The Rat King

The Rat King Colin Nulva

Mini Backstory

• 1 Year Old: Colin is brought up by his big sister Alicyte in Ruby Shire after their mother passed away in childbirth. She tries her best but is too caught up in her addiction to drugs and alcohol.
• 2-6 Years Old: Colin gets put in an orphanage when his sister is arrested and beaten by Calypso. He grows up getting to know his sister through the bars of a jail cell. She eventually admits that what she did was wrong and if it hadn’t been for Calypso then she might have turned out even worse.
• 7-14 Years Old: Colin ends up idolizing Calypso and wants to be just like them. He even ends up dressing up like him a few times for city wide festivals. At some point he makes friends with an odd entity that he calls Vol. Vol promises to help Colin reach his goal of becoming a vigilante, just like Calypso.
• 15 Years Old: His sister breaks out of prison and ends up getting hanged which gives Colin a deep hatred for the government and leads him to being contacted by Dario who offers him some help in becoming a true vigilante. But first he must prove that he is ready by defeating Calypso. This gives him a new purpose and makes him very excited about the prospects of his future.

Questlines

• I need a hero!

Career

Eyeless grunt and future super villain

Factions

The Eyeless

Character Sheet

Vol CR: 13

Huge monstrosity, chaotic evil

Armor Class: 16 Natural Armor

Hit Points:

Speed: 30 ft

STR

21 +5

DEX

16 +3

CON

19 +4

INT

13 +1

WIS

17 +3

CHA

7 -2

Saving Throws: STR +10, CON +9

Skills: Athletics +10, Nature +8, Perception +8

Damage Resistances: Acid, Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks

Condition Immunities: Charmed, Grappled, Poisoned, Restrained

Senses: Darkvision 60, Tremorsense 10, Passive Perception 13

Languages: Common, Undercommon

Challenge Rating: 13

Writhing Mass. If Vol is attacked with a melee weapon, the target must than make a DC 15 dexterity saving saving throw or become grappled by one of Vol's rat tail's.

Actions

Multiattack. Vol makes three attacks: one with its claw, one with its rat tail and one with its bite.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d4 + 10) slashing damage.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (2d8 + 10) piercing damage. If the target is a medium or smaller creature grappled by Vol, that creature is swallowed, and the grapple ends. While swallowed, the creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside Vol, and it takes 28 (7d6) acid damage at the start of each of Vol's turns.
If Vol takes 30 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it, Vol must succeed on a DC 25 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall prone in a space within 10 feet of Vol. If Vol dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 15 feet of movement, exiting prone.
Rat Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 18 (2d6 + 10) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained. Vol has six rat tails, each of which can grapple one target.
Reproduce (Recharge 5-6). 1d3 swarms of rat's crawl out of the roiling mass of flesh at Vol's base and appear within 15 feet of Vol.

Legendary Actions

Vol can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Vol regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Claw. Vol makes a single claw attack.
Tortured Host (Costs 2 Actions). A hand shoots out from Vol's chest maw and tries to pull the nearest target into the maw. The target must make a DC 15 dexterity saving throw or immediately become swallowed by Vol.
Vile Born (Cost 3 Action). Vol excretes a noxious wave of bile in every direction as the rat carcuses vomit out a wave of acid. Every creature within 20 feet of Vol must make a DC 16 dexterity saving throw or take 4d8 + 15 acid damage, half as much on a success. In addition all summoned rats also instantly explode in burst of acid. All creature besides Vol must make a DC 15 dexterity saving throw or take 4d6 + 10 acid damage, half as much on a success.

This horrific amalgamation of teeth, fur, and limbs shifts and roils like an enormous blob of bones and teeth. To describe such a creature will be extremely difficult, but I shall try. The bottom of this abomination consists of a roiling mass of rat heads, fur, and claws that act as a twisted base of flesh. The bulbous and bloated torso seems to be made of fattened flesh, grease slicked fur, and horrid greenish yellow pustules. Beneath the fur are two lines of spine like bones pushing out of the flesh like overall straps. Where the stomach should be is an open maw of jagged and rotted teeth, peering inside, you can just make out the mangled and screaming face of Colin Nulva at the back of the stomach's throat. A single humanoid arm reaches out of this mouth. Protruding out from the shoulders are four thin and extremely long clawed arms with jagged spines pushing out of the two elbow joints in the arm. Out from the back is a roiling mass of about nine lone tentacles that are made to look like rat tails lined in jagged bits of sharp bone. The head is an open maw made from five enlarged rat heads that spread outwards like a demogorgon (stranger things) to reveal countless rows of jagged teeth.

Battle Music

Traits

• Age: 15
• Race: Elf
• Class: Warlock
• Pronouns: He/Him
• Eyes: Yellow
• Hair: Short purple hair
• Skin: Deep tan
• Height: 5’5”
• Weight: 126 lbs.

Plot Hooks

• He will become a consistent problem for the city of Ruby Shire after Jupiter leaves, along with all of his other villains. It will keep eyes off of the Eyeless long enough near the end of their project and allow Jupiter to swoop in at the last moment to tidy up the city once again.
• If Colin finds out that Calypso ended up being the reason why Alicyte was hanged then he will give in more to Vol and will hunt down Calypso, even outside of the city.
• If Colin discovers Calypso's identity then he will go after his family to lure him out.
• If Colin ever dies then Vol will resurrect the corpse and turn it into a monster that will flee into the sewer and begin work on infecting the populace of Ruby Shire with a horrible disease designed to kill the weak and turn the strong into monsters who will serve Vol.

Personality

A very energetic and creative kid who is obsessed with his idol, Calypso. However he also has no mercy for town guards and government officials.