Talk:Weepers/@comment-27202257-20121231233440/@comment-3410662-20130101003351

Exactly. I think of the rats themselves as 'servants of the outsider,' as I do the whales (to a certain extent), but they're sentient/sapient creatures (can't remember which means which; I think sentient was aware and sapient was self-aware but I'm not sure), but the plague itself is a bunch of unicelluluar organisms, and those definitely aren't sentient.

So what I'm trying to say is that the plague rats, which have been said to be of greater intelligence than normal rats, are prooobably servants of the outsider, but they almost certainly aren't supernatural.

I kind of thought so, but it goes a long way to explain why they keep attacking you and vomiting on you even if you hit them with your sword. Whether it's aggression or not it's certainly affecting their emotions, though. /stupid closure statements.