Gatekeeper+Ologhei

=Gatekeeper Ologhei (and Khoel)= Orc Druid from the Shadow Marches and member of the ancient Gatekeepers sect. Deceased.

Ologhei traveled to Sharn with his awakened Horrid Rat animal companion, Khoel, to investigate a new Cult dedicated to the abberant Daelkyr, whom the Gatekeepers had helped defeat thousands of years ago. When he found the Cult of The Three Below deep in the Cogs, he was overwhelmed by the Cult's allies, a force of Gnolls affiliated with Daask led by a Gnoll Druid member of the Children of Winter sect.

The Gatekeeper was ritually sacrificed by the Cult on or about 1 Olarune 998 YK (soon after he met and spoke briefly with another captive, Faye Dwarfhammer). His remains, skinned and gnawed by Dolgrims, were unceremoniously dumped with a pile of other corpses near the hideous Dolgrim Mamasan, an egglaying aberration apparently responsible for breeding Dolgrims. They also dumped his Gatekeeper badge (a simple embossed leather disk on a twine string) and weapon (a Masterwork Club made into an //Eternal Wand of Shillelagh//). Both were later found by yet another Druid, a Warden of the Wood named Nina Moondown.

Khoel, the awakened former animal companion, had been dispatched to a different part of the Cogs on a scouting mission. Unable to prevent what happened to his friend and master, the Horrid Rat emerged from the Cogs in the Lower Tavick's Landing section. A short time later he'd found a tower -- the lower level of what becomes Lyrandar Tower, Sharn's primary airship port, as it happens -- overrun by vermin with no Humanoid inhabitants. Finding a large warren of Dire Rats, he quickly dispatched the alpha rat and took over (yes, he became the Rat King, Khoel).

Mere days later, one of his Dire Rat underlings found a shiny Mithral disk, encrusted with gems and small Dragonshards, that had fallen from far above...along with a few people. Not knowing what had happened, but recognizing the object as a thing of value, Khoel hid it and went about the business of exploring his new domain. Sure enough, the next day (8 Olarune 998 YK) a Tiefling came looking for the disk. With him was a pack of "not-rats" -- small, fast, four-legged skulking demons who killed several of his rats before he could parlay with the newcomer. Khoel sent the Tiefling and his pack to a spot in the tower where Giant Spiders lurked and a small cluster of Skeletons and Zombies waited for something living to come along.

A busy day got even busier when a group of Adventurers showed up in the same Tower, pursuing the Tiefling and the Mithral disk. Khoel's reaction was cool until one of the party revealed herself as a Druid...and what's more, she was carrying Gatekeeper Ologhei's Clubwand! Mourning his master's death, the Horrid Rat decided to cooperate with the party, giving them the Disk in exchange for some minor magic items and telling them where he'd sent the Tiefling (Telgin Char). He also asked if they could clear out some of the other vermin from "his" tower, so the Dire Rats under his care could flourish.