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[FantasticDorf]

To avoid trouble with infringement of the many mice/rat/rodent based franchises for representation of Rodent men, instead we could use Cavy men, as is the common tradition to pit very small animals vertically into the cavern layers to scout it out, over thousands of magically influenced years, the cavy men have emerged from these practices.
 

• Dwarves like Cave-Cavy Men for their squeaking, and well kept moustaches

The only contender i know that has Cavy men is the 'Failbetter Games' studio featuring in "Sunless Sea", a official co-operative agreement for a crossover with Kitfox games or studio expansion/merger could help open the doors to intermixing the concepts and trademark allowances.

To go further, islands based on the franchise of sunless sea such as Pigmote could be found on water cavern maps as a civilization arriving on the backs of amphibious giant cave-cavies for pack-trade as the first implemented cavern civilization beside deep-dwarves, and having loosely disconnected agrarian communites protected from the waters with enclosed docks. Occasionally tunnels leading out from dwarven fortresses can connect to these settlements.

[jecowa]

The Rodent Men in Vermentide are called Skaven. Games Workshop suing over the Rodent Man seems equivalent to Nickelodeon suing over Sponge Man, or to Sega suing for Hedgehog Man and Echidna Man. I don't think anyone can own the concept of combining an animal or ferrous metal with a human, not even Walt Disney.

[FantasticDorf]

Such interlaps happen in implementation, a large number of them is equatable to a skaven-tide, when they are wearing armor and wielding weapons its a redwall, when they are wearing hats and talking in russian accents its a American Tail. Eventually you get backed into a corner because its saturated.

Overreaction? maybe, but i think the precedent should be that DF vanilla can tow its own line, then leave it up to modders to go extra steps.