It could be a nice hunting trophy, but it smells too bad to place it on a wall. On the other hand, it demonstrates that owner is capable of killing rats, even big and smelly ones. This skull has special properties related to rat control.

• Type: Quest Item / Artifact
• Rarity: Quest Item
• Price: 100 gold
• Identified: Always

• Rat Intimidation: When equipped, the acrid stench terrifies all other rodents around, making them flee from the skull bearer
• Quest Item: Originally part of the Ghost quest in the sewers
• Alternative Quest Reward: Used as the alternative reward for the Ghost quest (instead of Dried Rose)

• Dropped by Fetid Rat (a special rat variant)
• Alternative reward from the Ghost quest in the sewers
• Part of the sewers questline for players who chose the rat skull quest path

When equipped, provides the “Ratter” buff which:

• Causes all rodent-type enemies to flee in fear
• Applies to all Rat-type creatures in the dungeon
• Has the description: “The acrid stench terrifies all other rodents around, making them flee from the skull bearer.”
• When a rat-type enemy detects the player with this item equipped, it enters a Fleeing AI state and is affected by Terror debuff

The Giant Rat Skull is a quest item that's part of the Ghost's questline. It represents an alternative path in the sewers quest where the player hunts a special Fetid Rat instead of collecting 8 regular rat corpses. When equipped, it provides a useful effect against rat-type enemies.

• Ghost - NPC that starts the quest
• Fetid Rat - Special rat variant that drops the skull
• Rat - Basic mob affected by the skull
• Fleeing - AI state that affected mobs enter
• Terror - Debuff applied to affected mobs

• Java: RatSkull.java
• String resources: String definitions
• Buff implementation: BuffFactory.java
• Rat interaction: Rat.java