"The Qiqirn look, for all intents and purposes, like rats. They are known to have tremendous appetites, which they will sate by feeding on nigh anything—from rotten meat to hot trash. More than once I've taken one to the
Phrontistery, only to have it steal away to the storerooms and gorge itself on medicines until its stomach burst or its heart stopped or some such ridiculousness. All the same, they
are exceedingly clever things. They know their numbers as well as any scholar, and have a gift for merchant trade, as well. The Phrontistery even employs some to keep their books. In fact, there's a funny story about that. For no more than a
dodo egg, the gluttonous things will even let me stick a—Oooh! Nevermind that last part."
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Vavaki, Ul'dah