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Project Drowned Rat is an original fantasy horror setting, created by Brendan Mason for his own entertainment. PDR will provide (mostly) spoiler-free information about the characters, history, concepts and places of the PDR world.

Welcome to Newport  (link for more details)

Newport is the largest citystate remaining in the world. After the oceans rose and washed most of civilisation away, after the rise of the New Rats, after the Graffini invasion, after all manner of offense to normal human living, Newport remains, the last bastion of the Danglish Empire and best hope for the return of humanity to its proper place as the dominant form of life.

No option is too extraordinary or perverse in the quest for decency. The swamps will be drained, the waters pushed back, the land reclaimed, all trespassers will be purged, the incorrect religions rewritten or erased. Glory to Newport, glory to the birth of the New Danglish Empire.

The Way it Used to Be  (link for more details)

The Danglish Empire was the pride of the industrialised world, and The Queen the pride of the Empire. It was said that the steam from Her Majesty's navy coiled around the entire world. There was not a single colony free from her humanising influence, not a single foreign race or exotic creed that had not benefited from her wisdom.

The enemies of the realm were incapable of withstanding Danglish justice by themselves, and various allegiances between foreign regimes, who might otherwise have been foes, were common. The most recent and famous (of course) being the Prussex-Novda Pact. Aggression from the PNP brought terrible war into the world, and even Danglish might struggled to contain the unwarranted aggression. Despite the amazing carnage, a Danglish victory was in sight, enable in no small part from assitance from her various loyal colonies, some who had broken off into independant states but still retained a love for the Empire that had birthed them. It was five years into the PNP War of Aggression when the skies broke and the waters came.

The Rise of the Oceans  (link for more details)

 The Great Fragmenting of the World

The Discovery of the New Rats

The First Rat Purge

The Graffini Reveal Themselves

The First Grafinni Purge

The Collapse

The Years of Mud

The Rise

Notable Danglish Humans

Head Minister (current elected head of state)

The Triplets (Head Minister's assistants)

Sunshine Mathers (ex-Triplet, private contractor)

Tut Tut Toni (Mobster)

Edith Trundle (First Illustrated Human, private detective, blood magician, defeater of the King of Teeth, famous writer of detective novels)

Terrible Old Woman on the Hill (head of the Newport spy agency, unnamed)

Digby Wolfe (mid level politician, connection between the Newport gov and TOWOH)

Elisha Crawn (accountant, turned professional driver, assistant to Edith Trundle)

Head Clerk, Finance Sector (Crawn's first superior when he worked in government)

Head Mechanic, Driving Pool (Crawn's last superior when he left government)

Jimmy Clemens, before (the boy who mapped the new world and fell in love with a New Rat, generally liked, organs mostly replaced with medial tattoos)

Jimmy Clemens, afterwards (the man who became a police officer, murdered by foreign scum and returned as a violent undead revenant)

Isabelle Clemens (Jimmy's sister, also a police officer)

Horatio Roachcliff (police officer, Isabelle's partner, a follower of the Sunken God)

Esmeralda Roachcliff (Horatio's mother, a corpse)

Tristam O'Shady (police officer, runs the Shacklehead Police Station)

Notable Foreigners

Johnny Murker (a swamp dweller, petty criminal who becomes a folk hero and has an entire ethnicity named after him)

Herbert Rutting-Coombes (weirdstone mining magnate and the corporate owner of the town of Binsmuth, Jimmy's killer)

Rosalie Budinsky (war veteran, taxi driver, trouble shooter, emigrated from NOvda)

Ruby Skegsalletti (Queen of the Railmen)

Elpseth Plain (Station Mistress of the Town of Binsmuth)

Miranda Holliver (Alcoholic witch, Elspeth's best friend, in love with Jimmy, afterwards)

David Spektor, Fausta Petito (dentist librarians. Have a book read to you while your teeth are pulled)

Notable Gods

Jenny Hub (human)

Stan in the Hat (human)

Malcolm Proper (rat)

Mother of All Rats (rat)

King of All Teeth (a horror to behold)

Tricky Decker (rat)

Notable New Rats

Lisbet Batori Pullaparte (Queen of the Wat Rat empire)

Scabby Bean (notorious pirate and scoundrel)

Grievous Betty (Lisbet's estranged daughter,

Insidious Macker

Saucy Jack Callahan

Old Krokus

Hermelia Curie

Derek (an electrician)

The Carver

Ami Villete

Notable Grafinni

The Stained-Glass Detective

Owl Job (on loan)

Notable Illustrated Humans

Edith Trundle (see above)

Sally Pogue (war orphan, missing an arm, proficient pistol fighter, flashy dresser, agent of the City)

Introduction: Welcome to Newport

The Rats

The Humans

The Illustrated

Gods of Memory

The Graffini

Stan in the Hat

Jenny Hub

Edith Trundle





