Behind you, the sound of skittering feet and snapping limbs grows closer as the horde rushes through the Deepwood. You have no choice but to stand and fight. Ordering the troops to hold the rear against the smaller creatures, you draw your weapons and prepare to face the Broodmother matriarch.

Sedric sprints then leaps like a cat. Burying his blades into the Broodmother's flanks. Giant rats snap and claw at his face but he fights them off. He slays one rat then another, the great Broodmother reeling from the wounds in its side. For a moment you think the rat catcher may single handedly slay the beast but then he slips. Hands slick with blood Sedric loses his grip on the embedded knife and falls from the Broodmother flank, a torrent of rats following after. You rush forward but as he lands he disappears beneath a wave of rat tails.

Baring your teeth at the festering monstrosity that looms over you, you vow that the rat catcher's sacrifice would not be in vain.