What is the lifespan of a Skaven?

The Skaven centric Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay supplement "Children of the Horned Rat" gives the average Skaven an expected lifespan of about 20 years, asserting that, were it not for the (often violent) internal competition of their species, they might live well past 50.
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How old is the Skaven race?

c. -1600 -- The first true Skaven emerge as masters of Skavenblight.
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What is the weakest Skaven clan?

The lowest rank is made up by Skavenslaves, which are the weakest Skaven, used as menial labor and cannon fodder in battle. Above them are the Clanrats, which are clever or strong enough to keep from being bullied down into slavery but do not have any significant features to make them stand out.
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Do Skaven have genders?

Unlike the male Skaven who is autonomous, female Skaven are dependent on their male counterparts for their survival and serve the Under-Empire by bringing forth the next generation of ratlings into the world.
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How big do Skaven get?

In terms of size, the average Skaven is slight of build and can stand up to between four and six feet in height when not in their usual hunched-over posture.
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Who is the oldest living Skaven?

Throt is one of the oldest living Skaven within Clan Moulder, second only to the Clan's mysterious Lord of Decay.
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Are Skaven all male?

The truth of the matter is that there are, indeed, female Skaven, locked away in the depths of the Under-Empire. Female Skaven serve no other purpose than to propagate their vile species, and they are only slightly conscious.
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Is Skaven a furry?

Skaven, beastmen and Lizardmen are no furries.
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Do Skaven breed with humans?

Skaven can also breed with human women, but in a weird way. The Skaven would have too turn the woman into a broodmare, a horribly obese and mindless monstrosity, indistinguishable from a regular Skaven female. This process is very long and has a low rate of succes, so it doesn't happen very often.
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Do Skaven have guns?

As with other Skaven weapon teams, Ratling Guns are usually deployed as a support weapon for the wave attacks of the Clanrats, a situation that is as beneficial as it is terrifying for them.
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Who is the richest Skaven clan?

strongest is debatable due to all 4 of the major clans selling out their services to other clans and clan mors not being as strong as the major clan. wealthiest is clan moulder or skryre and smartest is clan moulder or skyre again. it's the clan of the grey seers.
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Why are Skaven kept a secret?

The general reasoning behind the secrecy, is that making information about the Skaven widespread is, initially, unlikely to be believed. If your government tomorrow told you that every city in your country had millions of bipedal, man-sized rats living beneath it, would you believe that kind of bollocks?
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Why do lizardmen hate Skaven?

Being servants of the Old Ones, the Lizardmen seek to enact the Great Plan and bring order to the world. As such, they are staunch opponents of Chaos and the forces of destruction. Lizardmen particularly hate Skaven after many long campaigns fought against the children of the Horned Rat.
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What language do Skaven speak?

"While Skaven have a native language called Queekish, they fluently speak the Manthing tongue so as to better strike fear into the hearts of their enemies. The Skaven have made a few improvements to the Manthing language showing their superiority over their weak and stupid enemies.
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What do Skaven eat?

In Warhammer, Skaven are a race of ratmen who live in underground tunnels and sewers. They are known for their insatiable hunger and willingness to eat just about anything. Skaven are scavengers and will eat almost anything they can get their paws on, including carrion, garbage, and even their own dead.
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Do Skaven exist in 40k?

Warhammer 40k is a setting filled with gods, monsters, daemons, heroes, mutants, psykers, aliens, and more. But there's one thing that it's missing: there are no Warhammer 40k Skaven. Though the universe teems with life of all sorts, there's a sore lack of Chaos-worshipping rat men.
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Why do some Skaven have horns?

The spiritual leaders of the Skaven Under-Empire, these grey, white, or albino ratmen are born with tiny horns that, along with the colour of their fur, mark them as the chosen priests of the Horned Rat.
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Are Skaven intelligent?

The Skaven, (pronounced "SKAY-ven") sometimes known as the ratmen, the Ratkin, the "Children of the Horned Rat," [1a] or the "Underfolk" [7a] are a malevolent and diabolical race of large, intelligent, humanoid rats that inhabit a massive, inter-continental, subterranean empire known in their tongue simply as the " ...
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What culture are Skaven based on?

8 Skaven - The Black Death

New research suggests that the rats were not to blame, though and that human fleas and body lice transmitted the disease. Other inspirations for the Skaven are Japanese ninja (clan Eshin), World War One (the tactics and weaponry used by the Skaven), and German Sturmtruppen (Stormvermin).
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What is a half human furry called?

A morphic (or morph the Greek word for form, shape) is a furry character that has the body of a half-human, half-animal. Thus it is a character that is anthropomorphic, or partly human in appearance.
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Are Skaven weak?

Most Skaven units have low leadership, so they will quickly rout only to rally shortly after. However these meat-shield units must be backed up with stronger damage-dealing units. Stormvermin and their variants are solid infantry (though will still lose to elite troops).
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Are Skaven immune to chaos?

Skaven are corrupted by chaos, this is why they are skaven. Warpstone is just the physical form of pure chaos energy. Their divinity, the great horned rat is a lesser chaos God who ascends to join the four chaos gods during the end times.
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Why are there no Skaven in Ulthuan?

Back when TW2 was released a lot of players questioned why the Skaven and Beastmen couldn't use their respective traversal stances to get into Ulthuan and the people who know the lore said it was because Ulthuan is a floating island, so it doesn't have an underground and therefore there are no beast paths or underways.
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How tall is a Skaven?

Physiology. Skaven are usually around four to five feet tall when they stand up straight, although the largest can reach six feet tall. Fur covers their bodies except for their ears, muzzles, hands and fleshy rat tails.
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Can you mix Skaven clans?

The point is that in contrast to all previous books, each unit has an inbuilt sub-faction keyword. And there's no formal prohibition to mix them in one army.
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