The Folk

Rodentia is home to many different beings. The civilized beings of Rodentia are categorized as 'folk' while other beings are the beasts including animals, monsters, and creatures.

RODENTIANS
The Rodentians are the most populous folk of the lands that are named for them. Of the different races of Rodentia, two are the most populous and gregarious and interact with each other - there are urban folk known as Mus and rural folk known as Wold.

Mice (Mus, the)
Mouse, mice, the Mus

If the Rodentians are the most common folk, the Mus are the most common Rodentian. They are the most sociable of their kin, settling in large communities of towns and even city size while the others are more solitary and rural.

Mice have small, triangular noses, round eyes and ears, and their tails are hairless. Their fur is varying shades of brown on their heads and backs with faces and fronts of white. The browns of mus can be yellow or red in hue but are usually more of a gray or dark brown, some almost black.

An individual is a mouse, many of them are mice, and mice as a folk are known as Mus (akin to man, men, human).

Voles (Wold, the)
Vole, voles, the Wold

Voles are very similar to their cousins the Mus, with few physical differences and the main difference being how they live. Wolds choose to live in smaller communities or familial homesteads out in rural, even wild areas.

Their fur is longer than the mus with similar coloring, except there are some that have brighter red fur in rust or cinnamon hues and their faces and fronts have some color either silver-gray or pale yellow. Some voles have tipped hairs either in yellow or black. Their eyes and ears are smaller and closer set than the mus and their shorter tails have fur.

Voles are only slightly smaller than mus. Though they are almost the same height, mice look taller as they have a longer body while voles have a larger, rounder head and squat torso.

They are called a vole, voles, or the wolds.

A size comparison of the Rodentian folk

Other Rodentians

In addition to the mus and wolds, there are four other common folk of Rodentia. They each are both less populous and less civilized than their urbane cousins.

Chipumnks (Chit, the)

Chipmunk(s), chip(s), the chits.

Chits are friendly with Mus and Wolds. The live in the fields and thus are considered rural, even wild, people to the mus though they frequently visit mus communities. They are less gregarious than mus and even wolds or they might be considered among those cousins.

They are almost the same size and build as mus. Their eyes are larger than mus and they have oval ears. Their fur is tan to blond with darker stripes on their backs and fairer faces and fronts. They have short, fluffy tails.

Gophers (Goff, the)
Gopher(s), the Goff

Gophers are larger than mus, though they appear shorter due to their hunched stance so that they may only stand to their shoulders but they are twice as wide.

Gophers are friendly with Mus and Wolds. They prefer to sleep and live as much underground as possible and thus interaction with mus is limited.

They have light brown fur with no variation, small eyes and tiny round ears and all have buck teeth.

Rats (Ravagers or Rath, the)
Rat(s), Ravagers or the Rath

Rats are new to Rodentia, they recently came from another land and are attempting to colonize or invade Rodentia depending on your point of view. Even though they are not native, they are more like mus and wolds than the other Rodentians, only they are much larger, almost twice the size of a mus.

Rats are considered an enemy of most other Rodentians. Their size and savage natures make them dangerous, they also are more advanced in some technology - mainly that that know how to use metals for tools and weaponry. The only thing that keeps them from overrunning the mus and their allies is their lack of organization and lesser intelligence as well as a lack of knowledge of the lands.

They look much like mus only much larger and their fur is only brown or black and the same color across their body. Their ears are more oval than those of a mus. There are said to be white rats who are the most cunning and vicious of the Rath.

Squirrels (Scurr, the)
Squirrel(s), The Scurr

Squirrels are independent people who live mostly in the crowns of the trees. They are mischievous and like to playfully mess with other Rodentians that come near their homes. It is said scurries are closely related to chips as rats are to mice.

Squirrels are close in size to rats. They have oval to almond-shaped eyes and oval ears. Their fur is tan, gray and rarely red with white faces and fronts. Their tails are as long as their bodies and are covered in long fur with black tips.