Looking for some info on 'the Ghoul King'

Pants · Sep 7, 2005

Namely, the Ghoul King that appears in the BoVD writeup of Orcus and in Libris Mortis as 'Doresain.'

Any references to previous edition material is greatly needed. Thanks.

Steel_Wind · Sep 7, 2005

Mongoose: Quintessential Ghoul I think.

rogueattorney · Sep 7, 2005

The only thing I can think of is a very short reference in the 1e MM's entry for Yeenoghu, that mentioned that the king of the ghouls gave Yeenoghu fealty.

R.A.

Alzrius · Sep 7, 2005

Pants said:
Namely, the Ghoul King that appears in the BoVD writeup of Orcus and in Libris Mortis as 'Doresain.'

Any references to previous edition material is greatly needed. Thanks.

The King of the Ghouls, Doresain, is the King of the White Kingdom. He's only appeared in three products to date.

The most recent appearance is as a newly-ascended demigod in Libris Mortis. Prior to that, he was a vassal of Yeenoghu (and Orcus before that) in the Book of Vile Darkness.

Doresain's original appearance, however, is in Dungeon #70 (2E), in the adventure "Kingdom of the Ghouls."

Pants · Sep 8, 2005

Awesome, thanks

Faraer · Sep 8, 2005

Gary Gygax (who conceived the Ghoul King in the first place) and John Creffield's version of the Ghoul King is described in The Slayer's Guide to Undead.

Laman Stahros · Sep 8, 2005

Has anyone thought to combine the Ghoul King with Mordiggian (of CoC)? I'm thinking of this and I was wondering if anyone had thought of this.

grodog · Sep 8, 2005

Sure, you can definitely cross-over HPL's ghouls with the D&D ghouls, in particular if you go for the concept from "Pickman's Model" vs. the slightly-more-idealized ghouls from the Dreamlands. CAS' ghouls would be another good inspiration, as well

sad_genius · Sep 8, 2005

There's a tunnel to the "Kingdom of the Ghouls" in X1: Castle Amber, speaking of CAS.

Plane Sailing · Sep 8, 2005

IMO the best version of him is the one that appears in Piratecat's storyhour, against the defenders!

Want to see his stats? They exist in the 'thread which must not be named" and which I link to here. None of PC's players would visit this thread, but *you* can

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=1773616#post1773616

Cheers