Talk:Rat Whispers/@comment-16533050-20190220103854/@comment-732225-20190220105535

Take a look at this book: The Foreign Curse, Written and Researched by Tabitha Alba. Now, I think there are two interpretations. First, the plague did reach Serkonos, but was kept in check due to those factors. Second, it did not reach the island at all. If the second interpretation is true then your theory about rats being stowed away on ships would explain how they know about the plague. And to answer your question about how they remember it, they don't. "Old ones spoke of old days", they simply told their children about it and the children told their children :D I don't think rats in our world can do that, but maybe rats in Dishonored can :D