The Dead Rats were a street gang operating in Luskan and Neverwinter , on the northern Sword Coast. The Dead Rats were loosely allied with the Coin Spinners gang.
In Luskan, the gang was based in the Drowned Rat tavern and was notorious throughout northern Faerûn.
In Neverwinter, the gang had no established a formal headquarters, instead operating out from the sewers of the Blacklake District.
Only were-beings that once you are bitten the victim of lycanthropy are not limited to wererats.