed Adventures
 * Dock Ward Double-Cross