Feats:
Weapon Finesse and Skill Focus. Wild Raths have their skill focus in Escape Artist while domestic Raths have their skill focus in Survival and are prized as trackers.
Skills:
Climb +2, Escape Artist +2, Perception +2, Stealth +10, Survival +2, Swim +2
Organization:
Solitary, Pair, or Herd (3-100)
Treasure:
None for feral, but normal for domestic.
The Rath is sort of a small, green pig. Some have
black snouts and others have black splotching on
their skin. A rare few are black with green
splotches instead.
The Rath's origins have been traced to the
strange Wyrd Forest. Somehow the
creature made its way into Jerusalem's farmlands
in the past, before the coming of the Blight. The
creatures proved to be unpalatable when cooked
and they also at twice their weight in food every
day. Whenever a Rath became separated from its
family group (considered, in local parlance to be
"mome"), it would emit a terrible noise which the
people coined to be "outgrabing". With the sole
exception of producing high-quality fertilizer, the
creatures were seen as useless pests. They were
hunted down and destroyed as such.
Today, Raths have spread throughout the world and make excellent pets for
children and work-animals for adults. They also eat garbage and families even save
the creature's droppings to sell as chips. Mome Raths, of
which there are many on some city streets, are
often destroyed because their outgrabing could
wake the dead.