Doresain
True Ghoul
White Kingdom
Ghoul Lord, Servant of Nhaggol
Killed by Anton using the Blackstick
Nhaggol the Reaper
Doresain appears as a ghoul, though he stands upright rather than adopting the hunched posture of his subjects. His eyes blaze with a sickly green light. He wears an elegant coat of supple human flesh and a suit of pale leather armor studded with skulls. A crown of bones rests on his bald head, and he wields a staff called Toothlust, formed of the rigid spinal column of some past victim. The staff is topped by a skull, in homage to his lord, Nhaggol.
Escape via cloaker form Eyeless with dark sockets Moves slowly except in battle (becomes a blur) Guarded by Animated Skulls and 4 Apprentices (Appollonian Mages) Throne: Acts as Cube of Force defensively (Wall of Force) Word of Recall: takes Doresain to 20H
Lurker Cloak (made from finest flayed leather dyed with blood from a fresh still beating heart)
Mace of Disruption +4, Wand of Lightning
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The king's cloak is made of the finest, softest flayed leather, dyed with blood still fresh from a beating heart; it is a lurker cloak, allowing him to escape in flying cloakcr form if things go badly. lf attacked, the throne protects him with a wall of' force generated as if by a cube of' force. The king's word of recall takes him to the Great Temple of the GhouJs (area 20H).
Doresain, King of the Ghouls (true ghoul noble): INT genius; AL NE; AC -5; MV 12; HD 12+12; hp 71; THACO 7; #AT or l; Dmg ld6/1d6/ ld8 m· ld6+7 (mace of disruption +4, +2 Strength bonus SA paralyzation, dra1J1 2 points of Strength, spe!Js; SD spell immunities; turned as "special" undead; SZ M; ML 18; XP 12,000; new monster; plate armor, wand of lightning (40 charges), mace of di:;-ruption +4.
Spells (9/8/7/8/4/2/1): bless, cure light wounds (x2), detect magic, inuis-iblity to undead., darkness, protection from good, sanctuary; aid, charm per-son or mammal, heat metal (x2), hold person (x2), /mow alignment, silence 15' radius, withdraw; animate dead, continual darkness, di.spel magic (x2), praye,; protection from fi,re, stone shape; control temperature 70' radius, cure . eriou.s w011.nds (x2), detect li,e, free action, protection from lightning, refl.ecting pool, spell immunity; cure critical wounds, fiame strike, true see-inl(, wall of (:;hadow) fire; heal, word of recall; :;ymbol of hopele:;sne:;s.
Doresain casts spells as a 15th-level pl'iest with 19 Wisdom.
The king is eyeless, with dark
sockets, but he seems to sense life wen enough. Doresain moves slowly, except in battle, when he becomes a blur. He is guarded by the animated skulls of fom· apprentices to the mages he transformed so long ago.
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