Thread:Ralok/@comment-5607198-20130601133954/@comment-5607198-20130602044842

"Galvani thinks they're introduced by a foreign power, but never stops to consider that they might have come from bull rats that were being studied and got loose." that's true, but that's irrelevant. We, the player, know that Burrows brought the rats from Pandyssia and had them released in the slums. Because "kill the poor with deadly rats" seemed like a good idea at the time.

"Sokolov studies only one rat, even when the plague is present. It's mentioned that they swarm, even at the start of the plague." So? you can still find rats on their own. and unlike Galvani, who focuses on the rats themselves, Sokolov is focusing on human experimentation. He wouldn't necessarily require more than one rat at a time. As for the swarming... what? I'm not sure what you're saying. But I can say that Rat Behavior and Extermination tells us that it is only AFTER the introduction of the new rats that the swarms become the deadly "eat you to the bone" masses seen in the game.

"Both Galvani and Sokolov differentiate between the rats, either writing/talking about the plague rat or the pandyssian bull rat. Nobody ever refers to plague rats as bull rats." True, no notes specifically mention them being the same thing. But neither do any notes say they are different. When one term is used, the source exclusively uses that term. The only evidence so far that they are NOT the same is simply that nothing says they definitely are. On the other hand, I think there's plenty of evidence to support the idea they ARE the same, even without explicit confirmation