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Rats
Settlement scavengers, shipboard pests, and plague-adjacent warning signs in granaries, docks, and ruins.
In the North
Rats belong wherever people store grain, sail ships, or leave refuse. In Viking-inspired play they are especially useful around docks, winter stores, and abandoned halls.
Myth and Folklore
Rats are not central to Norse myth, but they make strong practical horror. A rat swarm in a longhouse says something has gone wrong with food, sanitation, or the dead.
Campaign Use
Use rats as infestation, famine pressure, disease sign, or the first visible clue of necromancy below a settlement.