It's about a mouse civilisation, after they overthrow an empire ruled by cats, where the mice are slaves...
So, while it's cats rather than humans, this idea definitely has "legs", as it were...
I'm sure that's not the only example, but it's the first that came to my mind, lol.
It's honestly a better book series than it sounds. At least for its target age range, anyway.
Also arguably Redwall, where it's sort of unclear whether humans used to exist there, and then got wiped out, or whether it's just a world inhabited by giant woodland creatures, or hell, if they just have everything scaled down to their size (including mountains, trees, etc.)
The rats work together, overthrowing all human rule NZ, making the humans left a slave race as they create a rat empire...
Or their efforts create a black death mark 2, I have REALLY low expectations on how much they can fuck this up.
Eh, I'm sure they'll be more reasonable diplomatic conversations with Skaven than the supposed government of NZ.
So, New Zealand is going to turn into a real-world Skavenblight. All hail the Great Horned Rat then.
Oh, several of you have referenced this now… Is it a game? I haven’t heard of this before, clearly, lol…
It's from Warhammer fantasy, the humanoid plague rat race are called Skaven.
I present to you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sands_of_Time_(Hoeye_novel)
It's about a mouse civilisation, after they overthrow an empire ruled by cats, where the mice are slaves...
So, while it's cats rather than humans, this idea definitely has "legs", as it were...
I'm sure that's not the only example, but it's the first that came to my mind, lol.
It's honestly a better book series than it sounds. At least for its target age range, anyway.
Also arguably Redwall, where it's sort of unclear whether humans used to exist there, and then got wiped out, or whether it's just a world inhabited by giant woodland creatures, or hell, if they just have everything scaled down to their size (including mountains, trees, etc.)
So yeah, this is a thing, in YA fantasy, lol.