First mention of Ghul
Life, Birth
Ghul the Half God, the Skull-King who claims to be the resurrected son of Eslathagos Malkith, slays the last of the cthorn.
The man (or creature) known as Ghul claimed to be the son of Eslathagos Malkith and some dark, unnamed demon goddess. He called himself the Half God and claimed the Spire as his birthright.
These were all lies. He was indeed a half-demon, but he had no blood relation with the Dread One (who never had children). Ghul was
a mighty sorcerer with incredible natural talent and an innate aptitude for utilizing and shaping power toward his own ends.
Originally from the land of Kem, he searched the world for sources of power to exploit. When he came to the Spire, he knew he had found what he sought. Ghul had discovered the Entropy Sphere, anchored in the middle of the Spire but not truly existing in that space—
its wild, chaotic energies created their own spatial location. Ghul tapped into its almost limitless power to expand this supernatural space and found that it existed within a realm of complete blackness, which he named the Utterdark.
He built his fortress, Goth Gulgamel, at an access point halfway up the Spire.
So did Ghul admire the Dread One, he even assumed his symbol of a black skull and took from it the name “Skull-King.” Most historians don’t even recall that the symbol originally belonged to the first master of the Spire. The paths within Goth Gulgamel stretched to points that magically joined with warrens that his servants quickly carved out of the living rock surrounding the Spire, all the way to the sea. These burrows provide the basis for most of the underground labyrinths that lie under Denwik today, although many have been significantly altered, partitioned, or incorporated into other subterranean structures.
In these chambers, Ghul constructed breeding pits and laboratories where he created all manner of foul creatures that became part of his so-called “Squirming Horde.” It was here, too, that Ghul tortured and twisted Elder and Shoal elves into Harrow elves.
