Lorana Kath

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Greyhawk Character


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name=Lady Lorana Kath
home= Near Stringen, in the North Kingdom)
gender=Female
race=Human
class= Cleric (Hextor)
alignment=Neutral Evil
age=550+
universe="World of Greyhawk"

In the "World of Greyhawk" campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game, Lady Lorana Kath is a death knight, one of the 13 who betrayed the Knight Protectors of the Great Kingdom.

Once a cleric of Hextor of great power, Kath is considered the catalyst for the betrayal of the Death Knights through her seduction of Lord Kargoth.

History

In life, Kath was known as a powerful priestess of Hextor and was admitted into the Knight Protectors in an unorthodox manner, as a recognition for her medical skills on the battlefield. However, Kath was possessed of a scheming and ambitious mind, and desired to marry herself to a leading Aerdi noble to aid in her pursuit of power in the Great Kingdom. She was betrothed to Prince Moranvich in 196, but the engagement soon fell apart. Around this same time, she began to also seduce Lord Kargoth, a powerful knight with encouragements to depravity, spurring him to rebel with 12 other knights, including Kath, against the Great Kingdom. In due time, after an encounter with a demon known as Arendagrost, Kath and the others were transformed into Death Knights as part of a pact between Kargoth and the demon prince Demogorgon who had captured Kargoth's mind.

Kath, unlike Kargoth, has no interest in advancing the plans of Demogorgon, and still considers herself a priestess of Hextor. She maintains an estate to the northwest of the Stringen region of the North Kingdom, where she amuses herself with research into the Ur-Flan and their necromantic practices. It is said that Kath's research into these ancient sorcerers led her to develop the means to create animi, the unique undead servitors of Ivid V in the last years of his reign. Kath supposedly created the process as a means of reversing the transformation invoked upon herself.

References

*Holian, Gary. "The Death Knights of Oerth." "Dragon" #290 (Paizo Publishing, Dec 2001).
**Holian, Gary. "Demogorgon's Champions: The Death Knights of Oerth, part 2." "Dragon" #291 (Paizo Publishing, Jan 2002).