Sharp Axes
The guide identifies Sharp Axes as Rat’s first lore choice and the gateway to two central parts of its plan: Healing Fire and Medicine. It frames these as key to the clan’s wounded-unit and healing mechanics.
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Strategy · EQUIPMENT & PROGRESSION
Northgard
The Rat guide describes a progression built around economic upgrades, healing and wounded-unit mechanics, and large conversion waves. Its suggested lore order allows variations and reflects a particular build approach. The choices below are limited to effects and conditions supported by the supplied evidence.
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Healing Fire
Healing Fire is one of the key Rat lores unlocked after Sharp Axes. The guide advises timing it before winter and pairing it with Overwork to manage the clan’s wounded-unit mechanics.
Understand this choiceMedicine
Medicine increases healing from Healing Fire, Shamans, and Eir. The Rat guide usually places it third, while allowing it to be delayed to fourth or sixth.
Understand this choiceOvercrowding
Overcrowding lets Rat build two identical buildings in one tile. The guide describes it as a key lore that helps ensure access to multiple food buildings and supports strong profession-focused upgrades.
Understand this choiceCarpentry Mastery
Carpentry Mastery supports Rat’s upgrade-heavy development. The guide says it reduces the Stone needed for upgrades in 801 and reduces upkeep costs in 802 and later.
Understand this choiceEnrollment
Enrollment reduces the cost of converting units, and the guide calls it a build-defining Rat lore. Its value is tied to the clan’s plan to field large groups through conversion.
Understand this choicePain Suppressant
Pain Suppressant increases movement and attack speed for wounded units by 20%. The guide calls it Rat’s equivalent to Weaponsmith, but cautions that its effect may be difficult to realize in battle.
Understand this choiceMilitary Strategy
Military Strategy increases unit damage by 15–20%, with the amount depending on whether a teammate is fighting alongside Rat, according to the guide.
Understand this choiceFeeling Safe
Feeling Safe is one of the guide’s recovery choices. With many upgraded camps, the guide says it provides a large happiness boost.
Understand this choiceRecruitment
Recruitment is described as Rat’s second major recovery lore. The guide says it combines with Feeling Safe to make the recovery phase almost instantaneous.
Understand this choiceBlood Ties
Blood Ties lets Rat sacrifice 50% of Eir’s HP to apply a passive regeneration effect to all units in her tile for five seconds, according to the guide.
Understand this choiceBlessings: Jörd, Freya, and Ancestral Knowledge
The guide’s Rat build describes three distinct blessing uses: Jörd for early upgrades and relic iron, Freya to help sustain a large conversion through winter, and Ancestral Knowledge as a lore-win option.
Understand this choiceReferences & guide scope
Rat clan lore progression and related unit development, limited to the build choices and effects shown in the supplied Rat guide evidence.
- The Rat guide provides strategy advice, not official documentation; its recommendations may depend on patch, mode, and match conditions.
- The supplied evidence windows do not establish a complete Rat lore tree or acquisition and cost details for every choice.
Explanations prepared with GPT-6 Luna and checked against the linked references. These are source-reviewed guides. They do not establish independently tested optimal builds or exact upgrade budgets. How coverage works.