Shrat

"I'm gettin' some space between me and those bloody lunatics, that's what I'm doin' out here."

Shrat is a novice who has withdrawn from the rest of the Brotherhood to get away from them. Asked what he's doing out on his own, he first snaps that he hasn't given the Hero permission to speak to him, before admitting he's joking, then explains he needed distance from those bloody lunatics, mocking their constant refrains: "'Do not speak to me!' - 'Beg the Sleeper for forgiveness!' - 'This quest is of extraordinary importance!'" He introduces himself as Shrat, Novice of the First Rank, and says that's exactly where he intends to stay.

When the Hero mentions wanting to join the Brotherhood, Shrat scoffs, calling them those loons and admitting he'd have left the Colony entirely if the other camps were any better. He instead proposes the two of them travel together to "mug some fools, scrounge ruins for nuggets." If the Hero agrees to travel with him he's pleased, and if the Hero later chooses to part ways, he accepts it and heads back to his shack in the swamp, telling the Hero to "stay alive."